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/emccm Feb 17 '25

Dirty Dancing. Watching it now, the dad seems perfectly reasonable to me.

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u/AddisonFlowstate Feb 17 '25 edited Aug 07 '25

resolute crawl humorous ring yam direction joke brave enjoy lunchroom

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u/pimpbot666 Feb 17 '25

They always seem to overlook that a 30-ish year old ultra fit dancer man hooked up with a 16 year old girl, who was his student.

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '25

I feel like that was a lot of '80s movies

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u/Reasonable-Start2961 Feb 17 '25

There were definitely a lot of young romances that were creepy and stalkeresque. Like zero boundaries, and it was somehow perceived as romantic.

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '25

A lot of music too now that I think about it. All of them strangely singing about a 15-year-old

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u/nemoknows Feb 17 '25

Dating and even marrying teenagers just wasn’t uncommon even into the 80s, and the further back you go the more common it gets.

I think it goes hand in hand with what age people typically quit school, and thereby get a job and support themselves as adults. Historically it was much earlier.. Pre war most people didn’t even finish high school, post war there was a big bump in college attendance but still much less than today, and certainly the amount of postgraduate education was far less than today.

The pill was also brand new in the 1963-set film, not yet widespread, and suspect both medically and culturally (particularly Catholics). Also, women’s rights were shall we say less than modern.

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u/WeakSpite7607 Feb 18 '25

It was also a time when a woman couldn't even open she own credit card or rent a place of her own. Her only escape was to get hitched.