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[Brandon]

Was it accurate that he predicted the whole thing?

By all accounts, yes.

I was never familiar with the secondary market/Wall Street/stock aspect of mortgages. I have a decent idea just from knowledge of experience, so I don't know all the details.

But yeah, it seems he did and the movie does a great job of addressing what happened from the perspective of no one ever bet against housing and he essentially created the aspect of swaps and derivatives (they don't mention derivatives in the movie, but I think it's basically the mortgage default swaps or variation that the movie details....I'm the book goes into greater detail). Derivatives were created where people bet against the market performing.

I started on the realtor, real estate side and even dumb me saw these housing prices going nuts on a day to day basis. Then got into mortgages and figured out why when they were handing out loans. From the realtor side it blew my mind I was selling 500k homes to 40k a year couples, so it didn't add up to me. But he was the one to go through the portfolio numbers and see the subprime mortgages in the AAA portfolios. I feel like a lot of people knew what was going on, he just seemed to be the first to bet they would fail which basically created the selling of these mortgage backed securities.

If Google Michael Burry he did an interview with New York Magazine that does a good job of keeping it simple describing what he saw and what happened.

[Amazing Larry]

I was an appraiser during the bubble and some of the crap I saw would blow peoples' minds. A lot of people saw the collapse from a mile away. I only wish I would have known how to gather resources and short the market the way Burry did. Like Brandon said, he's a smart dude.

The Fed has created the housing bubble 2.0 btw. This won't last forever.

[Amazing Larry]

So I spent the past month or so just watching a ton of movies from the 1930s.

The highlights:

The Awful Truth

The Thin Man

Angels with Dirty Faces

Trouble in Paradise

Ninotchka

The Public Enemy

Bringing Up Baby

Ruggles of Red Gap

The Blue Angel

Destry Rides Again

The Roaring Twenties

Holiday

Footlight Parade

Captain Blood

Scarface

Realized I'm a pretty big screwball comedy fan and enjoy some James Cagney as well

Love James Cagney and I enjoyed Scarface as well. Part of that movie was filmed at the opposite end of the Chatsworth railroad tunnel where the horrific Metrolink crash happened in 2008.

[Amazing Larry]

I recently watched The Reckless Moment. It's a 1949 noir movie based in Newport Beach. It has cool shots of the Balboa Pavillion and the rest of the harbor and surrounding area. Joan Bennett is great in it and it's available on YouTube for free.

[Redondo]

Halfway through Better Call Saul season 1

 

McGill sure finds unusual ways to get into trouble. Strange show, but liking it so far.

[IEAngelsfan]

So I spent the past month or so just watching a ton of movies from the 1930s.

 

 

The highlights:

 

The Awful Truth

The Thin Man

Angels with Dirty Faces

Trouble in Paradise

Ninotchka

The Public Enemy

Bringing Up Baby

Ruggles of Red Gap

The Blue Angel

Destry Rides Again

The Roaring Twenties

Holiday

Footlight Parade

Captain Blood

Scarface

 

 

Realized I'm a pretty big screwball comedy fan and enjoy some James Cagney as well

If you like screwball comedy, from the top of my head, here are a few you didn't list that are also excellent.

 

It Happened One Night

Topper

My Favorite Wife

His Girl Friday

Vivacious Lady

[Sam Sanchez]

If you like screwball comedy, from the top of my head, here are a few you didn't list that are also excellent.

 

It Happened One Night

Topper

My Favorite Wife

His Girl Friday

Vivacious Lady

Yeah, I love It Happened One Night and His Girl Friday as well. Would have to look into the others.

 

 

Others I like not mentioned above:

Palm Beach Story

Sullivan's Travels

To Be Or Not To Be

Midnight

Easy Living

 

 

Really loving a lot of Preston Sturges and Ernst Lubtisch films.

 

 

Also, after seeing a few The Thin Man movies, Libeled Lady, and Mr. Blandings Builds a Dream House, I've developed a crush on Myrna Loy.

[Lou]

Police chase

Right now

[gotbeer]

Police chase

Right now

 

Hope you got away, and didn't get caught like Soto.

[Redondo]

Just finished Better Call Saul season 1

 

What a different show to watch. Writers are all over the place and then tie it together.

 

Definitely will watch season 2 when it is available on Netflix

[Kevin]

Hope you got away, and didn't get caught like Soto.

Lou was just delivering newspapers. How many bullet holes?

[JAHV76]

Watched Run all Night. It's similar to Taken but the Cinematography is pretty good. I liked it.

[Lou]

When was the last time there was a police chase and it wasn't a bald Mexican?

Black guy

with dreads

[Lou]

Lou was just delivering newspapers. How many bullet holes?

Chale, they missed, esé

[mrwicked]

Watched Creed and Big Short on flights to/from the east coast.

Thought they were both fantastic.

 

Big Short was entertaining, but I thought they dumbed it down a tad too much. Granted it's a pretty boring subject matter so it makes sense why they did.

Creed was fun. I love every Rocky movie so I expected to enjoy it.

Edited April 7, 2016 by mrwicked

[ten ocho recon scout]

Even rocky 5?

[Tank]

yeah, rocky 5 wasn't worth the time.

[Brandon]

The one with Tommy Gunn!?!?!

I'd watch that again. I think the one after when he was washed up was the shitty one. The villain was a pro boxer that I can't remember. I think Tarver or Hopkins...someone good around that time.

[Tank]

yep, tommy gunn. didn't really like his character. he was too obnoxious for me.

Edited April 8, 2016 by Tank

[Lou]

I'm nobody's puppet! Nobody's boy! 

[ten ocho recon scout]

George washington duke...

[Jay]

American Idol finale, I enjoyed it.

[Redondo]

Started on the Blacklist due to someone here.

 

The story line is very good. But it's so far fetched. Raymond knows everything and everybody. They figure out things so fast, like in 30 minutes where other shows it takes 6 episodes. I will watch a couple more before deciding if I want to go 40+ episodes.

 

Anyone else have any input?

[ten ocho recon scout]

Karate kid 3

Lol. Forgot how stupid 80s movies could be. But theyre still the best. (Around)

[Slegnaac]

I stopped watching it about halfway through season 2. I just didn't care about any of the characters anymore.

I agree. There was some intrigue with season 1, but season 2 was boring and I gave it up early on.