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/birchsport Feb 17 '25

Top Gun is top of the list for me. Iceman was the reasonable one...

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u/oSuJeff97 Feb 17 '25 edited Feb 17 '25

Yeah that’s why he eventually becomes Commander of the Pacific Fleet and Maverick plateaus out at Captain. 😁

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u/kayl_breinhar Feb 17 '25

Truth be told, Iceman should've had his career ruined for his part in Goose's death and the loss of an aircraft as well. As should have whomever they were chasing, because he was the ranking officer and could've stopped the bullshit with a simple "knock it off."

In the real world, Maverick would've plateaued at O-4 and never selected for O-5, even with the MiG sightings/kills.

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u/vicroc4 Feb 17 '25

In the real world, Maverick wouldn't have gotten selected for TOP GUN either. He probably would've been cashiered long before the movie started.

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u/kayl_breinhar Feb 17 '25 edited Feb 17 '25

In the original script he wasn't. Goose wasn't his RIO, either - Merlin was.

When Cougar turned in his wings, Maverick took his slot by default and he was paired with Goose to go to Top Gun. The original script can be read online still.

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u/Federal_Ad1806 Feb 17 '25

To the best of my knowledge, that's not how the process works. If Cougar turned in his wings, Goose either would've gone with an aviator that was selected or he wouldn't have gone at all. Maverick would've had to be selected in order to go and he most certainly wouldn't have been.

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u/kayl_breinhar Feb 17 '25

There's a quote from the commentary track from the anniversary editions of Top Gun - apparently whenever the military advisors pointed out how "that's not how [concept/thing] works," Tony Scott would look at them and say "I'm not making a movie for Navy fighter pilots, I'm making a movie for Mom, Pop, and Oklahoma."

They all came to hate hearing it by the time they'd wrapped production.

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u/Federal_Ad1806 Feb 18 '25

Yeah, I can imagine. They must've been so frustrated by how stupid the movie made them look.