Saw it yesterday. Very good movie. Everybody turned in a solid acting job, but by far Steve Carell stole the show and turned in the best performance. He deserves a Best Actor nomination. Not a GREAT movie. But a very solid/good one. Would have been a lesser movie if not for Carell's performance. 7.5 or 8/10.
It's kinda deceiving. You see the preview and the billing, and you would think that Christian Bale is the main character. He's not. If anything, Carell is the main character, and Bale/Gosling play the supporting roles. But I guess Bale would be considered the lead, simply because he's the bigger star. Carell I think will be the front runner to win Best Supporting. Best Actor this year is LIKELY gonna go to Leo.
It aint that he is the bigger star, but it's just who is billed as the lead and has the most screen time.
Seemed like a decent movie but don't understand anything about US housing-markets or sub-prime loans or CDOs or Triple A's or other credit-swaps. Bale was/is better than Carell.
What do you mean? As an actor? Yes, Bale is a better actor than Carell, and Bale has much stronger overall performances. Is he better than Carell in this particular movie? No, Carell carried the movie. I wasn't overly impressed with Bale's performance in The Big Short.
Christian Bale as Michael Burry - yes. Far less screen-time but much more interesting a character. Carell just plays that idiot off the The Office like in everything else he does.
Saw it yesterday. The movie is worrisome. I mean they are fucking the US citizens over for 5 trillion dollars and pretty much everybody is too stupid to understand how the hell something like this is even possible and not much has been done to prevent it from happening again. And then the majority in the US thinks socialism is bad... ::
Of course - I'm only saying that even by watching the movie which keeps things relatively simple you sit there and wonder. Ok what exactly is happening. I haven't heard of a CDO before let alone a synthetic one, but maybe i'm just uneducated.
