I was, if not gasping at the prospect of, certainly looking forward to Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps. Even the preposterous qualifier of a title, even my boredom with Oliver Stone, couldn’t dampen it.
What could and did was the ridiculous use of “Sympathy For The Devil” in the coming attractions. Incessantly. The song was played out before Godard’s movie was released in the mid-sixties. It is unlistenable to now. And if there is really any irony (there isn’t, if Gekko was meant to be a nice guy and nobody knew he was evil? Maybe -the song would still be played out but at least there would be a point.
At the same movie, there was also an exaple of how to use a sample from a famous song on the soundtrack. The black demo “Lottery Ticket” starring Bow Wow looks like fun and the snippet of Stevie Wonder’s “Sir Duke” at the end seals the deal. The movie takes place in a black, somewhat poor, neighborhood where Bow Wow and his Mom win the lottery but it is July 4th weekend and they have to keep the tix for three days.
The movie looks frentic but not too frentic, it looks sweet and fun and during the last fifteen seconds there is a blast of “Sir Duke” and it takes it off to the end.
Don’t know which movie is better but I know which trailer wins handsdown.