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
As someone who knows the subject matter, and about the infinite stupidity of the Reformers... I can't recommend Pentagon Wars, because the guy who actually did all the complaining about the Bradley irl (that the movie is based off of) is a reformer.
Okay I tried to dig into wtf was supposed to be wrong about the reformers. When I read what they wanted - shit that works, in battlefield conditions, that can be maintained and produced at scale like the Soviets, that the US military budget was overbloated and focused on fancy gadgets that don't actually operate - I struggle to understand what they were wrong about. Like, the F35 is a fucked up plane that was supposed to serve the Army, the Navy, be a bomber, be a fighter and that can't fly in rain or lightning or a high angle because the stealth coating gets washed up and it cost over a trillion dollars to develop. American planes are well known to be hangar queens, which is great for the military industrial complex cause you send out a million parts forever.
I dont disagree necessarily, bu they're dumb because they're military brass and to get that bigh up in the military you gotta be at least a little bit of a moron pencil neck
Here's a good way to explain the entire Reformers deal with things. The A-10 is an airframe that sorely needs an update, however it's biggest stans are reformers. The update that the A-10 by definition sorely needs, an actual radar. Yes it doesn't have one, so do you want to know how an A-10 pilot (and the reason why it's good at mulching friendly Bradleys) has to ID targets? The pilot pulls out a pair of binocs, a method that by definition wasn't good enough for the time when it started being built, yet got adopted anyways.
In short, they think it's still the 1940s, and we're still fighting WWII every single time they raise a complaint.