The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)

[AniNate]

Marriage= shit happens.  (mod edit)IMO.

 

Fortunately the US government decided to stop condoning that view in the 70s

Edited January 1, 2014 by tribefan695

[Hiccup]

Finally saw this and I am very mixed about it. It is a solid film but nothing stunning or amazing like everybody on here is making it out to be. It is funny in some parts but not as funny as The Heat, We Are the Millers, and Anchorman 2. It kind of sucks as a comedy. As a drama is it does much better imo and I wish it would have been entirely a serious drama about how corrupt and evil the wealthy can get in America. The overload of drugs and shit gets kind of boring after a while. I wasn't offended by the any of the language, drugs or sex. I liked how this film pushed the limits of the R rating. The acting is very good and I enjoyed everybody's performances but Leonardo Di Caprio won't be getting an Oscar nomination or win probably. His performance wasn't that good. Overall I think this film is good but definitely very very overrated. The long running time also hurts the film because it just long long and kind of dull. It sits behind Shutter Island (4.25/5), The Departed (4.5/5), Gangs of New York (3.75/5), Cape Fear (4.5/5), and The Aviator (4/5). 

 

7/10 or 3.5/5 or 70% or B

[Gopher]

His performance wasn't that good. 

 

Have you seen a more layered, eclectic performance this year?

[Sims]

Yeah obviously I wasn't crazy about the movie but DiCaprio's performance was its one outstanding aspect IMO. I'd rank Blanchett, Ejiofor and maybe one or two others slightly higher but he was great.

[riczhang]

Personally, I don't think the film went really overboard in its depiction of drugs and sex. We saw what we needed to in order to establish just how fucked up these characters were. A lot of these scenes, including the car/stairs jaunt, (which as a side note, proves what a great physical actor DiCaprio is) examine the consequences that they have to face because of these habits.

 

This. These things happen and you might as well depict it realistically rather than sugarcoating it. It's part of what makes the movie that brilliant. 

 

Though, it did drag on a little near the middle. (And how was the gay butler part anyhow relevant? That defs could've been cut)

[riczhang]

Have you seen a more layered, eclectic performance this year?

 

GODDESS MERYL  

 

(No but seriously, Meryl)

[Hiccup]

Personally, I don't think the film went really overboard in its depiction of drugs and sex. We saw what we needed to in order to establish just how fucked up these characters were. A lot of these scenes, including the car/stairs jaunt, (which as a side note, proves what a great physical actor DiCaprio is) examine the consequences that they have to face because of these habits.

 

Agree

[Gopher]

GODDESS MERYL

 

(No but seriously, Meryl)

 

I'll probably end up defending Meryl's performance in the film more than most will here. But it's nowhere near DiCaprio. It's not even Ejiofor, Hanks or Blanchett. 

[acsc1312]

I think this is my favorite Leo performance. The whole damn film is incredible. Scorsese at his best. A+, my favorite of the year.

[Kevin Bacon]

Holy fucking shit. The Wolf of Wall Street. It ran three hours long and for this type of movie that may seem long but I didn't give the first shit about that because I would've spent 10 hours in this world. The thing is funny as all hell and nothing short of an experience to watch. There were tits and fucking and frontal and ass and more fucking and drugs and fucking and more drugs and drugs on tits in the process of fucking but it all still worked somehow, outside of the rather jarring introduction of how vulgar the movie is early on, it never feels forced or like too much. The amount of energy in this movie is mind-boggling for anyone, when you consider that a guy in his freakin' seventies made this movie it's even more incredible. And Dicaprio. He gives the best performance I've seen all year and probably his best ever (and I fucking LOVE Leonardo Dicaprio so I don't say that lightly). So much energy, so much everything, I swear to god I never even imagined that the man had something like this in him and especially not on the tail end of his career and right before a hiatus (is he still doing that?). The somewhat mixed reviews had me less enthusiastic about seeing this especially when paired with how much I liked American Hustle and that the trailers didn't do all that much for me, but it just rocked in a way I never ever saw coming. It's a fucking masterpiece. 9.5/10

Edited January 2, 2014 by Kevin Bacon

[Cmasterclay]

This movie is starting to bleed into my everyday lexicon. I got a cavity filled this morning, and the right side of my mouth is so numb I can't even lift my lip up. Naturally, I told my friend that my mouth was still in the "cerebral palsy phase." 

 

Can't wait to see this shit again. 

[JohnnyGossamer]

Who googled QUAALUDES after the movie?

I know Roman Polanski didn't... Zing! Edited January 3, 2014 by JohnnyGossamer

[baumer]

I know Roman Polanski didn't... Zing!

 

Sorry, I don't get the joke.  I know he was charged with statuatory rape and fled the US, but what does Quaaludes have to do with it?

[4815162342]

So the closest film in Scorsese's filmography to compare this to is Casino.

 

It's not as good as Casino.

 

Thelma needed to tell Marty she was going to take some pruning shears to this beast because it's easily 30+ minutes too long. The film reaches a point where it's just lumbering and lumbering on and depicting stuff and not actually advancing anything. There's a ton of false starts and fake "final act beginnings" in the second half and when the film finally does get to the end of the line it feels almost downright anticlimactic (which I get was the point in a way). There's a very fine line between repetition as a thematic device and repetition as an exercise in directorial excess and ego and as often as not in this movie Scorsese falls on the latter side.

 

It's a very good movie held up by the strength of the acting, but it could have been so much more if Scorsese wasn't so in love with the MORE mantra the advertising for this film centered on in the trailers.

[mcclaine]

This is the Goodfellas of the 2000's. 

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Exactly, it even has the same kind of ending, with its key players, after all the crazy things they've done, facing their worst case scenarios: living average Joe lives.

This is a master film, an instant classic.

10/10

[luna]

This. These things happen and you might as well depict it realistically rather than sugarcoating it. It's part of what makes the movie that brilliant. 

 

Though, it did drag on a little near the middle. (And how was the gay butler part anyhow relevant? That defs could've been cut)

 

   

 

realistically? come on. look, i'm sure that these rich guys who have a tendency toward asshattery did a few drugs, fucked a few women, et cetera. but the way it was portrayed was not even remotely realistic.

[riczhang]

   

 

realistically? come on. look, i'm sure that these rich guys who have a tendency toward asshattery did a few drugs, fucked a few women, et cetera. but the way it was portrayed was not even remotely realistic.

 

I think you'd be surprised at how out of touch some rich people are. 

[baumer]

   

 

realistically? come on. look, i'm sure that these rich guys who have a tendency toward asshattery did a few drugs, fucked a few women, et cetera. but the way it was portrayed was not even remotely realistic.

 

How the hell would you know what's realistic and what's not?  Were you there during this period in their lives?  Nope.  So you have to go by what Belfort's book says.  

[AniNate]

Apparently this now holds the record for most F-words in a major release

http://variety.com/2014/film/news/wolf-of-wall-street-breaks-f-word-record-1201022655/

 

Weird, it didn't feel like there were that many watching it. I do await the inevitable "F-ing Short" version.

[CoolioD1]

:lol:realistically? come on. look, i'm sure that these rich guys who have a tendency toward asshattery did a few drugs, fucked a few women, et cetera. but the way it was portrayed was not even remotely realistic.

If anything, some folks at wall street at the time have said it was actually even worse than what was depicted here.