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A thriller that revolves around the key people at an investment bank over a 24-hour period during the early stages of the financial crisis.
2011 Directed by J.C. Chandor
A thriller that revolves around the key people at an investment bank over a 24-hour period during the early stages of the financial crisis.
Kirk D'Amico Cassian Elwes Randy Manis Zachary Quinto Robert Ogden Barnum Neal Dodson Anthony Gudas Michael Benaroya Joe Jenckes Corey Moosa Laura Rister Joshua Blum Michael Corso Rose Ganguzza
Marge de manoeuvre, El precio de la codicia, マージン・コール, Krízispont, 黑心交易員的告白, Межа ризику, El Precio de la Codicia
A junior analyst discovers that the investment bank in which he works has amassed so many toxic mortgage backed securities that bankruptcy is almost imminent. This leads to a frantic night where his bosses try to find a way to dump these assets and save the firm.
"Margin Call" is a thriller that examines the beginning of the great financial crisis of 2008 through the eyes of the people who found themselves in the midst of the storm. Chandor uses a docudrama method to recreate these fateful hours. While mostly effective, it eventually makes for a very dry presentation that saps some of the tension from a potentially riveting drama. Add to that the fact that the financial jargon used…
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.
Margin Call is one of the better fictional films about the economic crisis. In fact, with the competition being so inept (see The Company Men for proof of this) it could well be the best. Rather than chronicling the collapse from the perspective of the average man on the street it takes the braver position of showing how it impacted on the investment bankers that were part of the problem. Considering most people want to lynch these irresponsible number pushers it is interesting to see writer-director, J.C. Chandor, wanting to humanise society’s new public enemy number one.
For the most part he does a good job showing how their lack of foresight brought down the entire house of cards. Over…
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.
It takes a special talent to make a film about a subject and, for quite a lot of the running time, have much of your audience wonder what the hell anyone is talking about. It has to be a special talent because how else would a film like Margin Call end up being so utterly riveting?
The purported plot sees a troubled Wall Street investment bank wrestle with the decision to sell off all its assets, assets they know are very soon to be worthless, after discovering that the firm has reached the limits of its spending and risk plunging the stock market and banking sector into crisis as a result.
What I watched it as was, "Some bad stuff's…
YOU’RE TELLING ME THAT’S *NOT* ELI ROTH?!??
I feel like this has probably already been observed by tons of people, but I just noticed Kevin Spacey’s typecasting is always the unempathetic dickhead traitor villain? Literally these are the only films I’ve seen with him and they all fit the bill; The Negotiator, 21, Seven, Iron Will, Baby Driver, Superman Returns, A Bug’s Life, another movie which I won’t spoil, and now Margin Call.
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.
When the shit hit the fan for the banking industry back in 2007 very few people outside the corridors of investment banking really gave a shit. That changed considerably when the fallout affected everyone from the man in the street to wealthy executives. The monumental fuck-ups of these overpaid, bonus obsessed scumbags changed the world...forever.
A fictitious Wall Street investment bank going through a tough time discovers that certain parameters that control the volatile trading limits have been breached and that a critical meltdown of their company is imminent. As complex models of the company's financial stability show serious problems, especially in their mortgage and risk departments, it appears their mountain of toxic debt is going to bury them. 2:00am…
The consensus is that “The Big Short” (2015) is the definitive movie about the Great Recession of 2008, and there’s probably no reason to refute that. But some consideration should be given to “Margin Call,” the debut of a filmmaker who’s been worth watching ever since, J.C. Chandor. A corporate drama, set in skyscrapers at night, about a bunch of Wall Street scumbags who have just realized their dangerous games are about to spill out into the economy at large, it features an all-star cast with Kevin Spacey — doing what he did best — at the center. We don’t for one minute understand what they’re so scared about, but it doesn’t matter; that’s good writing.
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Ensemble drama allows Oscar Winning actors to chew scenery...
Most of the movie is riveting as it covers the early stages of the '08 financial crisis.
Everyone gets at least one big scene. In retrospect you wonder what Kevin Spacey was saying to Penn Badgely off camera.
Now a period piece but no less intense. Don't make it a margin call if you want to see this.
See it for the acting, stay for the sexy financial terms like "Margin" or "call".
A wide shot of New York City with a fish-eye lens. This is how Margin Call starts. It is not only a shot that marks a great beginning for the career of a potential auteur in J.C. Chandor, but it is also a microcosm of the entire film. New York City is a diverse, yet expensive city to live in, and it's financial centre is about to burst. This is one shot that works as great foreshadowing for what is to come and also one of the reasons why I've learned to like J.C. Chandor's direction. The use of simple means to convey something lofty and grandiose.
Margin Call works for me mostly because of Chandor's direction and the cinematography…
One of the best horror movies of the past few years, and proof that true evil is more likely to be found in the upper floors of office buildings than in spooky, dusty attics, and psychopaths are just as likely to be sipping pinot noir and wearing Brooks Brothers than sitting in the mental ward, drooling onto their bath robe.
But what do you know, you've never held an office job. Well there was that one time, but you were overseas and it was a small company and it nearly collapsed after you left. Not that one lead to the other but it was small and insignificant and dealt with the music industry which, in the grand scheme of things…
Margin Call is a film about the 2008 Financial Meltdown and stars an All-Star cast that includes, Kevin Spacey, Paul Bettany, Jeremy Irons, Zachary Quinto, Demi Moore, Mary McDonnell and Stanley Tucci, who all work for the Banking Investment Firm largely responsible for the Meltdown.
The film centers around the Firm going through a round of layoffs and they lay off Stanley Tucci's character but before leaves he gives a flash drive to one of his employees and tells him that there is something very important that he wants him to look at. When the employee (played by Zachary Quinto) sees the troubling news of the Firm basically lending money to banks, mortgages and the auto industry and they are…
If the boss of your boss doesn't have the answer, let's just ask the boss of the boss of the boss of your boss
I really enjoyed this film. I found the directing style very engaging; it captured the tension what I found a beautiful way. I personally don't like too much fast pace switching of camera angles during conversations but rather just one or two to give the atmosphere that you are a spectator (overall I just find visually more effective) and I think this film did that really well. The colours throughout were bold and fairly intense which I liked a lot. The plot and the script gave a good simplified introduction into an element of the Global Financial Crisis (not nearly as informative as The Big Short), which enhanced the tension and made it really interesting to watch as you try…
Lots of "keep it simple" in the dialogue ends up being funny. The Big Short did it better, but this movie walked so the Big Short could run.
add paul bettany to the list of brits who've spent too much time in the US and their accent has become ridiculously warped
Margin Call is an old-style Hollywood film "themed" like some desktop 'app' in 21st century flat screen-and-brushed aluminium aesthetics. That successful juxtaposition is a brilliant achievement, and gives Chandor's debut a rather frank, chilly soulless aura, as rare as it is illuminating. What do I mean by old-style? Well I mean, it's character-driven with brilliantly directed acting and a classically tragic narrative arc to it. I ought to flesh that point out more, but suffice to say it's a feeling.
The apex of said arc is Jeremy Irons' airy soliliquoy as CEO of the bank about to blow the lid off the sub-prime crisis, and in doing so, inevitably implode itself (in real life, Lehman Bros I believe.) It lasts…
Even better than I remembered it being. The rare workplace drama that doesn’t slather unnecessary incident on an inherently interesting situation. Quiet, understated, subtly intense. A real actor’s film, yet free of showboating. A couple of standout scenes: Demi Moore and Simon Baker speaking cryptically in the elevator over the cleaning woman’s head, Kevin Spacey digging.
Was OK but pretty fuckin corny lmao
Paul Bettany and gum is not a combo I wanna see for a while.
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