"The main thing about money, Bud, is that it makes you do things you don't want to do."

Wall Street 2, better known as Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, was the top-grossing film in the nation this past weekend.

The hero of the original Wall Street, Bud Fox, was torn between siding with the unionized "working man" or the corporate-raiding embodiment of capitalism. The sequel no longer even bothers with the question, its hero a trader fully invested in working within the system of finance as our savior. The ostentatiousness of the first Wall Street film was found in the characters' ideals. The ostentatiousness of the sequel is all [...]

Excellent. Now I don't have to see Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, due to this list of things that are bizarre and wrong in the film. Such as: "EVERYTHING ABOUT CAREY MULLIGAN'S BLOG! Haha, these were the best goofs. Like in one of the first scenes of the movie, Carey tells Shia that she has to go down to Washington for a week because the blog is relaunching, and 'the site goes down for 10 days starting tomorrow.' Shia comments about where lefties will get their news for 10 days or something. But that's now how website relaunches work! The site does not go down for 10 days. [...]