The Big Short

Boring  The Movie Weasel  

To me it’s just more food for indignation and there’s nothing in the film that I (or we) haven’t heard 487 times before. Four guys make millions off of the greed and corruption of others, when in fact the original four were part of the greed and corruption in the first place. These four even want to keep the corruption a secret so they’ll make their millions of dollars off of the failure of the millions of people who are being gouged by the thousands of corrupt bankers. Nothing new here, folks. Acting: mediocre. Editing: poor. Story line: common. Interesting that Americans, and in fact most of the “free world” love to spotlight our corruption and then revel in doing nothing about it.

Quite interesting  not-so-sure  

A friend recommended I watch this movie. It certainly was interesting. I have always wondered about the interaction between the banks and the government. I had a few friends in the states who lost just about everything. They were heavily leveraged in real estate.

BEST MOVIE OF 2014-2015-2016!!  REBECCASTONE  

Every second was so captivating!! Great acting, great producer - great premiss!! 2 full fat thumbs up!!!

The next bubble?  Dantheman01  

I recommend that everyone watch this movie, it will help you understand what the banks or other financial company are actually taking advantage of the uneducated people who doesn't want to know or learn where their money is going? I for one don't like banks, and truly believe that the next financial bubble is coming? there's too much corruption and greed in the world. Canada and the US hasn't seen any real growth since the Mid 90's there's also another documentary movie called the inside job which relates to movie and the crash of 2008, will it happen again?

Critical path is missing  Brenda3d2  

Well done, but, if the intention is to educate, the paper trail is lost. For example, it's not clear what impact the garage band hedge fund managers had once they had the information and what really contributed to the stabilized bond prices, and so on. Would have liked more details on all that. The character development story was not needed about the brother and the wife or whoever these people were.

Passable  Comme des ombres soyons!!  

Pour public intéressé à l'argent et placement.....sinon véritable moment de platitudes...

BORING  snoop dawgy dawg  

I watched this in theatres and I was bored as hell. I do not get how this has good ratings. Movies are supposed to be entertainment not bull.

Perfect  KEV.J.  

...one of those rare films that holds your attention every single minute.Excellent acting and writing and scary ,as its true.And not one explosion or gunshot.

The Big Yawner  vbsunset  

I wish there was a derivative that I could use to short this movie. CDO’s for Dummies. It serves an educational purpose, but is an absurd use of high budget stars. An attempt at combining education and entertainment but falling short in latter. A big short.

Different  Karamia54  

This is a very different movie and depicts what actually took place in the USA. Good thing that did not happen in Canada. That being said the movie was slow at the begining and I almost turned it off. You get into it half way through. 100% did not like Christian Bales performance it was very off putting. I also did not think is was an Oscar movie either. Would I watch it again. NO

A must see  Vampire Squid  

Having worked in the U.S. as a hedge fund portfolio manager in 2005-06 and then having a front-row seat for the crisis as an economist in a bulge-bracket firm, I was initially reluctant to see this film (God the second Wall St. was terrible) especially as many of these people are only one degree of seperation from me. But this is the real deal. The script-writers, actors, and director, do a wonderful job of walking the audience through the biggest trade idea in financial history from its inception to the terrible realisation of what it means, to the total lack of meaning once its over. I personally loved the banter between Steve Carell's character and his wife about his job; had that one with my wife several times and it's exactly the same ("you hate your job, leave" ... "no I love my job" ... "really, you're so unhappy"...

Up there with the best of them  Mad Max' bro  

Great story telling, and shining the light on just how corrupt the system was and still is.