10-25-2010, 10:20 PM
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.
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.