If you get a chance to watch it, most definitely do; it's truely excellent. I was riveted, I've already seen it twice.

Gives a really great explanation of exactly why TARP was needed.

I love Bill Maher.

I haven't seen Too Big to Fail. Maher makes good points but sometimes he can be a narrow minded bigot.

I want to see Too Big To Fail. I've heard it's good. Can't wait to see Hangover Part II also.

Bill Maher is the only reason I miss HBO. Never saw him perform bigotry. I know he's dry and crude. That's why I like him.

I miss Maher too but HBO had to go. Cable sucks in general. You have to pay for a dozen shitty channels just to get two decent ones.

Oldskool wrote:I miss Maher too but HBO had to go. Cable sucks in general. You have to pay for a dozen shitty channels just to get two decent ones.

Tell me about it. I would like the Outdoor Channel for all of the shooting shows that they have, but Charter bundles it with all of the sports channels that I neither want nor need.

Is "Too Big To Fail" a multi part thing? I don't subscribe to HBO so I have to wait for it to materialize on disc or get picked up elsewhere.

As far as cable sucking...so does satellite. I mentioned a la carte pricing to my lame ass congressional rep, but I think he is in the pocket of Comcast, so I know that is a wasted effort.

Wasn't there some a la carte business being discussed in the FCC at some point?

I would very much like the ability to pay only for the channels I actually watch and not pay for Faux News or Home Shopping Addiction type shit...

I read a review of this by some progressive blogger -- can't remember who -- who criticized it for being too sympathetic to the banksters and their government enablers.

Anything to that?

larrymod wrote:I read a review of this by some progressive blogger -- can't remember who -- who criticized it for being too sympathetic to the banksters and their government enablers.

Anything to that?

I haven't seen it but have it on DVR. I heard a similar critique but mainly regarding Hank Paulson. The reviewer said that the movie made him come off as kind of dumb, but sympathetic. HBO has made some decent documentaries and docudramas, but I am not expecting too much since cable and communication companies typically tow the corporate line.

I cannot imagine how anyone on Wall St. could be painted sympathetically in this situation. I was listening to the Daily Show from a couple of weeks ago and they were talking about how Goldman, of Goldman-Sachs has been involved since the 1920's, with the financial regulation process and that they had a seat at the table when the regulations were being set up so they had been looking for ways to subvert the process and get around the rules since then.

They have been running out of large sources of cash to gamble with so they started to try to invent instruments and make money appear out of thin air. Now that people are sort of on to that, they want access to promised money like Medicare and Social Security. They are truly like crack fiends except they don't mess up their own lives, they mess up everyone's.