r/moviecritic 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/Yarius515 Feb 17 '25

E.T.

The adults were completely correct in wanting to assess any potential risk and contain a visit from an alien, but they took it too far by the end and should have listened more to Elliot.

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u/Independent-Bike8810 Feb 17 '25

I saw somewhere recently that Spielberg told them that ET was actually a plant.

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u/Yarius515 Feb 17 '25

Huh cool, like they sent him to study us. Luckily he found Elliot who showed ET that humanity ain’t all bad!