'Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps' - High-Def Digest Review

[Attebery]

Say what you will about Oliver Stone, but his movies are never boring! Aaron has reviewed 'Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps,' which he says takes a few misteps, but still makes for some fascinating viewing. This Blu-ray features stellar video, great audio, and tons of extras, many of them HD exclusives. Recommended.

Full review here:
http://bluray.highdefdigest.com/4311/ws_sleeps.html

[DeanWG]

Something tells me this is from another review:

Real Life Firemen: Real Life Stories (SD, 9 min.) – A short sit-down with the firefighters of Santa Clarita's Station 73. They discuss some of their personal stories about being firemen and what it means to them.

I take it Backdraft is up next??

[paaron46]

Something tells me this is from another review:



I take it Backdraft is up next??

Whoops! HA! Yeah I have an HTML template that I continuously use to plug in the info for each review. Looks like right after I did 'Backdraft' in the HTML, I ended up forgetting to delete that one portion.

EDIT: It's been corrected.

[Attebery]

EDIT: It's been corrected.

How did I miss that?! Eyes must be fried!

[paaron46]

How did I miss that?! Eyes must be fried!

Too much Christmas fudge has been known to cause bad eye sight.

[damonous]

...you should know now what to expect from an Oliver Stone movie. They're certainly never boring!

Say what you will about Oliver Stone, but his movies are never boring! ...

Nice balanced review, Aaron.

While generally being a fan of Oliver Stone's work, myself, I do take issue with the "never boring" comment: Alexander is one horrible mess of a movie that I couldn't get through 30mins of on DVD. And I don't think A Super Ultimate Really Final Original Intent Director's Cut will ever help it.

--Which is really saying a lot, because I did enjoy Talk Radio and that was ... 1 guy talking for the whole movie.


Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps is something I'm definitely going to have to pick-up and re-watch on BD someday again. I'm in no real big hurry right now since the price is at 'Banker gouge level' most places. But, I am interested in seeing how this will 'feel' the 2nd time around. I saw it in the theater, and --while not considering it extraordinary as the original-- I did wonder if with the passing of time it may seem so (or less so).

It's definitely a different composition from the original; pretty smartly updated for our times. Again, Shia LeBeouf surprised me. Just as with Indiana Jones, where I thought he'd suck (in fact, he was one of the better parts of that disaster), Shia pulled out a good, engaging performance.

[cheez avenger]

Nice balanced review, Aaron.

While generally being a fan of Oliver Stone's work, myself, I do take issue with the "never boring" comment: Alexander is one horrible mess of a movie that I couldn't get through 30mins of on DVD. And I don't think A Super Ultimate Really Final Original Intent Director's Cut will ever help it.

--Which is really saying a lot, because I did enjoy Talk Radio and that was ... 1 guy talking for the whole movie.


Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps is something I'm definitely going to have to pick-up and re-watch on BD someday again. I'm in no real big hurry right now since the price is at 'Banker gouge level' most places. But, I am interested in seeing how this will 'feel' the 2nd time around. I saw it in the theater, and --while not considering it extraordinary as the original-- I did wonder if with the passing of time it may seem so (or less so).

It's definitely a different composition from the original; pretty smartly updated for our times. Again, Shia LeBeouf surprised me. Just as with Indiana Jones, where I thought he'd suck (in fact, he was one of the better parts of that disaster), Shia pulled out a good, engaging performance.

It actually does. The beginning is the epic battle, I think. He totally recut the film.

[VincentVinyl]

I did expect the movie to get 2 stars and am very surprised: In Germany I only read reviews which universally despised this movie saying it was meaningless and too glossy and never as smart and relevant as the first part.

[cheez avenger]

I did expect the movie to get 2 stars and am very surprised: In Germany I only read reviews which universally despised this movie saying it was meaningless and too glossy and never as smart and relevant as the first part.

Maybe "universally" despised in GERMANY, but not the rest of the world.
;-)

[VincentVinyl]

Yeah, maybe I don´t know. It got awful reviews everywhere over here so I thought it also got bad reviews in the US.

Metacritic gives it 59 out of hundred, so not really good, but not extremely bad either. At Rotten Tomatoes it is rotten and has a rating of 54 % with critics and a bit worse with audienced (46 %).

So still surprising the reviewer her rated it that high, but I see it was not bashed as much as over here.

[paaron46]

Yeah, maybe I don´t know. It got awful reviews everywhere over here so I thought it also got bad reviews in the US.

Metacritic gives it 59 out of hundred, so not really good, but not extremely bad either. At Rotten Tomatoes it is rotten and has a rating of 54 % with critics and a bit worse with audienced (46 %).

So still surprising the reviewer her rated it that high, but I see it was not bashed as much as over here.

I liked the movie more than the majority of reviewers. I have a personal affinity towards Stone ('JFK' is one of my favorite movies of all-time) so I'm a bit biased. I think a lot of people/critics were turned off because of Stone's silly directorial choices in the movie that seem way out of place like the diagrams about how fusion energy works. Why do we need that? Ever? Still the movie is solid, the performances are great, and the story is very telling about our financial world. Sure it's fictional, but it works. That's why I liked it more than the rest of the critics out there.

[VincentVinyl]

@ Aaron

Ah, many thanks for the background information! I did not mean to doubt your opinion on the movie or so, just was wa bit surprised. So it is really nice to know what influenced your review and that you are a fan of Oliver Stone :-).

[AskTheDude]

Hey, long time lurker! I like this review but I have to advocate that if you aren't really financially literate a lot of important plot points get lost on you. having studied it in college i can affirm that the original movie Wall Street became a completely different movie after studying the subject matter. To quell any complaints without getting into too many details, the ending is indeed not happy at all, its one happy moment before everything gets really really bad. Ill explain more if anyone is interested.

[Elee s]

Should I watch the first one before seeing this?

[Attebery]

Should I watch the first one before seeing this?

It stands on it's own. Just rewatched it and enjoyed it the second time as well.

GREAT SOUNDTRACK!