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Originally Posted by an evening with viewtiful
Did we watch the same movie??
I felt like all the ingredients for a classic were there, but it just didn't all come together in any way that felt all that exceptional. Wolf of Wallstreet was incredible.
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well of course we didn't, since we're both different and bring different things to the experience. more on that in my response to demonrail.
i really had fun watching american hustle, whereas wolf of wallstreet ended up being homework, and i wanted it to end already. american hustle was funny and lighthearted, a bit of a farce, wolf was seeeeeerious fucking business, and very cynical, and ultimately a huge downer.
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Originally Posted by demonrail666
Completely with you on both counts. AH was a great cast, concept, everything, but a totally flat script. WoWS felt like the best thing Scorsese's done since Casino.
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i didn't really like casino. goodfellas is probably my all time favorite by him, or maybe it's raging bull. i guess my problem is that scorsese tends to repeat himself a lot, well, actually everyone does, but having watched nearly everything he's done many times over, i end up feeling like this is nothing new-- an "i've seen this movie already" kind of thing. this was like a goodfellas/casino combo or something. and maybe if i knew nothing about scorsese i would have been blown away, but feels like more of the same. and heeeavy, fucking shit.
wows was superb on the spectacle end of things: shipwrecks, helicopters, superhuman nudity, cocaine blown into assholes, tremendous camerawork… in terms of craft sure nothing can touch it, it's a tremendous piece of work, but it was filled with despicable characters behaving like jackasses, and we had to sit with them for 3 fucking hours, hating them and waiting for them to go the fuck away from our lives. then the real fucker even has a cameo in it.
american hustle was none of those things. it wasn't perfect, it wasn't spectacular, compared to wows it seems low rent, but it actually had a human soul. and the performances were pretty great-- jennifer lawrence in particular had me cackling. and sure, the guy ripped off a bit of scorsese, but he did it for his own ends which were more comedic and less oh-so-fucking-taxi-driver-heavy. like i said, i had fun watching it, and i'd watch it again.