[Phinneous]

Do what I do.... go no higher than PG or make it a classic film. (throw out your tv and just bookmark FR, Redstate, Drudge, and your favorite religious sites...situation fixed.)

[Sarah Barracuda]

I wont be watching this film, heard today its full of anti capitalist garbage..wont be wasting my time on this

[afraidfortherepublic]

Word of warning: the theatre where we walked out of the DiCaprio film also showed a trailer for an upcoming comedy called “Bad Words” about some adult entering a kids’ spelling bee. That was also a constant stream of offensive language, much of it aimed at children.

What’s up with Hollywood? Who approves these story lines, and how do they get in theatres. The DiCaprio film was rated “R”. I think that it should be “X”. I don’t know the rating for Bad Words, but it also should be X. The theatre claims that it asks for IDs and doesn’t allow kids under age 17 in. I say BS. Nobody checks IDs. We go there regularly and usually one of us buys the tickets for all 4. Nobody checks to see who actually uses the tickets. nybody has access to the lobby where they wait for the person who has all 4 tickets to enter the theatre.

[luckystarmom]

We saw Saving Mr Banks with the family. It was very good! It’s not for young kids, but my 17 year old daughters loved it. My 19 year old son who likes action flicks liked it.

I thought Tom Hanks did a good job of capturng Walt Disney.

[Ciexyz]

I watched the promo on IMDB and the story looks so over the top and improbable that it’s an insult to your intelligence. I’ll wait to see it when I can take it out from my library at no charge. Only one hint of vulgarity in the promo.

[OrangeHoof]

Rush talked about it last week and about how Leonard DiCrapio wanted to show the world how evil capitalists were. That’s all I needed to know.

Rarely, if ever, do I watch something that comes out of Hollywood but, when I do, it is usually by the time it has reached the cheap DVD section and I’ve already heard about it.

[lee martell]

This is less a review than it is a reaction to that film, but thanks for the warning. Should be rated VO for Vulgarians Only.

[RayChuang88]

I've seen Casino, another movie known for non-stop swearing. But that had a pretty good story and great acting.

The very vulgar actions of Wolf on Wall Street may turn off too many viewers in the long run, though.

[Blackirish]

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.

[MasterGunner01]

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.

[grania]

I actually saw the movie. I go to a lot of movies, and avoid the things with a lot of violence, sensationalism and gratification of our lowest instincts.

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.

[Behind Liberal Lines]

With all due respect, it was a Martin Scorcese film. What did you expect?

[capt B]

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

[discostu]

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.

[x]

An unofficial count puts Scorsese films like Casino and Goodfellas high on the curse words totals. Probably not a good idea to see his films if you're sensitive about dirty words.

I figured American Hustle was the better movie of the two, but it was sold out so I saw Walter Mitty. It was okay. Nice scenery. Some jokes, some sad parts. You could take your kids to it. Didn't see much point to it, though.

[GeronL]

TV ads for movies are often misleading it seems

[x]

Scorsese seems to think that by blowing Belfort’s book up to three hours he’s making an epic statement. But it’s not as if he shows you the consequences of Belfort’s actions. The movie has no scope; there’s barely enough content for a short. The Wolf of Wall Street is three hours of horrible people doing horrible things and admitting to being horrible. But you’re supposed to envy them anyway, because the alternative is working at McDonald’s and riding the subway alongside wage slaves. What are a few years in a minimum-security prison — practically a country club — when you can have the best of everything? -- Source