Prior to the 2008 financial crisis, a group of investors bet against the US mortgage market and are stunned by the corruption they uncover through their research.
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★★★★★
Don't know how Adam McKay made deplorable humans, blinding fear, gut-boiling outrage and gleeful shaming so much fun to watch. He brought along his bag o' laffs but planted them in such rich soil so we had to hack our way through the thick underbrush of tainte...
★★★★★
First for newbies, the events here took place prior to the Kevin Spacey film Margin Call (2011). So the Spacey film would have depicted events near the end of this film. Both are superb movies.
Back to the review. This film is very unusual in that the produce...
★★★★★
The Big Short (2015)
**** (out of 4)
Four different groups of people notice that something isn't quite right with the housing market and soon make a large wager that the economy is going to fall apart.
Trying to sell America on a film that deals with a true...
★★★★★
Nothing Small about "The Big Short"
"The Big Short" is based on the book with the same name by financial journalist Michael Lewis. It is about collateralized debt obligations, subprime mortgages, credit default swaps and bundling. A snoozer right? Not one bit...
★★★★★
I appreciate that The Big Short tries to dumb down the housing crisis of 2008, but, apparently, I'm still not smart enough to fully understand it. A lot of this movie went over my head, but I grasped the generalities and it kept me entertained, so I applaud it...
