The Big Short

Categorize this as "docutainment." It explains the housing market collapse of 2008 with dry humor and aplomb.

This film blew me away, the entertainment, the audacity (of trying to explain complex finance), the exuberance, the wonderful directing/ writing/ editing/ acting.The film simply "works".

Old radical tradition lives in Hollywood. But is this a radical film?

The Big Short has a vital importance in my life, because it is the first movie which I walked out during the intermission in my life. I enjoy movies such as The Wolf of Wall Street, Moneyball, but since The Big Short has no entertainment value, it is a different type of a film.

I am rating this movie a full 10 because there was nothing wrong with it at all. It has a lot of technical jargon, but they explain the relevant stuff - even breaking the fourth wall - so that anyone can understand what they are talking about.

The first portion was a little bit confusing and awkward for me. After all I'm quite new to the details of many business terms.

Adam McKay may be known for nothing more than Anchorman, Step Brothers, and The Other Guys. However, he subverts his image into Oscar nominated form with a look at the Housing Bubble Crash of the mid- 2000s.

Moving right along with these Best Picture nominees. According to IMDb, The Big Short is about:"Four denizens in the world of high-finance predict the credit and housing bubble collapse of the mid-2000s, and decide to take on the big banks for their greed and lack of foresight.

The Big Short took boring subjects and made them entertaining to watch. This movie focuses a lot in economy but the director found a way to make this subject easy to understand by constantly breaking the fourth wall.