Michael's Movie Grade: B
A very well-made documentary about the huge recent stock market rise of GameStop.
The reason this movie works so well is because it doesn't focus on the events or the facts behind what happened. Instead, it focuses on the people who saw this coming and invested a lot of money into GameStop. The subjects chosen for this documentary are perfect because they are all so darn likable. These are the type of people you want to see succeed and you are of course happy when they do. As well as a documentary this is an underdog story and there is a reason why we all love underdog stories so much. There is just something so satisfying about seeing David beat Goliath (an allusion this film itself makes). This movie also acts as wish fulfillment to us, as how many of us would not love to discover that some stock we invested in went way up and that we are now rich. Since this is a story about everyday people, we can easily picture ourselves in their place and live this fantasy for an hour and a half. Meanwhile for people who pay little to no attention to the stock market, this film provides you with all the information to understand what is going on. Maybe you won't have a great knowledge of how the stock market works after this film, but you will know enough to follow the story perfectly. However, this keeps the film simple enough for the focus to stay on the underdogs.
On the downside this film relies too heavily on meme style humor and pop culture. This is obviously supposed to make the movie more entertaining, but it does not do this. Instead, it just comes off as loud obnoxious and annoying. Luckily the rest of the film is entertaining enough to make up for this.
This is simply a fast paced and entertaining documentary.
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