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Frank Cannon

(7,570 posts) Mon Sep 3, 2012, 09:52 AM Sep 2012

Margin Call (2011) available on Netflix streaming

I never even heard of this movie, but my wife and I watched it last night and were completely blown away. It's based on the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008, and it explores 24 hours at a nameless Wall Street firm when it's realized that their world as they know it is ending.

It has an amazing cast, including Kevin Spacey, Jeremy Irons, Demi Moore, Stanley Tucci, Simon Baker, Paul Bettany, and Zachary Quinto. Everyone turns in an excellent performance.

I was fully expecting to be throroughly bored by it, as I figured going into it that it would just be a lot of people standing around talking about complicated financial stuff, but this is like Glengarry Glen Ross on Wall Street.

Five stars. You gotta see it, if you haven't.

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Margin Call (2011) available on Netflix streaming (Original Post) Frank Cannon Sep 2012 OP

I loved that. I pretty much watch every Spacey movie. Could they have made Jeremy Irons brewens Sep 2012 #1

He was the very personification of Satan Frank Cannon Sep 2012 #4

Looks good. thx postulater Sep 2012 #2

You can also watch online with Vimeo. link below amerikat Sep 2012 #3

Saw it at a local art house cinema quaker bill Sep 2012 #5

'Margin Call': A Movie Occupied With Wall Street: NPR MinM Sep 2012 #6

Thanks! GreenPartyVoter Sep 2012 #7

brewens

(13,624 posts)

1. I loved that. I pretty much watch every Spacey movie. Could they have made Jeremy Irons

Reply to Frank Cannon (Original post)

Mon Sep 3, 2012, 09:57 AM

Sep 2012

look any more evil? I think it's better than the Michael Douglas Wall Street movies.

Frank Cannon

(7,570 posts)

4. He was the very personification of Satan

Reply to brewens (Reply #1)

Mon Sep 3, 2012, 10:12 AM

Sep 2012

But what I loved about this movie is that it really explored all the moral and ethical ambiguities of what led them to the mess they were in. Nobody was really portrayed as being totally good or evil. Even Irons' character's viewpoint was at least understandable, even if it made your (and many of the other characters') skin crawl.

postulater

(5,075 posts)

2. Looks good. thx

Reply to Frank Cannon (Original post)

Mon Sep 3, 2012, 10:05 AM

Sep 2012

amerikat

(4,909 posts)

3. You can also watch online with Vimeo. link below

Reply to Frank Cannon (Original post)

Mon Sep 3, 2012, 10:08 AM

Sep 2012

http://vimeo.com/35667036

quaker bill

(8,224 posts)

5. Saw it at a local art house cinema

Reply to Frank Cannon (Original post)

Mon Sep 3, 2012, 10:20 AM

Sep 2012

a riveting and excellent flick for sure.

MinM

(2,650 posts)

6. 'Margin Call': A Movie Occupied With Wall Street: NPR

Reply to Frank Cannon (Original post)

Mon Sep 3, 2012, 11:28 AM

Sep 2012

October 21, 2011

The timing is almost too good: a terrific Wall Street melodrama at the moment the Occupy Wall Street protests are building. We haven't seen the like since Three Mile Island had a near-meltdown a couple of days after The China Syndrome exploded into theaters. Now, Margin Call seems anything but marginal...

Margin Call is a different sort of big-business film than its best-known predecessor, Oliver Stone's Wall Street. Stone wanted to create a capitalist demon in Gordon Gekko, but ended up making him so charismatic that he became a role model. Despite the amounts of money bandied about, there's nothing in Margin Call to inspire anyone — except, of course, those fervent Wall Street occupiers. (Recommended)

http://www.npr.org/2011/10/21/141415405/margin-call-a-movie-occupied-with-wall-street

http://www.rigorousintuition.ca/board2/viewtopic.php?p=431303#p431303

GreenPartyVoter

(72,381 posts)

7. Thanks!

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Mon Sep 3, 2012, 11:44 AM

Sep 2012

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