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by snapdragon44
18 Aug, 2016
good movie. has a few shortcomings so read the book as well,
Full disclosure, I’m an economics and political junkie and a recovering Stock Broker, just so you know. This movie is about the housing bubble and crash of 2008. The director does a good job of explaining SOME of the things that happened, no mention of the ultimate causes of the bubble and crash which were all political and not generated by banks but walking in midway in the plot line, so to speak. The directore tells his story through four sets of investors who saw the collapse coming and were in a position to ‘short’ the market through credit swaps, an esoteric type of option. It gets preachy toward the end as the directory is obviously philosophically a democrat and wants desperately to blame the whole thing on big business or banks or the system or something other than a more or less rational response to an impossible political situation. Of course the bonds only worth what the underlying mortages were worth (that is to say next to nothing) and he does explain the bubble wonderfully well. Of course the banks / mortgage brokers tried to unload this junk they were forced to write by Barney Frank et al, who wouldn’t? These few were by no means the only ones to the crisis coming but they were among the very few to figure out how to profit from it. Does that make them heroes? Well maybe, in a way, sort of, I guess. In the end no one really blamed ‘immigrants and poor people’ as repeatedly stated in the movie, how could they? And the part about almost ‘no one went to jail’ is true but why would they? This behavior, the writing of the original mortgages that caused the bubble and collapse was not only legal it was actually mandated by law. This is a movie ultimately without real heroes and not much really in the way of villains either, just pathos and black humor. All in all a movie well worth seeing and a good intro to the book of the same name.
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by wiseconslt
16 Apr, 2016
If you do NOT understand what caused the 2007/2008 Financial Crash, then you need to get & watch this movie.
If you do NOT understand what caused the 2007/2008 Financial Crash, then you need to get & watch this movie. The cause the Republican Right & Fox News are selling is NOT the reality of the real cause. I'm a stock market player and took a course on Derivatives which was a real I opener even before the Financial Crash. This movie does a great job of providing the details of you Derivatives & Swaps caused the 2007/2008. What it really unreal is that our Legislatures particularly the Republican Right haven't allowed the SEC to regulate Derivatives. It's like they want it to happen again & again & again. There are other documentaries available in DVD format that give a time table of events leading to the cause of the 2007/2008 Financial Crash: Inside Job Too Big To Fail In books & audio there's Free Fall by Joseph E. Stiglitz that does an excellent job of explaining the cause of the 2007/2008 Financial Crash.
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by 41alfred
19 Jul, 2016
Big short movie review
An excellent expose of the perils inherent in capitalism and how very little power common citizens have when it inevitably runs our society. As illustrated in The Big Short, under capitalism, the role of the state is first and foremost to secure the interests of private capital. Never was this so evident as President Obama's refusal, despite an ocean of evidence, to prosecute any of the perpetrators. Kudos to these movie makers for their courageous and accurate depiction! Paul Leuenberger
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by mikefl5903
12 Jul, 2017
Now I'm disturbed too!
Movie suggested by a relative who swore I would love it. It was disturbing, hit close to home because I lost mine in the same mortgage scamming. Sure, great subject, story needed to be told, great acting and believable characters, but if you're ordering it for the entertainment value, pass it up because you'll feel like you got beat up after watching it.
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by clarkereese
17 Jan, 2019
Excellent movie - Disc should have been clean
The director makes the film understandable and entertaining. The Big Short is a fun semi documentary about real people who discovered the bank fraud perpetrated against the American people when the 2008 Ponzi scheme collapsed the financial system that caused the recession causing millions of Americans to lose their homes and jobs and the US government to take taxpayer money to keep the crooked bankers from losing money themselves. I didn't give it 5 stars because the disc needed to be cleaned before it would play without freezing on a single frame.
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by abdullah77
15 Apr, 2016
Great movie for understanding the collapse of the markets in 2008
I would highly recommend this movie for anyone trying to figure out who made money and lost money during the mortgage crisis of 2008. It shows S&P as the corrupt people they were, holding market values high and over-classing high-risk mortgages as safe even as many were going into default - all the while a few savvy investors saw this and bet against this and made money when people finally saw the high-risk mortgages for what they were and bailed out of (or lost) their bets on the CDOs that represented their stake in those mortgages. It explains all of this in theatrical drama and in comedic documentary form. A must-see for anyone wanting to understand just how Wall Street thinks!
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by elshelby2012
02 Feb, 2023
perfect title
Excellent story, excellent cast.
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by santera2
12 Apr, 2016
great movie
This movie is well written, well directed , well acted, diverting, smart, and full of profanity, not for those who are easily offended by the "f***" word. For the adults among us, it is well worth the trip and I recommend two viewings at least, as it is very, very intelligent and a great source of information for the layperson about the causes of the 2008 recession, which destroyed a lot of lives, world-wide.
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by willi-lushe
28 Sep, 2021
Compelling snapshot
Compelling Snapshot of widespread corruption as Elizabeth Warren has focused on trying to eliminate-its suggestions of what need be put into place to insure it never happened again all robustly rejected-finest film have seen in a great long time-a documentary poised as fiction
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by lei.us.leonell
14 Nov, 2018
you can get a good idea about housing market and mortgages
ok movie. but some problems resolving. not for all.
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good movie. has a few shortcomings so read the book as well,

If you do NOT understand what caused the 2007/2008 Financial Crash, then you need to get & watch this movie.

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Now I'm disturbed too!

Excellent movie - Disc should have been clean

Great movie for understanding the collapse of the markets in 2008

perfect title

great movie

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