1. Gordon Gekko - Wall Street
The Gordon Gekko, an ultimate portraiture of white-collar crime and corporate scumbag greed. The characterizations of Gekko are perfect right down to the name. Gordon, sounding somewhat formal and therefore rich, and Gekko, a scaly green lizard counting his hoards of cash and attempting to explain his own brand of nonexistent morality by slithering in our ears that, "greed is good." The role was a ideal fit for Douglas who is at his best playing powerful men with a lack of conscience. Watching him bring Charlie Sheen over to the dark side after all these years still makes you wonder just how many people like him really exist on Wall Street and how much power over the markets (therefore us) do they really have? Kind of chilling to contemplate. Definitely recommend staying with the original Wall Street while doing your best to resist the temptation of following it up with a viewing of the sequel. Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (but we sure did) does its best at trying to be relevant to our modern times and still somehow comes up incredibly short, but not for lack of trying. Unfortunately it displays a current trend in Douglas' career of recent of what can happen to older thesps. Which brings us to the five that sucked...