The Wolf of Wall Street

I finally got around to seeing it. It wasn't awful but it wasn't great either. I definitely think there should have been more exposure of the consequences of these guys' actions - it was made to seem like they were just clever salesmen, not that they were actually criminal sociopaths who were totally destroying thousands of people's lives. There did seem to be a bit of a pointless excess of orgies, and all that stuff.

 

yeah, that part was fully missing from the film. we only know the consequences if we reference real life, and through events that have gotten media attention.

it makes the film look a little cowardly. i get it that they didn't want to make it too serious, and all, but the subject matter is serious in our day so there's no way of escaping that. and this film fails both, as a comedy and as a dramatic piece, it doesn't succeed in acquiring a genre. it's halfway this way and halfway the other. confusing.

 

I thought it was quite good. And he does go the jail in the end, so the comeuppance is there.
Unlike in the cases of many in the financial sector who have got away with blatant fraud, market rigging etc.
This film is an expose of only a minor crook. A super salesman with charisma. Wall St. and the City of London are full of much bigger crooks.

 

jail? they showed he was playing tennis in jail and was living pretty luxuriously there. if you wanna call that jail....

he ended up in full freedom as a motivational speaker again taking money from naive people (there is that) providing nothing in return.

 

If I do my drugs just right i'll be fuckin rich!

 

I liked this movie

the pace of it reminded me of Goodfellas

 

I only just finally got around to seeing this movie, went through DiCaprio's back catalogue after seeing the Revenant.

This movie, tWoWS, was one of the most ghastly movies Ive ever seen.

As for truth, I wouldnt believe Belforts account on anything. He fleeced mom and pop investors out of 200 million, then only gets four years after ratting out all his mates, then only serves 22 months of that, then a short career as a motivational speaker after the film comes out, a career which going by his website now seems to be over. This guy should be shot, not heralded, what a slimebag.

Movie saved only really by DiCaprio

But geezus , what trash

 

I'm late but I really enjoyed this movie.

 

I decided to watch this movie because of this thread. I thought it was very good. Not really profound (though it gives you some insight into the wall street mentality), but very entertaining.

It's about a 1/2 hour too long. The movie was pretty engaging, but I really wanted it to wrap up sooner. The whole gay butler, lemmon/ferarri, and UK aunt episodes could have been cut out completely imho.

The acting was good across the board, and overall the film is well put together.

It's obvious that there are exaggerations and distortions in the film. When Belfort (DiCaprio) says he consumes enough drugs in a day to sedate Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens for a month, the sound track kicks in with the lyrics "a man tells lies". I think any reasonable viewer would be prepared to take the film with a grain of salt.

According to wikipedia though, quite a few elements of the movie are based on actual events.