{"id":5533,"date":"2010-11-15T22:58:35","date_gmt":"2010-11-16T02:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/?p=5533"},"modified":"2010-11-15T22:58:35","modified_gmt":"2010-11-16T02:58:35","slug":"inside-job-movie-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/2010\/11\/15\/inside-job-movie-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside Job&#8211;Movie Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/image\/stars\/35o5.gif\" alt=\"3.5 Stars\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1645089\/\"><em>Inside Job<\/em><\/a> is a documentary about the financial collapse of 2008. This is (God help me) the second serious-minded documentary that I have reviewed in the space of a month. (The other was <a href=\"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/2010\/10\/16\/waiting-for-superman-movie-review\/\"><em>Waiting for Superman<\/em><\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>When I started this blog I was determined that it was not going to contain anything serious&#8211;no politics, no economics, no rants about software, nothing. The last thing I want is to manage the sort of blog that collects thousands of comments all flaming each other. That&#8217;s fine if you enjoy it, but it&#8217;s not my purpose here. So I&#8217;m going to try to focus on just one question: is this movie entertaining?<\/p>\n<p>The answer is yeah, possibly, in the same way that a documentary about a train wreck or the Titanic can be entertaining. Charles MacKay published <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Extraordinary-Popular-Delusions-Madness-Crowds\/dp\/1453690298\"><em>Extraordinary Popular Delusions and The Madness of Crowds<\/em><\/a> back in 1841 and it&#8217;s been selling steadily ever since. The Sub-Prime Bubble surely ranks there with the Tulip Mania and the South Sea Bubble as one of history&#8217;s greatest episodes of mass stupidity. <\/p>\n<p>Does the movie do a good job of explaining it? It probably does about as good a job as can be done in movie format. It oversimplifies a bit and maybe takes a couple of cheap shots, but on the whole the facts speak for themselves. Still, a book can do a better job of covering this sort of thing. If you are interested, Michael Lewis&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Big-Short-Inside-Doomsday-Machine\/dp\/0393072231\"><em>The Big Short<\/em><\/a> is probably the best so far.<\/p>\n<p>Or for the latest update, see <a href=\"http:\/\/brickmuppet.mee.nu\/our_situation....explained\">this<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inside Job is a documentary about the financial collapse of 2008. This is (God help me) the second serious-minded documentary that I have reviewed in the space of a month&#8230;. <a href=\"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/2010\/11\/15\/inside-job-movie-review\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[398],"class_list":["post-5533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","tag-inside-job"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5533"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5539,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5533\/revisions\/5539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}