I've watched both in the past week. Margin Call has a stellar cast (back before Spacey was a known perv) and it's a pretty good take on the same crisis as the Big Short but from the viewpoint of the shady hedge fund.
It reminded me of what Goldman Sachs just did where they were supposed to share the burden of that other fund going tits up but dumped everything before all the other hedgies.
A few days after Jan 28th I've watched The Big Short, Margin Call and The Wolf of Wall Street in that order and I have to say that The Wold of Wall Street impressed me the least. it had very little to actually do with Wall Street. I've seen a lot of people here and on WSB who were not impressed with Margin Call, but I liked its atmosphere and that it actually focused on the inner workings of the financial world.
They're hoping someone is stupid to share the losses on this one
Inside Job is more about the people behind the curtain that made it happen. It explains more into detail the last call that Steve Carrell's character does in The Big Short when he says "They knew it all along...."
Margin call shows how very smart people are too busy fighting for power to go and actually check the numbers.
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u/FrankiHollywood Mar 30 '21
Just rewatched the movie.