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- 2023
- R
- Columbia Pictures
- 1 h 45 m
- 2023
- R
- Columbia Pictures
- 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
- 2023
- R
- Columbia Pictures
- 1 h 45 m
- 2023
- R
- Columbia Pictures
- 1 h 45 m
Dumb Money
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6.2
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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
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68% Positive
36 Reviews
36 Reviews
26% Mixed
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14 Reviews
6% Negative
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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
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 58 User Ratings
6.2
57% Positive
33 Ratings
33 Ratings
33% Mixed
19 Ratings
19 Ratings
10% Negative
6 Ratings
6 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 58 User Ratings
6.2
57% Positive
33 Ratings
33 Ratings
33% Mixed
19 Ratings
19 Ratings
10% Negative
6 Ratings
6 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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Nothing but constant propaganda of, "Sell now!, that was the squeeze and now it's over, shorts have covered, poor rich man loses money, and look at these big numbers on the screen of people who sold!" No use critiquing the film itself, since it's a meaningless, rushed, bought and paid for psyop piece. Just needs a "hello, fellow kids," t-shirt.
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This is almost too painful to watch it is so bad. First off, this captures almost none of the Humor of WallStreetBets and what it was like to watch this saga unfold. Somehow they took a story about a bunch of non-woke degens taking on wall street and turned it into yet another woke AF story. (sorry netflix, don't want or care for the mixed race lesbian couple, when they probably never existed in the first place). Don't woke morons realize they vote the same as wall street? Wall Street likes easy money policies because their real asset values go up from all the money printing and the poor get poorer as all the inflation destroys their stanard of living.
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Production Company
Black Bear,
Columbia Pictures,
Ryder Picture Company,
Sony Pictures Releasing,
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
Cinema for Peace Awards
• 1 Nomination
