The Wolf of Wall Street [DVD] [2013]

Quite simply one of the greatest movies ever. It holds no punches. No topic is taboo. No scene is too vulgar.It is about a stock broker called Jordan Belfort who due to economic turmoil gets kicked off of Wall Street and to get work he goes to a smaller firm selling penny stocks over the phone. Wall Street gave small cuts to their staff for every sale they made. On massive stocks. The idea is you can sell tonnes of it and make money for yourself. The smaller guys give bigger cuts for selling piddly amounts of low end stocks. Hence the term penny stocks. The thing is Jordan having just come from the big leagues now realises he can sell crap tonnes of these stocks to unsavvy customers and he takes the bigger cut from relatively nice amounts of stock sales. Over time he expands on his own and gets a team together basically makes millions of dollars.This won't be for everyone though. It is pretty much one massive drug addled party the entire way through. I'll give you a taste. There is one scene where a person in a not even slightly shy manner describes his masturbation habits to Jordan in a restaurant. Another where one of the cast describes his "relations" with the woman who gave him his kids who also happens to be his cousin. One scene where a man has sex with a hooker while about ten people in casual work attire stand around and watch/wait their turn. Scenes of drug taking. More breasts than I think I've ever seen in a movie in my life, as well as plenty of lady parts and even a prosthetic penis.If that doesn't say everything there is to say about this movie I really don't know what will. If any of that doesn't sound like it is for you then chances are it probably isn't and there is probably about ten other things in this movie that I haven't mentioned that WILL also offend you in that case.Everyone else though seriously BUY THIS MOVIE!

An adaptation of Jordan Belfort's memoir chronicling his rise and fall on Wall Street and his hard-partying, addiction-fuelled personal life.Welcome to Martin Scorsese’s 22nd feature film, another of his examinations of the rites and rituals of a particular sect, be it the wiseguys of ‘70s Little Italy ( Mean Streets ) or the society scions of late 19th-Century New York ( The Age Of Innocence ).With its rise-and-fall arc, its hedonism and hubris, its gleeful exploration of the dark side of the America Dream, its money, crime and narcs, its sex, drugs and rock’n’roll (though the soundtrack also takes in Madness, Simon & Garfunkel and a fair bit of Euro pop), The Wolf Of Wall Street forms a loose trilogy with GoodFellas and Casino. And if it can’t quite match the energy and quality of those classics, it nonetheless stands as Scorsese’s finest for 15 years.When we first meet Jordan Belfort, he’s more pup than wolf, his lowest-rung job at L.F. Rothschild requiring him only to “smile and dial”. A first-day lunch with big boss Mark Hanna (Matthew McConaughey, hilarious) sows the seeds of the chaos to come, though: Hanna advises him that the stock market is “all fugazi” while preaching the worthlessness of morals and the necessity of greed, cocaine and, to stay relaxed, jerking off twice daily. Then, on 19 October, 1987, the very day Jordan becomes a licensed broker, the market crashes and Rothschild goes under.Jordan joins a penny-stocks firm in Long Island, employing a bunch of expert salesmen (mainly weed) from his old Queens neighbourhood and making Donnie Azoff (Jonah Hill, terrific) VP despite his phosphorescent teeth and shoulder-slung pastel sweaters.The triumphant result is named Stratton Oakmont, and if there’s one thing these guys know how to do, besides sell, it’s party – Jordan blows $26,000 on a lunch, is married to a model, shags prostitutes five, six times a week, and hoovers Quaaludes, Xanax, cocaine and morphine. It’s only a matter of time before the FBI (in the form of Kyle Chandler) come calling…Perhaps deciding the crazed behaviour is enough, perhaps thinking he took stylistic verve as far as it could go in GoodFellas , Scorsese shoots largely with a static camera. His use of whip pans, crash zooms, freeze frames and tracking shots proves so infrequent that Spielberg, visiting the set, suggested he might want to move the camera. But TWOWS is far from muzzled.It is, of course, all part of Scorsese’s plan to charm viewers into accepting Belfort’s outrageously selfish, unthinkingly cruel behaviour. It works, too – more so because Terence Winter’s ( Boardwalk Empire , The Sopranos ) screenplay cleaves to our anti-hero, refusing to investigate the fallout of his misdeeds as he steals from rich and poor alike to line his own pockets (and mirror). It’s a decision some will take issue with, just as some, justifiably, accuse Scorsese of being in thrall to his gangsters.But this is Jordan’s tale, and it’s sold by a magnetic, never-better DiCaprio.A touch too long, yet never slack, at three hours, TWOWS benefits from independent funding, Scorsese’s brass balls and an A-grade cast’s turbulent improvisations to emerge as an epic, boldly broad screwball comedy about the state of America, then and now.Despite the US censors trimming back the screwing and swearing, this is an audacious, riotous epic. Scorsese and DiCaprio’s fifth and best pairing, it’s liable to give the Academy a heart attack.

Very good movie but the start is basically him saying 'look at me! I'm a millionaire. I'm better than you and I can have as many women and drugs as I want!' BUT, bear with it. As the movie opens up and starts to explain how he got there, the difficulties he faced and the magnitude of what he actually did in THE worst stock market crash there ever was, you begin to see why this is such a great movie.It might not be everyone's cup of tea though. Throughout the entire movie, there's sex (lots of it) drugs (lots of them) and bad language (so much, you'll forget that they're swearing!)The way the film is put together and the comedy element makes for a great watch. You'll want to find out what happens and what the movie is all about when he is forced to find another place to work. Watch what happens there and you will not be able to stop :)All in all, watch this movie. Well worth the money, definitely worth your time (2hours 57mins I think!)

This is a Fantastic Blu Ray disc . I have wanted to own this Movie , which is wonderfully scripted with a perfectly Chosen cast . So many Hilariously FUNNY Scenes , dealing with a hitherto perceived , serious Financial PILAR of World Markets/Stock exchanges.