I was just in the real estate discussions talking about comparables. The Pursuit Of Happyness and The Wolf Of Wall Street are two of the best movies I can think of when comparing two different business styles on Wall Street. Pursuit went from bad to good while The Wolf went from good to bad......all the while both characters worked their butts off. The moral of this is that Wall Street is only as good as the personalities of the people who work there.
Personally I feel the Wall Street duology covers a lot on investment. But I feel Wolf of Wall Street is more about a fictitious scenario where the focus is not on stock markets or Wall Street but on the personal life of a man who takes his life for granted.
I have seen most of the Investment movies and the best ones off the top of my mind is "Wall Street", obviously cause that one's a classic and "Margin Call". I haven't seen "The Wolf of Wall Street" before but I heard some people say it was like porn.
The "original" Wall Street was a great one, with Michael Douglas acting like the dad of someone, but that always put the money ahead of anything else. It's a brutal world the Wall Street one...
Ya, and the second Wall Street: Money never sleeps sucks. I was really psyched about it when it first came out, but it wasn't really a finance movie; it was a romance film. No finance subjects or concepts were touched on other than a slight reference to the 2008 financial crisis.
I don't think that money never sleeps is that bad, sure, it's not a technical movie, but at the same time it shows an overall picture of how wall street works and how money rises higher than other values.
I haven't watched Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps yet, but I loved the old one, I guess I'll skip it if it's as bad as JadeDoo says. What did you like about it Gelsemium?
It was bad... it even got bad reviews. It never showed how the street worked. It showed a kid who liked motorcycles kid hit on Gecko's daughter. It didn't even show how Gecko made his money back in the end, he just stole his daughter's money and then next scene it was like I made lots of money now, fine I'll give what I stole back now since I have so much cash again.
The original Wall Street is truly a classic. I saw it for the first time in Grade 11 Economics because my teacher was too lazy to actually give us a lesson. I enjoyed it greatly, despite seeing the second one before the first one (saw the sequel in theatres but still prefer the first). Amazing movie.
