Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010) — movie review | |
I must admit I’ve really been looking forward to the release of this sequel. I’ve only seen the original (maybe) three times in full, but everyone has seen Mike do Gekko, “Greed is good!” a million times. | |
I took along my youngest (Sarah), unfortunately – for her. | |
Visually, the movie was appealing to me in a TRON / PowerPoint kind of way. Using the NY skyline as a backdrop for stock market ups and downs, and the roads as ticker runs was good. | |
Greed and excessive wealth were on display – but both lacked emotional appeal. The characters kept saying “It’s not about the money”, when clearly, it was all about the money. There were long, slow pans of skinny, tanned, bejeweled ladies and fat, mostly older, white guys. …And lots of stiffs in suits. | |
I did enjoy the “finding family” aspects of the film even though they were not particularly believable, but then it’s entertainment not real life!! I’ve not followed Shia LaBeouf before (other than Transformers), but I now think he can act. | |
I think the movie will reach a certain crowd – those who saw and understood the first movie and those who have followed (and understand) the economic problems of the last decade. Unfortunately, I don’t believe there are very many folks in either group. | |
I think the liberals will vilify Stone (again) for not explaining the problems government (Bush and Obama) had or at least offering any evidence there were viable options. Nothing but the bailout or economic collapse are given as options – black and white (binary) in a world of nuance. I think the conservatives (and Tea Baggers) will vilify Stone (again) because he presents a harsh look at the new corporate greed – which is offered as FAR worse than individual greed (but doesn’t explain why). | |
The film is a lot of investment banking and Wall Street bashing, pure and simple. I don’t have a big problem with that, per se, they are big boys who can take it, and they did screw up (and are continuing to do so). The shortfall of the movie is it was a missed opportunity to be a learning moment: it could have said more about what happened, why it happened, why it was allowed to happen, and what were some of the other options (for future reference). | |
Sarah’s review – if the chairs were more comfortable, she’d have fallen asleep after about 20 minutes. (From the mouths of babes…) | |
My recommendation: if you are one of those two groups mentioned above, or if you love Oliver Stone (hate the government, hate the rich, hate the corporations), you’ll probably enjoy this film. As a film buff, I’ll wait for the X-mas twin pack to come out and re-watch them both. (Life is hard for film nerds!) | |
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On This Day In: | |
2021 | Buying Time In A Fixed Game |
Dedicated To: Messrs. Rubio And Pompeo | |
2020 | What It Takes |
Every Sign Was A Northern Star | |
2019 | Stuff Happens |
Whistleblower Complaint Regarding President Trump And Ukraine | |
2018 | Looking Into Golf |
Goin’ Yard | |
2017 | Improvise |
2016 | Got Leisure? |
2015 | It’s Been Hurtin’ For Quite A While Now |
2014 | Curious Talent |
2013 | Eureka |
2012 | Slow Me |
2011 | He Said What?!? |
2010 | Gritty |
3 and 3 | |
Just A Hunch | |
Wall Street – Movie Review | |
2nd Pair – Shoe Review (Aborted and Final) | |
Archive for September 26th, 2010
Wall Street – Movie Review
Posted in Faith Family and Friends, Movies, Uncategorized, tagged Family, Family and Friends, Gordon Gekko, Greed is good, Michael Douglas, Movie Review, Movies, Oliver Stone, PowerPoint, Shia Labeouf, Tron, Wall Street - Movie Review on September 26, 2010| Leave a Comment »
Just A Hunch
Posted in General Comments, Science and Learning, tagged General Comments, hunch, Wired Magazine, www.hunch.com on September 26, 2010| Leave a Comment »
I was reading Wired magazine last month and they were telling folks about a new website named: www.hunch.com | |
It’s kind of a combination of Facebook, Twitter, Wikipedia, Google, and a bunch of other social networking sites all rolled into one. | |
I signed up early this week and I must admit it is the most addictive web site I’ve been on in quite some time. It is a complete time waster – but it feels good doing it. | |
Basically, you answer 20 questions and the system builds a psychological profile of you. As you answer more questions, it fills out your profile. You can add likes and dislikes (movies, books, authors, foods, TV shows, politics, ethics) to just about any topic and it uses these favorites, likes and dislikes to make suggestions to you and others based on the similarity of the others to you (based on their answers). You can also make your own topics. | |
If you decide to give it a go, I’m on as kmabarrett (what a coincidence!), so please follow and fleck me. | |
I’m not sure I’ll keep it up as I’ve not used the site to provide me with any recommendations, yet – but it’s still early days. | |
[2022 update: This site is LONG since dead… — kmab] | |
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On This Day In: | |
2021 | Buying Time In A Fixed Game |
Dedicated To: Messrs. Rubio And Pompeo | |
2020 | What It Takes |
Every Sign Was A Northern Star | |
2019 | Stuff Happens |
Whistleblower Complaint Regarding President Trump And Ukraine | |
2018 | Looking Into Golf |
Goin’ Yard | |
2017 | Improvise |
2016 | Got Leisure? |
2015 | It’s Been Hurtin’ For Quite A While Now |
2014 | Curious Talent |
2013 | Eureka |
2012 | Slow Me |
2011 | He Said What?!? |
2010 | Gritty |
3 and 3 | |
Just A Hunch | |
Wall Street – Movie Review | |
2nd Pair – Shoe Review (Aborted and Final) | |
3 and 3
Posted in General Comments, Politics, tagged General Comments, Politics on September 26, 2010| Leave a Comment »
What are you doing about it? | |
A simple question, but also an indictment… | |
If you are upset about the state of our country – what are you doing about it? | |
My suggestion: Ask three elderly people you know, how they will get to the voting poll site in November and then offer to give them a lift there if they need it. Then ask three young people you know between 18 and 25 years of age if they are registered to vote. If not, offer to get them a registration form, help them complete it and mail it (or help them drop it off). | |
Most places cut off voter registration 30 days before the election, so you need to get started on the youth contacts NOW! | |
I’m not asking you to poll them to see if they agree with your views or not – for the young or the elderly. All I AM asking is that you help make the system work. | |
Three people before October 2nd and three more before November 2nd… | |
If you are not part of the solution, you ARE part of the problem. What are YOU doing about it? | |
VOTE 2nd November 2010 !!! | |
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On This Day In: | |
2021 | Buying Time In A Fixed Game |
Dedicated To: Messrs. Rubio And Pompeo | |
2020 | What It Takes |
Every Sign Was A Northern Star | |
2019 | Stuff Happens |
Whistleblower Complaint Regarding President Trump And Ukraine | |
2018 | Looking Into Golf |
Goin’ Yard | |
2017 | Improvise |
2016 | Got Leisure? |
2015 | It’s Been Hurtin’ For Quite A While Now |
2014 | Curious Talent |
2013 | Eureka |
2012 | Slow Me |
2011 | He Said What?!? |
2010 | Gritty |
3 and 3 | |
Just A Hunch | |
Wall Street – Movie Review | |
2nd Pair – Shoe Review (Aborted and Final) | |
Gritty
Posted in General Comments, Movies, tagged John Wayne, Katharine Hepburn, Movie Review, Movies, Rooster Cogburn, Rooster Cogburn - movie review, Western on September 26, 2010| Leave a Comment »
I watched Rooster Cogburn with Hil this evening. I’ve seen it before – many years ago – but had forgotten what a terrific little movie it was. John Wayne and Katharine Hepburn were terrific together. The dialogue was witty and they played off each other tremendously. It was JW’s 2nd to last movie and he was already dying of cancer at the time. | |
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On This Day In: | |
2021 | Buying Time In A Fixed Game |
Dedicated To: Messrs. Rubio And Pompeo | |
2020 | What It Takes |
Every Sign Was A Northern Star | |
2019 | Stuff Happens |
Whistleblower Complaint Regarding President Trump And Ukraine | |
2018 | Looking Into Golf |
Goin’ Yard | |
2017 | Improvise |
2016 | Got Leisure? |
2015 | It’s Been Hurtin’ For Quite A While Now |
2014 | Curious Talent |
2013 | Eureka |
2012 | Slow Me |
2011 | He Said What?!? |
2010 | Gritty |
3 and 3 | |
Just A Hunch | |
Wall Street – Movie Review | |
2nd Pair – Shoe Review (Aborted and Final) | |
2nd Pair – Shoe Review (Aborted and Final)
Posted in General Comments, Pictures, Running, Shoe Review, tagged Chi-running, General Comments, Long Slow Jogging, POSE, Running, Shoe_Review, Speedo - Seaside Water Shoe on September 26, 2010| Leave a Comment »
Wear pattern on bottom of shoes.
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