Posts Tagged: Oliver Stone
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Gordon Gekko Starting To Sound A Bit Like An Angry Livejournaler

"Money's the bitch that never sleeps. And she's jealous." -One of the Gordon Gekko quotes from Oliver Stone's long-simmering Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, which premiered this morning in Cannes. It seems to lack the punch of "Greed is good," doesn't it? (Other bon mots de Gekko: "You're all pretty much fucked"; "While I was away, it seemed like greed got greedier." Oh-ho, a sequel line! Eh.) The movie apparently has Shia LeBoeuf as the kid enticed to work for a "Goldman Sachs-like firm" who might one day have Gordon as a father-in-law; there is also a cameo by Vanity Fair head guy Graydon Carter, which I am going [...]

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"Wall Street 2" Trailer

I kind of feel like the last really great movie Oliver Stone had a hand in was Salvador, and the odds are that I'm not going to see Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps, but I have to give it to him: This is a pretty kickass trailer. Or at least the parts without Shia LaBoeuf in it.