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Posted: Apr 28 2009 10:02 pm

I was just checking some stocks on the Hollywood Stock Exchange online game and saw that a sequel to Wall Street is in the works. Does this movie really need a sequel? I mean is Hollywood so out of ideas they need to make a sequel to this? I mean I loved the original but is this necessary? I suppose it could deal with the current economy and cover issues like that but why can't they just make a new movie with those ideas instead of making a sequel to a movie that really does not need one?

http://movies.hsx.com/servlet/SecurityDetail?symbol=WALS2

Posted: May 10 2009 03:17 am

I picked up Wall Street last Thursday and thoroughly enjoyed it. After seeing it I can see your point about how a sequel is pointless. Confused

Posted: May 10 2009 04:01 am

Blackout wrote:

I picked up Wall Street last Thursday and thoroughly enjoyed it. After seeing it I can see your point about how a sequel is pointless. Confused

Well I looked it up on IMBd and they are not calling it "Wall Street 2" but "Money Never Sleeps"(Wall Street 2 as far as I am concerned) and Michael Douglas is rumored to be playing Gordon Gekko in it. I am willing to let this slide if they do it correctly. The current state of the economy and Wall Street could make for a good movie and putting Gekko into it might show exactly how greedy people on Wall Street and big corporations really are.

What scares me is that this movie, regardless of what they call it, is in most likelihood going to happen. The current subject matter and Michael Douglas are enough to make me see it...but Shia LaBeouf!? I wish I was joking. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1027718/ With him in you can invest all your money on Anacott Steel that this is unfortunately going to happen.

Shia LaBeouf...are you fucking serious!? He is like the "Kiss of Death" to a franchise...Transformers, Indiana Jones and now Wall Street?

Damien is definitely not the name of the son of Satan...it is Shia, Shia LaBeouf to be more exact.

Posted: May 10 2009 06:48 am

This was announced like 2 or 3 years ago. I'm sure it would have been a hit if it had come out when Bush was in office.

Posted: May 10 2009 10:13 pm

Syd Lexia wrote:

This was announced like 2 or 3 years ago. I'm sure it would have been a hit if it had come out when Bush was in office.

I think the concept is pretty good and I agree that it would probably done well if it came out last year at some point. I enjoyed the original movie and liked how it showed the aggressiveness of Wall Street and so on. It would be interesting to see what tactics these investors in the new movie would use. Like a side by side comparison of how Wall Street has changed and things like that.

Joined: Aug 26 2007 Posts: 2752

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall_Street_(film)

No offense, but this is really obscure to me. Seriously . . . Hollywood is out of ideas, Icewarm. It has been for the past decade and the only good stuff that has come out was either a comic book movie, a sequel or both . . . and i use the word 'good' sparingly.

Joined: May 13 2009 Location: lowell, ma Posts: 289

this is a great movie that needs no sequel nevermind a sequel over 20 years later. seriously are there any movies with sequels that far between that were any good?
i actually am curious about that.

Posted: May 14 2009 09:20 pm

blkplaguelmc wrote:

this is a great movie that needs no sequel nevermind a sequel over 20 years later. seriously are there any movies with sequels that far between that were any good?
i actually am curious about that.

I read that people in Hollywood are working on a Short Circuit remake. Sad

Joined: May 13 2009 Location: lowell, ma Posts: 289

IceWarm wrote:

blkplaguelmc wrote:

this is a great movie that needs no sequel nevermind a sequel over 20 years later. seriously are there any movies with sequels that far between that were any good?
i actually am curious about that.

I read that people in Hollywood are working on a Short Circuit remake. Sad

yea i heard about that one. whats next leonard part 7?

Posted: May 16 2009 10:35 pm

blkplaguelmc wrote:

yea i heard about that one. whats next leonard part 7?

I fucking hope not.

Posted: Sep 23 2009 10:59 am

First Look: Michael Douglas in Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps :
http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/09/23/first-look-michael-douglas-in-wall-street-2-money-never-sleeps/

Joined: May 22 2008 Location: Goshen, VA Posts: 6544

Meh. Of all the movies about Yuppies, why would they give this a sequel? I would rather see a "St. Elmo's Fire" or "Secret of my Success" sequel.

Seriously.

Joined: May 13 2009 Location: lowell, ma Posts: 289

Wow from what the IMDB says, Charlie Sheen is actually going to be in this. Atleast they're bringing back the 2 main characters, but seriously what a fucking obscure sequel. Shia Labeouf is trying to destroy the 80s movie by movie.

Posted: Sep 23 2009 05:27 pm

I don't get the hate for Shia? You think if someone else was in his roles the movies would have been better? Indiana Jones would have been the same exact movie and Transformers still would have been a jumbled mess of CGI.

Also Rocky Balboa is probably my favorite sequel that had over a decade between them.

Joined: May 22 2008 Location: Goshen, VA Posts: 6544

Poor Mr. Labeouf is a scapegoat and all the fans of destroyed franchises are channeling hate towards him instead of toward more constructive places, like the people in charge of the movies.

I don't think he's a bad actor, hell he even made me laugh a bit on "Even Stevens". He's not extraordinary either, but it doesn't really affect me because I don't give a shit about Transformers in the first place so I didn't care how the movie turned out.

But if I hear one more boring little turd of a man talk about "ARGH LABEOUF MAKE MOVIES BAD" I am gonna start punching testicles. Leave the kid alone and go masturbate to pictures of Tony Romo's calf muscles.

Posted: Sep 24 2009 09:11 pm

Wall Street was sort of the child of the 80's, I don't know if its going to survive the transition.

Posted: Jan 28 2010 07:30 pm

Quote:

As the global economy teeters on the brink of disaster, a young Wall Street trader
partners with disgraced former Wall Street corporate raider Gordon Gekko on a two-tiered mission: To alert the financial community to the coming doom, and to find out who was responsible for the death of the young trader’s mentor.

http://www.beforethetrailer.com/2010/01/first-look-at-wall-street-2-starring-michael-douglas-josh-brolin-and-shia-lebeouf/

pics of the new movie.