9 Movie Sequels That Made You Hate Characters You Once Loved

"Greed is good."

That was essentially the lesson that audiences took from Michael Douglas' ruthless Wall Street "hero," Gordon Gekko, when Oliver Stone's film first hit theatres in 1987. It was easy to understand Gekko's position on life, and his climb to the top - and subsequent fall and prison sentence - was made relentlessly entertaining as a result of his cynical view on the world and his love of capitalism.

Cut forward to Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, the 2010 sequel that nobody asked for, and Gekko - now released from prison - is reformed.

First things first... who wants to see a movie about a reformed Gordon Gekko, a man now seeking to heal his relationship with his daughter and preach to the world about the dangers of oncoming financial meltdown? In short: he's a bore, the kind of guy you'd actively avoid getting into a conversation with at the bus stop.

But the writers also failed Gordon when the tried to make him "good" and also retain aspects of his former personality; he brags that he's good at making money in true Gekko-esque fashion, but it doesn't gel with the new, repentant incarnation.

In the end, Money Never Sleeps makes a mockery of Gordon Gekko so that Oliver Stone can make his point about the financial crisis.