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I had the exact same experience with my mad German scientist colleague. I was like…be grateful this is not a Bollywood production and they aren’t singing and dancing in the rain in space!!
I trust that you guys don’t point out inaccuracies in finance related movies when watching them with your non-finance friends.
I basically don’t watch finance movies, much less with other people.
I know he was rescued at the end but I dunno how…and what happens to those pirates.
^ Fair enough, I won’t ruin it for you.
It’s funny you mention this as I was thinking about this when trying to fall asleep last night, specifically with regard to how no one knows what Shia’s job really was in Wall Street 2. I suppose the difference is that 1) talking during the movie is still douchey, 2) the problem with Wall Street 2 is that it’s a crappy movie, that it got stuff wrong is just extra (Wall Street 1 got stuff wrong too, but that doesn’t make it a bad movie), 3) the Wall Street movies are as much about conveying Oliver Stone’s message about the financial industry as they are about entertainment. to the extent that the message is to having meaning it has to be realistic. Gravity’s theme is about not giving up. The message isn’t about how one missile strike in space could destroy everything in Earth orbit. I don’t mind things not being true if they enhance the theme, plot, or characters.
Is there such a thing? Other than “Boiler Room” and “Wall Street”?
Edit - and of course, “Trading Places”
^ How many movies are there about missiles blowing up in space and destroying everything in Earth orbit?
Other finance-related movies, excluding documentaries:
The Bonfire of the Vanities
Other People’s Money
Barbarians at the Gate
Rogue Trader
Margin Call
Too Big to Fail
Quicksilver
Tom Hanks is:
a) stuck on an island
b) stuck in an airport terminal
c) stuck in space
d) stuck on a boat
e) all of the above
There’s that other movie where Tom Hanks plays a mentally handicapped man who is taken advantage of by a drug addicted woman and possibly infected with AIDS.
From a comment on Youtube:
“So basically Tom Hanks graduates from college and joins the space program to be an astronaut, but then he gets stuck in space, then he gets rescued, but his ship fails to land in the correct place, landing in remote waters next to a remote island and he’s stuck on that island, then he goes out to the sea to escape and then he’s found by a large cargo ship and drops his space travel career and eventually becomes the captain of that ship.”
You forgot where it all started: Stuck living in a hotel for women.
i heard it was an oscar winning performance
Hum? Which movie is that?
He won two oscars for his outstanding performances: one for Forrest Gump and one for Philadelfia.
Not a movie, a sitcom called Bosom Buddies. It not only introduced us to Mr. Hanks, but also to the lovely Donna Dixon.
Rogue Trader and Margin call were good.
Or a child stuck in a grown man’s body