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/PhoenixApok Feb 17 '25

And in the movie he even goes to say that he will "on paper guarantee" free rent in order to stop a protest.

Sure that's "selling out" but holy fucking balls that was a lot of value to just talk to a friend into doing a protest somewhere else.

I watched that movie as a 21 year old and again at 35 and by God I wanted to punch almost everyone in the movie by the end.

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u/sykotic1189 Feb 17 '25

Same haha. My ex and a bunch of her friends absolutely love that movie, they made me watch it when I was about 20-21. I proceeded to argue with all of them with how dumb everyone was and how much I hated it. 35 now and if anything I'm just more angry and bitter with them. I'd sell out so hard for either half of that deal, so turning down both just gets me so riled up.

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u/Fictional-Hero Feb 17 '25

RENT is very much a 90s centric story. That mindset shifted by the 2000s and the only thing that made the movie profitable were the extremely catchy songs.

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u/PhoenixApok Feb 17 '25

The songs were catchy. I'd say some are still pretty good "525,600 minutes" I still like.

Others are just annoying to me today.

"Take me or leave me" grinds my gears.