Synopsis
This is a true story.
The men who made millions from a global economic meltdown.
2015 Directed by Adam McKay
The men who made millions from a global economic meltdown.
Christian Bale Steve Carell Ryan Gosling Brad Pitt Melissa Leo Hamish Linklater John Magaro Rafe Spall Jeremy Strong Finn Wittrock Marisa Tomei Tracy Letts Byron Mann Adepero Oduye Karen Gillan Max Greenfield Billy Magnussen Rudy Eisenzopf Casey Groves Charlie Talbert Harold Gervais Maria Frangos Hunter Burke Bernard Hocke Shauna Rappold Brandon Stacy Aiden Flowers Peter Epstein Anthony Marble Show All…
Linda Lee Sutton Jann K. Engel Chere Theriot Wright McFarland Shelby Gillen Gerald Palone Chris Arnold Isidoro Avila Gregory T. Geniusz Justin Meriwether Matthew L. Crowson Saul Cruthirds Severin Lagarde
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
Five stars? Yeah, five stars. Call me Standard & Poor's because I'm just tossing out AAA ratings.
A (frequently hilarious) crime movie where the American economy is the corpse, the entire financial system is the culprit, and the detectives all have bets on the body dropping.
But for the bearish take, you can hear Josh try to rain on my Adam McKay party on Filmspotting #566.
i liked so much of what this film is about, and so little of how it's about it.
It absolutely does hold its audience's hand throughout the entire thing, like an overprotective father, and spoon-feeds us information like mothers performing the old airplane trick with their newborn infants -- but that's just part of the social commentary.
I love the borderline-self-parody aspect, for lack of a better word (always undercutting the seriousness of the situation with surrealist comedy until the third act strikes like a gavel and leaves you breathless), and the sendup of contemporary media techniques, e.g. the "cameos" relative to the way the masses consume their information.
But if you consider yourself an intelligent person and someone who, regardless of intentions, doesn’t need to be treated like a child (even for the sake of satire), then…
listen. i hate econ. i truly do. i have to take 8 credits of it as a journalism major & i hate every fucking second of it.
but this movie somehow made this AWFUL subject interesting & compelling & please vote bernie sanders 2016 he's our only hope
EDIT: hey guys it's me. it's march 2017 & im embarrassed about this review
on screen talent £5,000
production costs £1200
black tar for ryan goslings hair £5,000,000
lighting £100
score £40
someone who is good at the economy please help me budget my film please
director: hey just spit on this, vomit on it, shit on it, burn it, put it through a paper shredder, run over it with your car,
editor: yea no problem
am i supposed to understand what these rich white men are going on about because i don't ?? nice cast tho great cast
Yes it is a complex movie but if you understand some of the background, history and basic economic concepts, you will enjoy it a lot more
I think this might be my favorite movie of all time. Michael Lewis is my favorite writer, and the book of The Big Short is almost as good as Liar's Poker. But it's really the direction of Adam McKay that made this film special. Yes, the stars are all great, but it is really the cast of supporting characters that make this film amazing, both the people playing themselves (Anthony Bourdain, Margot Robbie, Selena Gomez) and the smaller roles where actors give amazing performances in sometimes as little as one scene (Finn Wittrock, John Magaro, Max Greenfield, Byron Mann, Jeremy Strong).
There is so much more to the story than what we get to see in the film, but McKay did a great job deciding where to focus and how to keep the viewers attention.
Primeira metade do filme eu ria cada vez que alguém mencionava que o mercado imobiliário não ia quebrar
No final, fiquei de boca aberta
Uma masterpiece pós-moderna do nosso realismo capitalista
Brad Pitt wearing a mask on a plane is the only valiant or empathetic thing anyone in this movie did
The pace of this film is too fast they tried to combat that with the info segments but I still couldn't keep up the whole way through. You cannot be tired and watch this film
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