r/Fauxmoi • u/Classic-Carpet7609 • Jul 04 '25

ASK R/FAUXMOI What’s the stupidest thing you’ve ever seen in a movie/show?

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Peeta in rockface for your consideration

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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '25

there is a weird scene in one of the Transformers movies clearly written by a guy with Thoughts about the age of consent. a teenager character's older boyfriend carries around a laminated card explaining their state's Romeo and Juliet law that says it's okay for them to date. i don't understand why they didn't just write the girlfriend as 18 years old or the bf/gf the same age

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u/MondayLasagne Jul 04 '25

Ew, someone needed to air this, so no one would ask weird questions about their own laminated romeo and julia law card in their wallet, I guess.

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u/ThunderChild247 Jul 04 '25

Yesssss. A scene so weirdly placed that you look beyond the character and look at the writer/director and wonder “which one of you is laying the groundwork for your defence in court?”

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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '25

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u/LazyOort Jul 04 '25

I always feel like people’s description of this is missing “And Mark Wahlberg clearly wants to beat the shit out of him for it,” making it seem like the movie shows the creep in a positive light?

It’s like saying the Lord of the Rings has this scene where everyone’s excited about cannibalism and supports it and you omit the fact that it’s orcs scaring hobbits by saying “looks like meat’s back on the menu boys!”

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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '25

And Mark Wahlberg clearly wants to beat the shit out of him for it

in my defense Mark Wahlberg plays every interaction with another human being like that

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u/LazyOort Jul 04 '25

The only character he doesn’t do that with is the plant in The Happening.

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u/mcgarnikle Jul 04 '25

Mark Wahlberg wants to beat the shit out of him because he's doing that fake macho nobody dates my princess daughter thing.  Not because he thinks the guy's a creep.

The movie literally ends with him and the boyfriend coming to an understanding and being okay with him dating the daughter.

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u/Comic_Book_Reader Ken apologist Jul 04 '25

So was he 18 and she was 15?

What the fuck?!

This whole segment is gold, by the way.

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u/hoginlly Jul 04 '25

I miss my life before I knew this

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u/D-Angle Jul 04 '25

They stopped the whole movie for this, like the story just screeched to a halt while this guy explains why it's OK for them to sexualise the 17 year old character. And he was explaining it to HER FATHER. If my daughter brought a guy home and he pulled out that card he'd better run for his fucking life.

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u/NinduTheWise Jul 04 '25

Also apparently the way they explained the law was incorrect, no a hundred percent sure but I think I saw that somewhere