The Antisocial Network
If "The Social Network", "The Wolf of Wall Street" and "The Big Short" were all mixed in a blender, "Dumb Money" would come out of it. What a pleasure is when the movie is as great as it's trailer.
Aware of this, the editing department was shrewd enough to add clips of Christian Bale playing the drums while screaming in "The Big Short", and the iconic scene of Matthew McConaughey humming while hitting his chest with his fist in "The Wolf of Wall Street".
The cherry on top: Dumb Money's script was adapted from Ben Mezrich's "The Antisocial Network: The GameStop Short Squeeze and the Ragtag Group of Amateur Traders That Brought Wall Street to Its Knees", the very same dude that wrote "The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook, a Tale of Sex, Money, Genius, and Betrayal", which was adapted of course in David Fincher's masterpiece "The Social Network".
Although the comparisons with it's predecesors, Dumb Money has an identity of its own: a battle between The Little Guy and The Elite, depicted in a staggering way that you can feel the characters' emotions strongly real.
The mere idea of putting Paul Dano, Seth Rogen, Nick Offerman, Vincent D'Onofrio, Sebastian Stan, Pete Davidson in a movie together is compelling enough, add a true story script and a phenomenal soundtrack, and there you have it, one of the greatest films of the year, imo.
I do have two complains though: the first, and I don't say this often, in fact, very very rarely, that the movie should've last longer, or maybe I was too enjoyed that it just felt too short, I was craving for more!; the second: there are a few things regarding the financial context that didn't fully understood, maybe I was hoping for Margot Robbie, Anthony Bourdain, Richard Thaler & Selena Gomez to explain them to me? ("The Big Short" reference, in case you didn't get it).
Aware of this, the editing department was shrewd enough to add clips of Christian Bale playing the drums while screaming in "The Big Short", and the iconic scene of Matthew McConaughey humming while hitting his chest with his fist in "The Wolf of Wall Street".
The cherry on top: Dumb Money's script was adapted from Ben Mezrich's "The Antisocial Network: The GameStop Short Squeeze and the Ragtag Group of Amateur Traders That Brought Wall Street to Its Knees", the very same dude that wrote "The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook, a Tale of Sex, Money, Genius, and Betrayal", which was adapted of course in David Fincher's masterpiece "The Social Network".
Although the comparisons with it's predecesors, Dumb Money has an identity of its own: a battle between The Little Guy and The Elite, depicted in a staggering way that you can feel the characters' emotions strongly real.
The mere idea of putting Paul Dano, Seth Rogen, Nick Offerman, Vincent D'Onofrio, Sebastian Stan, Pete Davidson in a movie together is compelling enough, add a true story script and a phenomenal soundtrack, and there you have it, one of the greatest films of the year, imo.
I do have two complains though: the first, and I don't say this often, in fact, very very rarely, that the movie should've last longer, or maybe I was too enjoyed that it just felt too short, I was craving for more!; the second: there are a few things regarding the financial context that didn't fully understood, maybe I was hoping for Margot Robbie, Anthony Bourdain, Richard Thaler & Selena Gomez to explain them to me? ("The Big Short" reference, in case you didn't get it).
- Mac_McFly
- Oct 26, 2023