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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Synopsis:A New York stock broker refuses to cooperate in a large securities fraud case that includes mob infiltration into Wall Street and the corporate banking world.
I expected a "Catch me if you can" type of movie, reinforced by the very mild trailer I'd seen the previous week.
Noooo. Not remotely close to “Catch Me...”
One thing I readily admit is that I don’t go to movies anymore. Part of it is because they’re too unbearably loud for my ears (and I have labyrinthitis/tinnitus). The other is that if it turns out to be crap, I’d rather it be on tv where I can switch the channel. I also can’t see forking out more than $5 to go to a movie, either.
That may be more due to the roles he's offered.
In most of his roles, he's either a mobster or a nut. Many years ago, I was coerced into seeing "Stanley & Iris" and it was a completely different sort of role. Another role that comes to mind was when he played the honest, bus driving father in "A Bronx Tale."
If you check with IMDB, you'll see that he's actually played a lot of different characters in many different roles, it's just that his most "popular" roles have been either mobsters or nuts. How about his "HVAC Terrorist" role in Terry Gilliam's "Brazil?"
Mark
I once read that there's no "XXX" MPAA rating. It was actually a porn industry marketing "rating" that came out after "Midnight Cowboy" was released with an "X" rating, and the porn industry didn't want people getting "confused." Besides, they figured if an "X" rating would be a dirty movie, "XXX" would be REALLY dirty! LOL
Mark
Hate to spoil it for you but Jennifer Aniston does not get naked in this film. She does appear in some pretty sexy lingerie though. She clearly had spent time at the gym. Don't recall the graphic nudity except for one quick and obvious CGI scene where the son gets bit in the balls by a spider and they swell up to the size of coconuts.
My wife and I loved We're the Millers. We thought it was hilarious.
It all happened because for reasons no one can adequately explain the MPAA didn’t bother to trademark the X rating. G, PG and R (and eventually PG-13) were all trademarked, X they didn’t, so the porn industry leveraged it by labeling their stuff XXX (like X only more). Eventually the MPAA fixed this by replacing X with the trademarked NC-17, which we all still call X.
Synopsis:A New York stock broker refuses to cooperate in a large securities fraud case that includes mob infiltration into Wall Street and the corporate banking world.
That synopsis is directly from the theatre website and fits perfectly with the very sanitized trailer shown the previous week by the same theatre.
The list of movies I gave were NOT "sacharine crap" (except perhaps "The Christmas Candle".
"Saving Mr. Banks" is about how a father's alcoholism and a different father's child abuse brought 2 famous figures together to bring a classic story to the screen. It's a complicated story and not a "kid's movie". Her father's death affected the author her whole life; and her pain is very deep, although it is told in a light hearted way.
"Philomena" is about a heartbroken woman who searches her whole life for a child who was taken from her as a young mother and finds him after his death with the help of a journalist whose career has been ruined. Two broken people who combine their resources to solve a mystery and who emerge better people for it. It is a true story with nothing vulgar in it despite a horrific child birth scene.
"The Book Thief" is about an orphan child in WWII Germany and features fantastic acting and filmography. Dispite the horrific setting, it is a story of human kindness. No one who has seen that movie, or read the book, would call it "saccharine". It is narrated by Death.
"The Christmas Candle" is a fable about the meaning of Christmas. The costumes are terrific. The story is silly. They should have allowed Susan Boyle to sing more than one song (in 4 different arrangements), although she handled her part adequately, considering her personal disabilities.
I'd give the first 3 movies 3-4 stars, and the Christmas Candle 1 and a half. Read that "Wolf" synopsis again with fresh eyes and see how misleading it is.
You need widen your horizons.
Drew68 these ladies were not Jennifer aniston. They has some ladies that were on the level of any porn film ever made. They were in my opinion porn actresses. very clean shaven down at the sounth pole area. There was also male nudity which is very unusual in any film. Very disgusting. Lot’s of queer action and comments.
You must've seen a different version than I did because I certainly don't recall any shaved cootchies in the film I rented from Redbox and I think I'd have definitely noticed.
Trailers HAVE to be sanitized, that’s an MPAA requirement to get the “green band” (the name for that white text on a green background you see before the trailer) then the trailer must be G rated. They can also make “red band” trailers (guess what color is behind the text for these) that can be R rated but pretty much the only place to see those is youtube and most movie companies don’t even bother to make them. But you’re here attached to the internet, a VAST array of resources are available to you, with a couple of mouse clicks you could read 132 reviews of the movie, not to mention finding the book the movie is based on. Heck with a bit of digging you might even be able to find the script, interesting enough when I google “wolf of wall street script” the first link that comes up has this title: “Wolf of Wall Street movie review: An entertaining and vulgar 3 hours”, right there you would have had a clue.
Christmas Candle is the one I labeled as saccharine crap. The problem with Saving Mr Banks is it severely glosses over just how deeply Pamela Travers did not like Disney and did not want to sell the movie rights only doing so because she was severely impoverished at the time, but she hated the movie they made of Marry Poppins and fro mall accounts never spoke civilly to or about Walt again.
Don’t like tear jerkers so Philomena is out. And The Book Thief is generally disliked for sanitizing the situation.
There’s nothing deceptive in that synopsis at all. That IS the elevator pitch of the story. Had you just bothered to look up the MPAA rating (which started coming with a brief reasoning a couple decades ago) you’d have found out everything that made you walk out of the movie: “Rated R for sequences of strong sexual content, graphic nudity, drug use and language throughout, and for some violence”. But you didn’t bother. UNinformed.
My horizons are very broad. I watch many types of movies, read many types of books. Except for boring, I avoid that.
Characters with different names but still the same character. His voice is the same - his facial expressions are very limited. To me, most of his characters are the same guy with different names. IMO.
Seriously? You must be the only person I've met who would consider Bruce Pearson the talented redneck baseball player, Travis Bickle the low-key cab driver pushed too far, Mike Vronsky the dead serious Russian-American army Sergent, Vito Corleone the rising young Italian mobster, Jake LaMotta the out of control brutal boxer, Rupert Pumpkin the eccentric obsessed fan, Leonard Lowe the naive sweet recovering coma patience, and Dr. Frankenstein's tormented creation to all be "the same character" and the same type of performance from De Niro. Everyone else feels that's an INCREDIBLE acting range he had during the 70s, 80s, and 90s.
Unfortunately, you could make a good case that he's "phoned it in" SINCE then, and has been content to make silly mafia comedies and forgettable action movies for the last decade.
Bottom line: De Niro needs to get back to making real movies, and Scorsese needs to get back to casting real actors.
I will admit to not seeing those movies. Mostly because the movies I have seen De Niro in have not impressed me. I really can't even remember the movies I've seen him in because he's left no lasting impression on me.
Wow...
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.
It's an old story. But certainly DeNiro was more creative and adventurous in his great days than a lot of other actors who ended up in the same kind of rut.
I was COOKING Christmas dinner when the decision was made to see this movie, FGS! I had time only to look up the synopsis and the time. You know, there were 3 other people involved in this decision. The synopsis was deceptive, as was the movie trailer I’d seen the previous week. The theatre certainly did not “sanitize” the trailer for “Bad Words” last night. People were booing because the language was so bad and directed at a child, no less! Yet, the same people sat through the main feature.
My computer refused to download the trailer for “Wolf” — probably because of the language, although at the time I just thought there was a glitch; and I went back to my cooking.
There is a difference, you know, between trailers shown when the main feature is PG, PG13, or when the main feature is R. They match the content to the content of the main feature.
I’ll add just one more thought: morality and culture is a lot like accounting, or computers. Garbage in = garbage out! I don’t need to corrupt my life with porn and trash. I hope you enjoy it, if that is your cup of tea.
That's what I thought. I used to love James Thurber. I don't need to see some slapstick comedian make fun of his work.
That's what I thought. I used to love James Thurber. I don't need to see some slapstick comedian make fun of his work.
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