Perhaps not but you will find yourself laughing at jokes you shouldnt laugh at. This is an ensemble of truly bad human beings. There is very little in the way of a personal journey or learning from your mistakes. These guys in this movie are bad human beings and are quite alright with it. And in that sense it is a refreshing movie its boldness not to have character development. These guys are too shallow for that. Leave your integrity at the door and enjoy the show that is Wolf of Wall Street.
Used to watch this with my dad growing up. It was a flop amazingly when it came out but now its sort of a cult classic. And probably the funniest movie either of the three leads ever made and that's quite a filmography to pick from. And you'll learn new words like plethora. Do you know what a plethora is?
The stakes folks are so low. The villains are so weak. The character arc Tony supposedly goes through is so fleeting (to be swiftly overrided by Avengers 2 of course). There is nothing imperative to this movie? I dont mind a bad movie being made but it does annoy the soul when fanboys and critics try to heap praise on this movie like its a real brave and bold "departure". There is nothing of lasting consequence to this movie. Its a lame follow up to what happened in Avengers. I truly resent this movie with a lot of my heart. Melodramatic much? Perhaps.
Baz Luhrmann takes too long for my taste. Make more movies sir! The frenetic modern pacing/music applied to a swinging twenties time is very cool to see. Very similar to what he pulled on Moulin Rogue. Leo is great as Gatsby (no pun) but he is always good. And Tobey Maguire also steals the movie (in my mind) even if most will find his performance thankless cause its so subdued. He's a mediocre man witnessing the drama and lifes of greater bigger people. That's the whole point!
It's like the filmmakers sat down and made a list of everything the audience wants to see. And then did the antonymous version of that. It looks gorgeous on a plasma screen and the giant white dudes (Engineers?) look creepy and cool but seriously what's up with this movie? Confusing. Weird. Detached. Uninvolved. Forgettable. And they're rewarding themselves by making more of these movies? Let it lie.
What is wrong with everybody? This movie is the bomb. For real. Way bettr than The Wolverine. It's a fine origin story. Some of the special fx are a bit shoddy but I dont understand the hate. It's not a transcendent experience but does the job. And as a simple prequel to X-Men it was the last thing to make sense before First Class came and completely and utterly confused the timeline in all sorts of gloriously chaotic ways! Oh and my man crush on Hugh Jackman reaches its peak with this film. He doesnt ever look better in the role than here.
I really like that they keep the old special features but seem to add new ones and retrospective ones on each new release to tie the trilogy together. These were back in the simpler days of X-Men before the XCU or whatever you want to call it got splintered off into a thousand directions (I dont think even the filmmakers now know the chronology anymore). And lets be real about one thing: X-Men The Last Stand is fine folks. Way underrated. Its a fine conclusion to this trilogy. Blame X-Men 1 for not setting a vast enough tone to accomodate the Dark Phoenix story. Last Stand did as best a job as it could given the parameters Bryan Singer stuck them in. Overall as a trilogy it makes for a moving cinematic experience.
I wont take for granted that your average American knows how WW2 ended or how Hitler died. Depressing but true. Most might just be in suspense wondering if this assassination plot works out. So as a suspense film about assassinating the most notorious and threatening monster of the 20th century, it should have worked. It didnt. And its super hard to put the finger on why. Fine enough performances, everything feels right on the surface. Just something failed to click, to connect to make this a masterwork of the genre. Pardon my lack of articulation on this but that's how I feel.
Sorry much love to the talent that made this movie but it is the weakest Die Hard film. And how is the unrated cut actually worse than the theatrical? Made weird arbitrary deletions like deleting Lucy McClane scene in the unrated version? Main villain's grand entrance he's tap dancing eating a carrot? And can we stop trying to make Jai Courtney happen? It aint happening. He has the charisma of this pencil I'm glancing at right now.
The 1970's is oft regarded as the greatest decade in American cinema and Taxi Driver is one of the reasons why. This movie is too gritty to really be a stunner on blu ray per se but just so far as a movie goes, you cant really have shuffled off this mortal coil without seeing this DeNiro/Scorsese masterpiece.