The Big Short is basically a story about a bunch of hedge fund traders and some other banking guys that nobody ever notices who see that the economic market is going to crash very very hard in 2007-08. It is a biographical movie based on a book and it's shot in a varied meta-documentary and comedy-drama style with frequent fourth-wall breaks and comedy. Yes it's about the finance industry and some bank shit but it's also really really good and If I understood (or guessed) what it's about then you can probably do that too so go watch it
Surprising, hilarious and utterly brilliant. The Big Short feels more cinematic than an MCU film, more thrilling than any crime drama and more earnest than any other film I have ever seen. It's the movie's subject that makes it so, the trading and finance part of the world that makes so little sense to all of us and the way this film actually takes time to inform you about what's going on, using these humorous celebrity cameos that allows it to feel so real while never being boring. It's like a biblical tale, a peak fictional novel about how some misunderstood lowkey guys got wind of a coming economic collapse and it's all real
The editing, the music and there's just this fervent energy and vibe to the film that keeps it moving, like an Edgar Wright film, it never stops on a scene to long and cuts back and forth really fast and it's just all so good
I have never seen an Adam McKay film before but now I'm a fan. And what a dream cast too, seeing Steve Carrel walking around with a camera jerking as it follows him felt like I was watching a dark episode of The Office or something
10/10 Weirdly, I saw The Wolf on Wall Street twice and never understood the stocks stuff in it. That was a few years ago tho so maybe it's time to visit it again but yeah, if there's a genre of movies like The Big Short then please let me know
Movie is good but it still went over chuds' heads, despite how in-your-face it was with the climate change allegory. Leonardo DiCaprio himself is a major advocate for stopping climate change and he jumped at the chance to work on Don't Look Up. Reactionaries talk about how the film is really about Coastal Elites implementing the woke agenda and nobody wants to believe western civilization is being destroyed by the Illuminati. When they do admit it's about climate change and the hubris of our leaders/the bourgeois, they do it to review bomb on IMDB or Rotten Tomatoes.
The movie was seen as heavy-handed and over the top, yet that wasn't enough.
That sounds so unfair, I would love to watch it and recommend to my friends if it's good. I'm not from America so we are not hateful about climate crisis it's just that most people here don't know about it at all and a movie that can put something like this in perspective is always refreshing