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Originally Posted by bronco67
I liked it overall. The main thing that bothered me was that it was turned up to 11 the entire time, so when bad shit started happening it's not like it had any impact whatsoever.
Also, I can't believe I'm saying this -- as pervy as I am -- but they went a little overboard with the sex stuff. After seeing a couple of orgies, I get the point that it was a debaucherous lifestyle, and they kept up the pace the entire time. The last sex scene he as with his wife was borderline porn -- and I don't know, maybe I like to keep my porn and cinema separate. I feel like a sex scene better be important to the plot. It felt kind of gratuitous.
And the ludes scenes was totally worthless and annoying, went on forever.
But Leo DiCaprio was amazing, especially in his big speeches to his crew ----and a mediocre Scorcese movie is better than most other movies.
That scene of Rob Reiner's character intro, where he answers the phone had me laughing for a minute.
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Great take! I think I agree with almost all of it except the ludes scene. I think it was a great here's-when-it-all-goes-to-shit inflection point, which was hammered home even harder when we saw what really happened versus Belfort's false memory.
That scene I think moved me from being okay with him as a fun-loving, ambitious party boy who dicks around to seeing him as he really was, a scumbag ripping people off and blowing all the cash on dumb shit.
Also I was impressed by Leo's physical comic ability-- that was nearly Mr. Bean good!