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Add Age SuitabilityJihadiConservative thinks this title is suitable for 18 years and over
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Add NoticesOther: Extremely graphic use of drugs throughout. Some quite disturbing.
Sexual Content: Extreme, graphic and prolonged. Im surprised it wasn't NC-17
Coarse Language: Extreme 10/10. Record for F-bombs clocking at 619. And thart's just the F-bombs...
Coarse Language: It holds the Guinness World Record for the most utterances of the F-bomb in cinematic history at 506 (averaging over 2 per minute). It's your call.
Sexual Content: I couldn't count how many acts of sex occur in this film. It's a lot.
Violence: There are a few scenes that may be considered violent, but I don't think that's the main issue in this film (see sexuality, coarse language, drug use).
Violence: There are a few scenes that may be considered violent, but I don't think that's the main issue in this film (see sexuality, coarse language, drug use).
Coarse Language: It holds the Guinness World Record for the most utterances of the F-bomb in cinematic history at 506 (averaging over 2 per minute). It's your call.
Quotes
Add a QuoteJordan Belfort: My name is Jordan Belfort. I'm a former member of the middle class raised by two accountants in a tiny apartment in Bayside, Queens. The year I turned 26, as the head of my own brokerage firm, I made $49 million, which really pissed me off because it was three shy of a million a week.
Mark Hanna: The name of the game, moving the money from the client's pocket to your pocket.
Jordan Belfort: But if you can make your clients money at the same time it's advantageous to everyone, correct?
Mark Hanna: No.
"Most of the Wall Street jackasses I bust are douchebags, just like their fathers before them. But you ... you, Jordan, got this way all on your own."
"Most of the Wall Street jackasses I bust are douchebags, just like their fathers before them. But you ... you, Jordan, got this way all on your own."
"You show me a pay stub for $72, 000, I quit my job right now and work for you."
"You show me a pay stub for $72, 000, I quit my job right now and work for you."
"I'm a former member of the middle class raised by two accountants in a tiny apartment in Bayside Queens. The year I turned 16 as the head of my own brokerage firm, I made 49 million dollars, which really pissed me off because it was three shy of a million a week."
"I'm a former member of the middle class raised by two accountants in a tiny apartment in Bayside Queens. The year I turned 16 as the head of my own brokerage firm, I made 49 million dollars, which really pissed me off because it was three shy of a million a week."
Summary
Add a SummaryA man has ambition. He has opportunity. He puts those two together, adds illegal drugs and mixed up ethics. He and his colleagues go to prison.
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Add a CommentLOVE THIS MOVIE.
I love this movie. Its hilarious. I laughed so hard my stomach hurt.
I could tell from the outset it was going to be a fun ride and even for being three hours long it was. It was enjoyable to be enlightened to the exploits of Jordan Belfort and even after the movie I found myself following up and googling Belfort, reading reviews and wanting to read his memoir. Interesting
Way too much sex scenes, worst than a XXX-rated movie and language. This is the worst way of making a movie from auto biography book. I read the book and the book has lots of interesting situations as well but it is shame that this director chose all X rated situations from the book. Only 10% of scenes are made with out sex and vulgar.
I expected high level from the great actors like DiCaprio. I think the director wanted to make a celebrity XXX movie. Very disappointing. This movie is simply worth to flush through the toilet.
Man of poor character makes money, loses money. Could have been OK with some editing ... wwwaaayyyy too long for an unremarkable story. If you have nothing better to do, it can be watched; brace for misogyny.
Way too much gratuitous sex much closer to what should be x-rated than r (imo), language, decadence. I can understand some of that was needed for the story, but it was way, way (way) too much.
Which is too bad, because if you took out 90% of the over-the-top decadence and just suggested, hinted and made clear it was there without having to show it, then it would have been a Class A movie (with a lot of GREAT acting). I think it is true that DiCaprio did his best acting job ever in this film.
Too bad it was made to entertain some imagined mass of decadent people. Very, very disappointing, but it flushed down the toilet just like the Wolf of Wall Street's life.
Wasn't overly impressed with the cinematography or writing; an account of hedonism and excess makes you wonder if the film is really about Wall Street's corruption/greed as much as its drug culture. Scorsese seems to enjoy these edgy depictions of big-city fringe communities (see: Goodfellas, the Departed)
Was going to watch it but don't do movies with the F word so I'm going to take a pass. (Of course finding out Scorsese's the director tells you all you need to know about that!)
It was okay.. but wouldn't watch it again.
Even if you hated this movie, which plenty did, you gotta admit it had some classic scenes. DiCaprio crawling/rolling to the car, his bizarre dance at the wedding, the infomercial, "I will NOT. DIE. SOBER!" There was a ton of sleaze and excess but hey, it depicted a lifestyle defined by sleaze and excess. Scorsese seems to have fun as a director, glorying in the epic, sometimes nauseating highs and lows. The movie is as manic and high-octane as its main character, like a three-hour ride on the zipper.