Saturday, October 9, 2010

WALL STREET: THE MONEY NEVER SLEEPS (2010) F

Terrible disappointment. (Recommend you see INSIDE JOB).

Given one of the most serious problems in our lifetime, Oliver Stone provides us with a foolish Soap Opera. The story about Michal Douglas and his estrangement from his daughter is nonsensical. Financial insights into Wall Street operations don't exist . . . and when an attempt is made to explain financial transactions, they are incoherent. All we see are the usually trading desks with guys at terminals and flashes of the empty glitzier side of New York. Also the acting and casting is bad. People are paper cut-outs

This was Eric Weinstein's review:
Plot:
Bad Guys stay at being Bad Guys, Good Guys want to be Bad Guys, Bad Guys can't be Good Guys, Good Guys are Good Guys with a price . . . so might of well be a bad guy. With all of this happening, Oliver Stone tries to play cute with family values, relationships, and any other "stuff" he can put into a movie. (Financial Bailouts, Trading rooms, China, Board Rooms, and the Federal Reserve, Book Signing).

Mr. Stone even puts the 96 year old Eli Wallach in the movie, and all he does is whistle . . . great stuff. I can't make it up. I am not sure if Oliver Stone lost a bet, but why in the hell did he cast Eli Wallach.

8 things I should have done instead of seeing Wall Street . . . not in order of preference
Root Canal with no anesthesia
Watch Barbara Streisand in Yentel
Make travel arrangements to Haiti
Play loud rock music while I have a migraine
Read a book in a moving car and start to get car sick
Visit as many gas stations bathrooms and roll around on the floors.
Drink lumpy milk (4 weeks passed the expiration date)
Take in the fumes of a homeless person.

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