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Baloney - too stupid to watch

posted 13 years ago by bruce-129
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From what I am seeing on the videos at You-Tube they actors are talking about how we averted a huge crisis and how the guys you might think are the bad guys are really the heroes ....

this is another BS job from the guy who brought us the West Wing ... which I liked, but it was not heavy-duty propaganda and disinformation like this horrible POS sounds like.

The thing is that we did not avert an unmitigated catastrophe, and things are worse, what was TOO BIG TO FAIL then, it EVEN BIGGER NOW!

And this typical moronic Hollywood BS ... and what I mean is if you look at any Hollywood "true story" and then examine the facts in the story, this is disgusting.

Save your money and your time and go watch the Academy Award winning documentary "Inside Job"!

[–] TrentinaNE 13 years ago

this is another BS job from the guy who brought us the West Wing

Aaron Sorkin wrote The West Wing. This new movie is based on a book by Andrew Ross Sorkin, http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3376444/,who is a reporter for the New York Times. They don't apppear to be related.

[–] bruce-129 13 years ago

Ooops, my mistake. Guess I should have sorkin'ed out the different Sorkins.

[–] buzzellit 13 years ago

You obviously didnt see this film. The final message at the end Sums up the fact that although Hank Paulson had good intentions the private sector pretty much banged him hence why we didnt start making any real recovery until 2010

[–] bruce-129 13 years ago

Seeing as how the release date was today, no, I did not see the movie.
Did you?
I don't care what they said try to make Henry Paulson look good, I have no
respect for someone who extorted the US government for a trillion dollars
with no responsibility. They do not even know where that money went,
except a lot of it went into paying off bonuses ... for people who did not
deserve them.

[–] jdarlas2001 13 years ago

The US Government extorts money from us every day, its called taxes.

[–] bruce-129 12 years ago

I'm OK with paying taxes, it's not extortion to me. Those who feel paying taxes is extortion are too poor or too selfish to be much help the country anyway, losers.

[–] uvl 13 years ago

There were frighteningly few options. Paulson initially wanted to keep government money out the bailouts, but circumstances kept painting him into a different corner.

Respect him, don't respect him. I don't think anyone cares. Civilization did not collapse, and at least for now, that is the most important thing to me.

And yes, I just finished watching the movie. I don't know how much is totally factual, and how much is drama, but it's damned entertaining and gave me a sense of the potential disaster.

[–] mmack66 13 years ago

OP, don't sell yourself short.

[–] essex9999 13 years ago

As the movie makes plain, financial collapse was imminent - literally within days. There was very little time to come up with a plan to avert disaster. Maybe you don't remember the fall of 2008, but I do. People seriously feared, and with reason, that we were on the brink of another Great Depression.

As it happened, we had a bad recession, and it's true that we really don't know whether the bailouts did any good or not. But, in fact, a depression WAS a possibility and it DIDN'T happen, so apparently something somebody did actually worked to prevent utter collapse.

[–] Druff 12 years ago

Seeing as how the release date was today, no, I did not see the movie.

But you didn't let a little thing like that stop you from forming an opinion about it. A boorish and hard-assed opinion at that.

[–] Ezel 13 years ago

From what I am seeing on the videos at You-Tube they actors are talking about how we averted a huge crisis and how the guys you might think are the bad guys are really the heroes ....

For fraks sake, see the movie instead of starting a thread like this, especially since you are dead wrong.

[–] roarmeister2 12 years ago

Re: Baloney - too stupid to watch

Are you saying this movie is stupid or that you are too stupid?

[–] bruce-129 12 years ago

if you were as smart as you think you are you could determine that from the context. If you were as funny as you think you are you would not be spending your time trying to make smart remarks on a post that is over a year old.

[–] roarmeister2 12 years ago

These boards are as relevant as the day you read them not necessarily when they are posted. Since the movie, show, etc. could be seen at any time and commented at any time, the threads are always valid. People come to read and reply to messages no matter the date. You bothering to coming back to reply to me is evidence enough of that.

In other words you really are that stupid.

[–] IMDbeans 12 years ago

You're right - this film was highly unrealistic with a completely unconvincing script and casting.

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[–] bruce-129 12 years ago

No - the key event was W. Bush cutting taxes when we were 6 trillion dollars in debt your sarcastic idiot. But don't let me deflate your anti-Obama rant, you don't care about facts anyway. Cause and effect, the tax-cut led directly to over-spending, over-leveraging and over-borrowing - and UNDER TAXING.

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[–] sturmv 11 years ago

I completely agree.

Paulson is a crook, doing favors to Blankfein and other Goldman fellows with public resources. This is politics, it's all about getting and keeping power and with that, money. That's it.

[–] estella2 8 years ago

I agree. It is baloney. When I first watched it I thought it was interesting and mostly factual....until months later when I saw the movie "The Big Short" and read up on Warren Buffett and his subprime mortgage scams. read about how he is still doing it http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/times-watchdog/minorities-exploited-by-warren-buffetts-mobile-home-empire-clayton-homes/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=article_left