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gyp was an animal. He was a lunatic and it was easy for me to hate him. Interesting character though.
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Oh I'm sorry, Did I Break Your Conversation........Well Allow Me A Movie Thread by S&T
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Gyp in Chef was fantastic
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lost interest before Gyp came on the scene. Heard good things about him, but i'm not gonna go back and watch the show just for him. too slow, too long, what's the point? watch it all just to see it end? meh.
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Veronica Guerin 
Sad ****** up movie. Really good though. Cate was great in it.
Afternoon Delight was good. Had me appreciate Josh Radnor as an actor for a few scenes and not think of him as just Ted. lots of sex in the movie and if I wasn't already attracted to her this movie really makes me wanna smash Kathryn Hahn.
A.C.O.D. was okay. Had some funny parts and some other pretty good real moments. I get the feeling had somebody more known been the main character other than Adam Scott the movie might've been a bigger deal.
I really enjoyed Kill Your Darlings for what it was. I go back and forth with DeHaan's performances at times but when he's in a movie with a strong script, strong purposeful direction and a good cast around him he won't lag behind. Radcliffe and Hall were good as well as Huston. I particularly enjoyed Ben Foster as William Burroughs. Dude was a real character
It's like I been getting my JRS on with the movie
Jake looking ripped. That commitment
Expect greatness from him once again. To me he's just another guy that needed to pick the right roles.
Sad ****** up movie. Really good though. Cate was great in it.Afternoon Delight was good. Had me appreciate Josh Radnor as an actor for a few scenes and not think of him as just Ted. lots of sex in the movie and if I wasn't already attracted to her this movie really makes me wanna smash Kathryn Hahn.
A.C.O.D. was okay. Had some funny parts and some other pretty good real moments. I get the feeling had somebody more known been the main character other than Adam Scott the movie might've been a bigger deal.
I really enjoyed Kill Your Darlings for what it was. I go back and forth with DeHaan's performances at times but when he's in a movie with a strong script, strong purposeful direction and a good cast around him he won't lag behind. Radcliffe and Hall were good as well as Huston. I particularly enjoyed Ben Foster as William Burroughs. Dude was a real character
I still haven't seen this movie for w/e reason. I like Jake and from the initial hype for it I wanted to see it but never got around to it. Bad reviews after the fact aint help much either. Think it was on tv today too
It's like I been getting my JRS on with the movie Jake looking ripped. That commitment
Expect greatness from him once again. To me he's just another guy that needed to pick the right roles.Sucks for yall two. I'd strongly suggest you reconsider.
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Yo. Snl got me crackin up right now
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For the Damian Lewis and or Period Piece fans
Was watching Line of Duty and saw Gina McKee, reminded me of a show she played in, The Forsyte Saga.
Dope Drama.
Was watching Line of Duty and saw Gina McKee, reminded me of a show she played in, The Forsyte Saga.
Dope Drama.
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Just finished watching skyfall again, throughly enjoyed it.. Love the little details.. Love how the bad guy doesn't show up until an hour in change in the film, but obviously has a presence throughout the beginning of the film.. Love bardem as the bad guy.. And just the little touches
Watching high fidelity for the first time now
Watching high fidelity for the first time now
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Check out No country for old men, if you haven't already.
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Gave up on high fidelity, too much jack black.. And cusack is a little too over the top
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just finished mystery team
it felt like a 90 minute comedy skit but i was entertained the whole way through
one of those not sure if worst thing ever or genius movies
gambino pretty much plays troy from community
it felt like a 90 minute comedy skit but i was entertained the whole way through
one of those not sure if worst thing ever or genius movies
gambino pretty much plays troy from community
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Amazing the contrast in the two characters.. In no country for old men, you have the menacing figure with few words.. In skyfall, it's all a mental game.. Like his entrance scene when bond is tied up and he toys with him.. You have no idea what his true sexuality is and then the flamboyance
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No Country For Old Men is a ******* classic.
About to watch Dear Zachary, not really sure why, tho.
I always feel a certain way after watching sad documentaries,
I remember when I watched The Bridge and I was super depressed for like a week.
About to watch Dear Zachary, not really sure why, tho.
I always feel a certain way after watching sad documentaries,
I remember when I watched The Bridge and I was super depressed for like a week.
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Aint no way Wolf of Wall St isn't a classic 
It's become one of those movies no matter when you start watching you're guaranteed to see a good scene and at the least a hilarious one From the speeches, to the wild antics and parties. It just keeps hitting new heights.
Plus Margot Robbie
It's become one of those movies no matter when you start watching you're guaranteed to see a good scene and at the least a hilarious one
From the speeches, to the wild antics and parties. It just keeps hitting new heights.Plus Margot Robbie
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Agree and I actually like Jack Black. But that movie was just overdone all the way around
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Just finished Line of Duty.
Phenomonal. Just Brilliant.
The IMDB ratings are a little low at 8.2.
Season 1 is 5eps@ 55 minutes so it's a quick watch.
Will definitely start season 2 before the weekends out.
Phenomonal. Just Brilliant.
The IMDB ratings are a little low at 8.2.
Season 1 is 5eps@ 55 minutes so it's a quick watch.
Will definitely start season 2 before the weekends out.
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i had a blast watching for the first time a couple of days ago.Aint no way Wolf of Wall St isn't a classic
It's become one of those movies no matter when you start watching you're guaranteed to see a good scene and at the least a hilarious oneFrom the speeches, to the wild antics and parties. It just keeps hitting new heights.
Plus Margot Robbie
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The best scene in WOWS was in the beginning with Matthew Mcconaughey. Just not a fan of the direction that movie went in. Huge missed opportunity.
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The Lemmons.
Cerebral palsy phase.
Gold
Cerebral palsy phase.
Gold
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I figured out why WOWS didn't resonate with me... I'm old & seeing that movie made me feel like I was watching a young dude walking around with his pants sagging off his butt & talking all that ish... That flicks appeals to the youngins because they look at it like "That's my ish right there, that's how you go out... That's how I'd be doing things..." 
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Watched 48 hours and The Legend of Drunken Master both
had to watch some old films today since I couldnt think of anything new to watch
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Psk I know what you mean. They showed almost zero negative effect that he had on people. He was a scumbag. Many of his associates were scumbags too. They basically encourage you to be like him. Not that I wanted it to become black and white wall street condemning, but there was almost no depth in this movie
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Scumbag & snitch.
But Scorsese can't make a bad film.
But Scorsese can't make a bad film.
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This was interesting, I remember it from when it came out,.
BY CHRISTINA MCDOWELL
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, dear Kings of Hollywood, but you have been conned.
Let me introduce myself. My name is Christina McDowell, formerly Christina Prousalis. I am the daughter of Tom Prousalis, a man the Washington Post described as "just some guy on trial for penny-stock fraud." (I had to change my name after my father stole my identity and then threatened to steal it again, but I'll get to that part later.) I was 18 and a freshman in college when my father and his attorneys forced me to attend his trial at New York City's federal courthouse so that he "looked good" for the jury -- the consummate family man.
And you, Jordan Belfort, Wall Street's self-described Wolf: You remember my father, right? You were chosen to be the government's star witness in testifying against him. You had pleaded guilty to money laundering and securities fraud (it was the least you could do) and become a government witness in two dozen cases involving your former business associate, but my father's attorneys blocked your testimony because had you testified it would have revealed more than a half-dozen other corrupt stock offerings too. And, well, that would have been a disaster. It would have just been too many liars, and too many schemes for the jurors, attorneys or the judge to follow.
But the record shows you and my father were in cahoots together with MVSI Inc. of Vienna, e-Net Inc. of Germantown, Md., Octagon Corp. of Arlington, Va., and Czech Industries Inc. of Washington, D.C., and so on -- a list of seemingly innocuous, legitimate companies that stretches on. I'll spare you. Nobody cares. None of these companies actually existed, yet all of them were taken public by the one and only Wolf of Wall Street and his firm Stratton Oakmont Inc in order to defraud unwitting investors and enrich yourselves.
See also: 10 Reasons the Real-Life Wolf of Street Is a Schmuck Who Shouldn't Be Trusted
As an 18-year-old, I had no idea what was going on. But then again, did anyone? Certainly your investors didn't -- and they were left holding the bag when you cashed out your holdings and got rich off their money.
So Marty and Leo, while you glide through press junkets and look forward to awards season, let me tell you the truth -- what happened to my mother, my two sisters and me.
The day my father had to surrender to prison, I drove him. My mother had locked herself in the bathroom crying and throwing up, becoming nothing short of a more beautiful version of Cate Blanchett in Blue Jasmine. Ironically enough, Marty, she looks like a cross between Sharon Stone and Michelle Pfeiffer. Totally your leading ingénue type. Anyhow, after my father successfully laundered money in my name, hiding what was left of our assets from the government in a Wells Fargo bank account, I arrived home to discover multiple phone calls from creditors and attorneys threatening to sue me. He'd left me in nearly $100,000 worth of debt. He left and never told me.
After all of that liquidated money was gone from the Wells Fargo bank account, things got pretty bad. My younger sister ran away at 17. My older sister struggled to finish school in Texas. I couch-surfed for two years, sometimes dressing out of my car and stealing pieces of salami out of my boyfriends' refrigerators in the middle of the night, because I was so hungry and so ashamed that I couldn't feed myself. Tips at the restaurant weren't cutting it. It's a pretty confusing experience to go from flying private with Dad to an evening where he's begging you for a piece of your paycheck so he can buy food for dinner.
But, here's the real kicker --
I believed him.
I believed everything my father told me. I believed it was the government's fault he was going to prison and leaving his little princess, I believed it was your fault, Jordan Belfort. I believed that by taking out all those credit cards in my name, my father was attempting to save me. I believed him when he got out, and when he told me everything would be OK. I believed him until he tried to do the same thing all over again -- until I was at risk of being arrested myself (and I'm saving that story for the memoir).
So here's the deal. You people are dangerous. Your film is a reckless attempt at continuing to pretend that these sorts of schemes are entertaining, even as the country is reeling from yet another round of Wall Street scandals. We want to get lost in what? These phony financiers' fun sexcapades and coke binges? Come on, we know the truth. This kind of behavior brought America to its knees.
And yet you're glorifying it -- you who call yourselves liberals. You were honored for career excellence and for your cultural influence by the Kennedy Center, Marty. You drive a Honda hybrid, Leo. Did you think about the cultural message you'd be sending when you decided to make this film? You have successfully aligned yourself with an accomplished criminal, a guy who still hasn't made full restitution to his victims, exacerbating our national obsession with wealth and status and glorifying greed and psychopathic behavior. And don't even get me started on the incomprehensible way in which your film degrades women, the misogynistic, ***-backwards message you endorse to younger generations of men.
But hey, listen boys, I get it. I was conned, too. By. My. Own. Dad! I drove a white Range Rover in high school, snorted half of Colombia, and got any guy I ever wanted because my father would take them flying in his King Air.
And then I unraveled the truth. The truth about my father and his behavior: that behind all of it was really just insidious soul-sucking shame masked by addiction, which we love to call ambition, which is really just greed. Greed and the desire for fame (exactly what you've successfully given self-appointed motivational speaker/financial guru Jordan Belfort, whose business opportunities will surely multiply thanks to this film).
For me, it's become goddamn unbearable.
But I refuse to give up.
Belfort's victims, my father's victims, don't have a chance at keeping up with the Joneses. They're left destitute, having lost their life savings at the age of 80. They can't pay their medical bills or help send their children off to college because of characters like the ones glorified in Terry Winters' screenplay.
Let me ask you guys something. What makes you think this man deserves to be the protagonist in this story? Do you think his victims are going to want to watch it? Did we forget about the damage that accompanied all those rollicking good times? Or are we sweeping it under the carpet for the sale of a movie ticket? And not just on any day, but on Christmas morning??
So here's what I'm going to do first. I'm going to hand you my shame. Right now, in this very moment. The shame that I've been carrying for far too long as a result of being collateral damage. Because each of you should feel ashamed. And then I'm going to go pre-order my tickets to August: Osage County in support of Julia and Meryl -- because, at least, as screwed up as that family is, they talk about the truth.
I urge each and every human being in America NOT to support this film, because if you do, you're simply continuing to feed the Wolves of Wall Street.
Yours truly,
Christina McDowell
PS. Quick update on Dad: He is now doing business with the Albanian government and, rumor has it, is married to a 30-year-old Albanian translator -- they always, always land on their feet.
BY CHRISTINA MCDOWELL
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, dear Kings of Hollywood, but you have been conned.
Let me introduce myself. My name is Christina McDowell, formerly Christina Prousalis. I am the daughter of Tom Prousalis, a man the Washington Post described as "just some guy on trial for penny-stock fraud." (I had to change my name after my father stole my identity and then threatened to steal it again, but I'll get to that part later.) I was 18 and a freshman in college when my father and his attorneys forced me to attend his trial at New York City's federal courthouse so that he "looked good" for the jury -- the consummate family man.
And you, Jordan Belfort, Wall Street's self-described Wolf: You remember my father, right? You were chosen to be the government's star witness in testifying against him. You had pleaded guilty to money laundering and securities fraud (it was the least you could do) and become a government witness in two dozen cases involving your former business associate, but my father's attorneys blocked your testimony because had you testified it would have revealed more than a half-dozen other corrupt stock offerings too. And, well, that would have been a disaster. It would have just been too many liars, and too many schemes for the jurors, attorneys or the judge to follow.
But the record shows you and my father were in cahoots together with MVSI Inc. of Vienna, e-Net Inc. of Germantown, Md., Octagon Corp. of Arlington, Va., and Czech Industries Inc. of Washington, D.C., and so on -- a list of seemingly innocuous, legitimate companies that stretches on. I'll spare you. Nobody cares. None of these companies actually existed, yet all of them were taken public by the one and only Wolf of Wall Street and his firm Stratton Oakmont Inc in order to defraud unwitting investors and enrich yourselves.
See also: 10 Reasons the Real-Life Wolf of Street Is a Schmuck Who Shouldn't Be Trusted
As an 18-year-old, I had no idea what was going on. But then again, did anyone? Certainly your investors didn't -- and they were left holding the bag when you cashed out your holdings and got rich off their money.
So Marty and Leo, while you glide through press junkets and look forward to awards season, let me tell you the truth -- what happened to my mother, my two sisters and me.
The day my father had to surrender to prison, I drove him. My mother had locked herself in the bathroom crying and throwing up, becoming nothing short of a more beautiful version of Cate Blanchett in Blue Jasmine. Ironically enough, Marty, she looks like a cross between Sharon Stone and Michelle Pfeiffer. Totally your leading ingénue type. Anyhow, after my father successfully laundered money in my name, hiding what was left of our assets from the government in a Wells Fargo bank account, I arrived home to discover multiple phone calls from creditors and attorneys threatening to sue me. He'd left me in nearly $100,000 worth of debt. He left and never told me.
After all of that liquidated money was gone from the Wells Fargo bank account, things got pretty bad. My younger sister ran away at 17. My older sister struggled to finish school in Texas. I couch-surfed for two years, sometimes dressing out of my car and stealing pieces of salami out of my boyfriends' refrigerators in the middle of the night, because I was so hungry and so ashamed that I couldn't feed myself. Tips at the restaurant weren't cutting it. It's a pretty confusing experience to go from flying private with Dad to an evening where he's begging you for a piece of your paycheck so he can buy food for dinner.
But, here's the real kicker --
I believed him.
I believed everything my father told me. I believed it was the government's fault he was going to prison and leaving his little princess, I believed it was your fault, Jordan Belfort. I believed that by taking out all those credit cards in my name, my father was attempting to save me. I believed him when he got out, and when he told me everything would be OK. I believed him until he tried to do the same thing all over again -- until I was at risk of being arrested myself (and I'm saving that story for the memoir).
So here's the deal. You people are dangerous. Your film is a reckless attempt at continuing to pretend that these sorts of schemes are entertaining, even as the country is reeling from yet another round of Wall Street scandals. We want to get lost in what? These phony financiers' fun sexcapades and coke binges? Come on, we know the truth. This kind of behavior brought America to its knees.
And yet you're glorifying it -- you who call yourselves liberals. You were honored for career excellence and for your cultural influence by the Kennedy Center, Marty. You drive a Honda hybrid, Leo. Did you think about the cultural message you'd be sending when you decided to make this film? You have successfully aligned yourself with an accomplished criminal, a guy who still hasn't made full restitution to his victims, exacerbating our national obsession with wealth and status and glorifying greed and psychopathic behavior. And don't even get me started on the incomprehensible way in which your film degrades women, the misogynistic, ***-backwards message you endorse to younger generations of men.
But hey, listen boys, I get it. I was conned, too. By. My. Own. Dad! I drove a white Range Rover in high school, snorted half of Colombia, and got any guy I ever wanted because my father would take them flying in his King Air.
And then I unraveled the truth. The truth about my father and his behavior: that behind all of it was really just insidious soul-sucking shame masked by addiction, which we love to call ambition, which is really just greed. Greed and the desire for fame (exactly what you've successfully given self-appointed motivational speaker/financial guru Jordan Belfort, whose business opportunities will surely multiply thanks to this film).
For me, it's become goddamn unbearable.
But I refuse to give up.
Belfort's victims, my father's victims, don't have a chance at keeping up with the Joneses. They're left destitute, having lost their life savings at the age of 80. They can't pay their medical bills or help send their children off to college because of characters like the ones glorified in Terry Winters' screenplay.
Let me ask you guys something. What makes you think this man deserves to be the protagonist in this story? Do you think his victims are going to want to watch it? Did we forget about the damage that accompanied all those rollicking good times? Or are we sweeping it under the carpet for the sale of a movie ticket? And not just on any day, but on Christmas morning??
So here's what I'm going to do first. I'm going to hand you my shame. Right now, in this very moment. The shame that I've been carrying for far too long as a result of being collateral damage. Because each of you should feel ashamed. And then I'm going to go pre-order my tickets to August: Osage County in support of Julia and Meryl -- because, at least, as screwed up as that family is, they talk about the truth.
I urge each and every human being in America NOT to support this film, because if you do, you're simply continuing to feed the Wolves of Wall Street.
Yours truly,
Christina McDowell
PS. Quick update on Dad: He is now doing business with the Albanian government and, rumor has it, is married to a 30-year-old Albanian translator -- they always, always land on their feet.
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did you read the book?
