Nobodys_Fault

Heroin? Fuck, didn't think he was the type.

He's had drug problems for a while. Wasn't he in rehab a couple years ago?

Yeah, I remember being surprised to hear he was in for heroin. Apparently he was found with a needle in his arm.

Sounds like he's blaming his old man for his own failure in life.

Common with kids of rich parents.

When your old man is worth a shitload and with all due respect, didn't have to "work hard" for it, and you're on fuckin food stamps, yeah it is your old man's problem.

Not sure what you do for a living but getting repeatedly punched in the face until you develop brain damage doesn't sound like easy work to me.

Maybe you missed my point about context.

I didn't. Just didn't think it was particularly valid.

a time when the western world needs to learn how to live with less, be more creative, be a little more philosophical instead of materialistic

Had this film been produced 5 or 10 years ago I would have viewed it in a completely different light.

How does that vague "context" not apply in 2009? To say that the western world has changed that much since that it completely alters your perception of a film about Wall Street in the 90's is a bit ridiculous in my opinion.

Art is a free creation that needs to evolve on its own, but to be considered Art it also needs substance and has to have a context that is meaningful in some way to the time we are living in. I don't think this film had that at all.

I don't really agree with this but I can't see how the film's context is in no way meaningful to the present day. It's a black comedy. The entire idea is to make light of, otherwise serious, subject matter. The subject matter in this case is a financial system so corrupt it rewards the worst people in society and a justice system that prevents them being punished for it. Pretty sure that still exists today.

Three letters: GFC

... which happened in 2008. I'm not sure I understand your point. You think now is "a time when the western world needs to learn how to be less materialistic" but not five to ten years ago when rampant greed and materialism tanked the worlds economy?

Maybe you missed my point about context.

I didn't. Just didn't think it was particularly valid.

a time when the western world needs to learn how to live with less, be more creative, be a little more philosophical instead of materialistic

Had this film been produced 5 or 10 years ago I would have viewed it in a completely different light.

How does that vague "context" not apply in 2009? To say that the western world has changed that much since that it completely alters your perception of a film about Wall Street in the 90's is a bit ridiculous in my opinion.

Art is a free creation that needs to evolve on its own, but to be considered Art it also needs substance and has to have a context that is meaningful in some way to the time we are living in. I don't think this film had that at all.

I don't really agree with this but I can't see how the film's context is in no way meaningful to the present day. It's a black comedy. The entire idea is to make light of, otherwise serious, subject matter. The subject matter in this case is a financial system so corrupt it rewards the worst people in society and a justice system that prevents them being punished for it. Pretty sure that still exists today.

As somebody else said, it'd have been nice to get an insight into those who had their lives absolutely destroyed by Belfort's antics. How about a scene depicting a father going out and hanging himself because he can't satisfy his children's tuition fees? Or a marriage breaking down because a man thought he was bettering his family's opportunities by investing in something he was taught to believe in?

I understand what you're saying but this would be the explicit pointing I was alluding to earlier. It's shitty film-making.

While Wolf is enjoyable as an entertainment piece, it's dangerous in the mind of the stupid. When you have somebody like DiCaprio portraying a character, a sizeable proportion of the audience is automatically endeared (irrespective of the deplorable acts committed by the character). "It's DiCaprio man, he's fucking cool right? I wish I was slick enough to lead such a lifestyle. Fuck any chick when I want, and when shit hits the fan, there's a pill for that! And guess what, money frees you of any long-term punishment. He's not deterred, he goes straight out and starts again. Because that's the spirit of an alphamale!" See, you'd be surprised, but there are more people reacting like that than to the contrary. That's how stupid our society is. They don't see Belfort as a nihilistic, self-asorbed, money-consumed, ignorant ratbag; he's just a fucking cool guy that played the system and got caught. I see the narrative that Scorsese subtly introduced, so do you. But 75% of the cinema on any given night don't. Yes you shouldn't dumb down your sense of art, but as a mainstream director you also have a moral responsibility to enlighten. And unfortunately for the art perhaps, that involves making a clear-cut point.

Hoping Overeem doesn't make me watch him lose another fight he should really be winning with ease. This is a gimme for Reem. Mir is terrible against the fence and that's Overeem's killzone. Clinch against fence and then knee to oblivion.

Tonight's episode of HIMYM was amazing, but one of the saddest of the whole series

This season has been pretty uneven but yeah that was a great episode. Gotta hand it to them, they did an outstanding job casting the mother. Cristin Milioti is perfect.

Anyone else been watching Rick and Morty? This shit is hilarious.

Does it matter even if it is glorified? Does that make it a bad movie? If you got the impression that he was anything but a cunt, that's your own moral compass failing you.

Yes it does matter. Any piece of art only becomes acknowledged or credited as being significant because of the context in which it is produced. Had this film been produced 5 or 10 years ago I would have viewed it in a completely different light.

Of course Belfort was portrayed as a cunt, but the general style and mood of the film showed that lifestyle as being desirable. For a lot of people that IS desirable, but for all the wrong reasons.

I guess the biggest factor for me was that I don't think this film needed to be made at all. In a time when the western world needs to learn how to live with less, be more creative, be a little more philosophical instead of materialistic, this film did nothing but present the opposite. It didn't inform us about anything we don't already know, it's just entertainment but without a message. That industry doesn't even exist today in the way it was portrayed in that film. I guess it was just a piece of retrospectivity which felt very staged and artificial .

By that logic Goodfellas didn't need to be made either considering both films are essentially about the same thing. A spectacularly successful heist that eventually comes crashing down on the heads of the characters thanks to the greed and arrogance displayed by the protagonist. I was only a child at the time but I don't recall a resurgence in mob violence in the 90's thanks to the release of Goodfellas... probably because people generally don't view films as a tutorial on how to live their lives.

I loathe this idea that a filmmaker has the responsibility to explicitly point at something and say "that's bad, don't do that" like some sort of overprotective parent. The danger of greed is highlighted constantly throughout the film. SPOILERS He's almost constantly in danger of losing his life. Hell, we're even told that the one character who 'gets out' dies two years later. DiCaprio, much like Ray Liotta in Goodfellas, ends the film having escaped jail with some semblance of a life thanks to grassing up everyone around him. This isn't Scorsese saying, "this guys alright and doesn't deserve any comeuppance." The point is that the audience should be angry at him and, more importantly, the system that allowed it.

It doesn't give you arthritis. That's a myth.

Dont it? Cheers mate, cuz i do it incessantly abd always worried it giving me arthiritis.

Yeah, it's one of those myths that everyone picks up but there's no truth to it all.

I remember reading about a doctor that tested this by cracking only the knuckles on his left hand for sixty years and leaving the right alone. No sign of arthritis or anything in either hand.

It doesn't give you arthritis. That's a myth.

yeah it is kind of annoying when everytime something horrible happens in the US, it seems we are always singled out as some horrible place. i think a lot of it is the media both in our country and abroad that over dramatize everything. listening to some people outside of the US they make it sound like every day americans worry about getting shot have to wear bullet proof armor and grab an assault weapon and have a shootout just to get to the corner market store.

i mean in france a couple of months ago you had a guy kill an old man with an iron bar, eat his tongue and his heart and burn his body, but not one mention of that on this site. instead we have people who have no clue about the US but think they do based on some biased news reports or what they hear. this is not directed at the OP who i like a lot as a poster it is just the general mood and attitude i see a lot on these forums and other forums.

Truth. You can cherry pick awful stories from any country.. shitty people exist everywhere. We just hear the American one's more often thanks to the vast cultural reach.

This type of prejudice is no different than racist hate.

.. and then you get ridiculous nonsense like this.

Really? Show me ONE country that has a population close to 300 million that ranks higher than us in any of those categories.

There are only three countries in the world with a population over 300 million and one of them(China) outranks the USA in education with a population more than four times the size.

anyone heard their soundtrack to Her?

I like it better than Reflektor

Watched this last night, didn't realise they did the soundtrack. Sounded pretty great.

Yeah but he's handing United something of a life line, itd be in his interest to compound the Moyes era collapse, not give him a leg up.

I mean Mata aint gonna win em the league but hes at very least something of a stabilising influence for their dodgy midfield.

Only logic I can see in it is that, now that Chelsea have already played them twice, it gives United a better chance of taking points from Arsenal and City.

I put 138 consecutive penalties past Peter shilton at the village fair. Granted he was probably pissed but I still won a nice paperweight.

Mata's gone.

Fuck this. What are you doing Mou.

I'm told that the more often I shave, the quicker, and thicker, it will grow back. Is this legit?

No. Shaving does not affect hair growth whatsoever. Shaved hair just looks "thicker" because it isn't tapered like the naturally finer ends of uncut hair. Same way a long bamboo cane flexes easily but the same cane cut short feels harder and tougher.

I should really invest in a DE razor. Been meaning to for a while now.

I gave it to three actors: Michael Madsen, Bruce Dern, Tim Roth. The one I know didn’t do this is Tim Roth.

Would be wonderfully ironic if Roth is the rat.

Finished Sherlock.

I loved series 1 and 2. Overall, was a bit disappointed with 3. The acting was still there, even the script writing was still pretty good, but the plot/story did not do it for me.

Mary is actually an assassin/spy that sort of has a connection to the bad guy but we don't really know how? The bad guy's big secret was that he also had a mind palace... And I didn't like how these episodes were sporadic doses of smaller cases. I liked the old format of 1 episode = 1 big case that slowly gets uncovered. Also WTF? they didn't tell us how he faked his death. Just that there were 13 possibilities and he went with Lazarus (I'm guessing #12 of 13 if it was alphabetical). The producers have said that they do indeed know how he did it, but why won't they tell us?

All the chatter on the net is pointing to them getting the next series out for Christmas this year, which is cool. I'll definitely watch it, but especially with those ending frames of His Last Vow, this really seemed like a filler season. That being said, I thought the wedding episode was great, probably my favorite of the series. No idea what to make of the Moriarty ending, that would really be too ridiculous if both Sherlock and he both faked their deaths at the same time... but then again he seems to be alive given what we saw at the end.

I agree. Felt like the epilogue to season 2(or a prologue to season 4.)

Not sure what to make of the whole Moriarty thing. He's definitely dead. I doubt they're going to start next season explaining how he faked a gunshot to the head. His 'return' was the only thing that surprised me throughout the finale though so I did enjoy it.

Have a feeling Janine is connected to Moriarty somehow based entirely upon the fact that she is Irish.

Sherlock casually drops in a line about a third Holmes brother when he's talking to Mycroft.

Didn't like the way they resolved the Magnussen storyline... Sherlock is outsmarted so he carries out a state-sponsored execution? Also the Magnussen/Murdoch parallel was a little too obvious for my liking.

I don't have fxx, how is this season of It's always sunny?

Brilliant. It finished in November.

I actually thought this season was the weakest yet. There were a few episodes I thought there great, but most of thought were "eh."

I dunno, I thought The Gang Broke Dee, Mac Day and The Gang Saves The Day were some of the best episodes they've ever done.

Joaquin Phoenix being one of them

Joaquin is on the Academy's shit list. It's unlikely he'll be getting nominated again any time soon.

The 'we' you're referring to in the title isn't really anybody... it's just the media. They actively seek and create these sort of "controversies" because it's easy journalism. Just sift through Twitter for a few angry idiots.

I am a white heterosexual male, the only discrimination I've suffered is from being an atheist or jokes about being too white (funny that that's not considered racism). I don't mind it either way, I'm proud of my (lack of) color.

Life must be tough for the white, heterosexual atheist.

I don't have fxx, how is this season of It's always sunny?

Brilliant. It finished in November.

BEST PICTURE

American Hustle

Captain Phillips

Dallas Buyers Club

Gravity

Her

Nebraska

Philomena

12 Years a Slave

The Wolf of Wall Street

BEST ACTOR

Christian Bale in American Hustle

Bruce Dern in Nebraska

Leonardo DiCaprio in The Wolf of Wall Street

Chiwetel Ejiofor in 12 Years a Slave

Matthew McConaughey in Dallas Buyers Club

BEST ACTRESS

Amy Adams in American Hustle

Cate Blanchett in Blue Jasmine

Sandra Bullock in Gravity

Judi Dench in Philomena

Meryl Streep in August: Osage County

BEST DIRECTOR

David O. Russell for American Hustle

Alfonso Cuaron for Gravity

Alexander Payne for Nebraska

Steve McQueen for 12 Years a Slave

Martin Scorsese for The Wolf of Wall Street

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Barkhad Abdi in Captain Phillips

Bradley Cooper in American Hustle

Michael Fassbender in 12 Years a Slave

Jonah Hill in The Wolf of Wall Street

Jared Leto in Dallas Buyers Club

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Sally Hawkins in Blue Jasmine

Jennifer Lawrence in American Hustle

Lupita Nyong'o in 12 Years a Slave

Julia Roberts in August: Osage County

June Squibb in Nebraska

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

Before Midnight

Captain Phillips

Philomena

12 Years A Slave

The Wolf of Wall Street

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

American Hustle

Blue Jasmine

Dallas Buyers Club

Her

Nebraska

ANIMATED FEATURE FILM

The Croods

Despicable Me 2

Ernest & Celestine

Frozen

The Wind Rises

CINEMATOGRAPHY

The Grandmaster

Gravity

Inside Llewyn Davis

Nebraska

Prisoners

COSTUME DESIGN

American Hustle

The Grandmaster

The Great Gatsby

The Invisible Woman

12 Years A Slave

DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

The Act of Killing

Cutie and the Boxer

Dirty Wars

The Square

20 Feet from Stardom

THE DOCUMENTARY SHORT SUBJECT

CaveDigger

Facing Fear

Karama Has No Walls

The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life

Prison Terminal: The Last Days of Private Jack Hall

FILM EDITING

American Hustle

Captain Phillips

Dallas Buyers Club

Gravity

12 Years A Slave

FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

The Broken Circle Breakdown

The Great Beauty

The Hunt

The Missing Picture

Omar

MAKE UP AND HAIRSTYLING

Dallas Buyers Club

Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa

The Lone Ranger

ORIGINAL SCORE

The Book Thief

Gravity

Her

Philomena

Saving Mr Banks

ORIGINAL SONG

"Alone Yet Not Alone" - Alone Yet Not Alone

"Happy"- Despicable Me 2

"Let it Go" - Frozen

"The Moon Song" - Her

"Ordinary Love" - Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom

PRODUCTION DESIGN

American Hustle

Gravity

The Great Gatsby

Her

12 Years A Slave

SHORT FILM - ANIMATED

Feral

Get a Horse!

Mr Hublot

Possessions

Room on the Broom

SHORT FILM - LIVE ACTION

Aquel No Era Yo

Avant Que De Tout Perdre

Helium

Pitaako Mun Kaikki Hoitaa?

The Voorman Problem

SOUND EDITING

All if Lost

Captain Phillips

Gravity

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

Lone Survivor

SOUND MIXING

Captain Phillips

Gravity

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

Inside Llewyn Davis

Lone Survivor

VISUAL EFFECTS

Gravity

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

Iron Man 3

The Lone Ranger

Star Trek Into Darkness

I haven't seen it yet but, based on what I've heared, I'm surprised Inside Llwelyn Davis only got nominated for cinematography and sound. Jonah Hill is now a two time Oscar nominee and David O. Russell becomes the first director ever to direct two casts into all four acting categories(and does it in back to back years).

I always post this, but it's cause I think more people should be aware of it's greatness.

John Frusciante does a version of this that's pretty awesome. Not as good as the original obviously, but nothing is.

He is the violent one? Yes, he is alright. He looks like he'll put a cap in my ass if I disagree mind.

Watch him in Gridlock'd with Tim Roth He really was a fantastic actor, head and shoulders above any other rapper that ever tried his hand at this shit. Watch Gridlock'd though, it's him and Tim Roth playing a couple of junkies.

Came out recently that he had auditioned, and was being seriously considered for a part in Star Wars: The Phantom Menace. Apparently it was the role they eventually gave to Samuel L Jackson.

Not sure I believe it or not but kinda crazy to think that Tupac was almost a jedi.

Rex Harrison, ahhhh, what I wouldn't give for a leading man like that again.

Apparently Armond White was giving Steve McQueen the hump at the NY Film Festival. Torture porn eh? See now you've got my attention

Armond White is a professional cupcake.

A lot of inaccuracies in the documentary. Sea World recently released a press statement discrediting the documentary...

Nothing in that press release discredits the documentary.