Jeremy Irons has an Oscar. Kevin Spacey has two Oscars. J.C. Chandor will have one very soon if he continues to deliver anything as good as this and All Is Lost.

Gotta give WOLF OF WALL STREET some credit - it gave me an appetite for entertainment about The Street and its denizens that was left mostly unsatisfied by Scorsese's film. I've been reading LIAR'S POKER - Michael Lewis's fantastic account of the rise and fall of Solomon Brothers in the late 80s. And then last night I finally caught up with the excellent MARGIN CALL. I guess one of my primary gripes with WOWS was my lack of interest in spending time with its characters and their antics, while also still being interested in the mechanics of their operation. MARGIN CALL is all mechanics. Thrillingly so. Maybe even more of a gut punch a couple years later, as the stock market recovers and we start to forget our rage at these gamblers as they start to line our purses again. As if anything has changed.

This is one of those movies where everyone calls flawless but I think it's well done on a acting and directing point of view, but I do think it's a bit overrated in my opinion.

The story to Margin Call takes place in 2008 as a tense action as we follow one 24-hour period at an investment bank just before the financial crisis hits.

Margin Call is a movie that I thought was alright. I do think the movie is well acted and nicely written, but to me the movie is a slow burn and I just don't think it's brilliant as people thought it was. It's not a bad film but I don't think it's a great film, just alright in my opinion.

Snooze. Basks in a morass of simplistic morality and non-complex emotions. None of the actors bring anything special to their roles, and Chandor doesn't bring anything special to, well, anything else. It's amazing how much of a shift he made with his next project (All Is Lost), which is all action and no talk (this is the opposite) –– though neither really have any unique characters in them, though. I could understand why this might be more riveting in the immediate few years after the crash, but 10 years later it feels like its capitalizing on that and not much else.

Weird to see Kevin Spacey here. Anyway it was an interesting concept that had me hooked for the first 30 minutes. Then the development slowed until a decent ending—he went on to dig the holes.

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The movie serves as a sort of fictional and dumbed down telling of the 2008 financial crisis and in that regard it portrays it well. However the movie besides some intense thrilling moments is filled with dull and stretched boring board room moments.

Filme über Finanzen, und insbesondere über die Finanzkrise 2008 tun sich immer schwer, zu vermitteln, was da eigentlich passiert ist. Wenn man Spannung erzeugen will mit Stellschrauben, die kaum ein Zuschauer versteht, dann langweilt man das Publikum. Andererseits will man nicht zu sehr den Erklärbär spielen. Margin Call ist da keine Ausnahme. Aber das Thema ist dann doch etwas zugänglicher als bei Wall Street 2 oder The Big Short. Von den dreien ist Margin Call definitiv mein Favorit.

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very good

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Great movie