GameStop Stock Movie Isn’t Going to the Moon

Audiences will eat up comedies that tell technically complex stories in a way that is palatable to the general audience. Just look at the success of The Wolf of Wall Street, The big short one, Successionand all their derivatives. While the GameStop stock film Stupid money is far from a bad film, but its place in the genre (yet another film that follows the same formula as other, better films) prevents it from reaching the heights it deserved.

Billing itself as the “ultimate David v. Goliath story,” the film tells the story of the GameStop stock situation from the perspective of YouTube financial sensation “Roaring Kitty,” many of his followers and Wall Street insiders who tried to short the shares. stock. It’s a very recent story, there’s already a biopic about it, and the film struggles to prove this is essential.

The story is told in an ironic way, but the humor is quite variable. There are only so many times it can be funny to see a rich, stuck-up hedge fund manager yelling and crying about losing money. There are some nice fish-out-of-water moments as working-class individuals adjust to their sudden new wealth, but these are just a few throwaway scenes.

Stupid money has too many characters to work

The biggest problem with the film is that it simply tries to juggle too many characters, making it difficult to connect with many of them beyond a superficial level. Sure, we feel sorry for the little guys and want to see the big players lose every cent, but the film doesn’t really seem to feel the need to engage with the larger social context of this story beyond a basic “eat the rich’. .”

Take the Robinhood storyline for example. Much of the discussion about this revolves around how unethical the company was to stop trading stocks like GME at the height of their popularity. However, the film only mentions in passing some of the bigger problems with Robinhood (and other retail investing apps), such as the gamification of the stock market that is potentially harmful to the average consumer.

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