iirc take away from big short isn't that Burry was way too early, but that his prediction wasn't due to his own intuition - he got the tip off of a lifetime thanks to a chance misdialed call from someone who actually *had* figured out the MBS Jenga tower was not only built on a foundation of rot that was about to start collapsing. And that the rot had been intentionally concealed throughout the entire thing from bottom to top due to extreme easy money moral hazard infecting everyone from borrowers at one end to ratings agencies at the other.
Burry's fame comes from his conviction in and willingness to act on this tip and persuade others to do the same, but the initial intuition itself may easily have missed him had the call not been a misdial.