Black Sabbath Posted December 17, 2013 Share Posted December 17, 2013 Can't find the original thread, so I don't care, but this movie looks great. Getting great reviews also. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nosaj Thing Posted December 17, 2013 Share Posted December 17, 2013 Can't wait to watch this.Leo has always been great with that kind of roles. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lithium Posted December 17, 2013 Share Posted December 17, 2013 I've been looking forward to it since I saw the trailer this summer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OmarBradley Posted December 17, 2013 Share Posted December 17, 2013 I hope this is good. I'm not too excited for it though, the second I saw the trailer all I could think of was "Well this is Gatsby but 60 years in the future." Maybe Gatsby just left me with such a bad taste it has colored my judgement, regardless I'll still probably see the movie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rovim Posted December 17, 2013 Share Posted December 17, 2013 Yeah, I'm hyped for this movie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest NGOG Posted December 17, 2013 Share Posted December 17, 2013 I am sooo excited for this and American Hustle. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Powerage5 Posted December 17, 2013 Share Posted December 17, 2013 Also think it looks great. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Sabbath Posted December 26, 2013 Author Share Posted December 26, 2013 Anyone get around to seeing it? I ended up not going on Christmas because I didn't want to be in the theater for another 3 hours after seeing Anchorman 2 for a second time I will be going Saturday morning though. Looking forward to it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angelica Posted December 27, 2013 Share Posted December 27, 2013 (edited) I haven't decided how I feel about it yet. On the one hand, it's wildly entertaining, and easily the best of his collaborations with DiCaprio (it's also probably DiCaprio's best adult performance). On the other hand, it lacks a genuine perspective, a single remotely interesting character (I have no problem with everyone being an irredeemable, despicable cunt, I do have a problem with everyone being an uncompelling irredeemable, despicable cunt), and Scorsese is still embarrassingly inept with female roles. But it is raucously funny and the most immediately vibrant thing he's done since Goodfellas. Edited December 27, 2013 by Angelica Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Sabbath Posted December 27, 2013 Author Share Posted December 27, 2013 So you're saying that it was great?I've read the same thing about the characters, though. But, I loved Pain & Gain and everyone in that was a cunt, so maybe I'll like these guys too.Looking forward to seeing it on Saturday morning. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angelica Posted December 27, 2013 Share Posted December 27, 2013 (edited) I'm saying it's great as long as you don't dwell on it too much. Or possibly at all.The characters in Pain & Gain were frequently endearing (albeit in spite of themselves), there's none of that here. Scorsese has exposed humanity in all manner of psychopaths, gangsters etc, he doesn't pull it off here. In point of fact, I don't believe he even tried. But there's so much maniacal shit going on, that it's nowhere near as problematic as it should be. Edited December 27, 2013 by Angelica Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lithium Posted December 27, 2013 Share Posted December 27, 2013 (edited) and easily the best of his collaborations with DiCaprio (it's also probably DiCaprio's best adult performance).wat Edited December 27, 2013 by Lithium Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wasted Posted December 27, 2013 Share Posted December 27, 2013 I have a diamond cutter for Wolf of wall street and and American hustle. if they suck then i righting off movies off as a dead as discos. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angelica Posted December 27, 2013 Share Posted December 27, 2013 and easily the best of his collaborations with DiCaprio (it's also probably DiCaprio's best adult performance).watWat what? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lithium Posted December 27, 2013 Share Posted December 27, 2013 and easily the best of his collaborations with DiCaprio (it's also probably DiCaprio's best adult performance).watWat what? I hadn't imagined it would be that good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angelica Posted December 27, 2013 Share Posted December 27, 2013 and easily the best of his collaborations with DiCaprio (it's also probably DiCaprio's best adult performance).watWat what? I hadn't imagined it would be that good.Yeah but keep in mind, I'm really not a fan of their prior collaborations. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Sabbath Posted December 27, 2013 Author Share Posted December 27, 2013 and easily the best of his collaborations with DiCaprio (it's also probably DiCaprio's best adult performance).watWat what? I hadn't imagined it would be that good.Yeah but keep in mind, I'm really not a fan of their prior collaborations.I have yet to see The Aviator, but what about Gangs of New York and/or The Departed? I enjoyed Shutter Island, but and thought Leo was good, but the performance isn't amazing or anything. I thought he was great in the others, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dalsh327 Posted December 27, 2013 Share Posted December 27, 2013 Usually movies about Wall Street have portrayed them as white collar thugs, but still thugs, and I think the way Scorsese was drawn to Henry Hill, he's also drawn to Belfort for similar reasons. I'm sure Scorsese living in New York has had his encounters over the years with boiler room bullshit artists as much as he did people in the mob. I think it's more about how someone finds themselves having no moral compass, and conning people out of their money. The book is worth reading because Belfort is fucking delusional, sober or high. Guys like this would sell their own mothers out. I think the real reason why DiCaprio wanted to play him had to do with this guy, so he has some personal experience with guys like Belfort. http://nymag.com/nymetro/news/bizfinance/biz/features/2226/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angelica Posted December 27, 2013 Share Posted December 27, 2013 The Aviator is a stuffy, self-important and deeply conventional biopic. Gangs of New York is a mess. The Departed is a mixed bag of great and terrible and I was so bored in Shutter Island that I probably zoned out too often to fairly comment on it. As I've said somewhere in this section before, he's done a lot for DiCaprio as an actor, but it's not artistically reciprocal relationship. Though Wolf is the best they've done together, I really hope they break up now. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tater Totts Posted December 27, 2013 Share Posted December 27, 2013 Apparently the film contains 414 uses of the word fuck, a record for a non-documentary film. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest NGOG Posted December 27, 2013 Share Posted December 27, 2013 Having read a variety of significant reviews, it's definitely not accurate to say WOWS is the best product of the Di Caprio/Scorsese relationship.I know we'd all like to consider ourselves reputable critics, but the The Departed is an unquestionably brilliant film. Not only by my own standards, but the majority of respected industry opinions. The response to this however is nowhere near as glowing.I have higher hopes for American Hustle. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angelica Posted December 28, 2013 Share Posted December 28, 2013 (edited) Sweet Muscular Jesus, do we really have to preface everything we write in this thread with 'IMO'!? It's not math FFS, there's no 'unquestionably brilliant' or 'unquestionably shit' in art and no ones opinion of it can be considered accurate or inaccurate. Edited December 28, 2013 by Angelica 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest NGOG Posted December 28, 2013 Share Posted December 28, 2013 Sweet Muscular Jesus, do we really have to preface everything we write in this thread with 'IMO'!? It's not math FFS, there's no 'unquestionably brilliant' or 'unquestionably shit' and no ones opinion of it can be considered accurate or inaccurate.I'm not saying that you're wrong, but the weight of reputable critics is not with you (and that's probably quite large given the amount of popcorn they consume ).After initial opinions are fleshed out, the industry tends to gravitate towards an accepted consensus. The Departed has been affected by that determination positively. Rightly, it's considered a fantastic piece. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angelica Posted December 28, 2013 Share Posted December 28, 2013 Well, that's the last time I trust my own opinion before consulting Rotten Tomatoes to make sure it's not running against the 'accepted consensus'! Thanks! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest NGOG Posted December 28, 2013 Share Posted December 28, 2013 Well, that's the last time I trust my own opinion before consulting Rotten Tomatoes to make sure it's not running against the 'accepted consensus'! Thanks!Relax, I think you have a very informed input. But rubbishing The Departed is one step too far. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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