In a way the movie is realistic. It shows the culpability of everybody. Those idiots who believe these TV show hosts who promise them heaven on earth if they part with their money, are as culpable as those who take their money or those who help the white collar crime bosses, i.e. hedge fund managers by promoting their agenda.
Over the decades I tried several times to like cable TV and ended up each time canceling the service because I saw no reason to pay money for the stuff offered. That leaves me with antenna TV where I occasionally, while channel surfing, watch a few minutes one of these TV preachers asking for money in exchange for sound advice how to save your soul. It is beyond me how anybody with some kind of brain matter can actually send them money but they obviously do because we know that all these TV preachers are multi millionaires. Now of course these poor souls will only find out after they are dead that their money did not buy them salvation, so none of them will try to take out one of these TV preachers. I have never seen the guy who served as a role model for Clooney's character in this movie, as I do no watch cable but if he is close to the portrayal, anybody who follows him deserves to be punished..
In Money Monster the poor soul ,who invested his money in a hedge fund promoted by the financial adviser/TV host played by George Clooney, tries to held him and the financial company accountable, only to be shot in the end. Sounds realistic to you? The top one percent always get away with it. George Clooney, Julia Roberts, Jodie Foster will make millions with a mediocre movie and we who paid for it by watching this drivel are the idiots left with nothing but a bad taste in our mouth. The movie started out okay but became more and more unbelievable as it lumbered along, especially the scenes where they took to the streets with a whole SWAT team in pursuit.
I want them to make movies about the corruption of the financial institutions, the sensationalism of TV shows the deception in our society everywhere we look, But I do not believe one second that these Hollywood stars like George Clooney , who is the producer of this movie, is really interested in achieving change. Not with his life style. Not with his endless self promotion based on nothing but good looks and charm. I do not think he is a very good actor, none of the movies he ever directed or produced was outstanding or remarkable. In everything he ever did he is mediocre, but he is lucky and now he is rich and so he thinks he knows better than others. He may know better than others how to make money, but that is it. He offers no solutions to the problems of our society as this movie clearly demonstrates. Contrary to Clooney I think Jodie Foster is an outstanding actress and I wish she would stick to acting.
Over the decades I tried several times to like cable TV and ended up each time canceling the service because I saw no reason to pay money for the stuff offered. That leaves me with antenna TV where I occasionally, while channel surfing, watch a few minutes one of these TV preachers asking for money in exchange for sound advice how to save your soul. It is beyond me how anybody with some kind of brain matter can actually send them money but they obviously do because we know that all these TV preachers are multi millionaires. Now of course these poor souls will only find out after they are dead that their money did not buy them salvation, so none of them will try to take out one of these TV preachers. I have never seen the guy who served as a role model for Clooney's character in this movie, as I do no watch cable but if he is close to the portrayal, anybody who follows him deserves to be punished..
In Money Monster the poor soul ,who invested his money in a hedge fund promoted by the financial adviser/TV host played by George Clooney, tries to held him and the financial company accountable, only to be shot in the end. Sounds realistic to you? The top one percent always get away with it. George Clooney, Julia Roberts, Jodie Foster will make millions with a mediocre movie and we who paid for it by watching this drivel are the idiots left with nothing but a bad taste in our mouth. The movie started out okay but became more and more unbelievable as it lumbered along, especially the scenes where they took to the streets with a whole SWAT team in pursuit.
I want them to make movies about the corruption of the financial institutions, the sensationalism of TV shows the deception in our society everywhere we look, But I do not believe one second that these Hollywood stars like George Clooney , who is the producer of this movie, is really interested in achieving change. Not with his life style. Not with his endless self promotion based on nothing but good looks and charm. I do not think he is a very good actor, none of the movies he ever directed or produced was outstanding or remarkable. In everything he ever did he is mediocre, but he is lucky and now he is rich and so he thinks he knows better than others. He may know better than others how to make money, but that is it. He offers no solutions to the problems of our society as this movie clearly demonstrates. Contrary to Clooney I think Jodie Foster is an outstanding actress and I wish she would stick to acting.