It Appalls Me That This Movie Is Praised So Highly.

Rating: 2/10 (14 May 2020)

I have written this review for The Wolf of Wall Street many times and I fail to show how much I loathe this movie. No matter what, no words would or COULD satisfy my animosity for it. But as I am trying to improve my review writing, I am trying again to critique this movie.
Now before I rant on it, let me take a deep breath and talk about the positives. Wolf's plot is very interesting, and that's why this is a 2 and not a 1. The story follows Jordan Belfort, a real life Wall Street stockbroker, and his rise and fall in power and wealth from scamming others. This within itself is pretty interesting and it kept me going for it's 3 hour run time.
The acting can be good too, Leonardo DiCaprio gives a decent performance as Jordan, and Margot Robbie as his second wife Naomi is good as well, not to mention very attractive to look at. The cinematography is also very good, and as a result it's a very polished and nice looking movie, camera wise.
That's where my praise ends, so get ready. The Wolf of Wall Street is one of the most disgusting movies I have ever seen, and one of the worst as well. The movie is filled with so much profanity, sex, and drugs that it appalls me that it's only Rated R, and not NC-17 or X.
First, let's address the language. Excluding documentaries, this has the most F-bombs in any movie, clocking in at 569 uses of the F word. That's roughly one F bomb every 20 seconds, and that ignores all the other curse words in the movie. So there is barely a script without the coarse language.
If your script is dependent on words you would discourage someone from using outside of a movie, then you have no script. Now, I don't care if a movie HAS swearing, I'm not a prude, but this much is not necessary. I know this is not a Disney movie, but still, that's ridiculous.
In fact, I do enjoy The Departed and Good Fellas, both profane movies from Martin Scorsese, who directed this as well. But those 2 movies COMBINED have just a few F bombs less than this, and that's uncalled for.
I mentioned that there is drug use. The characters snort lots of cocaine and take pills and stuff like that. This bothers me the least, but I am not going to condemn profanity and sex and condone snorting coke.
Anyways, that leads me to said sex. This nearly bothers me as much as the language. This movie contains multiple orgies, one in slow motion, and one with all guys(which I luckily can't recall well). Also, women are unfortunately more naked then men are in these scenes.
Jordan has a friend named Donnie, who's played by Jonah Hill. He's such a pervert, and therefore very unlikable. In one scene, he masturbates in public at a party as a result of drunkenness. He is stopped, but that's still pretty gross. Oh, and his on-screen penis was fake, so women have to show their bare breasts but men don't have to show THEIR privates? That's not right.
In one scene, Donnie sees a woman with money taped on her(something I won't dig into, since it's off topic), and he says he can tell her what to do because she has his money on her boobs. I couldn't believe that such a sexist statement was made.
We also learn that Donnie married his cousin just because she was hot. That is pretty nasty. He also jokes that if he had a "retarded" child he would set them out into the wild. Then he says he would actually put them in a home instead of raising them. I had a challenged sister, and I have autism spectrum myself, so I did not appreciate that. Sure, bang your cousin but don't raise the result of that! That's an awful plan to have.
Jordan also cheats on his wife, and he beats his second wife for wanting a divorce.(Because THAT will make her change her mind!)
I could name many other sexually immoral things that this movie contains, but you get the idea. I will name one more thing though-3 minutes into the movie, after some off screen oral sex, Jordan blows cocaine off of a woman's BEHIND to arouse her! I am NOT kidding about this, but I wish I were!
That leads me to another point-my Grandma that I live with saw this and explained that to me. She saw half of the movie with me, and she may have hated it more than I do.
Because I hate this movie for it's perverted nature, I was teased by others for it a few times. This has made me hate it more. In fact, I have been told that such cursing and nudity is what made it "awesome" for them. I am especially amazed when women tell me that they liked this, because in this movie, women are not people, they are just objects to drool over and have sex with.
I have heard defenses of The Wolf of Wall Street that it's the point to show these disgusting acts to expose them. Do I need to see orgy after orgy to get that these people take part in orgies? Do you think I am so stupid that I need to hear hundreds of profanities for it to click in my mind that these people curse often?
There are some camera mistakes too in this that others have pointed out. When Jordan and Donnie meet for the first time, there is a shot when Jordan talks but there's no lip movement. Also, before Jordan beats his wife, we see him pant-less in one shot, but as soon as he needs to stand up, he magically has pants on. Gee, I wonder WHY? This is not something that a master like Scorsese should be guilty of.
I could go on and on and never satisfy my feelings against this movie, but I have improved. Please never see this movie, as it fails to show Jordan's fall negatively, and we rather are supposed to enjoy the ride. The tone and critical and audience praise contradict the supposed "goal" as well, as does the Oscar nomination.
Please see Silence for a great modern Scorsese movie instead, and forget this one's existence. Sadly, this movie is stuck in my mind forever. By the end, I didn't know who was cheated more, the penny stock buyers, or myself.