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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.
margin call vs wall street
GO
http://www.youtube.com/embed/bklNWWoJyzE
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.
Absolutely loved trading spaces, who knew how easy trading commodities could be!
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 ??
Toughest poll to date
good to see Margin Call getting its fair due (though it may be only the quants voting for it), I just watched that again last night and it inspired me to make the poll
Not as finance focused as the others, but it's such a great film...had to select The Game.
Finance seemed to be so much more exciting back then.
Margin Call for sure. Love that movie.
I think the one person who picked Wall Street 2 should be banned.
I picked Margin Call since it's the most realistic finance movie. It also sends chills down my spine of how scary 2008 was after Lehman. While I loved Wall Street, it was a little too liberal and preachy for my taste.
This fucking guy: http://www.wallstreetoasis.com/user/82361
Proof: http://www.wallstreetoasis.com/node/147665/votes?page=3
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
We should have a bracket style tournament for this to name WSO's favorite WS movie.
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
I'm really surprised at the performance of Margin Call, too. I really enjoyed it, but I thought most Wall Street folks hated it. Shows what I know.
Props to the one person who picked Wall Street 2
Boiler room,
Tweeter, AJ Frost, Parker from Avatar and Riddick
i voted for stocks and blondes because im under the impression its a porno
Glengarry Glen Ross
Classic movie. WIll probably be boring for most college freshmen though ;)
American Psycho #1
Margin Call/Boiler Room/Glengarry Glen Ross/Wall Street are all awesome though.
Margin Call was amazing. Was not really into finance or exposed to the 2008 crash, but it really creates an appreciation for the gravity of what happened only a few years ago.
Barbarians at the Gate, it was definitely what got me interested in finance.
Margin Call places second.
Technically Limitlesss could have been on this list. That probably would place third for me.
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
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.
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.
Trading Places needs to get its due. One of the funniest movies either Eddie Murphy or Dan Aykroyd have ever done. Also, shout out to Jamie Lee Curtis for showing her boobies for the first time in that one.
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
@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.
Commanding Heights
Shocked at how few people chose Other Peoples Money. Perhaps the best in my mind.
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.
Wall Street is timeless. Michael Douglas in his prime and Charlie Sheen when he was actually "winning" and had yet to discover his tiger blood. That shit was polarizing and still is.
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.
where's get rich or die trying?
Top 3 poll next?
Margin Call was great; got my vote. There is also a good HBO dramatization of the Lehman Brothers collapse on youtube.
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
To those that voted for Wall Street 2 money never sleeps: "Hey, Paul!"
For me it all boils down to the business card conversation in American Psycho.
"That's 'bone.'"
Wall Street for sure the best movie of all time.. Gekko is the man
hmmm did I miss something.. how is Harold & Kumar a finance movie :S
hmmm did I miss something.. how is Harold & Kumar a finance movie :S
wouldnt really call the pursuit of happyness a finance movie but it is my favorite one ever..
Hey.. Where is my rez at Dorsia? :-) American Psycho - Wall Street hands down. BTW also the other are goods.
Why are people so obsessed with American Psycho??? Wall Street was good but Trading Places was my favourite - really nostalgic for me.
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