Saw the remake of Wall Street (trailer) the other weekend. Oliver Stone is just re-making caricatures of his old movies. The original nailed both the zeitgeist of the late 80s and the mechanics of how people actually made money. The remake is a boring sort of drama that just happens to be loosely tied to a series of financial events that are in themselves only partially based on a number of conflated financial excesses. Everything is sloppy and pretty boring. They make Fed meetings look like something out of the Godfather and crazy old men are whistling like birds. Just sort of weird.
But, you know man, like, whatever, you know? My favorite line is the line from JP Morgan / Goldman CEO to Shia LeBeouf, after he has flown on a helicopter to upstate New York to meet his boss and race motorcycles on an old country road: "Look, there is no emotion in the mentor-mentee relationship!." I've taken to screaming that at my roommate whenever I see him.
your wit and humor cease to amaze me big brother
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