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The Sleazy Scorsese of Wall Street
Townhall.com ^ | January 10, 2014 | Brent Bozell

Posted on 01/10/2014 5:38:33 AM PST by Kaslin

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1 posted on 01/10/2014 5:38:34 AM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

They should change the name to Wolf of Hollywood and it would be more truthful.

Pray America is Waking


2 posted on 01/10/2014 5:48:34 AM PST by bray ("The Republic of Texas 2022" is coming in Feb)
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To: Kaslin

I haven’t felt any “shaking” out here on the eastern end o flyover country.


3 posted on 01/10/2014 5:56:02 AM PST by WayneS (Respect the 2nd Amendment; Repeal the 16th (and 17th))
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To: Kaslin

It’s 3 hours long. No one is going to sit for 3 hours of the F word.


4 posted on 01/10/2014 5:59:34 AM PST by CaptainK (...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
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"That was a badge of honor for me, to be in a Martin Scorsese movie and say the F-word," actor-director Rob Reiner told a TMZ.com interviewer in a parking lot. When he was reminded about the movie's 500-plus curse count, he smiled and said, "I don't worry about that."

He can't worry about it. He has meat for brains.

5 posted on 01/10/2014 6:01:35 AM PST by skeeter
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What is the obsession with this idiot and that whiny ass twerp DiCrapio? What is it, is he fascinated by his promotions of the global warming scam? That the little dip never worked a real job in his life so therefore that gives him cred to dictate to the rest of us serfs? Give me a break He’s the King of miscast actors, if Scorcese wanted to make a movie about singer James Brown no doubt he would cast this twerp as James Brown. He already tried to do it with the Frank Sinatra movie he’s trying to get made, DiCrapio with his borderline woman voice cast as Frank Sinatra, oh yes that will work. I am so sick to death of this Scorcese and this little doosh DiCrapio, and these critics who practically fall over themselves in praise for all these crap movies they make.


6 posted on 01/10/2014 6:11:16 AM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (Hitlery: Incarnation of evil.)
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To: Kaslin
As far as I'm concerned Scorsese “Jumped the Shark” when he released “Gangs of New York”; it was one of the worst movies I have ever seen.... Multiple US Naval ships shelling Manhattan, it was like something out of Black History Studies.
I no longer am interested in the “entertainment” clique and their self congratulatory ramblings.
7 posted on 01/10/2014 6:21:04 AM PST by BilLies ("Will none rid me of this lying bastard ?")
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To: Kaslin

Besides the language, this film also has a great deal of nudity/sexual content. Amazingly, I read a positive review from the online version of “Christianity Today”.


8 posted on 01/10/2014 6:21:32 AM PST by OldNukeDaddy
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While I can handle the F-word every now and then and have been known to use it when the occasion called for it, if it’s used with in five minutes of the movie starting, I’m gone...
Displays a lack of creativity, ingenuity and mastery of the language.


9 posted on 01/10/2014 6:34:32 AM PST by matginzac
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To: Kaslin

I enjoyed ‘Frozen’.


10 posted on 01/10/2014 6:34:49 AM PST by pbear8 (the Lord is my light and my salvation)
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To: BilLies

It was a long time ago but I remember seeing gangs of New York with my family- my cousin and her husband. And we’re Irish New Yorker with ancestors in the real story

At the end, the lights came on in the theater and my cousin and I looked at each other and we laughed hilariously

It was so bad it was hilarious

Dicaprio, I saw five minutes of titanic and had to turn it off

Sat through that pornographic the departed and gave him for whatever stupid reason another chance with Gatsby

All were much worse than a waste of time

But I do not get why people say these films are good

I do not get it


11 posted on 01/10/2014 6:42:36 AM PST by stanne
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To: Kaslin
He's being a cinematic sensationalist, a linguistic and sexual exhibitionist.

That's all he's ever been. It's just that some of his movies have been entertaining in spite of it.

12 posted on 01/10/2014 6:55:24 AM PST by facedown (Armed in the Heartland)
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To: onedoug

It’s art.


13 posted on 01/10/2014 7:10:24 AM PST by windcliff
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To: matginzac

You may not like the language but it is dead on accurate. You will never find an environment with more cursing. Movie was good but not great. A sort of self-ripoff of Goodfellas.


14 posted on 01/10/2014 7:26:19 AM PST by sakic
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So, because it’s “accurate” in the use of the F-word, I’m suppose to pay big bucks to watch it.
No thanks...I’ll just stay “ignorant” of the culture where this kind of language is acceptable.


15 posted on 01/10/2014 7:42:17 AM PST by matginzac
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To: BilLies

I have to thank you. I’m no fan of Daniel Day Lewis (King of the overactors), and in general am a Scorsese fan.

I never saw Gangs of New York, because watching poor Irish people fighting in Five-Points wasn’t exactly ‘Up, up with people’ for me, and I also wasn’t a fan of Cameron Diaz either.

I was always going to ‘get around’ to watching, but never did.

You mentioned there’s a scene where the US Navy shells Manhattan, and after you revealed that it was like taking a load off. I’ll never see it.

I saw American Hustle two weeks ago. Outstanding movie, in my opinion. Smart movie that treated their audience like they were smart.

Also, no sex. Revealing 70’s Cosmpolitan Magazine cover model blouses? Absolutely.

Very entertaining. I’ve seen critics tee-off on Jennifer Lewis’ dance thing toward the end of the movie, but she’s bat-shite crazy, and frankly, I watched my mom do worse growing up in CA in the 1970’s.

Anyway, thank you. I’ll never see Gangs.


16 posted on 01/10/2014 7:47:06 AM PST by RinaseaofDs
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To: windcliff

Starts with an f.


17 posted on 01/10/2014 9:39:52 AM PST by onedoug
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To: matginzac

Who told you to watch it?


18 posted on 01/10/2014 10:20:19 AM PST by sakic
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Well, it seems as if Scorcese and DeCaprio et al are telling all of us it’s a great movie...do you not get that?
What I could F-word say right now......


19 posted on 01/10/2014 3:43:43 PM PST by matginzac
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To: matginzac

You are surprised that someone is promoting their own product?

Really?

Have you never heard of marketing?


20 posted on 01/11/2014 8:11:45 AM PST by sakic
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