What's your favorite Finance-related movie?

What's your favorite Finance-related movie?

American Psycho
20% (226 votes)
A Good Year
1% (8 votes)
Barbarians at the Gate
2% (26 votes)
Boiler Room
4% (51 votes)
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room 
3% (38 votes)
Glengarry Glen Ross
1% (13 votes)
Harold and Kumar
5% (55 votes)
Inside Job
3% (32 votes)
Margin Call
19% (218 votes)
Other People's Money
0% (3 votes)
Pursuit of Happyness 
6% (73 votes)
Rogue Trader
1% (10 votes)
The Family Man
2% (19 votes)
The Game 
1% (14 votes)
Stocks and Blondes
0% (5 votes)
Trading Places
4% (41 votes)
Wall Street
24% (272 votes)
Wall Street 2
3% (34 votes)
Total votes: 1138
 

Just to let you know, this was one of the hardest polls for me to take part in, so many good films, but i had to choose, and i am going with Wall Street.

"Well, you know, I was a human being before I became a businessman." -- George Soros
 

Boiler room all the way...mostly because the setting was a near replica of my first job's office. The ending was also really good. Wall Street felt cheesy and exaggerated ...something made for people outside of finance.

Trading places was another very awesome movie though most kids today will have never even heard of it.

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Ahhhh so many great movies !!! Im battling between barbarians at the gate, boiler room, The smartest guys in the room, margin call and inside job...

Im voting for the Enron movie... Each time I watch this film im shocked at the amount of market manipulation done by the enron traders (they shut-down power plants to create power outages and increase spot prices), the "mark-to-market" accounting, the asian dude and his stripper wife, the blatant lies of the CEO... how could this even be real ??

 
Im voting for the Enron movie... Each time I watch this film im shocked at the amount of market manipulation done by the enron traders (they shut-down power plants to create power outages and increase spot prices), the "mark-to-market" accounting, the asian dude and his stripper wife, the blatant lies of the CEO... how could this even be real ??

Finance seemed to be so much more exciting back then.

 
Nouveau Richie][quote=ginNtonic:
I think the one person who picked Wall Street 2 should be banned.
duffmt6:
Props to the one person who picked Wall Street 2

This fucking guy: http://www.wallstreetoasis.com/user/82361

Proof: http://www.wallstreetoasis.com/node/147665/votes?page=3[/quote]

Everything about this pleases me... The dutch, drunkard, lawyer voting for WS 2... I am very pleased.

 

Tough Poll. American Psycho just purely for the quotes.

Quoting American Psycho with someone kicks off the "did we just become best friends?" scene in Step Brothers.

Lets see Paul Allen's vote

I'm like one of them marriage counselors. Charge by the hour to tell some fool he needa bring some flowers home. Then charge another hour telling the bitch she oughta suck some cock every little once in a while. Keep a marriage strong like that. -Prop Joe
 

So, sooooo, difficult to choose. Especially because Wall Street was a huge part of the reason I wanted to get into the business. Ultimately, though, I had to go with A Good Year because it has come to symbolize everything I learned over my years in finance. And that is simply that a good wine, a hot chick, and doing whatever the fuck you want is ultimately better than selling the remainder of your life for tens of millions of dollars.

Gotta be the worst poll ever. We need one for the top three, maybe. lol

 

Props to the one person who picked Wall Street 2

"For I am a sinner in the hands of an angry God. Bloody Mary full of vodka, blessed are you among cocktails. Pray for me now and at the hour of my death, which I hope is soon. Amen."
 

i voted 4 Wall St 2 cause shia is pure BALLER

hes a great actor and cool person, surely he pulls mad tail, prob even a better trader that some of the HF guys on WSO, he learned how 2 trade preppin for WS2 and made like 300% return

 
ThaVanBurenBoyz:
By the way, if you haven't seen The Game, definitely check it out. Little known film with Michael Douglas and Sean Penn. Picture Gordon Gekko in a psychological thriller, getting mind fucked.

http://www.youtube.com/embed/0kqQNBR09Rc

How have I never heard of this? Immediate netflix queue.

Life is short. Find what you want, and take it.
 
historiclegend:
Yea The Game is probably the best movie on the list. Had hooked the whole time. I don't remember it being finance related though..? He was rich and that's it.
He managed a large fund, pension if I'm not mistaken
Get busy living
 
UFOinsider:
historiclegend:
Yea The Game is probably the best movie on the list. Had hooked the whole time. I don't remember it being finance related though..? He was rich and that's it.
He managed a large fund, pension if I'm not mistaken
The only clues we're given about his job is that he calls himself an investment banker, and that he "moves money from one place to another."
 

I never really enjoyed Trading Places after seeing the large price movements in OJ. You can be funny and get things wrong, but that large price movement always irked me.

Other People's Money really needs to get its due. I think it is a must see film. It has some minor problems and isn't entirely realistic, but it is pretty funny and has a speech that is better than 'Greed is Good' in Wall Street. I posted a high quality link.

www.putlocker.com/file/AC3AA6A1C2D67F3D

"Greed, in all of its forms; greed for life, for money, for love, for knowledge has marked the upward surge of mankind. And greed, you mark my words, will not only save Teldar Paper, but that other malfunctioning corporation called the USA."
 

@Gekko Back in the day, FCOJ was extremely thinly traded, so it was given to huge intra-day moves if there was any imbalance on either side. I was actually kinda impressed that the Trading Places folks concentrated on OJ (no pun intended), because really only insiders knew about the volatility.

You have to remember that this was 1983 when everything was still open outcry and the scalpers ruled the day.

 

Margin Call was horrible! Everything about it was so fake. It looked like it was written by an occupy wall street protestor

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1man2nv:
Margin Call was horrible! Everything about it was so fake. It looked like it was written by an occupy wall street protestor

Huh, I didn't get that at all. I don't think there was anything remotely anti-capitalist or even anti-finance. I thought it was the most realistic of all of the finance movies I've seen. But I'm an corp fin guy, so I'm not too experienced on the S&T side.

 
ginNtonic:
1man2nv:
Margin Call was horrible! Everything about it was so fake. It looked like it was written by an occupy wall street protestor

Huh, I didn't get that at all. I don't think there was anything remotely anti-capitalist or even anti-finance. I thought it was the most realistic of all of the finance movies I've seen. But I'm an corp fin guy, so I'm not too experienced on the S&T side.

Im just saying I don't know many people in our business that go around saying they get paid too much to do nothing that provides value, remember that scene?

Wall Street 1 is definitely the best.

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I still haven't seen Margin Call, but I am looking forward to it! Wall Street is a classic, but how come no one really likes the second one, "Wall Street Money Never Sleeps?" I thought it was pretty good and I'm actually hoping for a third one.

Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.
 

Margin Call was great; got my vote. There is also a good HBO dramatization of the Lehman Brothers collapse on youtube.

The difference between successful people and others is largely a habit - a controlled habit of doing every task better, faster and more efficiently.
 

I like how people pick Wall Street and Margin Call as their favorite finance movies being that Oliver Stone who directed the movie is a flaming liberal and meant the movie to be a knock on finance as opposed to glorifying the industry. Also Margin Call with Kevin Spacey who is also a damn communist made the movie to show the industry in a negative light as opposed to trying to document the 2008 crash.

 
Texsun:
I like how people pick Wall Street and Margin Call as their favorite finance movies being that Oliver Stone who directed the movie is a flaming liberal and meant the movie to be a knock on finance as opposed to glorifying the industry. Also Margin Call with Kevin Spacey who is also a damn communist made the movie to show the industry in a negative light as opposed to trying to document the 2008 crash.

I completely agree with you, even though I didn't know that about the director, but Margin Call in my opinion was the one that was clearly an F you to the industry, wall street didn't do that as bad

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