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You basically described Jordan Belfort's life so I'd say this is a ringing endorsement.
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The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
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Haha yeah I thought the same thing when I read his post. Escalation after escalation was exactly what happened.
The movie follows the memoir pretty closely, but most of it is probably bullshit. And by most accounts, he's a bigger jerk than depicted in the movie.
I think it's strange that he's made motivational speaking his new career. Dude is a fucking psychopath. The fact that he got only 2 years in prison shows what a joke the U.S. justice system is.
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Was highly enjoyable but all in all thought it dragged on too long and that the ending was a bit rushed. All of a sudden there's Jonah Hill hiding like a bitch while all his friends are locked up. Some really memorable scenes though that I'm still chuckling about hours later.
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Just watched it myself, and I enjoyed it. Like many of you, I'm pretty much a sucker for anything Leo does nowadays. I didn't like him early on in his career (apparently I'm one of the few people that HATED The Beach), but he's been fucking money for years now.
Not my favorite movie ever, and it was longer than it needed to be, but I'm glad that I watched it. I don't think I'll ever watch it again except for maybe nude scenes/unrated extras, but it was a good movie. I'd recommend others to watch it, which is sort of how I judge a movie that I'm not clearly raving about.
EDIT: I forgot, I'd have been pissed if someone called in the middle of The Equalizer too! Loved that show.
Not my favorite movie ever, and it was longer than it needed to be, but I'm glad that I watched it. I don't think I'll ever watch it again except for maybe nude scenes/unrated extras, but it was a good movie. I'd recommend others to watch it, which is sort of how I judge a movie that I'm not clearly raving about.
EDIT: I forgot, I'd have been pissed if someone called in the middle of The Equalizer too! Loved that show.
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45-60min? That would have butchered this movie. I can see maybe 25 minutes or so but to take a full 1/3 out of the fil would have destroyed it imo.
Also I don't get how the open letter from Jordan's daughter about how the movie portrayed him as a good guy who lived the high life with no consequences is true. I mean yes I get that they didn't really concentrate on the people he fucked over but the movie to me painted him as a horrible human being who was driven by greed, money, drugs and hookers.
Also I like when true stories always wrap up movies telling about what happened to them after the movie was all said and done and they didn't do that, which I thought was kind of a bummer.
Also I don't get how the open letter from Jordan's daughter about how the movie portrayed him as a good guy who lived the high life with no consequences is true. I mean yes I get that they didn't really concentrate on the people he fucked over but the movie to me painted him as a horrible human being who was driven by greed, money, drugs and hookers.
Also I like when true stories always wrap up movies telling about what happened to them after the movie was all said and done and they didn't do that, which I thought was kind of a bummer.
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I mean, I enjoy gratuitous TnA as much as the next guy but eventually it gets to a point where I just wanted to say "We get it, they love drugs and sex" Could have cut the scenes of just random debauchery that add nothing to the actual story and the movie would have been at least 30 minutes shorter with no effect whatsoever on the feel or the storyline.
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One thing I read was the legs spread scene was supposed to be more... graphic... a body double was involved.
In the actual movie nothing was shown.
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