About 75 of the movie consist of sexual content and consumption of forbidden substances. Wolf is a waste unless you are a 19-year-old boy who thinks Napoleon Dynamite was funny. This rapid response parallels what happened last February when Steven Soderbergh’s 2011 “ Contagion” flew high with its story that paralleled the then-emergent Covid-19 pandemic. The Wolf of Wall Street is a roaring film with energy to spare and performance to marvel at.
That places them ahead of all but two current releases (“ Tenet” and “ Greenland”) as the most-ordered titles. Apple TV, usually the quickest to detect trends and spot immediate response, currently has Adam McKay’s 2015 “ The Big Short” at #3 and Martin Scorsese’s 2013 “ The Wolf of Wall Street” at #4. Days after the Reddit-led consumer buys of struggling GameStop, AMC Theaters, and other stocks, two of the most successful recent films about Wall Street manipulation are soaring high in home rentals. The Robinhood effect has now extended to the movies.
