I’ve taken a bit of a writing hiatus as of late because of an increasingly busy work schedule (I won’t complain about that), but now I’m back for a minute to give you some speedy reviews of a few of the movies that you probably haven’t seen in the last two weekends.
Premise: Stockbroker Jordan Belfort (Leonardo DiCaprio) goes from rags to riches by selling terrible stocks to gullible people in the early 90s, and perhaps maybe he possibly didn’t do it the most legal way he could think of. His “poor” life choices eventually landed the real life Belfort in prison, but not after many years of living in a mansion where he took extravagant drugs and had freaky sex on a regular basis. This movie reminded me of a great line from the show Clone High; when Mr. B asks Principal Scudworth why he’s wasting all of his newly earned money, and Scudworth responds “I watched the first two-thirds of VH-1’s M.C. Hammer: Behind the Music, and if there’s one thing I learned about money, it’s that it never runs out!” You could say the same for Goodfellas, Wall Street, and Scarface too. It’s almost like anyone who idolizes these characters never seem to make it to the end of the films…?
Dino Bone 