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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Margin Call
bpollen — 9 years ago(July 21, 2016 01:24 PM)
For one who likes these sorts of technical movies (I do), this is a gripping, spellbinding movie. The acting is superb by ALL throughout. Never a group of grimy, greedy guys has there ever been, no doubt. Sheesh.a harsh, cruel world those guys operate in. Barely human. All about money and nothing else. Until the end.
HIGHLY recommend this.
Watch it as a flip side to The Big Short, is a view of the crises from a different angle. Equally gripping with superb acting by all. Possibly even better. Certainly explains the problem better than Margin Call, although in Margin Call the details of the securities don't really matter. It's what the people DO that is the important thing.
Watching both of these gives us a good picture of what went down.
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mathmaniac — 9 years ago(January 19, 2017 04:30 PM)
Not a Kevin Spacey fan here. But I did really enjoy 'The Big Short.' I thought it did a much better job of explaining the subprime crisis than anything else I have seen. Best of all, I appreciated the reference to the people who were really hurt the most by the financial disaster - the ordinary guy (who becomes homeless when his rent has been going to a landlord who got a subprime mortgage).