GameStop: Rise of the Players

Take Gaslight, Casablanca, and Godfather part 2, this is what you get! I gave a standing ovation at the end! Bring tissues, and an extra diaper! This film is what the theaters were made for! GameSlop is amazing! This film hit every emotion and feeling i had!! I tripped over an oxygen tank when i exited the theater.

This "Documentary" is not worth watching tbh. The writting is really bad and the music goes on in the background for the full duration of the movie to probably hide how boring this is.

The method of story telling in this film picks up all the stale tropes of modern documentaries. It is boring because the film just takes too long to actually go anywhere and the main characters are not interesting (Besides Deep F Value, that guy is a legend). I followed this entire story in real time on the Reddit WSB subreddit and I can't understand how this film failed to reflect how exciting this was at the time.

Two other huge things that tanked this for me:

1. I am so tired of stock footage being used in documentaries (e.g., when the narrator says welder and it cuts to a stock video of a welder or when it cuts to a Simpsons clip for no reason). It is lazy editing and adds nothing to the film.

2. This has to be the worst soundtrack for a film I have ever heard. IT NEVER STOPS PLAYING and is just the most basic score one could imagine. Let the characters talk, we don't need this bland garbage major key music playing for an hour and a half.

3/10, Strong recommendation to avoid.

I don't want to spoil this movie to those who haven't watched it yet.

But if you're unsure if it's worth watching or not, I hope I can persuade with this review that it's worth watching, just to get an idea of what happened... Is happening?

The topic in question, Gamestop, had a group of investors involved in making a decision to invest their money in the company for the hope of a good return on their investment after analysing information they found about the company during what is coined 'pre-squeeze' (2017-2021)

You learn, somewhat a feeling that I was left with of information that seemed to not tell the whole picture, as if something was kept out of the documentary - whether on purpose or as a means to allow the director convey their story I'm unsure, about various occurances throughout the years but mainly months leading up to January 2021, when the stock value of Gamestop rose way above the value it was worth the previous wmyear and in fact so high it actually has a term for it a 'squeeze' which doesn't make a lot of sense to me to use such a term because to squeeze would be to put a restraint on something yet in this instance it seems to refer to increased value in a stock.

Then we learn what occurred during this squeeze, that hedge funds and financial organisations involved in the stock markets had stopped anyone from buying the stock which in turn forced the value of the stock to plummet. Something that has Never happened before! This blew my mind!

And then it sort of ends unfinished in my opinion because after looking at the stock value of Gamestop now its been so what of a roller-coaster over the past year to date.

I didn't know anything about this other than some talk on the news last year but now that I've seen this film I've been reading more into what has happened since what was told at the end of the film to learn why it appears there seems to be something still going on.

I recall the other day before I even went to see the film on a news channel that Gamestop was over but confused why such news was broadcast because if you look at the stock value it is still higher than it was 'pre-squeeze'.

Like I say, it's an interesting film because there's stuff I didn't know about and if I had known I'd have probably paid more attention February of last year.

I'm surprised there's no trivia or reviews at present on here seeing as Cinemas are dead at the moment. Other films that have come out in the past few months are bombarded with reviews and trivia. Why there's little on this page for this film is also questionable.

Anyways, it's a good 8/10 film for me. I've never wrote a review before felt compelled to write something here seeing how little info is on this page. Something fishy going on but I can't figure out what.

This movie gives a brief understanding of the (first part!) of the Gamestop saga. It's a great starting point to educate people, and show how easy some wealthy Wallstreet investors can manipulate the whole financial system to their own benefit (Ken Griffin being the biggest among them), and how small retail investors om Reddit found out a leap in their cheating mechanisms.

However, unlike mainstream media like to make people believe this whole Gamestop saga is over, the situation hasn't changed. Shorts haven't covered and Ken Griffin isn't in jail. So the movie is a good start, but how the second part will play out is what I'm really excited for.