Dumb Money | 2023 Movies RANKED - Episode 43

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Follow along as RANKED reviews a new movie release every week of 2023, slowly compiling the best films of the year into our sacred hierarchical list.

Previous Episode 2023 RANKED List:
1. Oppenheimer
2. Beau Is Afraid
3. Infinity Pool
4. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
5. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
6. Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One
7. John Wick: Chapter 4
8. Tetris
9. Gran Turismo
10. Air
11. Creed III
12. Sound of Freedom
13. A Haunting In Venice
14. The Flash
15. Fast X
16. Asteroid City
17. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
18. Shazam! Fury of the Gods
19. Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
20. M3GAN
21. missing
22. The Machine
23. Barbie
24. Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
25. Scream VI
26. The Super Mario Bros. Movie
27. Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
28. Renfield
29. The Equalizer 3
30. Blue Beetle
31. Evil Dead Rise
32. The Pope’s Exorcist
33. Magic Mike’s Last Dance
34. Transformers: Rise of the Beasts
35. Knock at the Cabin
36. Insidious: The Red Door
37. The Nun II
38. The Last Voyage of the Demeter
39. Plane
40. Haunted Mansion
41. Cocaine Bear
42. Knights of the Zodiac

Dumb Money was a tough watch for me because to this day (and to my deep shame) I’m a diamond handed ape, so reliving the 2021 GameStop saga meant I had a pit in my stomach from beginning to end.

Of course one can’t help but compare this to the other comedic, “stick it to those wall street bastards” film: The Big Short. But the core difference is that the characters in The Big Short were primary players in the story of the 2008 financial crisis whereas the GME saga involved millions of individuals (known as apes) all banded together across the globe following the lead of a hilarious madman named Roaring Kitty, AKA Keith Gill.

Unfortunately, this movie chose to tell the story of a select few of those apes where it should have just been the Keith Gill vs Wall Street movie coupled with random people around the world interacting with them on Reddit and Youtube.

On top of that the film is way too immature for its own good. For a movie telling a true story, everyone behaves like they’re in a mid-2000’s Judd Apatow film. This is precisely how Wall Street Bets of Reddit should have been characterized, not every character in the film.

In total, this movie manages to take one of the wildest stories in history and suck most of the meaning and fun out of it by bypassing important events yet emphasizing unfunny moments with characters that we don’t care about, and then pissing me off by showing them showing off their paper hands while Tik Tok dancing.

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