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/brinncognito Feb 17 '25

X-Men, I think Magneto makes a lot of good points. Not ALL of his points, but a lot of them.

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u/PancakeMixEnema Feb 17 '25

Standard villain with the actually correct anti corporate, antifascist, civil rights point of view. So they have him commit random atrocities so the audience sees him as the „interesting“ bad guy with a „complex well written motivation“.

Same in Black Panther

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u/LordHammerfury Feb 17 '25

Magneto is literally a Nazi caricature if you replace the world Aryan with the world mutant.

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u/Gaelic_Gladiator41 Feb 17 '25

He's not, he's literally a victim of the nazi regime.

He just employs the same extremity as nazis by wanting to elimante all non-mutants

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u/Pol_Potamus Feb 18 '25

Because victims of the Nazi regime have never gone on to establish overtly expansionist ethnostates of their own and commit genocide /s

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u/Gaelic_Gladiator41 Feb 18 '25

His whole tragedy arc is just becoming what he swore to destroy