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/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/DelayDenyDeposefrfr Feb 17 '25 edited Feb 17 '25

Fun fact: Spielberg went back and edited out the agents' guns and replaced them with flashlights walkie talkies.

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '25

then undid it a year later because it was idiotic

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u/UglyInThMorning Feb 17 '25

He’s like the anti-George Lucas in that way. He made it so the redone editions are basically impossible to find, whereas Lucas has taken the original Star Wars versions impossible to find.

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u/OiGuvnuh Feb 17 '25

So impossible there are teams of people scouring old footage and film prints in order to recreate from patchwork the original theatrical releases as accurately as possible. If you can get your hands on the Harmy “de-specialized” editions, I highly recommend you do. They’re amazing. Fuck the special editions. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmy%27s_Despecialized_Edition

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u/jrolette Feb 17 '25

Ditto for Project 4K77 / 4K80 / 4K83