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Cracking film. Best film of the year but won't win best film. DeCaprio's one i think is a shoe in. But i would highly recommend seeing this one. Shows how the crash happened but its put together very well. Some great acting in it. Bale is class as usual. Steve Carell is excellent as well. Great film in a year for the first time in a while that there has been at least three excellent films. Spotlight, the big short, the revenant are quality.
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Any popcorn?
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Anyone seen Nightmare on Wall Street or read the book ? film was early 2000 and stared an unknown Christian Bale this dealt with the mid eighties, bankers becoming traders and bond fraud ect ect ,predicted future probs as a result of ,the Big Short sounds like an update
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st Joseph's caramel/orange
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bad for yer teeth
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saw revenant last week 8/10
disappointed with Wall Street film 5/10 will defo see big short |
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twas more the content and message ,liked the book but many did not but twas very informative imo
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it isn't st Joseph's
 https://www.joeandsephs.co.uk |
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aye ,st joes popcorn
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what school did you go to ?
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In April 2015, Navinder Singh Sarao, a London-based point-and-click trader,was arrested for his alleged role in the flash crash.
Nav Sarao Futures Limited, allegedly made more than $40 million in profit from trading during the Flash Crash. All from the basement of his Mums semi in Hounslow - that's the way to do it..... |
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Bale reminds me of Gary Oldman always seems unhinged. His best film is American Psycho.
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Hiya Kweku mate ...how's things?
Can I have your FT when you've finished with it ? sure Ron ...no probs. Oh ..by the way - what you on mate - LONG mate ..I'm LONG in the market but been telling the boys above I should be SHORT ! UBS today was forced to admit an unidentified trader — who a person familiar with the matter said was Kweku Adoboli – racked up $2 billion in losses on unauthorized trades. Can't wait to see the film ....  A couple of other good films to watch if you're into trading .. ARBITRAGE MARGIN CALL |
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Margin Call is very good. Inside Job(documentary) is excellent.
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Never heard of Arbitrage will take a look. Richard Gere Susan Sarardon looks good.
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glad you liked it anfeild, went with a couple of friends from out of town who knew little about the subprimes and they liked it and were dutifully outraged etc.
however it was a deliberately misleading narrative with some fairly blatant political propaganda shoved in, and i get the feeling star wars (the other option showing) would have been more true to life. the carrell performance was a bit comical, like a mopey, pouting child moaning about how it's all so unfair, was almost expecting him to run off and tell on all these meanies to his mum. highlights: the clumsy line shoved in at the end about someone blaming it all on immigrants and poor people, almost like someone went to the trouble of making a multi million dollar movie just to have a go at something trump never said the pub scene in england which apparently was the only place a multi millionaire could get wifi (could happen  ) but was expecting eliza doolittle to waltz in with some proper cockney whatchmicaulit knock it on the ed mate wots you yankies onabout apples and pears wot wot.the general premise that short sellers and the creators of toxic derivative markets who were either years off in their predictions or blundered into these instuments are implied as the heroes of the piece. |
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And another film I forgot to mention ...which really spells out the truth behind te 2008 economic crisis .and the demise of Lehman Bros.
TOO BIG TO FAIL Fantastic film. |
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An observation ...the big problem with all the Banks/Financial Institutions is GREED.
Look back in History... every so often they (Banks/Financial Institutions) get suckered in with the promise of BIG RETURNS and jump on a bandwagon. In my lifetime we've had :- 1) The South American Banking Crisis (caused the demise of Midland Bank). 2) L.T.C.M. (Long Term Capital Management) nearly brought down the whole of the Western Banking system. 3) 2008 Crash ..Banks trading CLO's (Collateralised Loan Obligations) and CDO's (Collateralised Debt Obligations) Collateral ..what phucking Collateral - grossly over pricd American Property nicely parcelled up for Banks to trade ! What's next ???? |
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poor film, if you are interested you will will know more than film tells you already, Inside job, enron, smartest guys in the room etc
taken almost 10 years to get here, bit late to party. |
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And another ..but I think it's only out on DVD
BRITAINS TRILLION POUND HORROR STORY Learn just how deep sh it this Countries economy is in ...  |
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Director / writer on This Week now
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going to see it today
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just saw it
a lot of good one-liners even getting the money after the short was risky |
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The Big Short is now favourite for the best picture Oscar after winning the Producers Guild award. Chit chat leads the way! Hope you all got the 10/1; I did not.
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Saw it Saturday morning
Give it 7.5 to 8 Its not a comedy The film flies by Some of the actors talk direct to the camera Bit like "Lovejoy" The theme reminds me of The Hustle Entertaining Didnt think it would win an Oscar Lay the 5-4 |
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"Didnt think it would win an Oscar"
Surprised what films do win sometimes. Very surprised BIRDMAN won last year. I didn't really get that film at all, flew right over me. |
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Watched it last night. Thought it was very good, mixture of black comedy and seriousness. Bale was excellent
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I nearly watched this last night but we ended up watching American Psycho again instead (sh!te but Bale typically excellent.) Didn't realise he was in this too.
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nearly watched isn't good enough to get on thread
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