Oliver Stone’s Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps pictures

Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps is a reality, and here's the pictures to prove it. Michael Douglas and Shia Labeouf star in the sequel to the 1987 Oscar winning movie. Enjoy and we look forward to the movie.

Susan Sarandon joins Wall Street 2

Susan Sarandon has joined the cast of Wall Street 2, the sequel to the award winning original. She is set to play Shia LeBeouf's mom. This doesn't really come as a surprise, lady can act! She is in the upcoming The Lovely Bones and won an Oscar for Dead Man Walking.

The sequel is being written by Allan Loeb. Also cast so far are: Frank Langella and Michael Douglas, who will play the same character as the first film, Gordon Gekko. Oliver Stone is directing the film. Looks like they're pulling all the stops and hiring real actor chops. Looking forward to this.

Matt: "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" Review

"Transformers" came out two years ago and was one of the coolest movies I had seen in a long time. It had everything you could ask for in a summer blockbuster. It was filled with crazy special effects work, a simple yet strong story to keep it driving forward, an up-and-coming talented young star, and a beautiful love interest to keep the target demographics’ eyes on the screen when the action slowed down. Throw in that it was directed by action-movie wizard Michael Bay, and in the end you have yourself a respectable movie which made a lot of money.

"Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" is the film that basically takes that same formula and just tweaks each item around a little bit - just not correctly. Some of the special effects in this movie are just badass, plain and simple. There is one scene when Optimus Prime is fighting a gang of Decepticons on his own in a forest (and winning) which was just sooo freakin' cool to watch. It reminded me of the scene in Peter Jackson's "King Kong" when Kong takes on the Tyrannosaurus Rexes. Yes, it's that cool, if not cooler (because it's freakin' robots with freakin' laser beams!).

The only problem was that there weren’t enough cool, important fight scenes like this particular one (If you've seen it already, then you understand what I mean by important). And considering it comes pretty early in the movie, it makes all the other action sequences seem sub-par. I found myself not caring about why they were happening. There were just too many insignificant ones that had no value. Too much action does not equal too much cool. Too much action equals too much mundane insignificance.

The story starts out pretty good, if mildly confusing, at the beginning. It then starts developing some plot holes here and there (unexplained teleportation?) and becomes too over done.
About halfway through is when it starts getting to the point of "get on with it already." Mr. Bay can direct the hell out of an action sequence, but Lord knows he isn't a Scorsese when it comes to story telling (ahem... "Pearl Harbor").

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The story was also meant to have a kind of "a-ha!" moment toward the end, but after a visit from robot deities and pyramid conspiracies and other ridiculous happenings, it instead had me saying “I don't care."
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Mr. LaBeouf does a fine job this time around. The kid's greatly talented, and that's that. Megan Fox is in this film purely to be exploited eye candy. She's given a crappy line here and there which is usually just cheesy enough to keep female audiences from rioting at how she's depicted visually. There is something wrong when I tell other guys my opinion about the film - how I mostly disliked it - and all I hear back from them is "Yeah, but Megan Fox is hot, right?" That irks me. It should irk you, too.

Another thing this movie has working against it is the length. Holy crap. It's almost 3 hours long, and I blame it on all the slo-mo. If all the slow motion in "Revenge of the Fallen" had been normal speed, the movie would have probably been 45 minutes shorter. I mean seriously, do we need a slow motion shot of a Megan Fox facial reaction? It's ridiculous. Remember when Dave Chappelle had the "everything's cooler in slo-mo" skit? Yeah, well, it was supposed to be a joke, Mr. Bay. Dave Chappelle is a comedian who was making fun of exactly what's done in your films. I'm sure you love Dave as much as anyone else, but you don't have to be the one providing his energon; fueling his fire.

To wrap up, this movie had over done special effects, a stupid story, and ok acting. Worst of all, it just wouldn't end. I also thought it was racist, but I’m not getting into that one. And aside from ogling the pretty girls and slurping up the eye candy of some of the fights, the only other thing I enjoyed was Julie White as Sam's (Shia) mother. She was hilarious. Oh, and the always awesome John Turturro, of course.

Tony, I totally agree with you on this one.

Overall, this is a disappointing follow up to a great original. My movie-buff cousin Jen said it best: "It lacks soul," (and she isn't as harsh when grading movies like I am). People who think that you can’t have good acting, story, character, etc. in an action movie need only to watch “Iron Man.” It is far, far, far superior than this film. Unless you're a big Transformers fan, skip this movie. Otherwise, if you just want to see pure action for 2.5 hours, see it, but make sure to check your brain - and your heart - at the door.

Tony: Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Review

Oh my God. Oh... My... God. And none of that was meant in a positive light. What the? What the hell? What the? Give me one minute to gather my thoughts, I mean hatred, for this movie.

Ok I'm better now. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is obviously the sequel to the 2007 mega hit, Transformers. Michael Bay directed both films and the movies star Shia Labeouf and Megan Fox. Let me list all the positives to this movie, and then follow them with the negatives.

Positives:
More robots. There are so many more robots as eye candy, it's pretty stunning actually. Especially the new motorcycle Autobots.

Ok... annnnnd that's it. I'm all out of positives to this movie.

Negatives:
Story. The most absurd, ridiculous, unbelievable story I've ever seen. The first Transformers managed to charm and make us believe that robots could come down from the heavens to live among us. In this movie, the characters are all over the place! There's a fallen? What? A matrix in there too? What? And a pyramid conspiracy? What the flip man?!

Michael Bay. The movie will win one award this season... Michael Bay's worst movie ever. Previous winner: Bad Boys 2. The guy should direct action porno, and I'm not kidding. The movie focuses on Megan Fox and Isabel Lucas to the point of discomfort. Plus, he has never been a true story teller. Yes, he can direct the ish out of an action sequence, but he forgot something: action should only lend itself to the story, not become the focus of the movie. I've said it before and I'll say it again; The Dark Knight was masterful because it focused on the story between Batman and The Joker and used action to compliment that story.

Length. The movie is almost 2 hours, 45 minutes! What the hell? The F' for? That movie could have been condensed to 1 hour 30 minutes without losing much substance. I woke up late to a meeting cause of this ish.

Characters. The first movie made me care what happened to Shia's character, it made me care about the core group of Autobots. By the end of this movie, I could care less if any of them made it out alive or not. All the human characters do is scream and yell and run... period! All the robot characters, good or bad, just fight... period! The only bright spot of character: Julie White as Judy Witwicky, Shia's mom in the movie. She... is... hillarious! Lastly... the movie WAS racist with its depiction of "the twins" and the African-American employee at the deli. I don't want to get into all that, so I'm going to leave it alone.

The movie will live in infamy as the worst reviewed movie to ever make $400 million plus. Pretty amazing what our culture has come to categorize as a good movie. Man, what happened to Bay movies like The Rock! Story, action, comedy all in one. I hated this movie so much that it is seriously my mission from now, until it is out of theaters, to make sure I tell as many people as possible not to see it. If that comes about through this Blog, so be it. I hate, hate, hated this movie!