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Quixote1818

(28,926 posts) Sat Jan 2, 2016, 10:47 PM Jan 2016

The Big Short - Cenk Uygur Classic Movie Review

Saw this tonight and LOVED it! I give it a 9.5. The scene with Brad Pitt's character showing his humanity simply floored me.

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The Big Short - Cenk Uygur Classic Movie Review (Original Post) Quixote1818 Jan 2016 OP

Looking forward to it elmac Jan 2016 #1

K&R nt Live and Learn Jan 2016 #2

I saw the movie last week Jack Rabbit Jan 2016 #3

The book is fucking awesome! longship Jan 2016 #4

Dr. Michael J. Burry at UCLA Economics Commencement 2012 jakeXT Jan 2016 #5

Who plays the REEEEEL criminal mastermind? FairWinds Jan 2016 #6

He just got preferrential treatment from Countrywide as did a few others if my mind mmonk Jan 2016 #7

Fresh Air review... MinM Jun 2016 #8

elmac

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1. Looking forward to it

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Sat Jan 2, 2016, 11:01 PM

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Live and Learn

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2. K&R nt

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Sat Jan 2, 2016, 11:06 PM

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Jack Rabbit

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3. I saw the movie last week

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Sun Jan 3, 2016, 12:14 AM

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I urge everyone to see this fim and get a better understanding of what went wrong and still hasn't been fixed.

longship

(40,416 posts)

4. The book is fucking awesome!

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Sun Jan 3, 2016, 03:04 AM

Jan 2016

The Steve Carell character of the film, strangely named Mark Baum in the film, is named Steve Eisman in real life. The book circles around his connection to shorting (betting against) the mortgage bonds. Plus, Dr. Michael Burry, played by Christian Bale in the film, who helped create the credit default swaps against the mortgage bonds which eventually ended up feeding the doomsday machine. (Why, when mortgages are failing, aren't these swaps going my way? Isn't that criminal?)

Eisman and Burry are the focus of the book, but there's Deutsches Bank trader Greg Lippmann, played by Ryan Gosling (cast as Jared Vennett) who in the book is portrayed as a smarmy kind of guy who might very well be staring into the face of the doomsday machine like a economic Commodore Decker. Eisman's compatriot, Vinny Daniels (played by Jeremy Strong) says to him, "I just want to know how you're going to fuck me."

I don't think this film will get to rural Michigan, but I fully intend to see it.

Read the book. It is great.