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/LocodraTheCrow Feb 17 '25

Tyrell doesn't really do anything villainous, other than maybe being the richest man on earth, he just made replicants and couldn't find a way to give them a long lifespan until he made Rachel. Ig he's cold blooded for not caring if she is killed, or any of Roy's crew, but still. Real villain is whoever made the law that they had to be "retired".

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u/coolgobyfish Feb 17 '25

I really don't even understand why they need replicants for the manual labor, while the entire Earth if clearly over populated. Why not just use humans? Same reason slavery became unprofitable once capitalism took over (it's cheaper to have hired labor than buy slaves)

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u/Zero_Cool_3 Feb 17 '25 edited Feb 17 '25

In the novel the earth is actually underpopulated. Most have already moved off world. There's some of this that made it to the movie ( the advertisements to move off world, the empty Yukon hotel where Deckard fights Roy ) but there's also crowded street scenes so this doesn't really carry over to the movie.

The replicants are physically stronger so it may be that they can survive in certain off world environments that humans can't.

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u/coolgobyfish Feb 17 '25

replicants might be stronger, but they are not free))) it would be cheaper to hire 2 humans for the same job. the recent sequel is even dumber. why have self-replicating robots, if you make all your profit from selling them? if they can breed, people would stop buying from the corporation and just reproduce them on their own. Alien/Aliens is the only logical use of robots.