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>And the most accurate part of the movie was that it showed the anguish that each of these people went through. They'd seen something no one else had, been right about it, had the event happen and even then everyone else continued to plug their ears and pretend nothing was going on while they continued to bleed money each month. It really did a good job of showing that you can be right about everything and still not make money if the rest of the market continues to act insane.

You mean: it showed the part where the assholes had grabbed control of the government and rigged the market, pointing a gun to the head of the world economy, so that their idiotic bets would pay out by force, thus penalizing everyone who had bet on the facts, right?




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