The Men Who Exploit Your Stupidity

Rating: Null/10 (20 November 2019)

I scared out a better "movie" than this when I went to the toilet this morning. Nothing about the movie was remotely funny or interesting. How stupid and boring could the book have been if this film was the result of Hollywood trying to make it seem "interesting" and "funny"? The good reviews just prove that people are mindless idiots who like what they are told to like. I had been slowly losing respect for Ronson's faux-journalism for a long time but this movie sealed it. Every story he writes ends up being about himself and what a shallow, naive moron he is. I realize that the movie is not a true adaptation of the book but the fact that he involved himself in this project at all just sealed my suspicion that he is not a journalist at all, just a cynical jackass with a childlike voice who exploits other peoples' stupidity for cash. This film fails miserably as both a stand-alone comedy and as a "true story". There is not one funny moment in it, just a bunch of guys being stupid, pretending to believe in magic powers for which there is zero evidence. The moral of the story is: Always get your books and movies for free from the library, because then at least you can be happy that you didn't put one penny into the pockets of people who create stupidity for a living.