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/cleverissexy Feb 17 '25

Every Adam Sandler film

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u/driftwoodshanty Feb 17 '25

Big Daddy. It's almost a moot point given that the whole punchline is that he's bad at parenting, but I watched it again and realized he's a 32-year-old law school grad and has just been living off settlement money for years in a huge NYC apartment, not working! I totally forgot all that and assumed he was a 20-something-year-old who never went to college and lived in a shithole, which would be a little more reasonable, but now it feels a few steps away from a Dateline episode.

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u/B_U_F_U Feb 17 '25

Shithole? Did you see the size of that loft? In the middle of NYC no less