The Big Short.

It's not 'It's a Wonderful Life'- I haven't managed to get hold of a copy of that film and the only things left on my blog list for the year are films which have been within the last year.

The Big Short staring Christian Bale, Ryan Gosling, Steve Carell and Brad Pitt. Released around the same time as 'The Revenant' and therefore did not win the Oscar for 'Best Actor' because that was claimed by Leonardo DiCaprio at his fifth time of asking. With a cast like this you hardly need to spend time talking about the quality of acting, Bale and Pitt have featured so many times on this blog that there is no reason to spend time repeating myself. Let us move on to the actual movie.

Favourite line from the film- 'Politely go and tell them to Fuck Off'. I love the idea that you can politely tell someone to do that when the point of swearing is that it isn't polite in any way.
Thing most liked about the film- The Soundtrack. A cover of Nirvana's 'Lithium', Metallica's 'Enter Sandman' and some other death metal makes for a fantastic soundtrack. This film didn't have death metal soundtrack written all over the cover so it was a pleasant surprise that I found some really great songs in the soundtrack. The feature of Andrew Lloyd Webber's famous 'The Phantom of the Opera' was something marvelous. Both the show and the music are incomparable to any other musical ever seen on the west end.

In a film like this, a film all about money I would almost expect to see Bradley Cooper featuring because this film has a 'Limitless' feel without the drugs. Then again because 'Limitless' was so fantastic it seemed fitting to not have him staring in a film all about making a lot of money and conning people in the money world. Ryan Gosling fills the shoes left by Cooper with excellence and superiority. A different role but one that could almost mirror the typical role taken on in almost every film about making money.

Stunning soundtrack makes for a fantastic film.