All them gangster movies sent my little paulie to the shtreetss, sheee, and now you aintnevergonnatakehimalive, shee?
Harden up lads ffs.
― Daithi Bowsie (darraghmac), Tuesday, 19 April 2016 08:09 (eight years ago) link
started re-watching this last night and it really is incredibly funny. the first hour or so really matches the velocity and breakneck pace of Goodfellas and every scene has something funny going on it, constantly one-upping itself w the parade of buffoonish assholishness
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 17 August 2017 23:14 (six years ago) link
otm
It's a masterpiece of assholery
― jk rowling obituary thread (darraghmac), Friday, 18 August 2017 00:02 (six years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B8U6KQ_CAAAqUtM.jpg
― nomar, Friday, 18 August 2017 00:24 (six years ago) link
yep the first hour is great then it goes in for 4 more hours
― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 18 August 2017 00:27 (six years ago) link
The wedding dance scene alone is worth the price of admission
― Οὖτις, Friday, 18 August 2017 02:00 (six years ago) link
I still think the quaalude fight is perfect physical comedy.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 18 August 2017 02:04 (six years ago) link
A lot of great moments that are unfortunately in a terrible movie.
― Anne of the Thousand Gays (Eric H.), Friday, 18 August 2017 02:11 (six years ago) link
What's the ratio?
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 18 August 2017 02:11 (six years ago) link
Many ppl who have never seen a Jerry Lewis film say this of this Lewis hommage
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Friday, 18 August 2017 02:23 (six years ago) link
Was Jerry Lewis into crip jokes too?
― the general theme of STUFF (cryptosicko), Friday, 18 August 2017 02:43 (six years ago) link
There is plenty of room for both, Morbs. Jackie Chan does not negate Buster Keaton or Harold Lloyd, thank goodness.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 18 August 2017 12:56 (six years ago) link
this really is way too long and all the Goodfellas parallels are v obvious (luude freakout leading up to bust = coke + helicopter freakout). Goodfellas is taut and *short* though, makes me wonder if all the bloat in this was not in some ways v intentional, since the whole thing is about bloated excess.
― Οὖτις, Friday, 18 August 2017 15:45 (six years ago) link
That's sort of how I watch it. I mean, Wolf is 30 minutes longer than Fellas, which isn't radical. Tastes vary, obviously, but I can't think of 30 minutes I'd necessarily want cut from this, any more than I can think of 30 minutes Fellas should be longer. Different stories. Fellas is clearly superior, but I'm not sure I can understand why someone would like that one and outright hate this one, even if it is just more of the same but less.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 18 August 2017 16:08 (six years ago) link
started re-watching this last night
otm tbh
― blog haus aka the scene raver (wins), Friday, 18 August 2017 16:13 (six years ago) link
"the sides cured cancer, that's why they were so expensive"
― Οὖτις, Friday, 18 August 2017 16:23 (six years ago) link
WoWS and Silence back-to-back is a pretty impressive directorial achievement, not sure of another director who would be capable of making two films of imo near-equal quality (i lean more towards Silence, maybe) that completely different in almost every respect.
― nomar, Friday, 18 August 2017 16:26 (six years ago) link
A pretty clean guilt-transcendence pivot.
― Anne of the Thousand Gays (Eric H.), Friday, 18 August 2017 16:28 (six years ago) link
Silence is def the better film
― Οὖτις, Friday, 18 August 2017 16:28 (six years ago) link
but yeah it is a p interesting 1-2 punch
havent seen silence just want to say this movie rules
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Thursday, 24 August 2017 00:15 (six years ago) link
wouldn't cut a second of it
Its ~drunk on power, full bore live for today~ nihilism is genuinely electric and frightening. Walked out of it in a daze. I think it's a great film and a fitting end to the Goodfellas, Casino unintentional trilogy.
― circa1916, Thursday, 24 August 2017 04:48 (six years ago) link
I think when Leo casually watched the plane crash and thought about what it meant to him personally was when I knew it was special.
― circa1916, Thursday, 24 August 2017 04:52 (six years ago) link
haha that plane crash was like the Departed's "the rat symbolizes obviousness" redux
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 24 August 2017 16:36 (six years ago) link
https://media.giphy.com/media/5VIjIJ9YO5lyU/giphy.gif
― nomar, Thursday, 24 August 2017 16:49 (six years ago) link
The Wolf of Wall Street (1929) started out as a silent movie, but was reworked to include sound. It was released in February, eight months before the Wall Street Crash of 1929. The plot involves a trader who corners the market in copper pic.twitter.com/43nmY0oa5E— Silent Movie GIFs (@silentmoviegifs) April 5, 2019
The Wolf of Wall Street (1929) is today believed to be a lost film. The only part of the movie known to still exist is this brief montage sequence created by Slavko Vorkapić pic.twitter.com/W5pzqDvDWX— Silent Movie GIFs (@silentmoviegifs) April 5, 2019
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 8 April 2019 18:24 (five years ago) link
I like the zeppelin.
― A is for (Aimless), Monday, 8 April 2019 18:31 (five years ago) link
Very Terry Gilliam.
― Anne Hedonia (j.lu), Monday, 8 April 2019 23:58 (five years ago) link
The fact that WOLF OF WALL STREET’s financing continues to lead to active prosecution is pretty perfect pic.twitter.com/zUMzN4lmfM— Vadim Rizov (@vrizov) July 7, 2019
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 10 July 2019 18:21 (four years ago) link
Goodfellas is taut and *short* though, makes me wonder if all the bloat in this was not in some ways v intentional, since the whole thing is about bloated excess.
there were some fairly comical things in the second half but tonally they didn't make me laugh much, which i think was an intentional function of the length and bloat - like they had to be made pathetic/ridiculous enough that you could see them as comical without finding them funny, because the funniness of the first half was part of the enticement of the audience but it needs a moral corrective that follows the plot.
surprising amount of slow motion in this - it's been a while since i've seen his older movies so i forget but he is fond of it, right? which seems caught up with the tone. all the scenes of office debauchery sliding into slow-mo or seeming sped-up like hints of benny hill, seemed like it voided all those scenes of their potential titillation.
― j., Sunday, 5 January 2020 21:18 (four years ago) link
I probably said this up thread but I think Scorsese’s moral seriousness is the reason he doesn’t shortchange the allure of “bad” behavior. Like they say about war movies, you kinda can’t help but make this stuff look fun/exciting...but he sees that the only way out is through, which is why on rewatching a 2nd or 3rd time the desperation and sadness that seems to drive everything/everyone seems downright obvious. I’d be willing to bet that on some level Scorsese sees making films itself as morally dubious...at least movies like this (though Silence has similar overtones)...and so they operate as confessions, and they keep that charge of titillation that all good confession surely has.
― ryan, Sunday, 5 January 2020 22:06 (four years ago) link
lord make me chaste, but not yet
― j., Sunday, 5 January 2020 23:08 (four years ago) link
this is a great thread, one day i will maybe watch this movie and discover who is right and who is wrong
― mark s, Monday, 6 January 2020 21:35 (four years ago) link
it really says something about the audience that wants characters wrapped in immoral excess
every broke american is a temporarily disenfranchised millionaire, who would totally be the good millionaire if they actually made it. and if they weren't, then we should grant them some leeway, because they meant to be the good millionaire.
― babu frik fan account (mh), Monday, 6 January 2020 22:11 (four years ago) link
the audience is embodied in the movie by the two security guards who watch margot robbie's character taunt her husband sexually through the nanny cam
― babu frik fan account (mh), Monday, 6 January 2020 22:13 (four years ago) link
incredible movie
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Saturday, 16 May 2020 03:27 (three years ago) link
― spruce springclean (darraghmac), Saturday, 16 May 2020 09:27 (three years ago) link
Brad otm nelson
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Tuesday, 4 August 2020 08:42 (three years ago) link