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Watching Leonardo DiCaprio try to get into that car while blasted out of his mind on drugs was hands-down the hardest I ever laughed in a movie theater.
Oh the whole sequence. The stairs, the car, the ride, the fight, the rescue. Epic. The whole cinema was laughing like I've never seen in any comedy. All in all, nobody was prepared to go into the new 3 hours from the then 70-year-old Scorsese and watch such an incredibly crazy flick.
That's the real Jordan Belfort at the end introducing Leo at the sale seminar. Sales seminars is what he does now in order to pay off all the people he and his company defrauded. They still owe millions to this day.
@@joe.banana He truly is a con artist and a complete narcissist to boot too. I saw his name pop up as a reference recently someone used for a house flipping business and it immediately set off alarm bells in my head.
the Quaalude scenes are my favorite part of the whole damn movie. so funny, leos acting is incredible, and jonah hills as well. also Rick laughing was straight serotonin.
Both my parents are in their 80's, came from advertising, and quaaludes were definitely a thing in their time. My sister and I were cleaning out some of my dad's stuff a few years ago and found a bottle, completely disintegrated. We couldn't stop laughing about it and to this day they insist they "didn't do drugs" xD
And Catch me if you can and shutter island and Once upon a time and the great gatsby and blood diamond. How he didn’t get an Oscar before the Revenant baffles me.
The movie itself is quite good. It's what happened to the people they defrauded in real life is why it's so jacked up. Belfort and his cohorts got off easy compared to the lives they ruined. The fact he still owes millions in damages is disturbing.
@@alucard624 not that I condone it but the same happens to every rich person or institute. Banks got in no trouble over 2008 and they won't get in trouble now either. It's only poor people who face actual punishment.
Margot Robbie actually improvised the slap after she throws the water in his face in her audition and she thought she blew it because she smacked the star lead role but they loved it and gave her the role
@@thatgirlreacts5465I'm not sure if you have extremely limited vocabulary or completely obsessed about Margot Robbie's looks, because it seems that's all you can say without any further elaboration. You didn't even acknowledge nor attempted to counter the point of the previous comment.
Someone correct me if I’m wrong, but wasn’t the chest pounding thing just a vocal warmup exercise McConaughey does before scenes and Scorsese saw it and wanted to put it in the movie?
The quaalude OD scene is TOO FREAKING HILARIOUS! I saw this in theaters and the entire audience, myself included, laughed nonstop throughout that scene. I actually thought I was going to pass out because I was laughing too hard. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Some part of it are fictionalised but the story in general is based on belforts life. The guy was sharing a prison cell with Tommy Chong and Tommy convinced him to turn it into a book. It's gotta be said that the sleezebag made himself look way bigger and excessive than he was.
That’s never really been Scorsese’s M.O.; he loves to tell a more glamorous story about a charismatic villain who COULD’VE gotten away with it but they flew too close to the sun. However you feel about it, whether you think it’s repetitive or genius, that’s the kind of movies he makes.
@@JITCompilation Goodfellas managed to show the attraction mob life could have to a certain kind of person without glamorizing it. He lost that balance here.
@@lizd2943 idk man. I see a lot similarities; Ray Liotta’s character was eating at fancy restaurants, sleeping with beautiful girls, everyone treated him kindly because they were afraid of him, etc. He also had a wife that he ends up cheating on and abusing (just like Jordan Belfort). It’s a VERY similar story; and it’s not like Goodfellas showed the REALLY bad stuff the mob got up to, like torture. One could argue the guys in Quentin Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs showed a more extreme side of crime than Goodfellas.
The swiss banker is a famous french comedian, Jean Dujardin. He won an Oscar for The Artist and he’s most famous for his “Brice de Nice” sketch comedy show and also a trilogy of movies spoofing James Bond named “OSS117”. The first 2 are classics.
@@LiTTleGaBi21 Yeah I've seen Cairo & Rio countless times, absolute classics. It just sucks that a lot of the humor is lost in translation to non-french speakers and isn't as funny if you don't have knowledge of modern France history.
1:50 The helicopter pilot is played by the nephew of the former Governor of Connecticut Dan Malloy. His name is Kerry. He and I did community theater doing stage show and we even went to Westhill High School in Stamford, CT and did other shows such as Guys and Dolls (He was Sky Masterson, I was Brannigan) but we also did a production of Evita (He was Che, I was Juan Peron). He even emailed me about his time on the film, even going so far as mentioning me to legendary director Martin Scorsese and about how knowledgeable I am about film, a message that almost gave me a near fatal heart attack. 😅
The Ludes scene with Leo just crawling to his car and completely wrecking it is just genuinely one of the funniest scenes I've ever witnessed in movie history. Such a great fucking film through and through xD
@@p0laris74yt8 I feel there was something different I meant, but also not a bad example. As far as I remember the Dean has a pretty good track record of cracking Eric up :D
Snuck into see this when I was 15 with my best friend after skipping school and it is still my favourite film and cinema experience ever. Love that you guys are reacting to this
@@sammyskelly I'm 33 I have no school to skip and I don't get ID'd to go to movies haha Although I have been known to sneak into a double feature from time to time...
One of the craziest movies I've ever seen. It is fucking hilarious, it is high-energy, it is depraved. And above all.. It is utterly fucking bleak & depressing. A tale that is all too fucking real and relevant, at all times: rich fucks scam everyone and then walk away pretty much scot free. Every. Goddamn. Time. Apparently the real Belfort was trying to get people into crypto or something last year. A leopard never changes his spots I guess lol. Scorsese's a fucking legend. Every actor is fucking GREAT in this movie. And ofc, Schoonmaker edited the hell out of this thing. This should've been DiCaprio's Oscar movie.
DiCaprio’s acting in this movie was generational…I dnt evn usually notice this kind of stuff bt his acting skills were peak level in this movie I absolutely love it
The most common response I hear from rich people when someone poor says "If I were rich I wouldn't do things like those" is that we don't get rich precisely because we say stuff like that. We don't become rich because we don't have what it takes to have that lifestyle, we say that we find no appeal to drugs and all the f&cked stuff rich people do, but if we were to become truly rich we would end up doing the same stuff. I personally think that is complete BS, but then again, if they are right, then this would be reason I'm not rich.
I've laughed more at this movie than maybe any other comedy I've seen. I laugh at parts of Tropic Thunder, Lebowski and others but nothing gets me like this movie. It's special like Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
If you wanna watch something similar, I’d recommend The Big Short- instead of following the perpetrators, we see the fallbacks of the housing market and what the outsiders did to profit off it. It’s a fascinating watch and I hope you guys peep it!
Btw you mentioned the editing being great, and yeah this is edited by Thelma Schoonmaker, truly one of the greatest to ever do it. She actually edited Scorsese's first film in 1967, reunited in 1980 for Raging Bull (which she won an Oscar for), and she's edited all his narrative films since (in total, 20 of his 25 movies!).
This movie I knew was a good drama before watching it, but it was unexpectedly funny as well for those of us with twisted senses of humor, especially the scene where Donny, Jordan and the rest are all mucked up on ludes with Donny trying to say "Steeeve Madeen" while Jordan is making the faces Donny was making trying to say Steves name, which already had me laughing. 😂The next scene with the huge party going on one of the guys mentioned there was a "beautiful chick" arriving, Jordan leaves to look and of course it's the insanely beautiful Margot Robbie, whose NY Italian accent is done perfectly. Donny walks to look down stairs and stands there trying to say how hot she is.😂 After Jordan talks to her about jet skis the camera slowly moves to the right to where Donny is, he waddled his way down stairs and starts jerking off in the crowded room saying Margot is "perfect"... I literally spit out my pizza 😂😂😂😂 hysterically laughing, I never saw that one coming. Then when his wife sees him doing that she runs over and starts cursing, screaming, kicking, hitting and punching him as he puts his wiener away, as he's telling Jordan he needs to do her because "shes so hot" 😂😂 while his wife is chasing him out of the room as everyone there is laughing, more so when they found out what he was doing...😂😂 I'm still cracking up remembering that scene. A great movie drama with just as much comedy, the 80's were a great time and I'm sure many folks have a similar experience at large parties like that, the ludes made for some funny moments indeed, nothing this crazy but in the same ballpark. It also struck me how much fun all the actors were having, the 6 or so guys from the beginning of the business, almost every scene the guys were hysterically laughing, it must've been allot of fun making this movie. Id love to see the blooper reel, and to be honest I really don't like DiCaprio, he's a stuck up piece hollywood of manure, but he played his role perfectly. A really good movie, I gotta go on amazon and buy it.
Sea otter is played by Henry zabowski who actually is from a podcast called “the last podcast on the left” since like 2011 before podcast were so popular and he’s so funny bro & I think that’s almost the only thing he’s acted in which is wild
Fun fact: Jordan Belfort was cell mates with Tommy Chong (of the “Cheech & Chong series of movies) when Tommy was in prison for sale of paraphernalia across state lines. Chong actually convinced Belfort to write “Wolf of Wall Street” while serving time with him.
