The Other Guys is, imo, one of the best comedies of the 2010s. Fully packed with memorable moments (so many I'm not even gonna try to list my favorites). It's a comedy about two down-on-their-luck cops trying to investigate a crime nobody believes has been committed. It's utterly ridiculous, with moments of low-brow comedy that verges on parody.

But the movie is also about how a big time investor has lost dozens of billions of dollars from a major corporation, is about to defraud the US government to pay back his losses, and nobody wants to do anything about it, to the point where they have to hand over the case to the head of the "financial crimes bureau" who also happens to be the investor's lawyer. With no other options, the protagonists have to go rogue.

It's a movie that insists on showing us that the big corporation which had people murdered and attempted to steal 32 billion from the Police pension fund just got a government bailout at the end of the movie, being "too big to fail".

It's a movie that has a credit sequence dedicated to showing the audience what a Ponzi scheme is, and how absurd was the AIG government bailout.

Then, 5 years later, Adam McKay drops "The Big Short", about how the utter corruption within the financial industry, and how collusion between government and private agencies led to the 2008 crash and the subsequent government bailouts. He's hitting the same theme on the head that he tried to do with "the other guys", only this time in a serious mold.

I just find it hilarious how he had this idea, tried to say it in a comedy (ended up making one of the best comedies of the decade) then expanded that idea on a serious "high-brow" oscar contender starring Christian Bale and a boatload of other serious people.

What I'm trying to say with this, is don't go chasing waterfalls.