Posted on 12/25/2013 9:37:42 PM PST by afraidfortherepublic
My husband and I and 2 friends walked out of "Wolf of Wall Stret", the new DiCaprio flic, about 10 minutes into the movie. We absolutely could not stand the constant barrage of obscene language and visuals. I have never seen anything so obnoxious in my life and refused to ruin Christmas Day with such garbage.
We complained at the box office and got our money back. Now, I'm about ready to write to the movie theatre and newspaper to warn others about this offensive movie. The interesting thing is that I'd seen a trailer for this movie last week, and it didn't look anything like this.
Has anybody else seen this movie?
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I can’t figure out what’s with Scorsese’s obsession with casting DiCaprio as the lead in ALL his movies lately. Seriously, this is the guy who directed Taxi Driver, Goodfellas, Raging Bull, Cape Fear, etc., etc. Just TRY to picture those movies with the teen heartthrob from Titanic in the title role. Yeah, DiCaprio in a mirror barking “Are you talkin’ to me?”
Tim Burton has a similar obsession with putting Johnny Depp in all his movies regardless of the story or characters, but at least in that case it’s a weirdo who likes working with another weirdo. To go from De Niro to DiCaprio and be thrilled with the casting change... Scorsese HAS to be doing some good drugs. No wonder he likes “Wolf of Wall Street”!
The very vulgar actions of Wolf on Wall Street may turn off too many viewers in the long run, though.
Stop being naive. You’re seeing a Scorsese gangster flic. Goodfellows a great mob flic had the most swear words of any movie. What did you expect? He directed Casino the story of the infamous Chicago gangster Nicky Spilotro. Go see a Disney flic...whatever.
I will parapharse churchill here.
I think capitalism is the worst form of and economy, except for all the other forms of economies.
So, I think it would be easy to point out cases of capitalism gone awry especially on Wall Street.
So, I think the poor depiction of capitalism on Wall Street could be a valid one, especially if it concerned only a few.
Now a total systemic condemnation of wall street and capitalism would be wrong, I think one can find certain instances where it has gone awry.
I refuse to go to a movie theater. I haven’t been in one for 15 years.
Today’s movie prices are obscene, the concession prices are stratospheric,and the ultimate insult is the Hollywood garbage presented as “entertainment”.
If I want to be entertained, I’ll play a DVD made by movie makers who knew their craft, screen writers that could write,and actors who could act.
The movie is based on the memoir of a rise-to-the-top, then destruct, Wall Street success story of the 1980s. The drug use, vile language, explicit and over the top sex and insanely out of control life styles are portrayed in an appropriate way for the story. People, real people, have become commodities, a cash crop of sorts for these Wall Street success stories.
I liked the movie, a lot. Scorese tells the story very graphically. He doesn't moralize. The viewer can do the moralizing. The story brings the audience along so that we realize the people got sucked in and while on that ride the moral aspects of it bacome irrelevant. The viewer is forced to ask himself...when would I say no to that ride? Were those being exploited part of it, since the first ingredient to being exploited is greed? (these are questions I ask, Scorese doesn't ask them for us)
It's not pro or anti capitalism. It tells the story, a true one, of greed and excess. Nobody walked out of the theater I was in. Everybody seemed absorbed. I give the movie four stories because it makes us think about greed and excess, those things that are still destroying our excuse of a civilization today.
I've got to laugh. De Niro is a one dimensional over rated actor. Plays the same character in every movie.
I judged the movie highly offensive when I read about DiCaprio receiving a lit candle up his an!s by some masochist
If that’s not a word picture review for the movie, I don’ know what is!
With all due respect, it was a Martin Scorcese film. What did you expect?
So, Tom Hanks not only rescued Private Ryan but now Mr. Banks as well......
Today’s R movies should all be rated X. Or XXX.
We quit going to R movies over 20 years ago. Since then R has gone from soft porn to hard porn.
Poison.
As predicted, simply part of the plan to destroy our nation morally from the inside, lower the moral bar until we collapse morally as a people - which is already occurring.....
Didn’t realize that (Scorcese) and I can’t say that I have ever seen one of his films.
Exactly my point.
See #26 and #33.
No cinema I've been to in 10 years even has a way to police who enters a particular theater. Your tickets are taken where you enter one of the two wings. Once in you go into whatever theater you choose.
I guess we did too. I expected some language, sex, and violence -- but NOT this. Why is it that actors are not even shown smoking cigarettes these days, but people applaud when they are depicted engaged in all kinds of degrading acts? (That's a rhetorical question...)
We were not the only people who walked out, BTW.
See #36. That comment was meant for you.
Or Tony Spilotro...
He’s famous for hyperviolent and hypervulgar films: Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, Goodfellas, Casino, Cape Fear, Gangs of New York, the Departed, Shutter Island...
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