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Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
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Anyone catch this movie? I thought it was a great theatrical presentation of the types of conversations and attitudes that were prominent in the financial melt down. The closed door investment bank/Fed meetings, egos, and vindictiveness were probably close to what it was really like.

Of course, the names were changed to protect the innocent (cough...guilty...cough) but I think we all know who was being represented in this Oliver Stone movie.

If anyone didn't understand the investment bank shenanigans and wants an entertaining explanation, this is a great movie. Just plug in Goldman Sachs for Churchill Schwartz and Lehman Brothers for Keller Zaber. They even had the individual personalties of the company CEOs down.

Douglas as Gekko was a little changed(older) but true to character and as great as he was before with the exception that he didn't top the Teldar paper speech.

Enough about that. The reason for my post was to see if anyone caught all the cigars that were being smoked. I'm pretty sure Gekko was smoking a NC Davidoff early on and later a Cuban Cohiba but I didn't catch the rest. Did anyone with a sharper eye see what some of the others were?

There was a lot of product placement in this movie. Bulgari, Ducati, IWC, Heineken, Johnnie Walker, Toyota, and even Lays potato chips in a very strange way. Davidoff probably had the line on most of the cigar related stuff.

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#2
When I saw the preview I was rather astonished that in an environment of nearly 10% unemployment and the highest poverty rate in 51 years Stone would consider a film about crooked Wall St. fatcats a lucrative project. Not to mention that to the average moviegoer, such a subject would surely be painfully dull.

Guess I was wrong though, it was number one at the box office when released. Might have to watch it now just to see if I can spot and identify the cigars. Big Grin
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I have to see it soon..
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(10-26-2010, 05:54 AM)Jimmie the Mum Wrote: I have to see it soon..
Same here...
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(10-26-2010, 06:28 AM)EvilAsh Wrote:
(10-26-2010, 05:54 AM)Jimmie the Mum Wrote: I have to see it soon..
Same here...

Same here
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(10-26-2010, 05:15 AM)Soulend Wrote: When I saw the preview I was rather astonished that in an environment of nearly 10% unemployment and the highest poverty rate in 51 years Stone would consider a film about crooked Wall St. fatcats a lucrative project. Not to mention that to the average moviegoer, such a subject would surely be painfully dull.

Guess I was wrong though, it was number one at the box office when released. Might have to watch it now just to see if I can spot and identify the cigars. Big Grin


I can see how that perception could come across in the advertising. It's hard to comment without spoiling it but it's not really that kind of movie. Not all the greedy people win. It should help shed light on the way Wall Street really works for people that aren't really sure about how this whole thing went down. It is a movie(dramatization) of course, but it does a good job illustrating how investment banks really think.
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i have zero interest. It's a crock.
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#8
I really liked the original and for the most part havent cared for alot of the remakes just my opinion though.
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#9
I'll watch it when it comes to Netflix. probably be a while.
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#10
they are outside of my building right now filming "Too Big To Fail" and the production company is "No More Wall Street Bailouts Productions".
I didn't recognize any famous actors, but they have a ton of them and big enough to warrent private dressing rooms (these massive trucks they bring in).
The permits say they paid $3,000,000 to film on location.

The only thing missing is Michael Moore(on)
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