Thoughts on The Big Short?

Still pretty awesome

Well regarded by me and like WoWS (though not at that level) it has a righteous anger to it - love the cast, and while I can gripe about some of the directorial choices it wins you over.

That is a classic Bale performance like American Hustle where he starts off somewhere far outside the strike zone and ends up down the middle of the plate without seeming to move at all.

7.5/10

boneless

I think it's a mess. Horribly overwritten to the point of being condescending, yet the general irreverence with which so much of it is treated makes that almost forgivable. The cast are also almost without exception really good, and sell the whole thing even if you can't wrap your head around what the hell they're talking about half the time... Yet I think the choice of focusing the thing more on Carell's character than anybody else is annoyingly misguided.

Trying to give your movie a soul is no bad thing, but for a movie so intent on serving as a warning would anyone that's fallen victim to this kind of crap sit there and think anything other than "fuck this guy and his moral conundrum"? There is nothing here as concise and to the point as the end credits of The Other Guys.

It's pretty much a mess and some of McKay's directorial choices are headscratchers (Bale's performance being chief among them), but it holds together far better than I'd expected going in. It's surprisingly engaging and crazy entertaining, and I can totally forgive how rough around the edges it is because for all his flaws, McKay communicates his anger and sarcasm with plenty of bite and urgency. I haven't revisited it since I first saw it two years ago, but I liked it a lot.

>His character should've been fused with Gosling's

What?

I only watched it once back when it came out, but I loved it. The cameos are great, but the weak link in the cast has got to be Carrell.

The problem that The Big Short has is that it is bloated and needs sufficient pruning/condensing of characters and storylines. So while Burry and Lippmann were real men with different outlooks on the situation, with one looking at it in simple numerical certainties and the other looking at it as a golden opportunity, they also bring more or less serve the same basic purpose within McKay's film: namely, sparking the rush that gets Baum (our de facto protagonist) into the game. And Burry largely serves no real purpose to the story after his initial realization. His moral ruminations on what the collapse of the market means are also observed (in a much better way) by Baum and Rickert. The Big Short is overstuffed for a single feature film, and whenever the film switches to Burry's perspective, it stalls, especially as everything he more or less contemplates in the course of the film after the fact are also observed in other characters.

This is a good film though it lacks entertainment especially from a known comedic director.

Love it, such an entertaining movie. Gosling was hysterical and the soundtrack was FIRE

Okay, to be more specific, I really enjoyed watching these characters. I honestly didn't need the celebrity cameos explaining stuff to me, that rubbed the wrong way. But the characters themselves are always enjoyable to watch, and the different moral aspects each brings to the table was interesting to see.

Also:



Who didn't crack a smile at that?