No one could have played Gecko better. Douglas was perfect. Looked and acted the part to a word.

I love that small moment from Hot Shots: Part Deux, where Charlie is on the boat, doing an interior monologue narration of the moment, when another boat passes by... this boat happens to feature Martin Sheen, reprising his role from Apocalypse Now. One of the finest moments in film history unfolded at this moment, and it was done with one line, being uttered by both Charlie and Martin... *I loved you in Wall Street*

@davidjames579

4 жыл бұрын

@Tuber They could call it Two Men

@Viking_Luchador

3 жыл бұрын

Topper's inner monologue was actually Sheen's own narration from Platoon

I love Michael Douglas I think he was at his best when he starred in the movie falling down

@cougarhunter33

4 жыл бұрын

FIVE!

@TimTkachyk

4 жыл бұрын

@EERIE ERIC Falling down is a great one!

@rebeccasmith8119

3 жыл бұрын

Is that you , Michael Douglas

@Viking_Luchador

3 жыл бұрын

shocking that not only was Wall Street his only Acting Oscar win, it was his only nomination! My personal pick for his best performance? Traffic

@joshjnp8900

2 жыл бұрын

Traffic and The Game he was at his finest hour

I think Wall Street is in my top ten favorites of ALL TIME, I could watch this one a thousand times.

One of my favourite 80’s movies 🤘🏽🤘🏽

A good movie it captured the decadence of the 80s perfectly. Solid story & well acted by the leads. Classic song during the end credits by one of the greatest bands ever..The Talking Heads. “ This must be the place.”

This movie definitely defined the '80s. The best decade in history.

@Tom_Van_Zandt

4 жыл бұрын

Best decade in history? I think the 1370's might disagree...

@davidnievesjr.9478

4 жыл бұрын

@@Tom_Van_Zandt Hahaha!!!

I also think that Daryll Hannah did an OK job. Her character is not necessarily nasty, just scared of losing everything.

Martin Sheen was fantastic as Bud's father. At times I think it turned into real life arguments between the two (maybe I wrong) or there was major improvs.. "I dont judge a man by the size of his WALLET!"

@NemeanLion-

4 жыл бұрын

The chemistry between the two was irrefutable. You can see it when they both cry right after Martin Sheen has the heart attack.

@LiveINtheGood53

4 жыл бұрын

Martin Sheen and Michael Douglas teamed up together 10 years later in a good movie called The American President.

@jamesramsay867

Жыл бұрын

Read somewhere that the inspiration for the delivery of that line came from George C Scott in The Hustler. "Eddie, you owe me MONEY!"

Former police drummer turned composer Stewart Copeland composed the score for Wall Street with the use of the Fairlight CMI, the same musical instrument that Copeland used in the classic TV series The Equalizer.

This movie was great! Michael Douglas richly deserved the Academy Award for Best Actor that year. Charlie Sheen did an amazing job as well.

@larsnilsson8949

Жыл бұрын

Yes, Michael Douglas deserved that Academy Award, but he did not only play the role of Gordon Gekko, he was Gordon Gekko.

Both Terence Stamp and Martin Sheen were fabulous supporting actors in this film. I don't remember Daryl Hannah giving a bad performance but then again I haven't seen this in years.

The Star Trek "Communicator" is exactly just that. A two band transmitting device. Not a phone of any kind. It's only function was to communicate back and forth via radio wave, much like a CB radio works. (that we know of. It is Star Trek, a fictional show.) It wasn't "Dial" a number to the person you wanted to talk to, it was an open band to anyone. They had to call them by name openly. Kirk could call out to Bones just as he could call out to the ships janitor... It's more of a CB than a phone. Even if it was the inspiration for Motorola's first flip phone.

@rif42

4 жыл бұрын

Indeed a walkie-talkie.

@Viking_Luchador

3 жыл бұрын

wow, I didn't know luchadores were so versed in Star Trek tech

@jimwinchester339

Жыл бұрын

You're absolutely correct. See my independent comment above about the James Bond car phone vs. a true public cellular network.

IVE ONLY SEEN IT 50 TIMES, ITS ONE OF THE BEST ALL TIME MOVIES EVER!!!

This movie is a master piece it was made a year before I was born and to this day is one of top movies of all times

A great movie, that really captures the 80s and bleeds in to today

Waking up and seeing there's a new video from you makes my morning. Thank you for the awesome, consistent content!

@nicktubara

4 жыл бұрын

Best screenname ever by far, shitty 80s movies are LYFE 😁

Gordon Gecko gets that very same brick phone at the beginning of the Wall Street sequel 'Money Never Sleeps', when he's being released from jail.

Michael Douglas was at his best in this. I remember Wall Street coming out, but I had no interest back then as a young lad. However I saw this years later and it is one of the greatest films ever made. Perfectly cast and a movie that defines the 80’s. Basic instinct review please Minty.

I guess Charlie Sheen & Sean Young reconciled as Young later appeared in a few episodes of 'Two and a half Men'.

The "Greed is Good" speech came from a speech Kirk Douglas gave in graduation 🎓 that "Knowledge is Good". That's what Kirk Douglas said in his autobiography. ✌️

"I once said that 'Greed is Good.' Not only is it good, but it's apparently legal."

@andrewgrove1691

4 жыл бұрын

Yup

@toddkorson6390

4 жыл бұрын

How could it be illegal?

@jamesgarrett8833

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah I too once said “Greed is good. Not only is it good, but it’s apparently legal.” I said it in my economics class back in my senior year of high school

@frankschneider6156

4 жыл бұрын

@@jamesgarrett8833 Then you should know, a guy called Adam Smith and that our society is completely build upon greed, which is why it works. Take that away and civilization will crumble. There is a reason, why communism always ends in people being poor and impoverished.

I was hoping you would reference the "Challenger" quote, but there is one problem with the entire statement in the film. WHAT NASA STOCK? NASA is a government agency NOT a stock trading or money making company.

@grhinson

4 жыл бұрын

NASA stock refers to companies related to NASA as a Industry...like Boeing Rocketdyne etc....

@davidfrederick6003

4 жыл бұрын

@@grhinson "Selling NASA stock short" it should have been scripted about related companies. Instead it sounds like an error

@tsbirthdeath

4 жыл бұрын

NASA makes billions a year. Look up channels DITRH, Eric Dubay, Jeranism, TETs Truth and more to see. They are CROOKS

@seymoresaymore

4 жыл бұрын

^You'll need to do better than name some flattard channels.

@Komagb

4 жыл бұрын

They know that, it was on purpose. The joke works even better that way. It's like telling a joke that a son shorted stock in his dad after his mom threatened to divorce his dad - of course it's impossible and makes no sense, but the joke is just to point out how heartless and cutthroat the guy it when it comes to any chance to make a quick killing in the markets.

At timestamp 8:49 Tom Cruise is passed up by Oliver Stone for the part and Charlie Sheen gets it. Cruise one year earlier played in Top Gun. Ironically, Charlie Sheen would later on parody Tom Cruise with the movie Hot Shots!

@VanielDeeform

4 жыл бұрын

LaGaspa McDougle Was thinking the same thing :)

@frankschneider6156

4 жыл бұрын

I guess the best parody of Tom cruise is still Tom Cruise.

@John572d4

2 жыл бұрын

Passed up? The word was that TC declined it.

Love to see you do the 80's classic... The Last Dragon :D

@blackmanjrpg17

4 жыл бұрын

I wanna know where the "Kiss my Converses" line was thought up😇

@Nick_Nightingale

4 жыл бұрын

Haha you beat me to it. 😉

That’s not the only problem: you can’t short “NASA stock” as it’s a government agency and not publicly traded.

"Greed is good..." And so is this particular channel.

Would enjoy a video about Romancing The Stone now that ya mention it

Basically, be careful what heroes you look up to. Because you never know when they'll turn into the villain.

Lethal Weapon featured a cell phone and was released before Wall Street.

@jamesgarrett8833

4 жыл бұрын

gutspraygore yes are 100% Lethal Weapon came out March 6, 1987 and Wall Street came out December 11, 1987. That’s makes Lethal Weapon the first movie 🎥 to show a real cell phone

@andrewkonopasek6609

4 жыл бұрын

To live and let die James bund talks on a car phone after arriving in New York

@NemeanLion-

4 жыл бұрын

Andrew Konopasek It wasn’t real.

@NemeanLion-

4 жыл бұрын

James Garrett That’s classified as a mobile phone, not a cell phone.

@jamesgarrett8833

4 жыл бұрын

NemeanLion Mobile phone, cell phone 📱. Its the same thing. Things have more than one name as proven by a big book called the dictionary. Like policemen 👮‍♂️. You can called that or called them cop, officer and even law enforcer

Very well done, my friend. I always enjoy your videos, but this one was especially insightful and full of tidbits that I had never heard before about one of my favorite movies from the 80's. Please keep the outstanding videos coming and God bless you, my friend!

Michael Douglas as Gordon Gecko was one of movies' greatest characters.

GECKO: Greed, for the lack of better word, is good. ME: Well, I say ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONGS TO US!

@digsbious

4 жыл бұрын

You have no chance to survive make your time

@JW...-oj5iw

4 жыл бұрын

Makes all of zero sense.

@TheRealNormanBates

4 жыл бұрын

J W just google it.

@JW...-oj5iw

4 жыл бұрын

@@TheRealNormanBates ... Google: ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONGS TO US ? OK.

@TheRealNormanBates

4 жыл бұрын

J W yup! It’s from some Japanese video game for the PS1. Someone even did a video with the audio clips.

About the mobile phone: watch Jackie Chans "Police Story", released in 1985 - the bad guy uses a mobile phone.

@jamesgarrett8833

4 жыл бұрын

Well Kurt Denter not saying your wrong. I just wanted to let you know some people may tell you the first movie to uses a mobile phone was 1928 movie, “The Circus” because there is a scene were a woman is walking down the street holding a device to her ear and she is talking into it. I am not saying it’s true it’s what conspiracy theorists are saying. If you ask me, the woman is holding her hearing aid which were pretty big the 1920s and there were no cellular networks too that existed in the 1920s

@NemeanLion-

4 жыл бұрын

Is that a “cell phone” though? If it has a cord attached to a battery base, then it’s a mobile phone.

@LiveINtheGood53

4 жыл бұрын

Talking about the Cell Phone scene on the beach... I believe that was a sunrise, not sunset Minty.

@rickc2102

4 жыл бұрын

@@NemeanLion- all mobiles are cell phones; "cell" refers to the device the phone communicates with wirelessly. The only cellular phones that aren't mobiles are car phones, another thing of the past

@jlohre

4 жыл бұрын

Even Lethal Weapon had a cell phone and it was released 6+ months ahead of Wallstreet

Wall Street is basically the same premise as Oliver Stone's previous movie Scarface. A nobody rising through the ranks by making a deal with the devil and when he has a moment of self-righteousness that pisses off the devil he quickly loses everything.

@davidjames579

4 жыл бұрын

Well observed

Perry White had a phone in his car in the first season of Adventures of Superman back in 1952.

What no mention of the second Wall Street. Also a good comedy part would have been with Hot Shots part Deux. When Martin Sheen and Charlie Sheen go I love you in Wall Street. Lol I always enjoy your minty comedic arts.

@gregmusto3336

4 жыл бұрын

Emri Silvasi I was hoping he was going to mention it!

In Lethal Weapon (released in March 1987)Danny Glover's character used a portable "bag" style cellular phone. It was the predecessor to the phone Michael Douglas used. I knew someone who had them both when they came out..

Love your stuff Minty. It like 5 30 am here, Look forward to your vids. Have a good day and dont ever change.

Great episode . One thing . In 1984 “Sixteen Candles” featured a cell/Mobil phone . Good stuff .Thanks! Ps. I enjoy the channel Homes ! Thanks for covering The Wraith !

There was a funny reference to this movie in Hot Shots Part Deux. Topper (Charlie Sheen) is riding on a boat while writing in a journal and resightng his inner monologue from Platoon. Meanwhile, Martin Sheen doing the same thing on another boat while doing his Apocalypse Now speech. As they boast pass by, the two look at each other and say "I loved you in 'Wall Street."

@sirfriendzone1228

4 жыл бұрын

One of my favorite moments in any movie ever.

Hannah was good in Roxanne, but not so great in this one. You could tell she didn't have her heart in it. But she was great in Kill Bill, so I'm glad she got her comeback opportunity.

Awesome review, Minty! Love this movie, it was definitely a decade defining film!! One that still rings true today! Lol, well it's incredibly amusing to know that there are many real life "Gordon Geckos", out there, lol! Oh, you forgot to mention the sequel.

I appreciate it when movies bring real life insiders or historians on set for writing and direction. It makes such a big difference in the final product.

@Tom_Van_Zandt

4 жыл бұрын

I know...like during the production of the first Transformers movie when they brought in a giant transforming robot to explain and demonstrate how giant transforming robots actually act and react in various situations.

@Emp6ft10in

4 жыл бұрын

@@Tom_Van_Zandt - LOL, ya just like that! I'm glad someone else gets it.

@Tom_Van_Zandt

4 жыл бұрын

@@Emp6ft10in Yeah man, I'm familiar with the biz...That's what we in show business call it...We call it the "biz". We also call each other "babe". What's up, babe? How's it going, babe? Hey, babe. How you doin', babe? And he point and wink a lot when we talk. Yeah, I'm in the biz.

Mintystreet: the freshness never sleeps

Thanks for another great video. Im curious if you have covered UHF yet. Its one of my old favorites. 😎😊

Thanks again Minty. Always awesome!

Great video, Minty. PLEASE DO A VID FOR: Remo Williams, the Adventure Begins!

Minty, I enjoy your channel, great work! Just two things, I thought you left out about TV's "Get Smart" Don Adams that had the "Shoe Phone" just before or around the time of "Star Trek". Also, "Black Monday" - The Wall Street Crash of 1987, (October 19, 1987), The movie came about more than month just after that event.

Whenever life gives me a mountain to climb, I watch this movie to capture that Bud Fox mindset and energy.

I enjoy your videos, keep up the good work.

The other movie i think about when i see wall street is "other people's money". Which i find is a good movie of danny devito's that almost no one knows of.

@chrisstory563

4 жыл бұрын

other people's money was not bad. DeVito was a nasty piece of work in that movie

@NemeanLion-

4 жыл бұрын

Devito’s character makes a great speech as well.

Kudos Thank u for you content 👍🏿

Hi, Minty! As always a great and very entertaining video! I would like to ask you for a big favour. If there should be enough people who are interested in it, could you imagine to do a video (10 things...) about the movie "Can't buy me love"? In my teenage years "Can't buy me love" was one of my favourite comedies! The sad real life story of Amanda Peterson made me really sad! Would be very nice to get a video about this movie...! Well, that's it! Love your content! I really appreciate all of the passion you've always put in your work. Hope my English was not too bad!? Sorry, if it was! Greetings from Germany!

Just watched this for the first time last night... And I was hoping this video would be made haha... Thanks!

great video about an Awesome movie Wall St !!!! Good stuff!!

always good stuff my man!!

10 things you didn’t know about Bad Boys (1995) coming anytime? I know it’s doesn’t fit the general profile but love your videos and love that movie. Cheers!

Do Major League!!

Underrated Oliver stone film

“Sorry everyone but I have to this “ 10 Things You Didn’t Know About WOLF of Wall Street 😁🥂

@Joeybagofdonuts76

4 жыл бұрын

208 minutes + 500(+) f bombs= trash.

@blackmanjrpg17

4 жыл бұрын

I can get behind that👍

@deano007

4 жыл бұрын

Peter Nadreau think its how the snowflakes refer to the word FUCK 😆

Bro I love you and I know these videos aren't easy to make but make them longer. I love your videos but sometimes I feel like they are rushed and would love more corny jokes and personal opinions. Also please show us more of your posters.

I really like your videos and your kind of humor ;-) Could you make a 10 Things You Didn't Know About „MARGIN CALL“? Greetings from Berlin!

Another grate video.. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻 and did anyone else besides me like Wall Street 2? I enjoy it more than the first one.

That phone had great reception with that big antenna

Awesome Minty. Cheers.

Do Howard the Duck!!! 🤯🤘🏻🤘🏻

@JW...-oj5iw

4 жыл бұрын

In the manner described by George Kennedy in Thunderbolt and Lightfoot?

@VanielDeeform

4 жыл бұрын

He already has.... kzread.info/dash/bejne/eHqOt6esoLmYd5M.html Go through his video list on his channel. There are loads to watch...

Great shows, but please - use the same mic when You're voice overing, also when being onscreen. Otherwise the sound dissapears somewhere in the ceiling.

Personally I think Michael Douglas was outstanding in this movie

YES!!! Thank you Minty!!!!!!

i loved this movie. thanks so much for this breakdown youre the best.

Nice one, Minty.

Great Video although I think ‘American Psycho’ is a better example of what the 80s were really like. ‘Carry on Emmanuel’ was to have a cell phone scene but it was cut, after the technology was restricted in the UK after the IRA used it to remote trigger a bomb

First Modern Cell Phone was used in Lethal Weapon with Murtagh using one. Lethal Weapon came out in March of 1987.

That wasn't the only problem with the Challenger plot hole....NASA is government agency and does not sell stock.

I thought Hanna was a good casting choice because the dark side of her character was so subtle. Very appropriate, I thought.

Good job 👍

Interesting how you mention the original intent of the director to make the film about game shows. With that in mind, you should make a video about "Quiz Show" if you get a chance. Definitely one of the more underrated films that Robert Redford made.

The 80s...The decade of Decadence. Another great vid Minty. Thanks!

@beethovensfidelio

4 жыл бұрын

Daniel Kinn The ‘80s gave us three “-isms”: *materialism, optimism, and narcissism.* 😂 😂

And, regarding the title change, there had already been an American film, released in the 1920s, entitled Greed.

Money never sleeps especially for a sequel.

My father had that same motorola phone back then. When he worked in the military, he could be two stories down in a bunker and still get signal. Useless tidbit of information.

@davidjames579

4 жыл бұрын

Not useless at all.

Surely "Greed is good" defines the film, character and the 80s, not defies it?

You should do Escape From L.A. as you have already done the first one 😎

Great video as always! Have it changed from a countdown to a list now? Also, «Lethal Weapon» was released about two months before «Wall Street» and it featured a cell-phone, so technically it was the second (probably) film to feature one that was real.

@JohnNNJ

4 жыл бұрын

I scrolled the comments just to see if someone already mentioned "Lethal Weapon'.

@mykal.7424

Жыл бұрын

Lethal Weapon was released March 1987 Wall Street December 1987

Well, MS. Hannah...that is why it is called "acting"

@frankschneider6156

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, but you know, she can't act, so how should she know ?

@beethovensfidelio

4 жыл бұрын

Frank Schneider What about “Blade Runner”? “Splash”? “Kill Bill”?

Thats why Lou gives him the advice about the Abyss. Its a Father figure

Again minty that's like 3 in row ur Killin it

James Bond & Captain Kirk (and for that matter, Dick Tracey, right?) were all mobile communications, but the James Bond radio-in-trunk phone, and all mobile phones of that era were actually land-based lefttover allocations of the marine/high-seas radio phone network - - it was NOT a cellular network.

I'm pretty sure Largo in Never Say Never Again (1983) talks on a mobile, while on his yacht.

Everyone always thinks it’s “greed is good”. Which is sort of right, but technically it’s “Greed, for the lack of a better word, is good...”

I haven't seen it since 1989 on vhs. I need to rewatch it.

The other problem with the shuttle Challenger reference is that NASA is a government agency and not a public company.

Gordon Gecko: Greed for the lack of a better word is 👍 good.

It is the first, and probably the only, movie to feature a sushi making machine.

Also another fantastic line by Martin Sheen I think even better than Michael Douglas "Greed is Good".....Karl Fox "There came a Pharoah who did not know; the only difference between the Pyramids in Egypt and the Empire State building is the Egyptians didnt allow unions"......WOW!

Greed would have been a good title too, great video and flick too

Do devil's advocate next!

The technology in this movie is a hoot (robot butler anyone?). But aside from that it has aged fantastically.

Wall Street is one of my favorite movies and I absolutely love the Gordon Gecco character. Michael Douglas did a great acting job and richly deserved the Best Actor Academy Award, although Oliver Stone had to give him a swift kick in the butt to improve his performance.