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've watched this film seven times in the last two weeks.

i liked so much of what this film is about, and so little of how it's about it.

we're all such fucking fools.

I am wholly surprised that a film about economics can be so much fun but here we are. What was most interesting to me is that all of the larger characters (Ryan Gosling, Christian Bale, Steve Carrell and Brad Pitt) are basically nutjobs, which kind of suggests to me that the most successful people in this industry have a few screws loose. I loved how self aware and transparent this film is and how it not only shows the amazing story of a few men making money off the back of 2008 Global Financial Crisis but also the moral implications behind it, leading to some touching moments with Steve Carrell's character and Christian Bale's character, and their ultimate conclusion to this saga.

Well made but not my kind of movie.

A movie teaching us about inaccessible economics through an accessible framework. It’s good, but I’m not convinced it’s as good as its grouping of nominations would suggest

fuck.  I thought I wrote something wrong in my essay but its all good. thx wikipedia and thx the big short.

Every time it starts to feel like a fun movie, the misogyny level jumps back up and ruins it.

watched this with my flatmate last night because it's one of his favourite films and i have to say i absolutely HATE the editing and sound design in this but LOVE that miss margot robbie told me to fuck off

Truth is like poetry. And most people fucking hate poetry.

Watched this at a screening with my history class and honestly it was great. I did not expect to like it as much as I did. The first half is brilliant. Each one of the actors shines in their role. The complex terminology is well-explained and the film is so dynamic that you almost feel involved in what happens. The second half is harder to understand and my friend and I had some problems with it. But overall The Big Short is a surprisingly good film about economy that didn’t want to make me fall asleep.

Yeah this is an excellent film. Not QUITE as great as I remembered but a super important film that everyone should see