Movie The Wolf of Wall Street

[Blacky]

Pretty good flick.

Amy Adams boobs >>>>>>>>>> Margot Robbie's boobs.

In the scene where Belfort gets to root his wife for the last time..... Imagine being DiCaprio and having to act that scene naked except for a modesty piece (prolly gaffer tape over his ****). He essentially had to dry hump her. As if you wouldn't completely bar up. And some.

Scorsese: So err, Leo, this sex scene. Got to make it realistic. Got to show you bare arse. Means you gotta be naked. What sort of modesty gear you want? Cod piece? Gaffer tape?
Di Caprio: Think I'll wear a condom.

Pretty easy to see why there are so many breakups in Hollywood and why so many switch partners.

Come on mate

 

[Blacky]

Loved it. Was surprisingly very true to the books too.

Definitely agree that it was too long. I also feel like the ending was a bit rushed

 

[quickstraw]

Come on mate

For real bro.

Interesting Hugh Hefner is trying to get Margot Robbie in Playboy. She's dime a dozen and looks like every single Playboy centrefold from the early 80s until the last time I read Playboy (early 90s). She's hot but she's dime a dozen and that thing she has going on is for 14 year old boys. And her boobs are vanilla. Her boobs probably listen to Nickleback.

 

[Kong]

For real bro.

Interesting Hugh Hefner is trying to get Margot Robbie in Playboy. She's dime a dozen and looks like every single Playboy centrefold from the early 80s until the last time I read Playboy (early 90s). She's hot but she's dime a dozen and that thing she has going on is for 14 year old boys. And her boobs are vanilla. Her boobs probably listen to Nickleback.

First world problems.

 

[ManWithNoName]

I like it when guys on the internet are all like "Nah I don't find Jennifer Hawkins that hot, if I had the chance I wouldn't sleep with her. I just don't rate her. Nope."

 

[Peter Sidorkiewicz]

Her boobs probably listen to Nickleback.

This made me laugh

 

[DIG]

This made me laugh

Me too - line of the day.

 

[TheFreshBanana]

Who the **** knew Donna from Neighbours had those puppies under her shirt? Damn.

 

[Blacky]

I would have moved to Ramsay St years ago

 

[Roobs321]

Martin Scorsese via Oliver Stone

Let's get one thing straight; almost every character in this film is an idiot. There is little room for audience sympathy, and the final shot clearly implicates the audience.

The Wolf of Wall Street is most striking when it is having fun (which is basically the entire film). The entire 'cerebral palsy' scene is a riot. Any scene involving Jordan Belfort selling something to clients or employees is a treat. Leo DiCaprio really carries this 3 hour film firmly on his shoulders, it is a good example of his diverse talents as a central lead crucial to a films success. In fact, there is only one scene in this film where Leo is absent; the botched cash handover. The Wolf of Wall Street would not work without Leo, and Leo's enigma has never been better explored. Given this film covers an era that coincides with the stratospheric rise of Leo mania, there is a real life echo behind the image which I found a little fascinating as well. Without the broad shoulders of Leo, this film would not work.

In terms of economic chit chat, this film left me wanting. I found it mostly just skimmed the surface, so when that scene came up where Jordan condescendingly breaks the fourth wall I was a little disappointed. It was mostly a rise and fall drama, the type of which we have seen many times. This film is basically Scarface, and could have a similar effect on certain impressionable audiences. The screenplay has a been there, done that quality. I think it is important to note that Belfort's firm is more of an exception than the norm, particularly in terms of its excessive shenanigans.

That said, The Wolf of Wall Street does enough to make it an okay Scorsese film, and one of the more striking films of 2013. 3 hours with people you mostly loathe sounds painful in theory, but here it keeps entertaining. I had a row of munching teenagers behind me, and two teen girls on their phones a few rows up, but the film managed to engage me away from those distractions from the first frame.
The R rated content wasn't as bad as I had imagined, it was more quantity over quality which might have rubbed some audiences the wrong way. Lots of cuss words and frat boy type of deplorable behaviour. But it just looks like fools in a sandbox, it is hard to take these people seriously as adults. Despite this, it's another film about the poison of quick money and beat the gun insanity.

The Wolf of Wall Street is predictable and half-cooked, but it is a wild ride on the train of excess. I both laughed and subsequently hated myself whenever a character brags about their power due to their money, this film wants you to laugh and then be angry at yourself for doing so.

If anything, it is certainly the new #1 propaganda film in Middle Eastern terrorist training camps.

Jordan Belfort: "This is AMERICA!"

7.5/10

 

[Stevi_Tigers]

Margot Robbie is a babe

 

[Jammer]

Great review Roobs.

Agreed with a lot of how you saw it.

Although it went close to 3 hours I cannot say I was bored... maybe that was due
to my inner frat boy getting some guilty pleasure from it.

My problem is that I really find Belfort a despicable arsehat.
In bigfooty speak he is an "elite" conman/snake oil salesman.

The book therefore the movie is his spin on his own life so therefore
at best at least a third of it is most likely B/S.

My read is Scorsese is aware of this........ I think he films it like
a con to us the audience in reference to Belfort himself.
He glosses over the destruction and amps up the humour..... not filming victims.... the first
wife.....right down to Leo's D's casual descriptions of deaths of associates....

Reckon he wants us the audience to be seduced by the lifestyle and to gloss
over the carnage right down to the FBI agent being filmed going home in
a shitty train to a suckers life in contrast to the excess of Belfort.

As another poster I think referred to...... the last scene makes us
the sucker....... there he is again in another reincarnation seducing the masses/us
one more time.. just as Scorsese made a part of me feel guilty for being
seduced by him in this film.

 

[Blacky]

Belfort is a lot more humble in real life, but they portrayed him like that because it makes for a better movie (plus I am sure he was that much of an ass hat back in the early nineties)

 

[Carbine Chaos]

Bit too long, but really enjoyed it.

Am I right in thinking that Jonah Hill (who I thought was great) was the one who turned in the yellow piece of paper to the FBI? He was clearly expecting the raid and he looked as guilty as heck.

 

[quickstraw]

Reckon he wants us the audience to be seduced by the lifestyle and to gloss
over the carnage right down to the FBI agent being filmed going home in
a shitty train to a suckers life in contrast to the excess of Belfort.

The juxtaposition of both the book and the film is that it's a rollicking story of excess built on the ripping off of mum and dad investors. Often very juvenile but everyone loves a guy who can live it up like that. On the other hand this is a despicable human being who ripped people off, pre-meditated. It really does annoy me when people can't see past the coke and hookers and put Belfort up on some sort of pedestal. He is a dog of a human being.

I thought the people on the train represented the normal joes he ripped off. Normal guys working 40 hours a week to support their family and this greedy self serving f*** head happily took their savings for his own enjoyment.

 

[pantskyle]

Bit too long, but really enjoyed it.

Am I right in thinking that Jonah Hill (who I thought was great) was the one who turned in the yellow piece of paper to the FBI? He was clearly expecting the raid and he looked as guilty as heck.

Really surprising actually. Didn't think he'd turn it over.

 

[TheFreshBanana]

Bit too long, but really enjoyed it.

Am I right in thinking that Jonah Hill (who I thought was great) was the one who turned in the yellow piece of paper to the FBI? He was clearly expecting the raid and he looked as guilty as heck.

Spoiler

That was how I interpreted it. When they showed the yellow piece of paper, I was thinking "how ****ing stupid are you not to be able to hide that?"

And then they showed Jonah Hill quickly deleting shit, and then the FBI raided the place, so he obviously knew they were coming for him.

I think he did it to save himself.

 

[Macca19]

It was mostly a rise and fall drama, the type of which we have seen many times. This film is basically Scarface, and could have a similar effect on certain impressionable audiences. The screenplay has a been there, done that quality.

Bloody brilliant review Roobs. I'd say the film is basically Casino. So many scenes I thought 'i've seen this before'. Its Scorcese by numbers. In isolation its a bloody good and entirely enjoyable film, but I was left wanting a little more from it.

 

[bourbons]

Pretty solid. Agree that is was waaaay too long, alot of fat, could have got the job done in 2 hours easy.

Margot Robbie > Amy Adams, I wouldn't care if her boobs listened to beiber

cerebral palsy phase

 

[Kong]

Those lemon scenes reminded so much of Gilbert Grape.

 

[RobbyRoy]

For real bro.

Interesting Hugh Hefner is trying to get Margot Robbie in Playboy. She's dime a dozen and looks like every single Playboy centrefold from the early 80s until the last time I read Playboy (early 90s). She's hot but she's dime a dozen and that thing she has going on is for 14 year old boys. And her boobs are vanilla. Her boobs probably listen to Nickleback.

Credit for this post, but Amy Adams is 39 years old and has had a kid. I'll stick with Margot's vanilla boobs I think.

 

[randyzany]

I like it when guys on the internet are all like "Nah I don't find Jennifer Hawkins that hot, if I had the chance I wouldn't sleep with her. I just don't rate her. Nope."

Everyone has their own personal taste. Although I could never claim Hawko is not an attractive woman by any measure, whether you believe me or not I've never really fancied her and found her sexually attractive, too thin for mine. Miss Margot on the other hand... I think I would've passed out on set in that (sliding door? wasn't putting attention) door scene she did with Leo.

 

[Kickpuncher]

Those lemon scenes reminded so much of Gilbert Grape.

Thought the exact same thing

Happy I got to watch this movie in High School, otherwise I probably never would have. I heard he played the role so well people actually thought he had a disability?

 

[randyzany]

Yeah I was sure Leo had done similar physical gesticulations before. Then I remembered his Arnie Grape role in the early 90s. Who knew it would come to good use once again 20 years later?

 

[quickstraw]

Credit for this post, but Amy Adams is 39 years old and has had a kid. I'll stick with Margot's vanilla boobs I think.

Boobs need shape. I'm not a massive fan of Margot Robbie's entire looks but I'm sure she is better than Amy Adams who I don't actually know what she looks like as I never looked up from her chest. But boobs wise, give me some shape.