{"id":24555,"date":"2023-11-01T09:00:58","date_gmt":"2023-11-01T16:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=24555"},"modified":"2023-10-27T14:46:08","modified_gmt":"2023-10-27T21:46:08","slug":"nics-flicks-dumb-money-hilarious-with-great-performances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2023\/11\/01\/nics-flicks-dumb-money-hilarious-with-great-performances\/","title":{"rendered":"Nic\u2019s Flicks<\/em>: Dumb Money<\/em> hilarious with great performances"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dumb Money
\n<\/i>3\/4\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Some of my friends were recently saying that my next column should be about the new Taylor Swift concert movie. I refused and went to a different movie instead. This was because, with all due respect to Swift and her millions of fans, concert movies aren\u2019t movies: they\u2019re a scheduled event that someone took a video of and then cut it to make it look like a movie, and I\u2019m not paying for something that shouldn\u2019t even be on the screen in the first place.<\/p>\n

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Nic’s Flicks<\/em> is a column about movies (photo by Nicolas Ihmels\/Nexus<\/em>).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

So instead, I went to see Craig Gillespie\u2019s newest comedy, Dumb Money<\/i>. Reviews were solid and people were enjoying it, so I bought a ticket to see it.<\/p>\n

Based on the notorious GameStop short squeeze incident that took place during January 2021, this movie uses powerful acting, well-timed humour, and filmmaking to brilliantly convey this historical event.<\/p>\n

All of the actors do a spectacular job, but the standout here is Paul Dano. He plays Keith Gill, a financial analyst who produces a podcast under the name Roaring Kitty that successfully predicts\u00a0 <\/span>the 2021 shortage. From displaying Gill\u2019s happy moments\u2014when he gets the money\u2014to his unhappy moments\u2014where everything takes a turn for the worse\u2014Dano portrays Gill with a sense of humour that really made me laugh out loud.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Another thing that\u2019s great about this movie is its script. The humour really lands here, and the script takes on a The Big Short<\/i>-like approach to the financial system. This is the strongest element of the movie, because it\u2019s handled in a clear and understandable way.<\/p>\n

Although I do think The Big Short<\/i> is a better movie, I found Dumb Money<\/i> easier to understand.<\/p>\n

I also really liked the description of the pandemic hell we all went through. It really showed how people\u2019s despair played into the creation of the shortage, which was very interesting.<\/p>\n

I wasn\u2019t expecting much, but thanks to a really funny script, on-key performances, and approach to the tough-to-understand subject matter, Dumb Money<\/i> is easily one of the year\u2019s funniest films.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dumb Money 3\/4\u00a0 Some of my friends were recently saying that my next column should be about the new Taylor Swift concert movie. I refused and went to a different movie instead. This was because, with all due respect to Swift and her millions of fans, concert movies aren\u2019t movies: they\u2019re a scheduled event that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20923,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,298],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-columns","category-november-1-2023"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24555"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24556,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24555\/revisions\/24556"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}