Posted on 12/25/2013 9:37:42 PM PST by afraidfortherepublic
My husband and I and 2 friends walked out of "Wolf of Wall Stret", the new DiCaprio flic, about 10 minutes into the movie. We absolutely could not stand the constant barrage of obscene language and visuals. I have never seen anything so obnoxious in my life and refused to ruin Christmas Day with such garbage.
We complained at the box office and got our money back. Now, I'm about ready to write to the movie theatre and newspaper to warn others about this offensive movie. The interesting thing is that I'd seen a trailer for this movie last week, and it didn't look anything like this.
Has anybody else seen this movie?
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The synopsis isn’t deceptive, it’s a one sentence description of a 3 hour movie. The trailer isn’t deceptive, it’s a 2 minute set G rates of clips from a 3 hour R rated movie. They probably showed you the red band trailer for Bad Words, which is an R rated movie and most definitely NOT directed at kids.
If the trailer is approved for viewing before a G, PG or PG-13 movie it’s green band, if it’s only approved for R it’s red band.
If you don’t want to corrupt your life with dirty words then you should use this internet tool to find out the rating of a movie and why they gave it that rating. All of the information is there if you’re willing to look. It too me all of a minute to find that MPAA rating info for Wolf, less time than it took you to write this vanity. But you couldn’t be bothered, if it’s garbage in garbage out then what comes out when you put NOTHING in?
Did you miss the part where I said I was COOKING Christmas dinner and there were 4 other people with Internet capability who didn’t look it up either? Oh yeah. My computer refused to download the trailer. Probably didn’t get past the security settings.
Garbage in; garbage out. I will not pollute my life with such trash, which is why I walked out; and so did the 3 other people with me, as well as at least one other person. They gave us our money back, and we didn’t stay there to eat at their restaurant, either, because it was jammed. It was an odd hour to be jammed and I figure that it was because other people had fled their movies too.
The theatre lost $28 on tickets and probably $50 on food and drink. Maybe more. They have been running $5 Tuesdays with free popcorn all month. I figure that they are hurting for business. They have a number of other specials as well.
Did you miss the part where it took 1 minute to find out why the movie earned its rating? If you could look up the theater’s 1 sentence of the movie you could have looked up the MPAA’s 1 sentence on the movie. It’s funny you looked up the theater’s tag, you looked up the trailer, but now apparently there was no time to find out any other information, couldn’t even go to rottentomatoes and look up reviews and seen the rating info.
I’m not saying you should watch the movie, I’m saying you shouldn’t blame everybody else for the fact that you didn’t know what the movie was like. There’s nothing wrong with delimiting your taste, the problem is that you insist you were lied to and you quite simply weren’t. The simple fact is you just plain didn’t bother to get easily available information. Again look at the rating tag: for sequences of strong sexual content, graphic nudity, drug use and language throughout, and for some violence. With your sensibilities any movie that gets that rating explanation from the MPAA is clearly not for you. So right there is all the information you didn’t bother to get that would have saved you a lot of trouble.
Theaters have specials, especially on off days (being every thing from Sunday night through Friday afternoon). If the restaurant was packed clearly they aren’t hurting.
Martin Scorsese is generally regarded as America’s greatest living filmmaker. ‘Raging Bull’ pops on lists as the Best American film of the 80s. Taxi Driver is one of the best films ever made period. A hallucinatory trip through ‘hell’ as seen through the eyes of a psychotic cab driver’s view of NY City.
Her hate for the film lasted her entire long life (she died in 1997). When the stage version was being planned in the 1990s, she stipulated that no one involved with the film have anything to do with it.
De Niro in casino, godfather, and taxi driver same characters, sure thing.
How did you rent a just released film from Redbox?
Haha!
The dialogue I has having was about nudity in We're the Millers. It's been at Redbox for a couple of weeks now.
A poster mentioned it contained gratuitous nudity. Another poster hoped it contained gratuitous nudity of Jennifer Aniston. I came in to reply it contained very little nudity and certainly none of Jennifer Aniston.
You must've thought we were still talking Wolf of Wall Street? I haven't seen this movie yet.
All of which I’m sure was sanitized out of this movie because it too was made by Disney. Which is kind of sad. And I’m sure having Disney make another movie from her stories is making her spin in her grave.
That's what "Mr. Skin" is for.
The wolf of Wall street has lots of DRUGS AND SEX,DRUGS AND SEX AND DRUGS AND SEX.
TV ads for movies are often misleading it seems
Jennifer Anniston was also in that movie a couple years ago where they were showing male frontal nudity, she poops in a yard, kids and nudist colony and every sleeping with everyone.
So, I am not sure why you would be surprised
The film was Wanderlust and talk about being outraged! Any film starring Aniston and Malin Akerman advertising "graphic, full-frontal nudity" would be a film worth seeing, right?
Yeah, right... The only "graphic, full-frontal nudity" belonged to a bunch of old ladies and fat guys. I've never felt more swindled.
Never heard of it. Didn’t really know much about Anison except Friends and a few movies. Probably never would have watched Millers if friends hadn’t rented it. Sci-fi is more our thing.
They can’t show the naughty bits on TV. All previews are ‘clean’.
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