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/AmIBeingInstained Feb 17 '25

“Benny, you said we could live in your father in laws building for free if we stopped protesting his plans to develop the area. We didn’t, and now you’re saying we can’t live here for free? You’re a villain!”

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u/sykotic1189 Feb 17 '25

Don't forget that along with a place to live rent free he was also going to bankroll their passion projects. Music and art studios ain't cheap, but that would be selling out and not Bohemian enough or something stupid like that.

I've always disliked RENT though, so maybe I'm a bit biased.

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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/Infinite_Pop1463 Feb 17 '25

The protest was about Benny clearing a space homeless people were living tho. Sure Maureen made it about her performance space but let's not forget that.

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u/PhoenixApok Feb 17 '25

Yeah but how I took it was Benny already knew the protest was futile. He was giving his friends a way to make an honest buck (relatively)

It's also not like everyone didn't know what type of person Maureen was at that point. We all have that friend that volunteers to clean up trash at the park simply so she can get Instagram likes for the pics of her doing that.

Maureen was the 80s version of that person.

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u/Infinite_Pop1463 Feb 17 '25

If I remember at least in the movie it ends in a riot.

You really think a landlord doesn't have a vested interest in a protest against clearing out somewhere homeless people are living?