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Saturday Cinema with Le Fly: Glenngary, Glen Ross

This movie really sucked, truth be told. As a salesman in the brokerage industry, it was revered as a ‘must see’, due to the scene when Alec Baldwin, the asshole from “Downtown” on a “mission of mercy”, comes to excoriate and upbraid an office filled with pikers, save Al Pacino who was likely out closing a deal.

As a critic of cinema, I give this movie a kick into the nuts and oversee it swimming down a sewer pipe. However, from a position of being a ‘supreme asshole’, I rate the scene of Alec Baldwin removing coffee from an old man’s hand with his words alone, along with the subsequent firing of the entire salesforce, wholly described as an act of mercy and motivation, to be entirely first notch and a joy to see.

You think I’m fucking with you?

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11 comments

  1. jpmorgains

    “Fuck you, that’s my name!”

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  2. sloop

    HATE this movie!

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  3. alf44

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    Of course, based on an original play by the greatness of David Mamet !

    A classic !!!

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    • alf44

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      I miss Jack Lemon !!!

      So great !!!

      Take a look at Save The Tiger !!!

      Lemon won a Best Actor Oscar for that role !!!

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      • sloop

        Jack Lemmon was a great American. He was a conservative and carried his weapon everywhere he went. You wouldn’t like him Alf.

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  4. ironbird

    Out dated movie. In today’s fuckery the leads would be meaningless since the phones would all crash like our trading platforms.

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  5. doubleplus

    Coffee is for closers only.

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  6. joyous__ending

    I will assume Fly thinks the movie sucks because he is honest in his dealings with us and the sale of his products.
    Good traders (us) are savvy and usually remember being ripped off early in their history.
    – Seminars charging 1000’s promising to make you a successful day trader
    – Real estate millions by flipping
    – Fear mongering telling folks to hoard gold
    Look out for the people who know less about finance than us and steer them away from the sales thieves.

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  7. sloop

    I must admit the clip Fly has up is pretty good.

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  8. conmanipulation

    All these replies and no one references ABC?

    I am dissapoint.

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