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pepperbear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-20-10 11:44 PM
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23 years after Oliver Stone's "Wall Street" was released...
...turns out Greed wasn't good after all.

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agent46 Donating Member (424 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-20-10 11:46 PM
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1. Got to admit
Stone nailed it. That was a prophetic film.
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Donnachaidh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-20-10 11:53 PM
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2. too bad we have banksters and government officials who still think greed is good.
They emulate Gordon Gecko.
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Dogmudgeon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-21-10 12:05 AM
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3. A sequel to *Wall Street* is due soon
A little Googling and you'll probably find out more about it than me.

--d!
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Hestia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-21-10 12:06 AM
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4. Did you know that Wall Street 2 is actually being filmed? Gots to fool the kiddies
who don't listen to their parents or grandparents - "what do they know?"
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girl gone mad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-21-10 12:08 AM
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5. I think they've already wrapped.
Early buzz is it's pretty good.
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Sen. Walter Sobchak Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-21-10 02:38 AM
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8. the teaser in theater is fucking great,
Edited on Sun Mar-21-10 02:41 AM by Sen. Walter Sobchak
Gekko off screen is standing at the release window of a federal prison and having his personal belongings returned to him, watch, wallet etc. and then an enormous 1980's cell phone. He then walks out the gate to a waiting limousine, except the limousine is waiting for a rapper and not him, the limousine pulls away and he realized he is forgotten.
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troubledamerican Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-21-10 11:03 PM
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11. Released date pushed to Autumn for Oscar territory. Released by Murdoch's FOX -- Why, Oliver?
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Double T Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-21-10 12:13 AM
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6. Yep. Greed isn't good and free market capitalism absolutely does not work.
Need a Part II to 'wall street' where all the CEOs, executive management and investors are found guilty of fraud, conspiracy and extortion and sent to the slammer for decades.
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provis99 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-21-10 12:21 AM
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7. huh? Of course greed is good.
Greed is right, greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Greed, in all of its forms; greed for life, for money, for love, knowledge has marked the upward surge of mankind.
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Liberal_in_LA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-21-10 02:39 AM
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9. +5
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upi402 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-21-10 02:47 AM
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10. and Ayn Rand was a twisted dolt, whose followers
need to be sentenced to life - hard labor... AFTER 100% confiscation of all their worldly possessions.
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Odin2005 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-21-10 11:17 PM
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12. And Gordon Gecko still rules Wall Street.
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