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Summary: Oliver Stone is Wrong
Review: I did like this movie. However, it is full of gross exaggerations and biases that we have come to expect from Stone. First of all, the little subtitle at the beginning says that the year is 1985. No more than 20 minutes into the film Bud Fox's partner, when speaking about Gekko, says that Gekko sold Nasa stock short after the Challenger blew up. The Challenger didn't explode until 1986. Plus, I didn't know that Nasa was listed on the NYSE!!What works is Gekko's little 'Greed' speech. It's true. All humans are motivated by their self-interest. Why greed has such a bad connotation is puzzling. Gekko's other little diatribe toward the end of the film is pure [trash]. Life is not a zero-sum game. Just because you make more money, for example, doesn't mean that I will make less. If this is Stone's belief, which I'm sure it is, he's as dumb as a box of rocks. One more thing, Bud and Gordon wore awesome suits! More men need to start wearing suspenders (braces) again!
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Summary: I can't help it, I love this movie!
Review: When this movie first came out on video, I was in high school and worked as an assistant manager at a video store and watched this movie every night! I'm not a big fan of Oliver Stone but he did turn out a great movie and was able to get Michael Douglas to give the performance of his career as Gordon Gekko. With the current mess on Wall Street this movie shows that it is still even more relevant today than when it came out 15 years ago!
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Summary: wide-screen? my [rear]!
Review: I absolutely loved Wall Street! When I first saw it in the theater as a teenger, I had absolutely no idea what was going on. However, I went on to be a finance major in college & I finally understood the genius of the script. I have the movie on tape (recorded it from HBO) & I was highly anticipating the DVD especially since it was going to be in wide-screen. However, to my horror the wide-screen view is cropped from the full-screen version!!! At first I thought was mistaken. Then I set up 2 tv's - one hooked up to my vcr, the other to my dvd - & confirmed my suspicions. Perhaps I got a defective dvd, but you can try this test on your own by renting both formats. Extremely disappointed by the transfer!
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Summary: Typcial Stone Trash Movie,
Review: All Stone sees his cover-ups and bad things in every establishment wither it be in Washington DC or on Wall Street. Anyway here is a movie with wall to wall card board charecters. Douglas, Sheen, Holbrook, and all the other fine actors who regretfully made this movie should have known better to star in this Turkey.
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Summary: Tells it like it is
Review: An all too accurate depiction of the way Wall St. works. Anyone who's watched his hard earned money disappear on some broker's lame recommendation while the rich get richer will feel right at home here. The story of an ambitious young broker (Charlie Sheen) who wants it all right now. He gets his wish but discovers that there are some lines he will not cross. Michael Douglas got the oscar but the whole cast is excellent.
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Summary: This movie is good, this movie is right.
Review: Wall Street is truly a great film that accurately portrays attitudes of the 80's and unfortunately the 90's as well. The acting, directing, storyline, camera-work, is all superb. The film shows the attitudes concerning money and how important money was and is. More important than friends, more important than people, more important than life itself. One thing that suprised me was one reviewer's comment that they know many people that don't think Gekko,the greedy villian in the film, did anything wrong. That guy who wrote that really needs to get out of the Pat Buchanan Dinner Parties and start waking up to the real world! Not that using people to get money, breaking the law to get more money, have relationships with people that like you only for your money, greed is right philosophy is bad or anything, but the guy stated that "(making a great profit on a real estate investment) felt better than sex!" That alone should make the man worthy of ridicule! Another comment I had issue with was that you had to be a "bleeding heart" to believe that capitalism is unfair and promotes greed. I mean, even honest people that are pro-capitalist will concede that capitalism is unfair and that it does tend to restrict wealth to narrow sectors of the population. I don't know you're definition of unfair is, but it sure seems like its unfair to me. Honest capitalists will only argue that " by gosh, its the best system we've got, Look at whats it did in Latin America for crying out loud, Socialism is a failure, look at Sweden for example!"(Recently voted by the UN as the best place to live in the world, US didn't make the top 5) etc.
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Summary: Blue Star
Review: "Blue Star". The words will ring like "Rose Bud". Something that propels a person to heights of success then plummets to career failure.... This is a "real life" presentation that is worth multiple viewings.
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Summary: Excellent film
Review: Some people might say Wall Street is nothing like that portrayed in this movie, while others would say it's all too much like this (to this very day). Watch the movie. Then think back on all the news articles you've read and/or TV stories you've watched regarding Wall Street and decide for yourself. I definitely like this movie, and consider it a full-fledged five star-er. The acting is superb, and the drama heart-felt.
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Summary: Goin' for the quick and easy buck
Review: Stop doin' that and try to produce something with your life. Quick-buck artists come and go with every bull market, but the steady players make it through the bear markets. Boy is that true! Now I wish Oliver Stone made a sequel just to depict what happened to the golden boys in october 1987. Of course "Wall Street" has got it's flaws, but it's the best of the genre and the success of this movie relies much on the shark-greenmailer-two bit pirate-Michael Douglas's performance (if only Daryl Hannah knew how to act!): "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good, is right, it works... and it will save that malfunctioning corporation called the USA". What I like the most about this movie is that there's no shallow left or right wing propaganda. There's dad Fox on one side and Gekko on the other. It's up to you to decide who's wrong and who's right.
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Summary: The best movie ever!!!
Review: I had to choose five stars because there was not an higher rating!! This is definitely an Oliver Stone's masterpiece. The movie simply does a great job is setting up the different characters and in developing a breathtaking story. Michael Douglas in the role of Gordon Ghekko is simply astonishing, and it is no wonder that by interpreting this role he became a mith. I also found the special features very interesting, with some very insightful clues on how the movie was actually made and the message that it should have conveyed (i.e. Behaving like Gordon Ghekko is BAD, Buddy is a model of integrity).
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