The Big Short reviewed by Mark Kermode
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- Опубликовано: 21 янв 2016
- Mark Kermode reviews The Big Short. In 2005, Michael Burry has come to believe the US housing market will soon collapse. Seeing an opportunity, he bets against the market with the banks. When banker Jared Vennett hears of Burry’s prediction, he sees an opportunity to make money too, teaming up with Mark Baum and his associates at Morgan Stanley. At the same time, Charlie Geller and Jamie Shipley - minor players in a start-up garage company - also get wind of the plan and decide to get in on the action. Each of these three groups is betting on the total failure of the economy.
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This is an important and a very, very good film. Go watch it!
I just rewatched it and I think it's one of my favourite movies
It's certainly one of the most rewatchable movies I've seen in a long time
I thought it was a masterpiece
One of the best films of the past 5 years, highly recommended. It took a complex subject (the 2008 financial crash) and, at least in part, brought it down to where you could understand it for a short while. It's one of the few films I think every American, every Westerner, should watch at least twice. Combine it with the also excellent Margin Call and 99 Homes and you'll be ready to hang half of Wall Street and demand massive new regulations and active Watch Dog organizations.
I am really drawn to "The Big Short" because it does a pretty good job of explaining the collapse of the housing market in the USA. The performances were outstanding.
Kermode finally sees that the Other Guys is a great comedy, I remember at the time he really criticized it as a load of crap. That was such an underrated comedy and it deserved a comedy
Its a very hard story to tell, it could have been so so bad. Its a story that deserves telling well but needs to entertain at the same time. I really liked it
The 4th wall cutaways aren't just for humour. they're to explain something complex in enough depth for the audience to understand and stay engaged with the story.
I thought the margo Robbie selan gomez stuff was ironic. it was basically saying, here is someone you get your news from. here is someone you know more than the facts of wall street. it was sarcasm.
Such a good and important film. Funny, informative, moving. A masterpiece.
Cracking film, much better than Wolf of Wall Street, which pretends to condemn the lifestyle while glorifying it. The Big Short is like The Thick Of It meets The Social Network in terms of presentation.
Eh I disagree. I think Wolf of Wall Street is a more realistic film because it shows the reality of the evil people who caused the crash. Whereas the Big Short pretends that the people who bet against the crash were super sympathetic and morally concerned... I call B.S. on the Big Short.
Unfortunately there are so few financial films that they are compared with each other way more than they should be. Wolf of Wall Street is basically one man's life story. Almost everything in the Big Short is there to support the much bigger story about the role of banks, credit rating agencies, regulators etc. in causing the economic crisis
Don't think I've left the cinema so angry after a film. Enjoyed it though, seemed to be well explained.
"seemed to be well explained" LMAO
I remember lots of critics saying Scorsese was self-indulgent with 'The Wolf of Wall Street' because he didn't outrightly admonish Jordan Belfort's actions when the film came out but I honestly thought Mark Kermode would be smarter than to see it that way as well
"The Wolf of Wall Street" was indeed self-indulgent. Kermode was smart enough to point out its flaws.
Apparently you're not "smart enough" to understand that it's not about Scorsese not admonishing Jordan Belfort's actions and rather him going out of his way at times to almost praise them. Believe it or not there's a difference.
Great still shot here. Says a lot about each character...
Looking forward to seeing this tonight.
The film’s terrifically directed, well acted, well characterised, stylish & has A great realistic approach to the story. (90%) (4.5/5 stars) (positive)
The Big Short and Margin Call, two of the best examples of how film can catalogue world events, make complex ideas accessible, and entertain, in a way no other medium can.
For film students, the two films, side by side, become an excellent lesson in how tone and intent are everything.
Is it me or is the Big Short clip slightly sped up? All the voices sound a bit squeaky
I like how you get to these reviews at a slow pace. Movies aren't going anywhere. You'll review it when you have the time.
I’m about to start watching it for the 10th time. It LITERALLY gets better with every watch
Are you watching the real life version going on (Canadian Commercial Real Estate Market) or rewatching the movie?
Went to see this last week, for it being sort of a "mockumentary", I found it riveting. I don't know if that says more about me, than the film.
I misread the title as a review of the Bigg Maket in Newcastle by Kermode. That would be interesting!
still not seen... adding to my watchlist/wish list now! been meaning to, ever since i 1st heard of it & especially since it got so many nominations & awards... i just didn't prioritise it so much @ the time b/c a film about the financial crash wasn't something that especially appealed to me @ the time, but hey, i did study economics @ university, so sort of should be a little more interested/motivated, find it more compelling/alluring really! can't wait now 😊🎥🎞📽🎬❤😍
Amazing film. Just watched it on DVD. Wow.
I agree with Mark. I enjoyed the movie a lot so when they went to the celebrity cuts outside of the first one it took me out of the flow of the movie. Otherwise I enjoyed it a lot.
"THE FRISSON OF HORROR" (1972, Hammer) was awesome.
This was the most tangled and slightly confusing review Kermode ever gave
Brilliant film everyone who think the financial crash was caused by Gordon Brown should watch it. How come we didn’t jail bankers?
Gordon Brown relaxed the regulations on the banks. Some American banks actually transferred operations to the UK so that they could exploit what Brown had done.
@@minsapint8007 Gordon Brown did not relax regulations on the banks. The deregulation that led to 2008 was done around 1987. All Gordon Brown did was transfer control of interest rates from the Treasury Office to the Board of the Bank of England, which was sort of momentus in a historc kind of way, but had absolutely no real world effect.
I agree that he had 11 years in which to tighten up the banking regulation and completely failed to do so, which makes him equally culpabable, but the claim he was the one to deregulate the banks in the first place is completely false, despite how often it is repeated.
@@jmackmcneill The first thing Brown did as chancellor was remove all regulatory powers from the BoE.
Ryan gosling is actually funnier then a lot off comedians in movies ,the nice guys is so underrated
best to watch alone with subtitles so you can pause and google every 5 minutes to work it all out
I like Margin Call more than The Big Short but the latter is much more accessible and entertaining.
Kermode's review is spot on save he should have asked why Christian Bales now only does EXTREME characters. I mean when is he going to just do a nuanced performance and not chew up the scenery agin and again. This is a very challenging and brilliant film. In the end I didn't quite get Bales' journey despite his Hard Work. Nice to see Ralph Spall sit there amongst them...
Brilliant film 👏
My biggest problem with the movie actually was that they basically glossed over Fannie may and Freddy mac.
Basically they portrayed the whole thing as the typical corporate greed (which there was plenty of) and didn't even mention that the loans originally came from the government and bad social policy
I still love this film.
I thought Big Short was a really gripping movie. Mark, solid review, but you spoiled one of the better scenes in the movie by revealing the Brad Pitt character's monologue. It's not a huge spoiler but I'm glad I watched this review after seeing it.
this was a fine film. and I know movies so anyone who disagrees is sort of not on the page...
that makes you come off very obnoxious...
+Kalle Saarinen If you stop and think about it, this is how film critisism works. My trolling was a mighty ruse to show the ugly underbelly of how we give points to art in society. I'm going to start a collective.
From the clip I have to say:The camera work is quite annoying.
This was the number one worst thing about the film by far! Interesting story and acting but hated the way it was shot.
Samuel Rojas
It really makes you aware of people handling the camera, which becomes kinda fourth wall breaking, and it still doesn't have a clean artificiality which simply makes it nicer to look at (Wes Anderson comes to mind) it just a sum of negatives for me.
Painfully when it comes to movies people never really seem to talk about the actual MOVIE making.
+PauLtus B It's done specifically like that to give it a documentary feel I thought.
Jonathan Ellis
"A documentary feel" is fine when you're actually trying to make a fake documentary. Otherwise it just looks like there's really someone handling the camera, but within the movie there isn't anyone handling the camera, so it breaks the reality of it.
And if someone were to make a documentary about this, it would be shot more solid than this.
@@PauLtus_B This might be a bit late, but when you're watching the movie you get used to it. It actuallt gets pretty immersive. The chaotic nature of the camera work and editing captures the chaos of the financial system. It also changes based off of the tone of the scene or moment. Can't say the same for vice though, that just felt obnoxious
Wolf of wallstreet is ok movie but sadly stresses the insane lifestyle of these guys and how illegal their activities were. The Big short is a Masterpiece which explains what went wrong and why. Another Masterpiece about the 2008 crisis is margin call and I must Say it is more engaging for audience than the Big short.
How Mark Kermode describes Brad Pitt's cameo role is the same as Brad Pitt's cameo role in 12 years a slave, the "voice of conscience". Just found that interesting for some reason.
"Meet Joe Black" as well.
Margin call remade.
I don't think this was as good as The Wolf of Wall Street, and if that movie's a 9/10 in my books, then this one was an 8/10.
+Nadav Drewe 5/10? Christ. 9/10.
this has strippers
i worked 17 yrs in high finance in London/Frankfurt, and i turned Wolf Wall St off half way in because i lived that life in part and so the movie wasnt at all interesting to me. Throwing dwarves across a room? grow up. I kind of regret all the excesses and nonsense. Strip joints at 4am on a tuesday...so what? it was synthetic bs. What i should have been doing whilst wearing my expensive suit is listening to the Big Short guys, because i too would have loved to have profited from banking armegeddon. Big Short is a far superior movie to me for that reason, but also it tells how pitches and ideas are bought and sold.
You're not supposed to empathize with the guys in the wolf of wall street, it was satire, you're supposed to find their behavior repulsive. So your criticism doesn't apply very well. I hated the characters in that movie and yet I still enjoyed the movie because I enjoy grim satire.
I agree with the changes of pace in the movie, when dumb celebs start explaining the movie sequence of a financial crisis. Any ways liked the one with chef Bourdain ... crude and right to the point. BASTERDS!
Nothing in this movie illegal? Really? Then the laws were applied too loosely!
The Big Short seems to be one of those films that attempt to match form with function; that is the film’s persona is as arrogant as the bankers it is portraying. I kind of like that myself a bit, but I can imagine that it would wind up plenty of people.
However, my main problems with The Big Short are two-fold. First, is that the explanation of the banking crash of 2008 has been known for at least six years now and anyone who really cares would surely already know this stuff. The second, is that the film is somewhat patronising and I felt it was treating me like I’m an idiot, which is something else I already know.
+BakehousePictures It’s all been said before though, and in much better films. If you want to know the facts then see the documentary ‘Inside Job’, or if you want a dramatisation check out ’99 Homes’ or ‘Margin Call’. All of those are miles better than ‘The Big Short’, which in comparison just has rich celebrities talking as through the audience is entirely made up of three-year-olds. Honestly, you can do a lot better than ‘The Big Short’ which brings nothing new to the party.
+BakehousePictures If you've not seen 'Margin Call' then I think you're in for a real treat. Hope you love it.
Goodness this film was interminable. Not to mention it has some of the very worst usage of licensed music I’ve ever heard, almost as if it was intentionally badly done.
I'm not sure it 100% worked as a film (in part because despite the film's best efforts it is hard to follow what it happening at times), and I don't think it'll be among my favourite films of the year come December, but it is still a fascinating watch. It should probably be shown to any Labour politician who spinelessly went along with the 'Labour caused the recession' BS. And then they should be made to eat their cinema ticket (just because it might make me feel a bit better).
I highly prefer Wolf of Wall Street to this (if we acceot that the comparison is legitimate in the first place). The movie basically pointed out the origin of the state of our society today, including the financial crisis, which is nothing else than built upon the greed and excess by not only the bankers and hedge fund manager, who probably knew what they were doing, but the general population who threw common sense away and tried to get more and more.
On the other hand, i found the Big Short neither funny or witty at any given time (extreme overuse of 4th wall breaks), nor did i find it educational.
The Big Short is way too didactic. Rather than showing the story, the characters literally talk at you. As a comparison, I preferred Margin Call, which I think is a more appropriate comparison to this rather than the Wolf of Wall Street.
If they guys behind Margin Call had adapted The Big Short, it would have been brilliant, but probably watched by fewer people than the current version.
Decent film.
so much better than WoWS
A bit political, and formulaic, but frightful fun.
I felt like by having Margot Robbie and Selena Gomez explain the technical aspects it just shows that the director doesn't respect the audience enough to understand what's going on which is the opposite to Margin Call and also the book
I don't think that is the case. There will be a big audience that would get lost with the lingo, it isnt simple to follow. Also when this happened, no one really knew what happened.
+BaconBaconBaconable You can't expect the audience to know what a synthetic CDO is going into the movie - especially when a lot of this jargon was deliberately meant to be difficult to understand. It's really hard thinking of a better way to explain that to the audience without stepping out of a film for a little bit.
+BaconBaconBaconable Michael Lewis did a very good job with his fantastic book, but reading it I couldn't even imagine how it could be made into a movie. The characters are great and the book is fascinating and funny, but there's all that necessary explaining of the financial stuff - it doesn't exactly scream "Cinematic!" Different format, different challenges.
Having people explain terms directly to the audience in a movie is a bit like using a footnote in a book (where stuff can more easily be explained in the regular text as well). Most people really aren't familiar with financial jargon, so having them explained also in the movie makes perfect sense. It's like translating a word from a foreign language: helpful, not even remotely disrespectful. It never felt disrespectful in the book, either. In both, that stuff needed to be explained though, and in both metaphors and the like were used to do that.
Margin Call is a good drama, but it's not informative. It didn't even really try to explain this stuff, so it didn't have the challenges The Big Short had.
+BaconBaconBaconable It's to try and emulate the book. The director uses breaking the fourth wall as a replacement for the footnotes which were used to largely the same effect in the book.
To save everyone some time, he liked it. That's literally all you'll get from this video.
Does Kermode just pronounce names incorrectly on purpose? McKay and Ferrell... there's 2 ways to say those names, he always chooses the wrong one.
Can't stand fourth wall breaking
Great film but too long.
Would have been a much punchier hour and a half.
The Wolf of Wall Street was a masterpiece. No one will remember this terrible movie in 10 years time. Leo gives a better performance than the 4 main actors in TBS COMBINED.
Wolf of Wall Street a masterpiece? It was american pie meets Wall Street , good? Yes.. Masterpiece hell no.
+Memento Mori Yep, people will forget about what the movie was about and in 10 years time we'll have another crush. Yay humanity!
+Memento Mori Pathetic trolling
"My quantities guy" too funny. The Director isn't too sure whether he is making a Comedy or a Documentary. Steve Carrell was awful, only Christian Bale comes out of this Film with any sort of credit. 99 Homes is a far superior film with excellent performances by Andrew Garfield and Michael Shannon, please catch it whilst you can.
Sorry Mark I normally agree with your reviews, just not this one.
Ryan Gosling was the only good thing about this awful movie. Bale and Carell were terrible. How Bale got an Oscar nomination for this I will never know.
Yeah this was a bore, wolf of wall street was so much better.
It's this year's American Hustle. A terribly goofy movie with awful haircuts and attention seeking performances from the entire cast. Mckay is no Scorsese and none of the cast is as good as Leonardo DiCaprio. It's so cringeworthy seeing Gosling rip off the Jordon Belfort character in Wolf of Wall Street. Sorry Mark but you're way off the 'mark' here lol! The Big Short was generic as hell as was Margin Call.