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Summary: Suspenders Rule!
Review: This film raised the common suspender to the level of cultural icon. It's done more for suspenderdom than Brookes Bros ever could. Suspenders are worth fighting for. Not only do they keep your trousers up and give the modern executive a spurious impression of corporate power (when he in fact works in the mail room), they also impress the hell out of women, who seemingly never tire of twanging them.
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Summary: The best financial movie of all time
Review: Michael Douglas and Charlie Sheen are at their best. Martin Sheen is his usual cool self. This movie is an excellent portrayal of what made the "Greedy 80's".Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas) is a ruthless multi-millionaire financial tycoon who calls on a young aspiring stock broker, Bud Fox (Charlie Sheen), to help him obtain illegal inside corporate information. Fox gets caught up in all the hundreds of thousands of dollars flowing in his direction and he loses sight of the more important things in life. Only when Gekko tries to ruin Fox's father's (Martin Sheen) employer, a commercial airline, does he see the error in his ways. Daryl Hannah plays Darien Taylor, a neo interior decorator with a nose for the big bucks. She falls for Fox as the money rolls in. There's not a lot of bad things to say about this movie, except that Hannah is terribly miscast. It's still a must-see movie for anyone who lived in the 80's or is interested in finance.
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Summary: One of the best Financial Movies ever made...
Review: This is by far the best financial movie ever made. Michael Douglas' speech on greed makes this DVD a must-have for the archives...
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Summary: DVD is worth it
Review: This was the one DVD I specifically asked for for x-mas, and I was not disappointed, overall. The "making of" documentary is great with recent interviews from Oliver Stone, Michael Douglas, Charlie Sheen, and Martin Sheen. This portion is about 60 mins, and very interesting. Stone's running commentary is good too. However, the only time you'll get to see the true widescreen version of the film, is when they cut to the film during the documentary. Otherwise, you're not really missing much on the VHS version vs. the DVD version of the movie itself. The movie is not a true widescreen format. This was a disappointment to me, but the other features definitely make the DVD worth it.
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Summary: Another Stone Great
Review: A great look into Dow Jones, rividing look at how money can make you do anything. Stone well casts this movie, with great performances by the Sheens, and Douglas. Overall excellent use of story and acting.
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Summary: It's amazing that real life "Gekkos" love this movie, too!
Review: It's amazing that people who admire the evil, reptilian stockbroker Gekko and look up to him actually like this movie since they believe the hideous characte of Gekko and his repulsive opinions are what the movie praises! Some people will truly see what they want to see... Of course, this movie does just the opposite. as, I though, anyone could tell by just looking at Gekko's obviously metaphoric last name. What "Wall Street" is about, is the story of a young stockbroker, Bud Fox, who enters the "Wall Street World" fascinated by money and ready to drop all his human qualities in order to pursue wealth, and his transformation from a human to an amoral monster, under corrupt Wall Street shark Gordon Gekko's influence and to his delight. Fortunately, eventually Bud manages to overcome Gekko's power and become a thinking, moral being once again - not a talking cash-making machine he wanted to be for some time. His price is, it seems, jail time - but only to serve as a soul-cleaning experience, from which he will emerge a human being once again, instead of a repulsive, greedy gecko lizard such as his ex-mentor. The rightful and justified disgust with the ammoral hell of the stockmarket fills the movie and it's amazing that the people who dwell in that greedy market mud fail to notice so obvious a thing, and think that Oliver Stone actually wanted to praise their likes. Listen to Carl Fox's words... *they*, not Gekko's hissing, are the message of the movie. Oliver Stone delivers a perfect portrayal of the greedy and corrupt, so deeply in love with their own selves that they can't even imagine anyone looking down on them - the way Oliver Stone does.
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Summary: great
Review: good story, good acting...see it!
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Summary: Great DVD
Review: The movie is fantastic, and it is about time they released it in DVD. The DVD is good, and includes a "making of" featurette which is very interesting and looks to have been recently made. The movie is a classic.
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Summary: A great movie, but "just okay" DVD
Review: I won't comment about the content of this movie, which is one of my favorite films of the eighties. However, I must point out that the letterbox transfer does not look as good as it could be: the image is soft, and the bottom of the screen is cropped a little too much, making the image look cramped. As an example, on the full screen laserdisc, you can see the wad of money which Martin Sheen is holding when Charlie repays his loans while they are in the garage. On the DVD, all that picture information is cropped. Only a sliver of picture information is added to the sides from the widescreen version. I think that the movie deserved better treatment.
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Summary: WALL STREET-AN ABSOLUTE MASTERPIECE OF A FILM
Review: If you're trying to decide whether to buy it or not, trust me run, don't walk to your nearest video store and buy it now. This film is outstanding. Brilliant performances by Michael Douglas, Martin Sheen, Terrance Stamp, Darryl Hannah and by far Charlie Sheen's crowl jewel to date. Sorry, I don't count Hot Shots or Hot Shots Part Deux...please. Michael Douglas's character, Gordon Geckko, is a composite of the inside trader scoundrels that plagued Wall Street in the late eighties. Charlie Sheen plays Bud Fox, an aspiring young stock trader on Wall Street trying to hit the big leagues during the yuppie craze of the eighties. Charlie's real-life father, Martin Sheen plays his dad in the film, and it adds an important sense of realism to the film. Terrance Stamp, a British actor, whose best known for being General Zod in Superman 2 with Christopher Reeve, sad since he's such a brilliant actor. In this film, he plays a rival British trader, who has an extreme dislike for Gordon. Darryl Hannah gives her best performance other than Splash, as Charlie's interior decorator girlfriend, whose lust for fame and money rivals his own. A great supporting cast surround the strongest of lead character's, though, Michael Douglas, who won an academy award for his portrayal, and rightfully so. Of all his film's, this one truly exemplifies his brilliance as an actor. I leave you with a classic line to one of his many brilliant speeches in the film, "Greed is Good, Greed works..."
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