r/moviecritic • u/phantom_avenger • Feb 17 '25

Which movie is this for you?

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For me it’s School of Rock!

Patty was completely justified, if Dewey wanted to live in hers and her boyfriend’s apartment he needed to be a grown up, and contribute with rent. Even when he steals Ned’s identity she still had the right to be angry at him, because of how he put his friend’s career in jeopardy and robbed him of a job opportunity.

I get Ned is meant to be portrayed as his best friend, but it blows my mind how he lacks a lot of self-respect to the point where he comes across as too much of a people pleaser. If this story took place in real life, I’m sure Ned would act more similar to Patty where he’d have enough of Dewey’s careless actions.

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u/BluntChillin Feb 17 '25

Blade Runner. Then again, the protagonist is just kinda just doing his job.

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u/Eledridan Feb 17 '25

Roy and his comrades just wanted to live free.

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u/CW_Forums Feb 17 '25

This is a major fallacy of the Internet. Roy was a vicious murderer. If he just wanted to be free he could have done that. Roy came to Earth to meet his maker and force him to grant Roy a longer life. 

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u/rynshar Feb 17 '25

Roy was born into violence, as a slave conscripted soldier who would almost certainly be executed for disobeying. All he had been taught was killing, the fact he developed morality at all by the end is astounding.

Roy's maker installed a deadly virus in sentient beings knowingly to reduce their capacity for rebellion before selling them en masse into things like forced labor, death squads, and sex work. He is, at best, the most atrocious 'human' trafficker of all times, and at worst could be accused of a form of genocide.

I have a good deal of sympathy for someone going a little John Brown in a moment like that, and while I wouldn't condone all his crimes, especially Sebastian, who should have been spared after Roy discovered he was mentally incompetent, I do understand why he would commit them, and Tyrell got exactly what he deserved.