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Banking At The Box Office
While some are already neck deep in Black Friday-eve shopping, we hope more than a few will be relaxing at home watching a movie, dozing in a tryptophanic trance... we suggest the following in preparation for tomorrow's markets...
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Nail Gunner
Banzai!
Queria te encontrar!
A post on blog commentators is unheard of!
Think carefully in case!
:-)
Off-topic:
Reasonable people do not distribute critical much less praise.
Reasonable people do not give "+" in their reviews.
Reasonable people do not like when some argument, counter-argue, dialogue.
Reasonable people do not write in sober blog.
hehe.
Hollywood.
Non tribe members need not apply.
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay.
POTUS, CONgress & SCOTUS have enabled a Crony Comrade Kapitalist (false capitalism) system whereby government & FRBNY pick winners & losers and create the present situation of non-capitalistic and BANKING-WALL STREET-INTELLIGENCE Complex that's led to a new Robber Baron era.
Unfuck the U.S.A. by any means necessary.
Sadly in Bladerunner the banksters and the NWO won.
Mediocre movie with a brilliant moment.
Planet of the Apes. The White House edition.
Jesus man, I almost choked on some Jello and grapes
Brilliant!
Imagine if you were eating a banana at the time...then it would have been a joke of cosmic proportions.
Real Estate / Bucket Shop: Glengarry Glen Ross
alec baldwin's finest cinematic moment, imo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCf46yHIzSo
Goldfinger
Die Hard with a Vengeance (3)
The day to day happenings on Wall Street are as divorced from reality as any movie. As Karl Rove once boasted - "We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality." That is surely true for the Fed. Trillions printed and yet bond yields at record lows, gold and silver and oil smashed - it's all a fantastic new reality. How can any movie compete with the demented exuberance of sham US markets?
I am disappointed that MONEY PIT was not mentioned on the list (Real Estate).
I am sure I am going to be laughing like that once trading starts tomorrow
Well played boys, well played.
Whatever you are "expecting" once trading start tomorrow - uh....well, let's just say it won't be what your're expecting.
It never is.
I feel slighted.
Betcha Lloyd Balnkfiend doesn't feel that way.
Or the Marx Brothers' Cocoanuts which is about the Florida swampland real estate boom of the 1920s.
Banking: the international
Godzilla....
What about the Janet Yellen bio pic Mrs Doubtfire?
We just finished Scrooge with Alastair Sim. Best version IMHO. In one part Scrooge takes over his old boss's business and one employee asks if he still has a job. He says yes but with less money. All summed up in one scene. Same as it ever was.
I'm not sure I agree with the hopefulness of Dickens. I can't see repentance nor redemption coming from our modern Scrooges. Just unbridled avarice never sated.
Miffed
Go easy on Scrooge as he was a hopeless misanthrope. He was not so much fixated on gaining more and more as maintaining what he had already acquired. These modern day Scrooges you speak of are psychopaths and will stop at nothing to gain everything. Unlike Scrooge, they will never be made to see the folly of their ways.
Yes, in some ways I can see him fitting in here quite well.
Miffed;-)
Margin Call was a lot better than I expected it to be.
Dont forget Margin Call.
Fantastic comment. What happens when all those hedged contracts enter margin calls?
I mean , do all those ships/barges full of unrefined crude get dumped on the markets to cover derivatives trades?
Let me guess, the oil will be rehypothecated 3X over like Chinese copper and German gold. LMFAO
If you can't create demand, just print MOAR oil and export it to bum fucked Egypt. This is what it's all about right? Just export your DEFLATION to the next guy.
New Energy Finance Thriller
Egypt, Land of the Bum Fucked Damned.
featuring the corpse of Dodi Fayed as the gay Goldman partner who saved the nation state from the Third Egyptian Spring, singing the ever famous "Where the Fuck's My Gold", dramatically portraying the spreading of Princess Diana's ashes being shot from a cannon directly at the constellation Orion as it settles gracefully one the Great Pyramid, celebrated with thousands of Talimook Sausage Treats raining from the skies, reminiscent of Moses' calling in of the Frogs, now in 3600 Panavision at your local IMAX for one night only on the inaugural birthday memorial celebration of president Kingboi's acceptance speech in front of a half-dozen Styrofoam Doric columns in Denver Colorado, land of free pot and cookies, on whatever the fuck the day was that nobody remembers anymore.
Ad nauseous
Hey, Zero Hedge, FUCK YOU!
Oh, wait; If you're not... hey, Knuckles, I don't fucking know. I've got a Doric Column for you. And I can read attic greek.
Do you want to go out and get some root beer and foot longs? We could hit the drive in theatre and see Clockwork Orange?
Last time I run my mouth with you, but you could be my power animal.
tyn gar sukoresin theso.
The Road
As far as documentaries go, "Inside Job" and "I.O.U.S.A." were both half-decent. Not much in the way of solutions, but good for opening muppet's eyes.
Dr. Zhivago
"The private life is dead. For at least a man with any manhood. History has killed it."
Broking?
Broking Back Mountain
you knew that was gonna happen, didn't you
Precious Metals:
Goldfinger
I saw a trailer a few years ago...
Some guy got MF globaled and he then decided to take it out on the
wall street scum that stole his $, it was just a preview,
but it looked like it had some rightious justice for the banker scum...
Did the movie ever get released if so what was its name...
Found it
Assault on Wall StreetIt was fun a "Rambo fucks up Wallstreet" deal. Not too deep on the concept front, but satisfying the way crunching potato chips is. No nutrition, still fun.
For your edification and delight, the MIC circular reference. Enjoy!
Moneyball for an interesting take on managing finances by the number instead of gut feel.
Don't forget my mostly highly recommended one for the trannies - Predestination.
Great film. it is based on an 11 page short story by Robert Heinlein, written in 1960.
Watched it last night, great take on Heinlein's story. Neat twist on the old grandfather paradox.
Thanks for this. I never read it and did a lot of Heinlein as a kid.
Predestination is recursive so it gets you to think. Recursive programming is fun.
The words of texts somehow trap meaning and soon the power that arises from those meanings will give birth through humans. At that point we become like the matter that grew into consciousness to know the Word and the word was with God and the Word was God.
And whatever those symbols mean doesn't really matter much because like some kind of predestination something really freakin weird is happening.
Mickey Mouse Potus: Money Never Sleeps
No thanks. They're all crap to me. Even "Die Hard" is overrated.
The scene with Robert Pattinson and Paul Giamatti in "Cosmopolis", comparing the rationality of the Forex market to an oldly-shaped prostate was an interesting analogy. I like David Cronenberg.
Gordon Gecko's Revenge: Bad Guys Always Win
There's also the last days of Lehman and it's not bad, but is like a B movie with all the bankers sitting around talking about sinking Dick Fuld.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uz5drVSwxig
Or I have some more documentary style videos grouped at the Killer Algorithms Page, some good stuff from PBS as well as You Tube and a few Ted Videos. Good one over there is the Tax Free Ride and also a couple others, one with Haim Bodek, former Goldman Banker with his HFT findings which are now starting to come out in the news so he's been a bit vindicated since this documentary was made. Just bookmark it if you want and I udpate and add more as I find them that fit the name of the "Killer Algorithms" as the title. Cathy O'Neill interview with PBS is great along with the roll of the eyes when asked about her exist interview from Larry Summers years ago with Larry Summers too.
http://www.ducknet.net/attack-of-the-killer-algorithms/
Man up for the ultimate weekend...
THREADS
Boiler Room, pretty good flick about pump and dump. They reference Glengarry Glen Ross, which is what got me to watch that great flick in the first place.
I also watched Wag the Dog for the first time the other night. I had no idea it was a documentary.
Frankly, a touch over four minutes with Monty Python is all that's required in order to grasp the essence of banking:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUhb0XII93I
And lastly for the Human Condition category, I recommend a relatively unknown movie called Idiocracy. It's got what plants crave, bitchez.