The return of Gordon Gekko - Money Never Sleeps

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darkswordsman17

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Shia Labeouf fail.

Ugh. Do not want. Then again, I don't really like the first one either (I'm not debating it being well made, I just don't like it, in large part because I don't like any of the characters).

I can't even stand Sarandon (get her daughter instead) and Sheen anymore. Josh Brolin would be a good fit for a movie like this though I think.

They did get the original director and plenty of the original cast, but I still just don't think this is going to be good. The original worked well and was perfect for the time, but with the state of things this is either going to get/seem too glib on the social commentary (to be fair that was what made the original, but there's a fine line that has to be tread, and Hollywood can't seem to figure out how to walk it much anymore).

They should have just hired Douglas, Pacino, and Alec Baldwin and had them be tycoons and giving monologues about it all the time.
 
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ultimatebob

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Wall Street is one of the great 80's classics... I REALLY hope that they don't screw this squeal up!
 
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Pocatello

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Is this a remake of the "Blue Brothers"? From the trailer, it sure looks that way, as someone mentioned.
 
ultimatebob

ultimatebob

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Pocatello said:
Is this a remake of the "Blue Brothers"? From the trailer, it sure looks that way, as someone mentioned.
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Ugh, now you're scaring me! Forget the new Star Wars movies or the new Indiana Jones movie... Blues Brothers 2000 was one of the worst 80's movie remakes in movie history!
 
Vic

Vic

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ultimatebob said:
Wall Street is one of the great 80's classics... I REALLY hope that they don't screw this squeal up!
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Did you watch the trailer?

The real irony here is that we are at the opposite end of the economic spectrum from 'Wall Street.' In the '80s, American companies were so undervalued in the stock market that an investment firm could quite easily buy one up on Wall Street and then liquidate its assets for a fat profit. Today, the exact opposite is true. That Oliver Stone could find reason to make a populist complaint about both situations is IMO not surprising.
 
JMapleton

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It's not a remake for those saying it is, it's a true sequel, thankfully.

The characters in the film would be terrible in a remake, but it's a sequel and seems like a decent one.
 
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darkswordsman17

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JMapleton said:
It's not a remake for those saying it is, it's a true sequel, thankfully.

The characters in the film would be terrible in a remake, but it's a sequel and seems like a decent one.
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I don't think anyone said it was a remake.

Unless you're talking about this:
ultimatebob said:
Ugh, now you're scaring me! Forget the new Star Wars movies or the new Indiana Jones movie... Blues Brothers 2000 was one of the worst 80's movie remakes in movie history!
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I don't think that was a remake.
 
Vic

Vic

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Gordon Gecko didn't go to jail at the end of Wall Street.
 
SSSnail

SSSnail

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Yeah, watch the movie again, something about an inadvertent recording of a conversation from a camcorder left on the table...
 
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