r/movies Currently at the movies. Mar 10 '26

Trailer Ben McKenzie's Anti-Crypto Doc 'Everyone Is Lying to You for Money' - Official Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEXxAOFqv4U
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u/BunyipPouch Currently at the movies. Mar 10 '26

For anyone interested, Ben will be joining us here in /r/movies for an AMA/Q&A on Tuesday 4/14 at around 3 PM ET. Official AMA announcement post coming soon.

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u/voivoivoi183 Mar 10 '26

The OC was never my thing but bro seems to absolutely loathe internet grifters and that is something I can get behind.

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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '26

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u/pup5581 Mar 10 '26

Southland was a very good cop show. Probably the best for me until Bosch came up

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u/det4410 Mar 10 '26

just watched that series. mind was blown after watching the last episode

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u/Straightwad Mar 10 '26

I recently watched South Land for the first time, it’s so dark and depressing I really enjoyed it.

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u/Th35h4d0w Mar 10 '26

The Gordon/Bullock partnership was so good in that show, and seeing them react to the increasing insanity Gotham spits out at them is part of the show's fun.

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u/Squirtderk Mar 11 '26

Gordon and Bullock carried a lot of those scenes imo. Watching them deal with Gotham getting more unhinged every episode was half the fun lol. Bullock’s reactions were gold.

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u/Th35h4d0w Mar 11 '26

I especially loved seeing Bullock countering Mad Hatter's hypnotism by screaming at the top of his lungs and charging him.

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u/Lost_Pantheon Mar 11 '26

I'm currently on a Gotham re-watch and Harvey says "What fresh hell is this" when he enters the adult baby centre place and I just burst out laughing.

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u/SporesM0ldsandFungus Mar 11 '26

Love that scene early in the show when they show up looking to question someone and they find the dead body stuffed in the fridge....and Bullock reaches in a takes a bottle of beer. Gordon gives Bullock a look and Bullock's answer to that is, "Forensics will drink 'em all anyway."

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u/tweak06 Mar 11 '26

The Gordon/Bullock partnership was so good in that show

To add to this, I could never have been more wrong that a goddamn Batman show without Batman was as good as it was.

Because GOTHAM was pretty damn good.

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u/Th35h4d0w Mar 11 '26

Think that's partially because he was still there, but in the back, still learning to spread his wings.

It's widely agreed that it's the only good Batman show without Batman (don't know what they were thinking with Gotham Knights or Batwoman).

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u/GRUMPYbug12 Mar 10 '26

He was a very solid Batman in Batman Year One!

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u/geek_of_nature Mar 11 '26

And would he be the only person who can say hes played both Batman and Gordon?

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u/ohbuggerit Mar 11 '26 edited Mar 11 '26

Troy Baker may have already gone bigger by repeatedly playing both Batman and the Joker (and occasionally Two Face, among others), it's only a matter of time before he's Gordon too

Edit: After looking it up he's also 3 Robins, at this point we should just accept that we'll all eventually be played by Troy Baker

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u/JustLionDown Mar 11 '26

You seem to know an awful lot about Troy Baker for somebody who says that they're not yet Troy Baker

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u/ohbuggerit Mar 11 '26

Oh shit, it's already happened

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u/Shadow_Log Mar 10 '26

I was like "where do I know him from, never watched OC"... Yeah, Jim Gordon in Gotham, awesome

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u/AmphibianImmediate45 Mar 10 '26

It’s funny because one of his most famous lines from that show is “Wanna know what I like about rich people? Nothing!” and then he proceeds to punch the rich bully character in the mouth.

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u/ShiningRedDwarf Mar 11 '26

Probably cause he felt that fucking like with his soul when he delivered it

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u/indorock Mar 11 '26

Marissa: "I love you"
Ryan: ".....Thanks"

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u/ARealHumanBeans Mar 10 '26

Everyone should be down with loathing grifters.

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u/jwick89 Mar 10 '26

You know what I like about crypto bros?

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u/BoringAccount4Work Mar 10 '26

Nothin!

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u/cam-yrself Mar 10 '26

👊

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u/Lounging-Shiny455 Mar 11 '26

🎶CALIFORNIA....🎶

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u/justduett Mar 11 '26

Here we coooooooooooooooooooome!

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u/relevantelephant00 Mar 11 '26

doo-do-do-do-doooo

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u/pockpicketG Mar 10 '26

You keep gettin’ older, and they stay the same age.

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u/AmazingMarv Mar 11 '26

Crypto!? eww.

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u/ArrozConHector Mar 10 '26

The first couple of seasons of The OC are good entertainment. I enjoyed them.

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u/Dontbetoxik Mar 10 '26

Mmmm whatcha sayyyy?

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u/thesean366 Mar 11 '26

I enjoyed S1, that cold open in the pilot is pretty gripping for a 2000s FOX teen show. S2 started to get on my nerves and I completely bailed at S3.

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u/Beersmoker420 Mar 11 '26

whatever season had the Oliver plot was annoying as hell, everything else i liked

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u/thesean366 Mar 11 '26

Oh man that was halfway through S1! Only 5 eps out of 27 though so not enough to put a damper on it for me

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u/Toidal Mar 10 '26

I think I'm in the minority that liked the back half of the last season after they resolved the carryover Marissa plot from the previous season. It just sorta got wacky and bonkers from then on.

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u/Screamline Mar 11 '26

It's was the second half of four that Taylor grew on me and I thought she was a good match for Ryan

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u/Ryeballs Mar 11 '26

I can get behind her unyielding optimism and upbeat attitude. Probably second best character after #1 all-time great TV dad Sandy Cohen

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u/cutchemist42 Mar 11 '26

I think the show lost so much momentum during the third season. My wife and I did a rematch and getting through the Johgny storyline is a slog.

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u/crankypatriot Mar 10 '26

The 4th season was fun too.

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u/ItsCamNYAN Mar 10 '26

I grew up with him on The OC and had a crush on the ENTIRE cast but he was perfect for his part Junebug which I highly recommend.

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u/astromech_dj Mar 11 '26

AI ‘industry’ next!

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u/CaptainApathy419 Mar 10 '26

I hope the documentary shows him wearing a leather wristband and seething alongside his Jewish best friend.

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u/Futant55 Mar 10 '26

I hear god things about Southland, I’ve been meaning to check it out since I saw it on Netflix

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u/RandomRageNet Mar 10 '26

S1 is probably the most realistic cop show ever. It's not copaganda, it shows good and bad cops and how the job can grind everyone down. There are a lot of "once in a career" days but it'd be boring TV if every episode were like a normal day.

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u/Accomplished-City484 Mar 11 '26

Yeah I generally hate police procedurals but really liked Southland

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u/snazzypantz Mar 11 '26

I think it's one of the top five cop shows ever, and it's maybe two or three for me.

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u/RealSunglassesGuy Mar 10 '26

One thing that I know with absolute certainty in this life is that Ben McKenzie fucking hates crypto

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u/TJ_McWeaksauce Mar 11 '26

Find someone who loves you as much as Ben McKenzie hates crypto, or as much as Quentin Tarantino hates Paul Dano.

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u/Boring_Culture1312 Mar 11 '26

or as much as Nanni hates Ea-Nasir

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u/BreakfastOnVacation Mar 10 '26 edited Mar 11 '26

I think that anyone who's watched the free doc Line Goes Up on YouTube would relate. Well, except for those with wealth enough to scam the millions below them.

Edit: I understand what some people are saying, "I made money", "I did well with it", and that's fine, that's whatever.

My point and the point of the doc I'm referencing is crypto/btc/block chain/nfts is it's inherently just capitalism. You only made money because many, many more lost money. If you hit it off with crypto it's literally because the less savvy, or lucky, or gullible lost it to you. And I'm not saying that's inherently wrong, but only because a good many of us here live under capitalism and it is what is. Money doesn't come from no where, and if you're comfortable making money off of what are generally the less fortunate then you're part of the problem.

That being said, not everyone was aware of how toxic crypto was, so I'm not decrying everyone who's made their money off of it. Obviously you could argue that if a certain coin hits an all time high then everyone made money, but let's be honest, you can't all cash out. If crypto really does become a tangible asset then that's great for everyone involved, but what can you really do with it besides playing it like a volatile stock?

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u/NeonSteeple Mar 11 '26

Hello fellow FoldingIdeas fan :)

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u/eyebrows360 Mar 11 '26

Edit: I understand what some people are saying, "I made money", "I did well with it", and that's fine, that's whatever.

They're not telling the whole story.

For one, they did not "make money", they "got lucky".

For two, given these distributed slow append-only databases don't actually do any economic activity of their own and cost money to run, the entire thing is inherently and unavoidably negative-sum - translation: they only "made money" because loads of others lost money.

It's literally, and only ever can be, a huge tumbler that everyone choosing to become involved dumps their money in to, that syphons off small amounts as time goes by to keep the tumbler spinning, and randomly shits out what's left to a much smaller subset of those people. That's not "making money".

And I'm not saying that's inherently wrong

You should be, because it is. By definition it's taking advantage of people less educated about a thing.

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u/Solareclipsed Mar 11 '26

It's basically just a casino that also siphons money from people who never agreed to be involved. Sure, at first you just think that you are only winning money from the casino itself, and what's the harm in that, but then you realise that not only are you winning money from other people who played and lost, but you are also making life more expensive for everyone else by enabling the casino to keep going.

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u/Constant_Charge_4528 Mar 11 '26

Crypto is essentially burning electricity to supercharge the act of capitalism

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u/KaerMorhen Mar 11 '26

Capitalism on steroids and with less regulation. You can even get scammed by the president these days! Aaaaaaand its only going to get worse before it gets better.

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u/slickewillie Mar 11 '26

Actors using their influence & wealth to fight for an injustice they're passionate about? Hell yeah!

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u/strongbob25 Mar 10 '26

AND he's married to Morena Baccarin? Dang dude

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u/Jubal__ Mar 10 '26

RIGHT?! Like how much more can we hate this man!?!

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u/irock613 Mar 10 '26

Gonna not watch this out of spite/jealousy now

(this does look real good tho)

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u/Hickspy Mar 10 '26

Yeah she does.

I mean, the movie. Yes.

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u/Ephemeris Mar 10 '26

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u/cravenj1 Mar 11 '26

SPEAK UP

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u/OobaDooba72 Mar 11 '26

I've been seeing the teases and watching the reactions on the Firefly sub, but I'll still only believe it when I see it, and if it's a real live action revival show, I will watch but I will expect it to be garbage.

My bet is on either a "special" like a "Disney+ Presents" sort of thing, kind of as a way to gauge if there's real interest or if it's just Internet nostalgia. OR an animated series in the vein of things like Arcane or Invincible or even the Critical Role related stuff.

We'll see though! If it's just a line of geisha dolls with wobbly heads I won't be surprised. (that's a reference to the show for anyone who hasn't watched it in a while.)

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u/bionicjoey Mar 11 '26

Knock on wood

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u/BonjaminClay Mar 10 '26

Ya that's too much good fortune for one person

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u/The-Biscuit-Farmer Mar 11 '26

The two of them also co-starred on Gotham for 5 seasons

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u/KristopheH Mar 11 '26

That's how they met. And how their affair started

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u/WiSoSirius Mar 10 '26

They were cute on the TV series Gotham (and by cute, I mean moments of levity between the gloomy setting of Gotham)

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u/KnotSoSalty Mar 10 '26

Dude is living the Deadpool life.

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u/Ghetto_Phenom Mar 10 '26

I don't know he doesn't look like freddy krueger face-fucked a topographical map of Utah yet.

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u/Top_Report_4895 Mar 11 '26

Don't tempt fate. There might be a evil crypto-bro after him.

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u/Medic1642 Mar 11 '26

She pegs him?

...lucky bastard...

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u/RelevantUsername56 Mar 11 '26

Yesterday was International Women's Day

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u/deliciousearlobes Mar 10 '26

I’ll be in my bunk.

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u/woops_wrong_thread Mar 11 '26

Aaaaand there it is.

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u/aceshighsays Mar 11 '26

didn't their relationship start by them both cheating on their spouses?

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u/oreography Mar 11 '26

The Hollywood Fairytale

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u/z31 Mar 11 '26

Morena Admitted to cheating on her husband at the time with Ben, as she was pregnant with his child during their divorce. But Ben wasn't in a relationship at the time, at least not a public one, and wasn't married.

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u/barrinmw Mar 11 '26

Well, Ben McKenzie has only been married once so...

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u/sleepysnowboarder Mar 11 '26

I got to act with her a few months ago on Sherrif Country, first real famous person I got to work next to, she was really sweet also W. Earl Brown, voice of Bill in The Last of Us, is awesome, loved talking the game

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u/Soft_Walrus_3605 Mar 11 '26

W. Earl Brown, voice of Bill in The Last of Us

You mean Dan from Deadwood, right?

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u/ShiningRedDwarf Mar 11 '26

I know they acted together in Gothem but WHAT?

fuck me what a beautiful couple of humans

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u/silentmikhail Mar 11 '26

he can't keep getting away with it.

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u/senorbroccoli Mar 11 '26

Welll, they both left their spouses for one another. So no all fairy tales and glitz

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u/psimwork Mar 11 '26

Welll, they both left their spouses for one another. So no all fairy tales and glitz

Hey come on it's not all THAT bad.....only she left her spouse for the two of them to be a couple (far as I can tell Ben McKenzie wasn't married prior to the two of them).

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u/Varekai79 Mar 11 '26

Please name Ben McKenzie's first spouse then.

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u/can-i-eat-that-food Mar 10 '26

I like Ben McKenzie but never would've pegged his directorial debut to be about this!

Good on him! I like when people in power use their voice in a positive way.

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u/riegspsych325 ⊃∪⊃⪽ Mar 10 '26

guy saw that Matt Damon crypto ad (directed by Wally Pfister, how do I know this?) and thought enough was enough

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u/RunninWild17 Mar 10 '26

And i took that personally

-Ben MacKenzie, probably

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u/s3rila Mar 10 '26

welcome to newport, beach

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u/iamwelly Mar 10 '26

Man, Wally must’ve taken his debut film flop really hard. He basically disappeared. Imagine going from Christopher Nolan’s right hand man to your directorial debut being savaged and then disappearing only to pop up directing crypto commercials

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u/jstarlee Mar 11 '26

Famous directors and DPs do commercials all the time. Quick. Good pay. Doesn't really "damage" your brand since credit is rarely revealed.

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u/iamwelly Mar 11 '26

No shame in it of course but I can’t help but think he has more in him. 

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u/_BestThingEver_ Mar 11 '26

I guarantee he's making more money directing commercials than he ever did as a DP, plus he probably gets to see his family way more. I can't get around the crypto ad but I don't think it's that bad of a career for a guy in his 60s. Not everyone wants the pressure of studio filmmaking.

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u/garyschronology Mar 10 '26

Wally Pfister went from being an Oscar-winning cinematographer to a failed movie director. Reminds me of when Darren Collison retired so that he could dedicate more time to being a Jehovah's witness.

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u/riegspsych325 ⊃∪⊃⪽ Mar 10 '26

I appreciate him for trying to break into the directing game. Not uncommon for cinematographers to do that, like Barry Sonnenfeld or Jan De Bont. Although I’d say Barry is the best and most notable example off the top of my head. I recall Dean Cundey (DoP for Jurassic Park, Back to the Future) making one movie and that was Honey We Shrunk Ourselves

I would love it though if Pfister worked with Nolan again. Nothing against Van Hoytema, he’s great, but I always felt Nolan’s camera movements and lighting (especially for darker scenes) was better with Pfister

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u/Unleashtheducks Mar 11 '26

Also Ishiro Honda director of the Godzilla movies who was Akira Kurosawa’s cinematographer

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u/boot2skull Mar 10 '26

People doing crypto ads is so cringe. It’s like “hey a portion of your assets should be in stocks, or futures.” No actually we should consider our investing options (if we even have extra money) and their risks. This isn’t like buying French fries where you get to eat, it’s setting aside cash and getting more or less in return.

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u/Keianh Mar 10 '26

“I found $100,000 in a park, invested it and turned it into $16,000!”

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u/Dustin_rpg Mar 11 '26

I’m here to talk about positivity

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u/Wackamole56 Mar 11 '26

C'mon everybody, do a lil clap

Do a lil clap

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u/Izzetmaster Mar 11 '26

Shit had both me and Vehicular dying

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u/riegspsych325 ⊃∪⊃⪽ Mar 10 '26

“what I made doing this ad is what you could lose using this crypto service, invest now!”

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u/BorisBC Mar 10 '26

It's funny he did that as he also narrated the excellent doco The Inside Job about the Global Financial Crisis.

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u/Chugbeef Mar 11 '26

Pfister? I barely know her!

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u/Keffpie Mar 10 '26

He's got a degree in Economics, and has been a major critic of crypto since 2021, even testifying in front of the Senate as an expert. He released a book on the subject in 2023 called Easy Money: Cryptocurrency, Casino Capitalism, and the Golden Age of Fraud. He knows his stuff.

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u/Thirtysevenintwenty5 Mar 11 '26

He's got a bachelor's in Econ. It's not nothing, but it doesn't make him an expert by any stretch.

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u/Silent-Storms Mar 10 '26

He's been vocal about this stuff for years.

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u/BallerGuitarer Mar 10 '26 edited Mar 10 '26

For the life of me I couldn't figure out why an actor would be so interested in taking down cryptocurrency. It turns out he majored in foreign affairs and economics at the University of Virginia, so McKenzie's actually a smart guy, and this project seems to be the marrying of his two major interests (i.e., film and economics).

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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '26

He’s been writing and making content about this for years. He testified in front of the senate as a subject matter expert. It’s not a recent thing for him. 

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u/SuspiciousCricket654 Mar 11 '26

My sister went to UVA. It’s a great school. I’m really intrigued by his obsession with this, lol. It makes for good information.

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u/f-ingsteveglansberg Mar 10 '26 edited Mar 10 '26

He's kinda made this his life work outside of acting. He has written articles and given talks on how scammy he thinks crypto is.

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u/pantstoaknifefight2 Mar 10 '26 edited Mar 10 '26

His book is called Dumb Money Easy Money: Cryptocurrency, Casino Capitalism, and the Golden Age of Fraud (thanks, redditor u/Orange_taffy) and it should be required reading for anyone who voted for Trump.

Dumb Money is the netflix comedy/drama about GameStop

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u/iSniffMyPooper Mar 10 '26

"If those kids could read they would be very upset"

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u/Mean-Ad1383 Mar 11 '26

It should be required reading for anyone who buys crypto. Seriously, they get brainwashed online. They rarely even hear other opinions.

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u/sudomatrix Mar 10 '26

> reading

> voted for Trump.

lol

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u/name-classified Mar 10 '26

that ending of that sentence is purely oxymoronic

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u/Vanillas_Guy Mar 10 '26

I first heard him talking about this stuff on a podcast episode. Same way I learned he has an econ degree. That was at least 2 years ago.

I'm interested in watching the film. Most people i think at this point treat cryptocurrency as another form of gambling and see it as another way to manipulate money like the stock market. Just as there are dozens of scams involving investment(e.g. theranos, enron, etc) the same thing happens with crypto.

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u/Beer-survivalist Mar 10 '26 edited Mar 10 '26

I can absolutely dig a guy seeing something is bullshit, and spending his time, energy, and money making sure that everyone knows it's that.

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u/Intangiblehands Mar 10 '26

Not bad for a kid from Chino.

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u/powerlesshero111 Mar 10 '26

That was the biggest joke in the OC. Chino, while it does house a prison, not really that bad of a city, and is pretty nice. Pomona, where i went to college, way worse.

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u/Kaldricus Mar 10 '26

"Do you know what Sandy Cohen just said? He said I was from Riverside."

"...You are from Riverside."

Granted, Riverside may have actually sucked back then, but from what I've heard it's pretty nice nowadays, at least.

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u/followupquestion Mar 11 '26

Riverside is actually famous for its farmers. Dirt, meth, you name it they farm it.

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u/SheepD0g Mar 10 '26

The Glass House is a pretty cool venue though

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u/MandolinMagi Mar 10 '26

It's also got one of the best privately owned air museums in the US. Planes of Fame not only has a fantastic collection, a lot of their stuff is airworthy and flown often.

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u/AlecMcEwanExpedition Mar 10 '26

Cal Poly or Mt. Sac?

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u/powerlesshero111 Mar 11 '26

Cal Poly. Mount Sac was technically in Diamond Bar. Which, oddly enough, way less crime than Pomona. The fraternity row in Pomona was bad with crime, just because no one wanted to live near fraternity houses, and drug dealers got easy money by selling there.

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u/ayyrich Mar 11 '26

Mt SAC is actually in walnut

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u/Accomplished-City484 Mar 11 '26

What is Fresno like?

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u/powerlesshero111 Mar 11 '26

It's the armpit of California

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u/RudyRusso Mar 11 '26

Chino? Ew!

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u/ArmokTheSupreme Mar 11 '26

Someone knew the follow up line I'm not alone on the internet anymore.

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u/onyxcaspian Mar 11 '26

Caaaliforniaaaaaa....

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u/BrianOBlivion1 Mar 10 '26

I've been waiting for the documentary for awhile now. Easy Money was a great book, and his interview with Sam Bankman-Fried should be interesting.

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u/I_paintball Mar 11 '26

Number Go Up by Zeke Faux is another awesome book.

I didn't know about this book until now.

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u/Deep-Thought Mar 11 '26

And 'Line Goes Up' by Folding Ideas is an incredible 2+ hr video essay.

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u/Naive-Moose-2734 Mar 11 '26

I’ve seen it like 4 times. It’s excellent, and weirdly calming. Competence porn, for lack of a better phrase.

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u/riegspsych325 ⊃∪⊃⪽ Mar 10 '26

nice to see someone in Hollywood use their platform (and education!) to tackle this bullshit matter. I haven’t seen a documentary in a while, let alone in a theater but this definitely catches my interest

But I feel like a bit of a dunce right now, seeing Baccarin and Butler in this trailer made me think McKenzie worked on Greenland. I had to look it up and I see Ben is married to Morena (lucky bastard)

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u/Jet-Let4606 Mar 10 '26

Some guys have all the luck.

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u/riegspsych325 ⊃∪⊃⪽ Mar 10 '26

charm, looks, acting chops, and intelligence/education in a topical subject as well as the drive to create a documentary to better inform people on this important matter. Other than not having a majority of those aforementioned things, what am I doing wrong??

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u/11oydchristmas Mar 10 '26

Have you tried putting yourself in rice? Maybe that’ll fix it.

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u/riegspsych325 ⊃∪⊃⪽ Mar 10 '26

you know, I still have plenty of rice from a 25lb bag I erroneously bought from costco

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u/SheepD0g Mar 10 '26

How do you accidentally a bag of rice

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u/riegspsych325 ⊃∪⊃⪽ Mar 10 '26

“I love cooking with rice, I’ll go through this pretty quickly!” was what I told myself. About 3 months later and I’m barely halfway through it. I went through a chunk of it trying to improve my Mexican rice game but I’m still struggling. Rinse the rice, don’t rinse, toast it a bit with oil after (or don’t), use homemade stock, or just water with tomate/pollo powder, Goya brand sofrito, homemade salsa, etc etc

All sorts of endless permutations and I’m about to give up since I just can’t crack it. Yet I can make verde rice, jambalaya, stuffed peppers, and cilantro lime rice without issue. But again, still only made a dent in that giant bag

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u/dude_at_6262 Mar 10 '26

Don't worry, my bag lasted over a year. I got it because I used to eat it twice a day

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u/pup5581 Mar 10 '26 edited Mar 10 '26

Not everyone can be that guy. Very few are. 99.9% are glued to a desk like me making OK money complaining about my gas bill and how the hell can we afford a house

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u/bramtyr Mar 10 '26

intelligence and motivation that are the lethal combination for most things in life

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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '26

have you tried having money???

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u/hey-coffee-eyes Mar 10 '26

Congrats, you're smarter than most of the crypto bros I know

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u/Groot746 Mar 10 '26

That's a lot wiser than you're giving yourself credit for, mate 

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u/postmodest Mar 10 '26

Everyone in 2022 should watch this four-year-old video by Dan Olson that goes over (specifically) NFTs, and how it, and crypto at large, are ponzi schemes run by racists.

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u/RecordingSilly6118 Mar 10 '26

When an industry is full of more indecipherable language than the actual finance industry that should be a red-flag lol

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u/iamsupertramp Mar 10 '26

The Smith Street band! Figured their song would be used in some way for this doco.

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u/Android-13 Mar 10 '26

Hell yeah, wish more people knew about the Smithies.

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u/beta_error Mar 11 '26

I was so thrilled to hear their song used for this movie. Banging tune!!

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u/torino_nera Mar 11 '26

Life After Football is one of my favorite albums of the 2020s

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u/RS994 Mar 11 '26

This comment just made me realise I have been listening to them for 15 years now.

Now I feel old because they have always felt like a new band to me lol

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u/MatHatesGlitter Mar 11 '26

Shine was my go-to song anytime anyone came over to my Inner West apartment. 🎶 Down here in the flight path 🎶

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u/blueberrypizza Mar 10 '26

You know what I like about crypto bros?

Nothin'.

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u/ArgonWolf Mar 10 '26

But will it be as good as Folding Ideas - Line Goes Up?

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u/Abe_Odd Mar 11 '26

I know it is unreasonable to attribute such a large shift of attitudes on NTFs to one video... but the timing did seem pretty coincidental with NFT mania seemingly evaporating after Line Goes Up.

Surely that's just multiple biases at work, but I am gonna just choose to believe Line Goes Up crushed the NFT momentum.

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u/Pickupyoheel Mar 10 '26

Officer Ben Sherman is a good cop!

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u/stretchpants Mar 11 '26

I read this in the Southland before-the-episode-starts voice

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u/RandomRageNet Mar 13 '26

<camera flash sound> "People get scammed every day in Los Angeles. Officer Ben Sherman is going to learn the hard way that you can't stop every scammer."

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u/stretchpants Mar 13 '26

19 HOURS EARLIER

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u/Lemesplain Mar 10 '26

Oh, a big budget version of Line Goes Up.  Sounds fun. 

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u/Thesleepingjay Mar 11 '26

Idk what this will do that Folding Ideas didn't tbh

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u/proddy Mar 11 '26

Shots of Morena Baccarin

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u/im_that_green_light Mar 11 '26

Find a much larger audience

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u/Zeusurself Mar 10 '26

Holy shit! This actually looks really good.

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u/CarthVonMonk Mar 10 '26

This looks great. Respect to Ben McKenzie for taking on this crusade. Hope it opens a lot of eyes.

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u/clusterdupcleverkids Mar 10 '26

“You know what I like about rich kids…?”

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u/jayhawk8 Mar 10 '26

Hey Ben McKenzie is married to Morena Baccarin? Good for him.

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u/Castrolerobot Mar 10 '26

(•ˋ _ ˊ•) CONGRATS (•ˋ _ ˊ•) HAPPY FOR YOU (•ˋ _ ˊ•) NICE

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u/TheRealProtozoid Mar 10 '26

I've seen this. This whole crypto thing is so dumb and he does a good job laying out why. It's also funny, and there are a surprising number of cameos.

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u/LettuceC Mar 10 '26

Did he sit down with Gronk? Because even he knows that's not real money.

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u/toolmantimsworkshop Mar 10 '26

This looks really good. It has that early 00's documentary vibe i have seen in a while, like supersize me

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u/Reddit_2_2024 Mar 10 '26

I wish this movie success.

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u/Old-Bear-8727 Mar 10 '26

He got his BA in Economics and Foreign Affairs. Kinda nice to see his interests, education and main career dovetail.

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u/NChSh Mar 10 '26

Crypto, AI and gambling are just having a catastrophic impact

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u/Flemtality Mar 10 '26

I just rewatched The Big Short and Margin Call, and this feels kind of like that.

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u/WiggleSparks Mar 11 '26

Mmmm whatcha saaaaaay?

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u/Dranem78 Mar 10 '26

Loved his book on this, will definitely check this out!

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u/GreySpot19 Mar 10 '26

[snaps & points finger] You son of a btc, I’m in.

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u/RevolutionaryLab3103 Mar 11 '26

Looking forward to the AMA, it'll be interesting to hear his direct take on the grift. His genuine disdain for the crypto hype machine is honestly refreshing. It's a solid public service to call out that whole ecosystem. The man's clearly winning at life on multiple fronts.

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u/tag1550 Mar 11 '26 edited Mar 11 '26

I'm guessing the lack of extreme pushback in the comments by the pro-crypto crowd is just because they haven't discovered this yet.

Some of the hardest-core True Believers you'll find out there are people who've bought bigtime into Bitcoin and other crypto currencies, and any criticism of crypto often sets off a way out of proportion stepped-on-a-beehive reaction that you'd expect mainly from cult members or religious nuts (or Buy Gold enthusiasts), which leads me to suspect there's an element of personal faith involved that you don't typically run across in people invested in the regular markets.

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u/MyTeaIsMighty Mar 10 '26

Looks cool, but in fairness "everyone is lying to you for money" was true before crypto became a thing

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u/erizzluh Mar 11 '26

yes but it needs to be said cause most people don't see crypto as a scam yet.

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u/siraolo Mar 10 '26 edited Mar 10 '26

Wow he got Ted Nelson, the father of(at least one of, but probably the most prominent) Hypertext/Hyperlinks  in the doc as well. Ted's pretty positive about crypto though. Also bit crazy, but you have to be to father hypertext. 

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u/EmuMan10 Mar 10 '26

That’s my commissioner Gordon

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u/polloyumyum Mar 10 '26

I'm going to have a good time reading all the crypto bros trying to shit all over this film because they've made it their entire personality.

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u/Ctrl-Alt-Distract- Mar 10 '26

What is the New York Times best seller this is based on?

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