What movies are you watching?

[tree_]

Wolf of Wall Street. I've watched this several times now and always struggle to "get" it. It's like, OK, so these are a bunch of greedy, depraved, debaucherous assholes, so what's the point? It's not funny, just disgusting, and it's clearly trying to be a comedy, right?

[VinylGuy]

one of the best movie of this modern age

[tree_]

one of the best movie of this modern age

What am I not getting?

[BurtReynolds]

Just some good ole boys laughing, living, and loving. I don't see the problem.

[tree_]

Just some good ole boys laughing, living, and loving. I don't see the problem.

I'd rather watch Jackass for something like that. This seems like a complete waste of talent.

[BurtReynolds]

Just some good ole boys laughing, living, and loving. I don't see the problem.

I'd rather watch Jackass for something like that. This seems like a complete waste of talent.

Both give us a shared human experience of being cool and awesome, but I guess some of us just have more refined tastes than others.

[tree_]

What is the story in Wolf of Wall Street? Greedy, sex and drug addicted, narcissistic asshole and his cronies party a lot, break a lot of laws, get caught. Why did they make this movie and why is it 3 hours long?

[BurtReynolds]

Some people think these movies are morality tales, but they are really just ways of getting off.

[tree_]

Yes, that is my sense about it, and why I don't like it. Just watch porn instead

[BurtReynolds]

It is porn, silly.

[Jorge]

Brilliant movie, and you're right to be disgusted. It and American Hustle from the same year make a great pairing, they touch on many of the same themes

[tree_]

Brilliant movie, and you're right to be disgusted. It and American Hustle from the same year make a great pairing, they touch on many of the same themes

I liked American Hustle.

Can you please tell me what's brilliant about this?

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[tree_]

What is the story in Wolf of Wall Street? Greedy, sex and drug addicted, narcissistic asshole and his cronies party a lot, break a lot of laws, get caught. Why did they make this movie and why is it 3 hours long?

As a document on a specific excessive culture from a specific time and place, I think it's extremely effective and entertaining.

Unlike American Hustle, which is lukewarm dogshit.

Do I remember correctly that you liked I heart Huckabees? Or do you dislike all O'Russell joints? I can see disliking his aesthetic, as I have a love/hate relationship with most of his stuff.

[BurtReynolds]

David o Russell is trash and does not understand humanity because he is a robot. He cannot get off with me.

[tree_]

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[tree_]

As a document on a specific excessive culture from a specific time and place, I think it's extremely effective and entertaining.

I've been letting this marinate and OK, I can see this as justification for its existence. But I never want to experience a movie like this again. Just not for me, I suppose.

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[tree_]

see, that's not entertaining to me.. i just.. hate those guys