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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My son who is now 24 and working for a brokerage firm wanted to go see the movie. We went with the Wife and also the 18 year old son. My My what filth. Having to sit next to your 18 year son on one side and his Mother sitting next to the 24 year old as we watched non stop sex,drugs, cussing, sex, drugs, non stop cussing over and and over again.
Big mistake going with our two sons. I am sure they have seen it all before but this movie should have been either NR or X rated.
No wonder it has been about two years since I was in a movie theater.
I never saw any of those films. They didn’t appeal to me. Something in the ads turned me off. But, I was blindsided by “Wolf”. Thinking back, it is probably because the trailer that I saw was attached to “Saving Mr. Banks”. It was abbreviated and rather mild. (You know that disclaimer that they always show: “This preview has been approved for audiences...”) I must have seen the PG 13 trailer!
BTW, Saving Mr. Banks was very good, although it dealt with a very serious and very deep problem. I don’t think that I’d recommend it for kids who are dealing with alcoholic, or abusive, parents — or, maybe it would be good therapy, although painful.
Fox News reviewer gave it 5* BUT said it was a Double R movie. Be Warned. 5 yrs ago it would have been rated X
Understood. Just letting you know that if you see the movie is one of his, nine times out of ten it’s going to be a very hard R rated film, full of cursing and violence.
(Though you might like his movies “Hugo” and “the Aviator.”)
Could be worse... He could be promoting Jonah Hill as his lead.
Did you read the reviews for the film ? They were pretty upfront about the explicit scenes in it.
i'd save my last straw for something better'n that
I’ve seen both Hugo and the Aviator and enjoyed both of them, although Hugo was rather odd. I didn’t think of them as “Martin Scorcese” films, however. I never think of films categorized by director, or producer. The story and the cast are what appeal to me. I’ll be more careful in the future and stay away from anything Scorcese.
My husband and I enjoy the movies, although our tastes run more to English dramas and comedies — what we call “dialogue” films.
In the last 2 weeks we’ve seen “The Book Thief”, “The Christmas Candle”, “Philomena”, and “Saving Mr. Banks.” and enjoyed all of them. “Saving Mr. Banks” was deeper than I expected — not a kiddie movie at all, but very well done. “Philomena” took its expected slaps at the Catholic Church, but surprised me with its gratuitous (and undeserved) slap at Ronald Reagan. “The Christmas Candle” was a little silly and did not make good use of Susan Boyle, although it was pleasant enough. “The Book Thief” was the best of all those listed, although I thought it was a little too easy on the WWII German civilians — but maybe it was just realistic.
I checked the synopsis posted by the theatre. Very mild and no clue about what was to come. My computer refused to download the trailer. That should have been a clue!
As I said earlier on this thread, the movie trailer that I did see regarding this film was shown in conjunction with “Saving Mr. Banks” last week. It must have been a sanitized version of the official trailer because it provided no clue as to what this film was going to be — one long X rated, pornographic rant.
It was Christmas, and I was occupied doing other things yesterday. We were going to go see “Walter Mitty”, but its reviews were so bad that we changed our minds. My husband wanted to see “Grudge Match” and I said that I had no desire to see a couple of old men play smash face.
I’ll warn you about another upcoming film — “Bad Words”. They showed the trailer before “Wolf” and people were actually booing, it was so bad.
That movie seems to be about an adult (???) male who wangles his way into an 8th grade spelling bee. It is non stop filthy language — much of it aimed at children and then repeated by those same children.
But, the same people who booed the Bad Words trailer sat transfixed by the Wolfe movie. At least one other person walked out with us, although others could have left later. I wouldn’t know.
I’m fairly desensitized to the “vulgarization” of film (actually, I’m more offended by stupidity. I don’t mind bawdy or crude, I just loathe stupid). I can tell you there’s going to be very little put out today that you’re going to want to see (especially in the theater). Anything by Scorsese or with an “R” should’ve been a warning (I remember Sen. Alan Simpson mentioning he went to see the cartoonish Scorsese remake of “Cape Fear” over 2 decades ago and he and his wife walked out of the theater). These are not family-friendly films or for the squeamish.
Good point, but I have to say I rather liked "The Departed," though I'm not too crazy about either Dicaprio nor Matt Damon as human beings.
All in all, I've got to say that Scorsese may be the best director of "mob" films, but still, my favorite movie of his is "The Last Waltz," the farewell concert of "The Band." Not that I really care for his interviews, I just really LOVE "The Band."
Mark
Scorcese’s “Hugo” was one his best IMHO.
If Jennifer Aniston was nekkid in it, I'll be sure to put it on my "must pirate" list, LOL!
Mark
I’m going tomorrow. It’s Scorsese movie, that mean LOTS of profanity, and usually violence, and drug references, and it’s R rated. Not sure what you were expecting.
To be honest with you, I may be the only human being in North America who never saw "Titanic," and thinking back, the only 2 movies I've ever seen Dicaprio in have been "Catch me if you Can" and "The Departed," and I thought he was pretty good in both movies. But like I said, my knowledge of his acting is pretty limited.
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”!
I don't think many people play "quirky" better than Johnny Depp, and yes, Burton has cast Depp in most of his movies, because most of his movies feature a "quirky" lead... Two really excellent examples of Depp, showing he can combine quirkiness and some pretty fine acting are "Ed Wood" and "Benny & Joon" (not a Scorsese movie.)
Actually, now that I think about it, I did see "What's Eating Gilbert Grape" many years ago, and it had both Dicaprio and Depp in it, and while I really don't remember the movie, I seem to recall I thought it was pretty good overall.
Mark
I was expecting a story about whistleblowers and corporate intrigue. Instead, I got a flick that literally made me nauseus. I lasted about 10-15 minutes, and that’s only because I was trapped at the end of a row against the wall. Otherwise, I would have left earlier.
It makes me sad that our culture has been coarsened to this filth. There is better entertainment out there. Trouble is — I’d already seen those movies. Currently in theatres around here: The Book Thief — excellent; Philomena — outstanding; The Christmas Candle — OK, a little silly; Saving Mr. Banks — outstanding.
Raises my admiration for Alan Simpson!
Looks like this director has gone from the Taxi Driver (DeNiro) to “Pajama Boy (DiCaprio), I guess he thinks that is what the public wants in their leading “man”.
It is a story about whistleblowers and corporate intrigue, with LOTS of profanity and other excessive behavior because that’s what the people involved in the real story did and that’s how Martin likes to make movies.
See that list you put together for me would rate as boring, boring, saccharine crap, and boring sanitized version of what’s actually an interesting story. You could have seen Walter Mitty, that seems to be up your alley. There’s always options in the world, you made an uninformed decision.
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