Episode 21 - The Big Short

The 2015 Academy darling "The Big Short" focuses on a band of
sanctimonious Wall Street traders. The director of
"Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues" and "The Other Guys," Adam
McKay, has now decided that he’s a serious auteur filmmaker all
the sudden. He took the very complicated subject of the 2007
market collapse and dumbed it down as much as possible to the
point where the movie ends up being exceptionally boring and
convoluted.


Throughout this film, numerous celebrity cameos tell us how high
finance works. We suggest a few celebrities who they should they
should have added into the mix.


The author of the story, Michael Lewis, habitually needs to turn
every person he writes about into an eccentric underdog
caricature when they are anything but. We're sorry, but the
people who work at the top banks in world are not the little guy.
These people aren't Robin Hoods. Yes, they stole from the rich,
but instead of giving to the poor they lined their own pockets.


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