Why so much hype?

Crappy film

Wow! What a bizarre film! Unfortunately the few funny moments there were were quite overshadowed by it's completely weird and random vibe throughout.

Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

It is rare that modern American movie making is both accurate and honest. This movie is. To be clear: it is a movie ... with a written script; well acted and the story remains fairly clear throughout. The descriptions of the relevant financial products are concise yet educational. The premise of adding complexity in Finance to obscure both reality and value are correct. I thoroughly recommend this movie to all. It is both historically educational and rewarding as a film in its own right.

'The Big Short (2015)' takes a unique approach when trying to communicate its complex jargon and ideas - that being that it slots in celebrity cameos wherein the star straight-up tells you the definition of a specific term in the simplest way possible - and what that does is dilute the density of the piece without necessarily dumbing it down. This can occasionally seem like pandering, though, despite that it fits into the flick's overall fast-paced, free-flowing and fourth-wall nudging aesthetic. The picture commendably manages to make the somewhat dry source-material, or rather subject-matter, interesting and even, to an extent, engaging. It focuses on a set of characters that seem realistic and rounded enough to warrant our empathy when they're given the screen time to earn it. The film does become a little too unfocused and slightly cold in the long run, which prevents it from being any more investing than it is. 7/10

For those who lived through it, we all knew how this ended so the story really is the why did it hsppen? And there is plenty of explanation here. Except the government is almost totally left out of the story. I read somewhere Clinton's deregulation in the '90s led to the subprime crisis in 2007/08. Anyhow, well worth a watch especially for those who didn't live through it.

At first, I thought this was one of those films in which the small-time heroes took the opportunity that not so many people noticed in the 2008 economic crisis and got rich. But it was not that simple, the guys who were pretty much, aholes at first, turned out to be the only ones those who cared for anything in the f**ked up Wallstreet. No one made money like they expected and simply by some turn of events, the whole corrupt and stupid system always tries to f**k up the common people and anyone who's not big enough. The cameos and the 4th wall breaking kept the narrative a fresh feeling and to a point was also educating. At the end, we see the rich get richer the poor get poorer and the guilty go free and this is a true story. Yet the blame is on immigrants and the poor. The stupidity of people is astonishing and the guy who predicted and invested in the economic crisis is investing on the water right now, that got to be taken seriously.