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Honestly, I wouldn’t have upgraded to the new WordPress if I knew how much it was not made for a little screen. On this thing that text box is about 6 inches across, making me feel all claustrophobic…
Aside from that, last week I watched Wall Street. Believe it or not, I’d never seen this one before. Though it is one of those bad people behaving badly while dressed in bad fashions, it otherwise good (and I shouldn’t really dismiss it for the fashions, as it is 22 years old).
Charlie Sheen is Bud Fox, a young fellow working the trenches of Wall Street (meaning calling people on the phone trying to get them to bite on his stock tips) who is impatient to become a mover and shaker and decides that the best way to do it is to jump in with the big man about town, Gordon “Greed is Good!” Gekko (with Michael Douglas in an Oscar winning performance that made Gekko into such a figure that some people (myself included) thought that he was a real person). Of course, Gekko is a ruthless bastard but he decides to give the young feller a chance to be as much of a ruthless bastard as he is.
Looking for angles to impress his new “mentor”, Bud gets torn between himself and loyalty to his father (Martin Sheen, oddly enough) on one side and loyalty to achieving his dreams and Gordon on the other… It’s all about insider trading, betrayal, what people will do for money and what a punk Gorden Gekko is.
Also featuring Daryl Hannah, James Karen and Hal Holbrook.