The Big Short: Pitt, Bale, Carrell do the subprime crisis

Neat. Really enjoyed the book, but I don't recall it having an actual functional narrative that would work in movie form, so it'll be interesting to see how they piece one together.

Is it me or with this mop Pitt looks like Redford?

Yea, go watch some young Redford movies. He's almost a clone. Was cute when they were together in Spy Game.

Trailer just dropped a few days ago. I hadn't heard of it. It looks good. I wonder how true it is.

shennanigans

Pitt very much looks like Redford.

This'll probably be pretty decent.

khorum_sl said:

Was that the one with Paul Giamatti as Ben Bernanke? Yeah that was pretty good.

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Demi Moore and JEremy Irons are innit. Movie is boring unless you have a raging hard-on for Minsky moments.

I haven't read the book, but I half expect the movie to prove Keynes' quip, "the market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent"

iannis thread best thread

khorum_sl said:

Oh shit, thats the one with spock right? Yeah that was more or less a fictionalized take on this.

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Yeah Margin Call?

When I saw Margin Call in theater I was like "yeah that's pretty good, and there is this great scene about building a bridge" and a few weeks back I landed on it on TV and I got glued to it. Good scene after good scene after good scene. I guess it was easier to appreciate the movie the second time around because I knew what it was and what it was not, while the first time you see it through the filter of your expectations and kinda hope it would be an economic thriller when it's more like a sociological study and that sentence is really running long isn't it?

All Is Lost (with the old Brad Pitt ) and A Most Violent Year from the same director, J. C. Chandor are also very good.