#The Big Short (2015)

[naneki-maid]

I met my wife on Match.com. My profile said, “I am a medical student with only one eye, an awkward social manner, and $145,000 in student loans.” She wrote back, “You’re just what I’ve been looking for.” She meant honest.

The Big Short (2015)

[aeterna-auroral-avenger]

RG filmography movie suggestions 10/18

The Big Short Live Commentary (recommended once)

As a person who works in a very tiny, small town bank and as a person with a forensic accounting degree, when I watched the trailer, I was completely fascinated with this. Pretty sure I learned about this in my forensic accounting classes, so I'm glad I'm finally gonna watch a movie about it!

Also, RG with brown curls? ohmygosh...

Block #bigshortwatch to avoid spoilers

[10yearsofdnp]

June 14, 2015: I love when their daily(ish) tweets each perfectly sum up their personalities. Makes my job so much easier! 😅🍛🔤

[christianbalefanatic]

Christian Bale as Michael Burry in The Big Short (2015) dir. Adam McKay

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The Big Short (2015) Adam McKay

June 6th 2025

[deramin2]

Rewatching parts of Bros (2022) for a quote, & it is absolutely wild how this movie has already passed into the same historical shadow realm as Booksmart (2019), Cloudburst (2011), or The Big Short (2015) where I distinctly remember living in their time & culture, but it's firmly in the past.

I lived through the 2008 housing bubble, through what would turn out to be the final push for US marriage equality, through the world directly before COVID-19 slammed into us, and through mainstream acknowledgement of queer history and Pride so that we could enjoy interpersonal drama. All gone.

There is this kind of hope that only exists when you've mistaken the upward spike of a bubble about to collapse for the infinite promise of tomorrow. Where we just all really thought we had it all under control. Right before we didn't. Bathing in the radiant bright light of a star as it collapses.

It doesn't surprise me from older films like But I'm A Cheerleader (1999), Philadelphia (1993), or Torch Song Trilogy (1988). Oh course time would move on from those moments. Of course they're a little record of their own time receding. But 2022 feeling like a hazy lifetime ago is too soon.

I would give my gallbladder to return to queer people getting to argue among ourselves over "Was Abraham Lincoln gay?" or "Should we press to teach queer history to 2nd graders?"

Instead of, "There's been an injunction so get your federal ID papers together right fucking now to protect yourself."

Ah, the good old days before it all went wrong…

[horsegirl]

Looking over my personal records (letterboxd) to answer the favourite movies from each year ask game makes me feel like I’ve hardly watched any movies… I need to drop out and focus on watching movies

[gu6chan]

man........ i start thinking about my black butler days and a new rp blog of this one comes calling back to me like the devil

[radioregine]

between my older bestie obsessing over the man from uncle movie trio & my newer bestie obsessing over challengers and me agonizing over depicting the shift in some of my ocs from love triangle (ew, overplayed) to hinge poly relationship ... 2024 is the year of the fake tumblr throuple

[courseyoulovemeyoudontknowme]

The Big Short (2015, Adam McKay)

01/09/2024

[margotrobbieuniverse]

The Big Short - 2015

[allaegoriest]

i miss 2019 everybody misses 2019 if we concentrate hard enough we can shift the world consciousness i promise

[christianbalefanatic]

Christian Bale at the Hollywood Foreign Press Association press conference for The Big Short held in Beverly Hills, California (November 14, 2015) 

Re: Christian Bale as Michael Burry in The Big Short (2015) Director: Adam McKay

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[lotsafilms]

2016 Academy Award picks

Going back in time with my annual Oscars nominations! So I have seen 81 films (according to my IMDb) from 2015. Here is my ranking of the grand prize, along with my choices for each award along with runner-ups, ‘snubbed’ entries (1 per film) and the actual winners for lesser categories. Please keep in mind I haven't seen most of these in over 10 years!

Picture (ranked best to worst, with ratings): Mad Max: Fury Road - 9/10 Room - 9/10 The Revenant - 9/10 Spotlight - 8/10 The Martian - 7/10 Brooklyn - 7/10 The Big Short - 6/10 Bridge of Spies - 6/10

Director: BEST: George Miller – Mad Max: Fury Road RUNNER-UP: Alejandro G. Iñárritu – The Revenant SNUB: Denis Villeneuve - Sicario

Actor: BEST: Leonardo DiCaprio – The Revenant RU: Matt Damon – The Martian SNUB: Colin Farrell - The Lobster

Actress: BEST: Cate Blanchett – Carol RU: Brie Larson – Room SNUB: Charlize Theron - Mad Max: Fury Road

Supporting Actor: BEST: Sylvester Stallone – Creed RU: Mark Ruffalo – Spotlight SNUB: Idris Elba - Beasts of No Nation

Supporting Actress: BEST: Alicia Vikander – The Danish Girl RU: Rooney Mara – Carol SNUB: Phyllis Smith - Inside Out

Original Screenplay: BEST: Pete Docter, Meg LeFauve, Josh Cooley and Ronnie del Carmen - Inside Out RU: Josh Singer and Tom McCarthy - Spotlight SNUB: Robert Eggers - The VVitch

Adapted Screenplay: BEST: Charles Randolph and Adam McKay - The Big Short RU: Phyllis Nagy - Carol SNUB: Jesse Andrews - Me and Earl and the Dying Girl

Animated Feature: BEST: Inside Out RU: Shaun the Sheep Movie SNUB: The Little Prince

International Feature: SNUB: Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection 'F'

Documentary Feature: BEST: The Look of Silence SNUB: The Wolfpack

Documentary Short Subject: ACTUAL WINNER: A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness

Live Action Short: SNUB: Kung Fury

Animated Short: BEST: World of Tomorrow RU: Sanjay's Super Team SNUB: Riley's First Date?

Original Score: BEST: Jóhann Jóhannsson - Sicario RU: Ennio Morricone - The Hateful Eight SNUB: Shye Ben Tzur, Jonny Greenwood and the Rajasthan Express - Junun

Original Song: BEST: "Earned It" from Fifty Shades of Grey RU: "Writing's On The Wall" - Spectre SNUB: "See You Again" - Furious 7

Sound: BEST: Mad Max: Fury Road RU: The Revenant SNUB: The Hateful Eight

Cinematography: BEST: John Seale - Mad Max: Fury Road RU: Emmanuel Lubezki - The Revenant SNUB: Adam Arkapaw - Macbeth

Production Design: BEST: Mad Max: Fury Road RU: The Martian SNUB: Crimson Peak

Costume Design: BEST: Mad Max: Fury Road RU: The Revenant SNUB: Far from the Madding Crowd

Makeup and Hairstyling: BEST: Mad Max: Fury Road RU: The Revenant SNUB: The Danish Girl

Visual Effects: BEST: Mad Max: Fury Road RU: Star Wars: The Force Awakens SNUB: Chappie

Editing: BEST: Mad Max: Fury Road RU: The Big Short SNUB: Steve Jobs

[astonishinglysane]

Movies I’ve Watched - 2024

288/?: The Big Short (2015) - watched 10/8/24

I saw this in theatres and really liked it, but given how much I hate Vice and Don’t Look Up, I was worried it might have aged poorly. Thankfully, it hasn’t. Adam McKay’s style works perfectly for the subject matter here (if anything, his later movies only show that he doesn’t understand why it worked). This movie does a good job of making financial concepts easy to understand. It could have lost twenty minutes or so and only been the better for it (we don’t need to see every twist and turn of this saga), but it is a good movie.

THE BIG SHORT 2015

Truth is like poetry. And most people fucking hate poetry.