Letter 6 - Money Never Sleeps

Well folks,

do we have a movie to recommend to you! Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps was our weekly watch from last night. It almost rivaled "Inception", in fact I personally think they are on par with each other. I would highly recommend it, and if you are only going to see a handful of movies this year, I would definitely make it a priority on your list.

Wednesdays are a busy day at the movie theaters in the UK. One of our cell phone companies (Orange - a French company now merged with the Germans T-mobile I believe) has a deal with most theaters, where you text the word "Film" to the number 241 and they send you a code. With this code (as the number suggests) you get 2 cinema tickets for the price of one. Now if you've been paying attention, you will remember that we have those unlimited cinema cards. The thing about the cards, is that you don't just wave them and then go in. You still have to go to the cashier and get them swiped (like a credit card) and then they print off your ticket for you. Now here's the really cool thing... Our friend Jon (in the previous blog letter) has a cell phone plan with orange. He gets the code, comes to the cashier with us, and gets his ticket, as a 2-for-1 on our cards. No-one pays a penny. Sweet deal huh? (Technically we could have 2 people come with us for free if we had 2 people with the same code).

Anyway, I thought I would give a brief intro to that. So Wednesdays are quite busy, and it's the first week Wall Street has been out - so the place was packed. I was a little apprehensive about seeing the movie having never watched the original Wall Street. (It has since been added to my "Must watch" list). Michael Douglas, Shia LeBeouf, and the rest of the cast give pretty convincing performances. The plot itself - for me- is genius, based on the true events that have taken us into today's "credit crunch". Alyson found the plot quite infuriating, but solely because she gets quite mad most times when listening to things about the bail outs etc... Whilst the movie doesn't have any intense scenes that necessarily require the big screen to make them what they are - it was cool to see it in the theater. Unlike "Inception" - where I think if you watch it on a regular TV, you might possibly do it a bit of injustice. The only unfortunate part is that I now want a power suit like Gordon Gekko. In my opinion there are quite a few good vs. evil undertones.

Anyway, I thought that film deserved a blog entry, it was quite immense!