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Saw it last night as our family has a tradition of seeing the newest Leo DiCaprio movie that's usually out at Christmas. Some good scenes, but overall yeah just save your money and watch it on Netflix or something.

First, it's a three hour long movie that could have easily been 2-2.5 hours. Second, it's one of those ones where there is crazy debauchery (apparently there were so many walkouts the manager at the theatre would refund the money- LOTS and LOTS of naked prostitutes and cocaine and other drugs), basically glorifying all the greed that can happen on Wall Street. And at the end there's no real character development at all for the protagonist or anyone around him, and they show he just did two years of jail in a nice prison- maybe kinda the point, but yeah, pretty distasteful and inappropriate in many places.

Just thought I'd throw that one out there.

Sounds like a fun family experience for you.

So, it was a reality TV version of what goes on on Wall Street.

Edited to add: Including the total lack of anyone really being held accountable for the larcenous behavior that seems to be the norm on Wall Street.

How can you be held accountable if you're rich?
That's like, illegal or a paradox or something impossible. Right?

FZR1KG wrote:Sounds like a fun family experience for you.

Oh yeah, especially with my parents in particular. We were pretty much in agreement to not discuss the movie at all on the ride home at the least.

Btw I will note the one thing my brother thought was realistic about the whole thing (as he worked on a stock exchange for a summer gig once) is if you work in that environment they really do curse almost every other word at each other. Bro also thinks anyone who does it more than 5 years is certifiably insane as it's such an insane environment that anyone normal would burn out.

I'd wanted to see this movie, but frankly the three hour run time turned me away. I saw Walter Mitty instead.

Apparently one of the real life characters that inspired the film says they weren't that rowdy.....:roll:

of course it's fucking true! we're all fucking insane from the powder we snort!

in fact, last year my employer started a special course for staff to assist them in toning down the language both verbal and in writing... lolz

So Iain M. Banks got it right in Transition? I never would have guessed.

Morrolan wrote:of course it's fucking true! we're all fucking insane from the powder we snort!

in fact, last year my employer started a special course for staff to assist them in toning down the language both verbal and in writing... lolz

You don't work on Wall Street.
You're in Singapore. There instead of snorting drugs, you chew gum.

FZR1KG wrote:

Morrolan wrote:of course it's fucking true! we're all fucking insane from the powder we snort!

in fact, last year my employer started a special course for staff to assist them in toning down the language both verbal and in writing... lolz

You don't work on Wall Street.
You're in Singapore. There instead of snorting drugs, you chew gum.