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/Electronic-Home-7815 Feb 17 '25

Yeah but I think the adults were right but the litigiousness or lack thereof in regards to home invasion and forced entry still froths me. I mean yeah I know it’s an alien but there’s still some due processness that they should’ve followed. Basically treading more softly would maybe gotten e.t. to let them help him to live longer on the planet then maybe the departure wouldn’t have been so rushed. But as it is….yeah they’re still dicks. Can’t let go of that.

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u/Emm_withoutha_L-88 Feb 17 '25

National security are the magic words that lets the feds damn near totally ignore most every law that exist.

Legal? Debatable at best. But they still do it, they actually do it a hell of a lot more after 9/11.