Yes, that's definitely one of the film's problems. It meanders all over the place: Uninteresting things happen to unlikable people, other uninteresting things happen, something bizarrely different and completely irrelevant happens (most often weird comic relief scenes; most notably a sudden incursion of what seems like a completely different movie when the main character's yacht sinks in a storm), and unfortunately, none of it ever manages to approach being interesting.
The plot arc that seemed vaguely visible at the beginning - the one that I assumed would materialize more clearly at some point - instead just gave up and went away. The movie still had two and a half hours to go at that point.
You know, I saw it weeks ago, and I still don't know what to make of it. I never felt bored, but I didn't exactly enjoy it. NO ONE (except maybe Joanna Lumley's character) was likeable--which isn't always a dealbreaker for me, but damn the plot was tiresome. I agree with what you say about it being a random mixed bag: it really was.
I guess I feel like Scorsese put every I-fucked-up-my-life-with-drink-and-drugs/con man/Wall Street film I have ever seen and put them in a blender with heapings of crude humor. Weird. And not Oscar-worthy. I have no desire to ever see it again.
(The only thing I'll give it snaps for is that gotcha moment with what happened to his car. I love unreliable narrators.)
I'm not entirely sure what to make of it either, mostly because I have no idea what the point of it was meant to be, or where the interest is intended to lie. You got off more lightly than I if the movie didn't bore you, though. :-)
I feel like Scorsese put every I-fucked-up-my-life-with-drink-and-drugs/con man/Wall Street film I have ever seen and put them in a blender with heapings of crude humor. Yep. To me it felt like the movie was stuffed to the brim with a randomly assembled grab-bag of boring, shouty and pointless speeches, redundant and gratuitous orgies, lengthy and repetitive scenes of getting high, lying about while being high, amusingly (?) acting like idiots while high, crude humor and characters being amusingly (?) non-PC... all of it evidently intended to be entertaining merely by virtue of being there
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Seriously, that movie is a complete mess of yawning boredom.
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The plot arc that seemed vaguely visible at the beginning - the one that I assumed would materialize more clearly at some point - instead just gave up and went away. The movie still had two and a half hours to go at that point.
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I guess I feel like Scorsese put every I-fucked-up-my-life-with-drink-and-drugs/con man/Wall Street film I have ever seen and put them in a blender with heapings of crude humor. Weird. And not Oscar-worthy. I have no desire to ever see it again.
(The only thing I'll give it snaps for is that gotcha moment with what happened to his car. I love unreliable narrators.)
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I feel like Scorsese put every I-fucked-up-my-life-with-drink-and-drugs/con man/Wall Street film I have ever seen and put them in a blender with heapings of crude humor. Yep. To me it felt like the movie was stuffed to the brim with a randomly assembled grab-bag of boring, shouty and pointless speeches, redundant and gratuitous orgies, lengthy and repetitive scenes of getting high, lying about while being high, amusingly (?) acting like idiots while high, crude humor and characters being amusingly (?) non-PC... all of it evidently intended to be entertaining merely by virtue of being there ( ... )
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