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The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
'Wolf of Wall Street' Is Brilliant For All Three Hours!
One of my all-time favorite movies is "GoodFellas", one of my all-time favorite directors is Martin Scorsese and one of my all-time favorite actors are Leonardo DiCaprio. I enjoyed "Gangs of New York", "Shutter Island" and "The Departed", but this movie knocks those out of the park.
Leonardo DiCaprio is Jordan Belfort, a young broker who starts scamming people into buying penny stocks and eventually becomes one of the biggest names on Wall Street. That is, until, his life comes crumbling down.
I could sum up the movie in one word: Brilliant. This movie is disgusting, sexist and offensive, but it is also down-right hysterical. In fact, there is one scene with Leonardo DiCaprio reacting to the side effects of a drug that had me holding my sides because I was laughing so hard.
DiCaprio gives the best performance of his career in this movie. He is funny, interesting and completely over-the-top as Belfort. Also giving the best performance of his career is Jonah Hill, playing Donny, Belfort's right-hand man. He is just as funny and interesting as Belfort.
The supporting cast is great, too, with Rob Reiner, Jon Favreau, Ethan Suplee, Christine Ebersole, Jean Dujardin and Matthew McConaughey in small, but interesting and well-performed roles. In fact, Matthew McConaughey steals the scenes he's in, too bad he's only in the first fifteen minutes of this 182-minute film.
Yes, this movie is over three hours long, and sometimes that bothers me. Did it bother me here? No, because I was into the story, which is actually a true story.
A fair warning: This movie is rated R, but frequently pushes the boundaries of how far an R-rating will go. I have no idea how Scorsese escaped an NC-17. I mean, for the love of God, there's two graphic scenes of an orgy (One is a gay orgy), a man's genitalia, DiCaprio doing cocaine off a hooker's ass and almost every female in this movie is either a drug dealer, prostitute or a naked, blonde girl.
Despite that, I loved this movie. It's brilliant, awesome, hilarious and now, one of my all-time favorites. See it, in fact, see it twice, if you are willing to watch a three-hour movie.
Teletubbies (1997)
Psychedelic, Strange, Scary, Painfully & Terribly Awful
I was born in 1997, so I was the target age for this show. When I was two, I loved this show, but my mother despised it. I didn't understand why until I was six years old.
For those of you who are not familiar with this show, "Teletubbies" is about four, alien-looking toddlers who live together in a grassy area with flowers, rabbits and "Voice Trumpets". Their home is a dome in the middle of their world, called the "Tubbytronic Superdome". They have television screens on their chests, which they can receive video transmissions from children all over the world.
So, what makes this show bad? First of all, it makes no sense whatsoever. I mean, this is the formula of a "Teletubbies" episode: The first part of the episode is about them doing random things throughout their world, named "Teletubbyland" which include running around, playing with their favorite toys or discovering something they've never seen before. The second part starts with a video transmission at the windmill on top of the hill behind their dome. After the video transmission, the rest of the episode primarily takes place inside the dome, with the creatures either eating "Tubby Toast", which looks like those smiley-face fries, but in the form of toast, or "Tubby Custard", which is exactly what it is called, or having fun inside which sometimes irritates their vacuum cleaner called "Noo-Noo", who doesn't talk, but communicates through sucking noises and slurps. That's pretty much the formula.
The second thing, not only is the show psychedelic, but it's weird and actually kind of creepy. The Teletubbies look like fur-covered aliens and above all, their vacuum cleaner always scared me as a kid. I think the reason I was so scared of the vacuum in my house was because of it. The design is creepy and it is naturally, very creepy acting. And, the sun has the face of a human baby. It giggles and smiles all the time. That's creepy. I say psychedelic because the interior of their dome looks like something you'd see if you were high on drugs in the 1960s or 1970s.
Third, it has no educational value whatsoever. The Teletubbies speak gibberish and the only things that talk are the "Voice Trumpets", which look like a shower head mixed with a submarine periscope. That's also very odd. They try to teach us something, but it goes nowhere.
It's just like "Barney", where the characters are unlikeable, adults don't like it at all, and annoying all around. It is often considered to be one of the worst television series of all time, and I can see why. Do yourself a favor and avoid it. Show your kids "Blue's Clues" or "Bear in the Big Blue House" instead.
Buckwild (2013)
"Buck Wild" Is The Most Deplorable, Lazy, Stupid Television Show I Have Ever Seen!
There's a new TV show on MTV called "Buckwild". The series follows the lives of nine so- called "young adults" in Sissonville, West Virginia who each have a great love for the small- town American life and seemingly create their own unique ways to enjoy life in the rural area surrounding them.
And that's the set-up for the most throughly hateful television show I've ever seen, a show that makes me cringe even when I'm sitting here thinking about it. Their idea of having a good time is by doing the dumbest things in the world. This show makes "Jersey Shore" look like a masterpiece.
The people at MTV are passing this off as entertainment, well, I got a newsflash for you: it's deplorable. There isn't a single gag or joke that works. It's appalling, I was feeling disgusted as I was sitting there watching it. It's junk, first-class junk. I know there will be teens out there who like the show, but they just don't understand how stupid, lazy, offensive and awful this show is. It's the wrong image of West Virginia. Something like showing the history of the state, the Hatfield-McCoy feud or the Marshall Thundering Herd/W. Virginia Mountaineers rivalry would be ten billion times better then this. This is just trash to be thrown away, if you ask me. I know that people do this stuff, but they don't need to make a TV show about. Come on, people.
I hated this show! Hated hated hated hated hated this show. Hated it. Hated every simpering stupid vacant audience-insulting moment of it. Hated the sensibility that thought anyone would like it. Hated the implied insult to the audience by its belief that anyone would be entertained by it. Citizens of W. Virginia, this show sucks.
North (1994)
The Most Deplorable, Idiotic, Offensive, Lazy Kids Movie Ever Made!
"North" is probably the most hateful movie I've seen in an extremely long time. With a god-awful script with extremely tasteless dialogue, a stupid plot and wasting the perfectly good talent of Elijah Wood, Bruce Willis and it's director Rob Reiner (A Few Good Men, The Princess Bride, Misery, When Harry Met Sally, etc.). This movie even makes me cringe when I'm sitting her writing this review
A boy (Elijah Wood) gets fed up with his folks and decides to divorce them and go looking for a new set of parents, like Texans (Reba McEntire and Dan Aykroyd), Hawaiians, Eskimos (Kathy Bates, Abe Vigoda) Amish, etc.
Everything in this film is UNBELIEVABLY bad! This is a very, very, very, very bad movie. Just like the great Roger Ebert, I hated this movie! I think Elijah Wood is a good actor, and the director Rob Reiner has made one terrific movie after another, but this is garbage. First class garbage!!! I'm sorry, but this sucked!!!