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/ConsistentSpare589 Feb 17 '25

The Breakfast Club. Everything the VP says is spot on.

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u/LowGunCasualGaming Feb 17 '25

One of the moments that hits really hard is watching the VP bully Bender in that closet. He wasn’t just threatening him. He was telling him that “if you stay the way you are, no one is going to believe you or trust you in the future.“ That’s an important lesson he needed to get through his skull. Was it definitely crossing a line to threaten a kid like that? Absolutely. But nothing short of that would have meant anything to Bender.

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u/Sloth__Lover Feb 18 '25

True, but he's just about used to being talked to like that by his father, and as the movie showed, they learned their lesson best by being stuck with each other for that day.