This is one of those movies you put on when you’re looking for some pure entertainment. If I’m looking for a a nice, relaxing evening, I’ll put on a Harry Potter of course, but if I’ve had a boring day and am still feeling pretty energetic, this movie is one of my go to’s. Now, I think possibly the biggest criticism this movie gets is it’s run time. I don’t blame people who are hesitant to commit three hours of their life watching this trashy over the top film with an average of 3.16 f-bombs per minute. But I personally have no issue wasting my time (is time ever wasted if you’re enjoying yourself?), the bigger problem is finding three hours to give my undivided attention to this movie due to homework, tennis, and my excessive napping problem.
Anyways, this movie is a lot less cool when you learn that probably about 25% of it is accurate. Which is disappointing because I believe it was marketed as a mostly true story, and it’s based of an autobiography. If you are asking yourself ‘did this really happen?’ during a scene in this film, chances are it did not. The only accurate stuff is the financial crimes, oh, and he was also a drug addict of course. But no, they didn’t hire dwarfs for their office party, he didn’t see a helicopter explode in the sky, and he wasn’t arrested while filming an infomercial. I guess it’s a Scorsese thing to make movies about semi interesting criminals and over exaggerate everything about their life to the point where it’s almost comical. You can see this in Goodfellas especially. Henry Hill was actually a very low level mobster and not nearly as cool as he is made out to be. And Jordan Belford was never actually called The Wolf of Wall Street. He made that name up for himself for the autobiography. This similarity isn’t surprising because Wolf of Wall Street is basically just a white collar Goodfellas on crack. I would say this movie is in my top 20 list. It’s very well made and enjoyable despite the fact that’s it’s mostly fiction. Also I could not think of a more perfect role for Leo DiCaprio to play. Same goes for Jonah Hill.
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