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In Theaters Now
- 2023
- R
- 1 h 45 m
- 2023
- R
- 1 h 45 m
Summary Dumb Money is based on the insane true story of everyday people who flipped the script on Wall Street and got rich by turning GameStop (yes, the mall videogame store) into the world’s hottest company. In the middle of everything is regular guy Keith Gill (Paul Dano), who starts it all by sinking his life savings into the stock and postin...
Directed By: Craig Gillespie
Written By: Lauren Schuker Blum, Rebecca Angelo, Ben Mezrich
In Theaters Now
- 2023
- R
- 1 h 45 m
- 2023
- R
- 1 h 45 m
Dumb Money
66
6.4
Where to Watch
Summary Dumb Money is based on the insane true story of everyday people who flipped the script on Wall Street and got rich by turning GameStop (yes, the mall videogame store) into the world’s hottest company. In the middle of everything is regular guy Keith Gill (Paul Dano), who starts it all by sinking his life savings into the stock and postin...
Directed By: Craig Gillespie
Written By: Lauren Schuker Blum, Rebecca Angelo, Ben Mezrich
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 53 Critic Reviews
66
68% Positive
36 Reviews
36 Reviews
26% Mixed
14 Reviews
14 Reviews
6% Negative
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 53 Critic Reviews
66
68% Positive
36 Reviews
36 Reviews
26% Mixed
14 Reviews
14 Reviews
6% Negative
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
If it’s not exactly a documentary, Dumb Money offers up enjoyably anarchic glee as the little guy wins for a minute.
With a brisk, biting comic tone and a nice line in righteous anger, Dumb Money skilfully picks up The Big Short’s baton for cinematic-economic takedowns.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 40 User Ratings
6.4
55% Positive
22 Ratings
22 Ratings
35% Mixed
14 Ratings
14 Ratings
10% Negative
4 Ratings
4 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 40 User Ratings
6.4
55% Positive
22 Ratings
22 Ratings
35% Mixed
14 Ratings
14 Ratings
10% Negative
4 Ratings
4 Ratings
Algo que me incomodou demais nessa produção foi a necessidade crônica de criar um diálogo "esperto", "antenado", como se estivesse se testando para ser aceito pela audiência tik tok. Ou eu que cresci mesmo.
Mas o fato não é que a linguagem é ruim, e sim que é uma linguagem que cansa, é ágil e ao mesmo tempo parece forçada muitas vezes. Aliás, esse frenesi da edição lembra a pegada de "A grande aposta", com uma enxurrada de termos e eprsonagens.
Algo que senti um pouco de falta foi de explicações mais pedagógicas a respeito da valorização (ou não) de uma ação, algo que em "A grande aposta" consegue mostrar de forma mais orgânica. Assim, o filme conta com o arsenal carismático de seus personagens, e já inicia mostrando parte do seu clímax: a sobrevalorização das ações da Gamestop. Aí, o filme volta no tempo para contar como chegamos a tal momento icônico.
É interessante que a edição se segura lindamente mesmo entregando o plot, de modo que foi a decisão, a meu ver, mais acertada, o que não quer dizer que a rapidez com que a história é narrada me agrada. Também não sei ao certo se as escolhas das pessoas comuns que foram impactadas por aquela ação me agrada (a enfermeira quase falida, as amigas universitárias, o próprio funcionário de uma das lojas da Gamestop).
Também achei que os magnatas do mercado financeiro não foram bem apresentados, soando quase como esquetes. Ainda assim o filme empolga, é engraçado, é gostoso de ver e não se demora. Há também um baita acerto ao dedicar tempo para vários núcleos e nunca soar perdido, ao contrário, a estrutura multivalente funciona muito bem aqui.
É um filme que, a meu ver, poderia ser mais, e ainda bem que não se tornou mais um filme de tribunal, embora tenha provocado mudanças legislativas no mundo financeiro. Vale como boa sacada e talvez funcione para as pessoas começarem a notar esse mundo dos investimentos.
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IN A NUTSHELL:
Dumb Money is the ultimate David vs. Goliath tale, based on the insane, true story of everyday people who flipped the script on Wall Street and got rich by turning GameStop (the video game company) into the world’s hottest company for a time during the pandemic.
The film was directed by Craig Gillespie. Writing credits go to Lauren Schuker Blum, Rebecca Angelo, and Ben Mezrich.
THINGS I LIKED:
The lineup of actors is fantastic and includes Paul Dano, Pete Davidson, Vincent D’Onofrio, America Ferrera, Nick Offerman, Anthony Ramos, Seth Rogen, Talia Ryder, Sebastian Stan, Shailene Woodley, Myha’la Herrold, Clancy Brown, and so many more. They created quirky, fun characters, and all did an outstanding job.
Remember the Winklevoss twins in the movie The Social Network? They’re two of the executive producers for this movie. They got into a legal battle with Mark Zuckerberg, which was written about in the book “The Accidental Billionaires” written by Ben Mezrich. Ben Mezrich also wrote the book “The Antisocial Network”, which is what inspired this movie.
I thought it was funny that the waitress knew about stocks and investing.
Who doesn’t love a good underdog movie, especially when people who are struggling in the economy can stick it to the “Man”?
The movie does a great job illustrating the nuances of living in a pandemic.
Even if you don’t completely understand the investment world, you’ll still enjoy the story that shows the “little guy” beating out supposedly smarter Wall Street experts.
Thanks to a real-life video clip by Steven Colbert, the film explains what a short sale or short squeeze is.
There is a lot of spoken and visual humor.
We get to see video clips of the real people involved in these events at the end of the movie
THINGS I DIDN’T LIKE:
The real Ken Griffin is entrenched in a lawsuit over how his character has been portrayed by Nick Offerman in the film.
There are so many characters to try to keep track of.
Some viewers have complained that this movie has come out too soon. Do you agree?
I spent a lot of money buying video games for my 4 sons over the years. Too bad I didn’t invest during this unprecedented rise!
Boomers might be annoyed by all of the raunchy Millennials.
TIPS FOR PARENTS:
Kids will be completely bored hearing about stocks. More importantly, the dialogue and the lyrics to the soundtrack are filthy and profane. We also see a lot of crude images and gestures.
SO many F-bombs.
A young kid flips the bird.
Lesbians are shown kissing and saying crude things.
Some Spanish is spoken with subtitles.
We see two naked men from behind.
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Dumb Money is a tale of 2020, and the movie captures that 2020 feeling — gray, depressed, anxious and almost comically miserable.
Dumb Money is a crowd-pleasing story with great performances and a script that keeps it simple.
As a feel-good fact-based fable of financial comeuppance, Dumb Money is funny enough. But as its name suggests, it isn’t especially smart. Unlike its protagonists, it isn’t interested in making a quick buck, just an easy laugh.
It’s perilously close to being overstuffed (one more introduction would have tipped it over the edge) but a controlled and nimble script justifies the large ensemble, using each thread to quickly switch back and forth between the anger, ecstasy, disbelief and fear that seeped from conference to dorm room at the time.
The film’s status as a corporate entertainment product (among the film’s producers is the Winklevoss twins) also presents an internal discord in and of itself, particularly with the script incessantly preaching financial equality for all.
Funny. Fast paced.
But even for a clueless stock market piker such as myself--I understood the story, and I was invested in the outcome. Great cast of characters.
Well worth a look if you can remember all of the hoopla surrounding Game Stop stock during the middle of the Covid pandemic in early 2021.
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It is an interesting movie if you were involved it in any way when it was happening or have interest in it, but as a movie on its surface it is not as interesting as some others like lets say Blackberry for example which was similar stile or Air. This showed the story etc yes, but for me as a standalone movie it is quite average and mainly gets people to see it because of the story not of because how good the movie is.
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This movie should be called 'The Big Short: Part II.' At times it feels like your common Wikipedia biopic, but at others a tense and engaging drama about David vs. Goliath. Performances are good, but too many characters doesn't let you get involved with someone in particular. Pete Davidson plays himself for the umpteenth time, by the way. An okay film that effectively translates to the screen the famous GameStop stock story.
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An entertaining story about an event I knew nothing about. The film is about as well done as one could expect given its benign topic and the filmmaker's focus on telling the story from the "everyman" perspective.
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An interesting story, especially because it's based on real-life events. Definitely educational and mostly entertaining. However, two things let this down for me: Firstly, the acting was poor all round, especially from the main lead. Just dull and lifeless and made me want to die. And secondly, this film is YET ANOTHER piece of woke propaganda. It's got everything from mixed-race, lesbian couples to camp, black men and there's a string of feminist-rap songs which don't really suit the actual scene. It's like they're just put them to promote radical feminism. The sad irony is that the movie is supposed to be about the average person being manipulated by the large corporations who control everything in covert ways, but the writers were obviously lacking the self-awareness to realise that that's exactly what they were perpetuating with their toxic, radical-left agenda-pushing. So, I would say this film is cancerous for the mind, like every movie that forces you to watch mixed-race lesbians, even though most of us have never actually met anyone like this in real life because they are rarer than a pink-haired woman at a pro-life rally.
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Production Company
Black Bear,
Columbia Pictures,
Ryder Picture Company,
Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE),
Stage 6 Films
Release Date Sep 15, 2023
Duration 1 h 45 m
Rating R
Tagline Dear Wall Street...
Awards
Critics Choice Awards Celebration of Cinema & Television
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Las Vegas Film Critics Society Awards
• 1 Nomination
