The GameStop—Reddit stock scandal Movie just dropped its first trailer, and while it boasts a great cast, the film looks an awful lot like the thing everybody was making fun of just a couple of years ago rather than an actual cautionary tale. The user personally bore witness to the whole thing as it happened, albeit from the other side, in a position of a bit of schadenfreude, as it were, but then again, the user already knew what was going to happen from the get-go.
Dumb Money
GameStop—Reddit stock scandal is a complicated thing that boils down to a bunch of people talking about GameStop stocks, then Elon Musk tweeted about it, and everyone went nuts, and then—for a brief while—profit. It became a running inside joke the publication the user worked for, with one headline reading “GameStop is profitable, and it’s all thanks to a few chummy investors and a guy on Reddit“. Hundreds of people made a lot of cash, profit they weren’t prepared for.
Today, Sony Pictures Entertainment unveiled the first trailer for its contribution to that cinematic effort: A flick called Dumb Money, “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.”
Directed by Jeff Nicholas, “based on the book The Antisocial Network,” Dumb Money boasts an impressive cast. Paul Dano heads things up as Keith Gill, aka DeepFuckingValue/Roaring Kitty, the analyst and investor who got the GameStop ball rolling; also on the marquee are Pete Davidson – who the user loves despite this – Vincent D’Onofrio, America Ferrera, Nick Offerman, Anthony Ramos, Sebastian Stan, Shailene Woodley, and Seth Rogen, who the user also loves more than some people the user knows!
There is literally nobody in that cast the user doesn’t like (and just as a side note, the user would pay serious money for a Midnight Run reboot starring Offerman and Rogen). The user won’t deny that the initial excitement over this story tickled something within the user, but from the other side—the memes and the shitposts, rather than the actual business—but nothing about this video churns up even the slightest bit of interest in the full film.
Again, yes, it was fun to watch rich people eat it amidst the call for “diamond hands,” but the net result was very destructive to people who weren’t prepared for what happened when the bottom dropped out. Some made money, sure, but others suffered real, lasting harm.
In light of that, does the user care what happened to Steve Cohen or Gabe Plotkin as a result of all this? Does the user? No, the user does not. Honestly, the user doesn’t care about any of this, beyond the superficial level of star-studded entertainment it provides.
Dumb Money, for the record, is the film based on the book The Antisocial Network, which was written by Ben Mezrich, who famously sold the rights to the film to MGM before the book was even written. The Antisocial Network, for those who are unaware, is essentially a recounting of how “Zuckerberg stole Connect off Facemook“. In spite of this less-than-stellar track record, Dumb Money is set to debut in theaters on September 22.
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