tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18360914.post8117991920769388950..comments2024-03-25T16:57:51.919+00:00Comments on Bina007 Movie Reviews: WALL STREET: MONEY NEVER SLEEPSBina007http://www.blogger.com/profile/01622085135305501711noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18360914.post-71574599039575573242011-01-02T18:26:16.716+00:002011-01-02T18:26:16.716+00:00@Karana23 I do indeed watch flicks in London - if ...@Karana23 I do indeed watch flicks in London - if you email me we can see if sth works<br /><br />@BillFenner1967 The Tulip Bubble did indeed take place - perhaps the first true modern financial bubble, along with the South Sea Bubble. Anna Pavord has written a tremendous book on the subject called "Tulip". Alternatively, for a brilliantly satirical examination of financial swindles (and as relevant today as when it was written) see Melmotte's railway swindle in Trollope's The Way We Live Now.Bina007https://www.blogger.com/profile/01622085135305501711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18360914.post-91242930253136876692011-01-01T21:57:56.431+00:002011-01-01T21:57:56.431+00:00What a dreadful film. Everything about it smelled ...What a dreadful film. Everything about it smelled of straight-to-video sequel - from the title, to the writing, direction, editing and music - except for the cast. The actors involved are all so-called "A listers" yet they seemed embarrassed by it all.<br /><br />And as for Stone ... well, what a shame. He really was once a maverick - at least as much as a film maker can be working within a system like Hollywood - but now he's really just churning out perfunctory, lifeless time fillers.<br /><br />Only thing I liked was the little anecdote about the great Amsterdam tulip bubble of years gone by. Wonder if it was true at all? I'll have to google that now and see.BillFenner1967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18360914.post-20078748232097541942010-10-10T22:06:46.700+00:002010-10-10T22:06:46.700+00:00Whoa! When did you get back Bina? So elated to see...Whoa! When did you get back Bina? So elated to see you writing again. And couldn't have agreed more. Although I am guessing your real-life work sector overlaps with the financial set-up here, leading to such an informed dissection. Which is really interesting because as an uninitiated, economics-n-finance novice, I saw both the 1987 original and its sequel within a span of a week, and while the original helped contextualising the literalities of stockbroking besides telling a whopper of a coming-of-age drama, this flabby sequel personified a post-modern malaise: that of just piling on superfluous fringe shit at the audience and misle them into thinking they have watched something intelligent (besides the abysmal character graphs). I was quite infuriated as to how opaque and cloudy the financial background was and failed to see the stakes for the main characters. But Douglas saved the day again. Yes, the finale is such an infuriating, incredulous turn of character but Stone's become a very PC, very mushy geriatric. His idea-germs for scripts sound groundshaking, but the eventual cut on screen barely stirs a grain of sand. <br /><br />Thank you for elucidating the financial mumbo-jumbo of this unnecessary sequel that could have been so much more. <br /><br />PS: By the way, it would be a pleasure to meet you in person if you catch your flicks somewhere in London. Keep writing!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com