I was too dumb to really enjoy Adam McKay‘s The Big Short when it first came out in late ’15. It made me feel like an ignoramus…my head was concurrently spinning and stalling and slowing down from being covered in liquid chewing gum. But after several viewings I gradually came around, and now I love this fucking film.
It took me three or four years to start watching portions late at night, and gradually enjoying them more and more as I went along. I now like it almost as much as Margin Call.
I still have problems with the opening 25 or 30 minutes (Christian Bale‘s Michael Burry, a barefooted genius analyst who looks stoned half the time, still drives me crazy), but once Ryan Gosling‘s Jared Vennett steps in and becomes a regular presence, it’s all good.
