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A long rehash of MSNBC news
PostedOctober 10, 2010
jaime1
Initial movie was great.
This was was exactly like watching reruns of MSNBC Business news for the last decade. We all got screwed by the big bankers/investors and watching an overly long movie show us again that we all got screwed by the big bankers/investors makes for good news, not a good movie.
Michael Douglas was great as usual and one could easliy see from the beginning that his character Gordon Ghekko had not changed one bit since prison. Shia LeBouf's character as Jake .......if my daughter had brought this weasel home as a boyfriend/fiance I would have...nevermind. His character was trying to come across as the good innocent, but he was worse than Ghekko. At Least Ghekko boldly and proudly took advantage of you and smiled about it. Jake would quietly steal your all money, your family money, and everyone's money while pleading and whimpering how bad everyone else was and he was the only good guy. No sympathy for his character at all or any of them really. Just an overly long, rehash of adecade of bad news with an ending that showed we are all going to get screwed again.
This was was exactly like watching reruns of MSNBC Business news for the last decade. We all got screwed by the big bankers/investors and watching an overly long movie show us again that we all got screwed by the big bankers/investors makes for good news, not a good movie.
Michael Douglas was great as usual and one could easliy see from the beginning that his character Gordon Ghekko had not changed one bit since prison. Shia LeBouf's character as Jake .......if my daughter had brought this weasel home as a boyfriend/fiance I would have...nevermind. His character was trying to come across as the good innocent, but he was worse than Ghekko. At Least Ghekko boldly and proudly took advantage of you and smiled about it. Jake would quietly steal your all money, your family money, and everyone's money while pleading and whimpering how bad everyone else was and he was the only good guy. No sympathy for his character at all or any of them really. Just an overly long, rehash of adecade of bad news with an ending that showed we are all going to get screwed again.
No, I do not recommend this movie.
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Take Salt with a pinch of salt.....
PostedJuly 26, 2010
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Angelina looks great, startling good. So why is it that when the entire US intelligence service is on maximum alert to find her, Salt is able to totally escape any public recognition simply by dying her hair? Why is that Salt, on desperate run from a hot in pursuit CIA, can take a taxi and beat the entire CIA by 20 minutes to her own house? Why is the entirety of the US Presidential "secret" super secure and nuclear war center hideout 8 stories underground, guarded by one rent-a cop with a handgun? A suicide bomber blow himself up in a small hallway packed with people all of whom are killed ... except for Salt who has not a scratch.
The movie is entertaining but you are supposed to suspend all belief in reality when it comes to security, physics, time and geography for the sake of special effects. By movie's end the outcomes are totally predictable and increasingly ridiculous.
The movie is entertaining but you are supposed to suspend all belief in reality when it comes to security, physics, time and geography for the sake of special effects. By movie's end the outcomes are totally predictable and increasingly ridiculous.
No, I do not recommend this movie.
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