What are you watching tonight?

[thebish]

Ah. How topical. LF are sending me Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit, written by that lady that caught, killed, skinned, cooked and ate the rabbit that had been helping itself to her radishes and whatnot. I've been waiting bloody ages for this one.

Jeanette Winterson. Read that years ago, thought it was excellent. Charlotte Coleman was in it I think, died tragically young. Why's it topical, or am i being dim?

I read the book YEARS ago - didn't realise it was a fillum now...

[Bruce Rioja]

Think the film was made in 1990, Bish.

Topical's not the best description, LE. I apologise. Coincidental, perhaps, that a film that I've been waiting ages to see turns up at a time when the author's in the news.

[LeverEnd]

Think the film was made in 1990, Bish.

Topical's not the best description, LE. I apologise. Coincidental, perhaps, that a film that I've been waiting ages to see turns up at a time when the author's in the news.

Ah, I see. I just hadn't seen the news article.

[TANGODANCER]

What's The Hunger Games? On tonight, any good?

[General Mannerheim]

Big budget adaptation of popular children's book. Divides opinions massively but I thought it was alright.

[TANGODANCER]

Big budget adaptation of popular children's book. Divides opinions massively but I thought it was alright.

I watched it through; found it a bit like a grown-ups (?) Alice through the Looking Glass in its zanyness. Not in the Narnia class for kids stuff. Stanley Tucci (as ever) was over-the-top brilliant, the rest.....well, as you say, it was alright...just. .

Tucci was just fantastic in Shall we Dance with Richard Geer.

[KeyserSoze]

A few classics last night

[mummywhycantieatcrayons]

Just watched Wolf of Wall Street for the first time and am baffled as to why it wasn't widely panned. It's like The Hangover with a bit of boiler room fraud thrown in. No psychological or moral insight whatsoever.

[Bruce Rioja]

Good Lord. Have I finally found a kindred spirit that also finds The Hangover to be a mahoosive pile of old shit?

[LeverEnd]

Good Lord. Have I finally found a kindred spirit that also finds The Hangover to be a mahoosive pile of old shit?

Make that three of us on that one. Just didn't think it was funny in the slightest. never bothered with the sequels.

[Abdoulaye's Twin]

Good Lord. Have I finally found a kindred spirit that also finds The Hangover to be a mahoosive pile of old shit?

Make that three of us on that one. Just didn't think it was funny in the slightest. never bothered with the sequels.

Quartet

[Prufrock]

Just watched Wolf of Wall Street for the first time and am baffled as to why it wasn't widely panned. It's like The Hangover with a bit of boiler room fraud thrown in. No psychological or moral insight whatsoever.

In fairness I don't think there is supposed to be any insight. It's just a big three hour cartoon made up of a series of scenes designed to show how well Leo can bloody act. Here's Leo doing charming. Here's Leo losing his temper. Here's Leo playing a gurning idiot. Here's Leo acting false contrition. Here's Leo beating his wife. A three hour audition screaming 'Give me a goddamn Oscar' done by MS as payback for The Departed.

Didn't think it was awful though it had no business being in the company it was at award season.

[clapton is god]

Good Lord. Have I finally found a kindred spirit that also finds The Hangover to be a mahoosive pile of old shit?

Make that three of us on that one. Just didn't think it was funny in the slightest. never bothered with the sequels.

Quartet

Quimtuplet.... or whatever.

[Worthy4England]

Good Lord. Have I finally found a kindred spirit that also finds The Hangover to be a mahoosive pile of old shit?

Make that three of us on that one. Just didn't think it was funny in the slightest. never bothered with the sequels.

Quartet

Quimtuplet.... or whatever.

That's conjoured up a bit of a picture....

[William the White]

Just watched Wolf of Wall Street for the first time and am baffled as to why it wasn't widely panned. It's like The Hangover with a bit of boiler room fraud thrown in. No psychological or moral insight whatsoever.

Is this meant to be ironic?

[mummywhycantieatcrayons]

Just watched Wolf of Wall Street for the first time and am baffled as to why it wasn't widely panned. It's like The Hangover with a bit of boiler room fraud thrown in. No psychological or moral insight whatsoever.

Is this meant to be ironic?

No. Have you seen it? Just a poor comedy.

[William the White]

Just watched Wolf of Wall Street for the first time and am baffled as to why it wasn't widely panned. It's like The Hangover with a bit of boiler room fraud thrown in. No psychological or moral insight whatsoever.

Is this meant to be ironic?

No. Have you seen it? Just a poor comedy.

Yes, I've seen it.

i wouldn't swap it for Taxi Driver or Mean Streets or many others in the Scorsese CV but it has the 'moral insight' that satire always has (or should have) - it exposes what it seems to celebrate. And, in doing so, in psychological terms, examines the overwhelming power of greed to corrupt in every way imaginable. It clearly didn't work for you. and in some ways didn't for me. It's a study of the grotesque on a single note mostly - but it isn't a bog standard comedy.

For once, the Telegraph has it for me...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film ... years.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[Beefheart]

I just felt disappointed by Wolf of Wall Street, being a huge Scorcese fan I was expecting a lot more. It also think it could have done with losing about half an hour.

One movie I am really looking forward to is Richard Linklater's 'Boyhood', out on 11th July I think.

[Prufrock]

I'm not convinced it was a satire. About halfway through I thought it was going to be but it didn't think it panned out that way. In any case, I'm not convinced that a biopic is the best medium for satire, particularly where that satire is of a sector like investment banking, and this was a guy who was actually punished for the 'shady stuff' he did. 'Look at the guy who went way over the top who they eventually caught and punished' doesn't seem to scratch the surface.

[mummywhycantieatcrayons]

I just felt disappointed by Wolf of Wall Street, being a huge Scorcese fan I was expecting a lot more. It also think it could have done with losing about half an hour.

I have been a Scorsese fan but not a big one. But I am a bid DiCaprio fan and I am fascinated by big fraud stories - I found a biography about Madoff utterly compelling. Maybe I was expecting/hoping for too much. I think there is a real difficulty with this first person, autobiographical storytelling for this kind of subject matter.

Here are a few reviews that nail it for me, with Kermode up first:

http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/ja ... eet-review" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

http://www.spectator.co.uk/arts/cinema/ ... r-a-while/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/0ad74fa4-7eb7 ... z2qaRCZ2Qf" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

http://www.newstatesman.com/culture/201 ... oiler-room" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;