Interesting point, although I've always kept the fact and fiction entirely distinct. I'll have to do some reading on it, as the little I know is along the lines that the actual Hill was busted for dealing drugs at some point. That sounded like something the self-described 'shnook' he ends the film with would fall…

Thanks, "Donkey Lips." I'll give your detailed and thoughtful critique all the consideration it deserves.

I just bet ten bucks you're both women. For the most part men don't find the character or the actress attractive.

I'll be very surprised if Weiner takes a Tate-like route from here on in. It would completely dominate every other aspect of the show, and washout the possibility of nuance for anyone, really.

That's hardly to the point, though. At 15 it was also highly unlikely you were going to become a Major League pitcher or a rock star.

I suppose I'm among the few who thought ending things at the end of last season was what Weiner obviously should have done, and that watching these sad, self-crippled people continue to play the low stakes game they've volunteered for has gotten tiresome.

The final season itself needs to go out with something. To call the first half turgid is to do it a kindness. The business between Roger and his daughter on the commune is as stale as anything Mad Men has yet presented; the scenes in California between Don and Megan are a little better, but only a little. It's a…

Well said, and it's another reason why Wolf is so weak as a film. Goodfellas and Casino at least gave us riveting looks into two admittedly appalling worlds. Belfort, and by extension Scorcese, can't be bothered to do so in Wolf. It's one of dozens of mistakes Scorsese makes.

In all seriousness, he acknowledges to his first wife that he's stealing the savings of the people who can least afford it. When she asks him why he's not selling to the rich, he says it's because they're too smart to give him their money.

I dunno. Ernie's got that roundheaded kid thing going, too.

"…but hopes to stir up anger against the worst subjects of mockery to
demand change or justice."

I'm hard pressed to think of any scenes in Wolf that would make someone think drinking and drugs were appealing, or that they turned anyone into something other than a complete jackass. Nope. It's just not coming to me.

Yup. Easily held his own and then some in his scene with DiCaprio aboard the yacht.

Banging his best friend's girlfriend didn't cinch the "asshole" part of that equation for you? What would it take?

How is it possible to see the world in so blithely amoral a manner? It's spectacularly emotionally and intellectually bankrupt to blurt "It happens," and believe you've said anything at all.

You've convinced me!

"One might just as well attempt to explain the existence of the sun as the result of the warmth and brightness of summer days."

Huh. I must have missed the part where Riggins and Street were having sex with each other. See, that's why the explicitly sexual betrayal that 'slut' fingers in relation to Lyla comes into play with her, and not Riggins. That and the part where if you called Riggins the appropriate name (probably backstabber or the…

Well, Hill couldn't get good linguini. So that's something, Senator Corleone.

It's almost funny, that several people take that of all things as the real mark of his character's nadir. She hit him, and threatened to never let him see his children again. She also shattered a front seat window with their daughter in the car's passenger seat, but apparently punching her once in the stomach so he…