Debauched, lewd, incoherent, frivolous, Scorcese cannibailzes "Goodfellas".

Rating: 3/10 (10 January 2014)

This movie motivated me to leave a review. A negative, scathing, ridiculing review. I cringed at the many awkward acting scenes between the main characters. The juvenile toilet humour used in the movie to illustrate the debasement of Jordan Belfort was boring and even nauseating at times. I found it odd that Scorcese chose to leave out Jordan Belforts Jewish background, as well as many of the main characters in the actual biography of Jordan Belfort. This undercuts much of the meaning and social commentary, not to mention irony ie. when the up and coming lords of the universe decide to call their company Stratton Oakmont' such a WASPY sounding name tee hee. such chutzpah. The scenes where Jordan Belfort talks to the camera is reminiscent of the scene from Goodfellas when 'Henry Hill played by Ray Liotta" gets up out of the witness stand in court and starts talking to the camera. Many scenes during "wolf of wall street" made me feel ashamed for Scorcese because he shamelessly plagiarizes ''Goodfellas". The trajectory of the movie is obvious and not surprising. I found this movie to be far beneath expectation. Di Caprio was alright in his efforts. Nothing special. But Matthew Mconaughey was absurd, Cringe worthy! (I was very uncomfortable watching Mconaugheys outlandish display of pounding his chest and humming a mantra. He just was not believable, his cadence was off. I definitely thought this movie could not have been any more gratuitous or glorifying of scumbags in society.