movies where you disagree w/ the screenwriters on who the 'good guys' are

Reminds me that one of my terrible thread ideas was a poll of tv shows adapting A Christmas Carol and It's a Wonderful Life for their own purposes.

Omar, you gotta start that thread.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaBDE_8DLag

Chasing Amy

What's a Nubian?

Surprised that Simon Pegg’s within the first few replies but that no-one has mentioned How To Lose Friends And Alienate People.

If it ended with the TY based SP scrote-agonist getting slowly eaten by a Komodo dragon I'd have watched that!

The Incredilbes is a parable about a revolutionary who wants to redistribute from the powerful to the powerless, and the arrogant aristocrats fighting to keep their elevated status. I hate that film.

any movie where someone has to lower themselves briefly into the horror of normal working life before they realise they are superspecial above it and succeed

I've seen people say Daniel is the bad guy in Karate Kid but I don't see it

― fuck you, your hat is horrible (Neanderthal)

Try watching Cobra Kai.

any movie where someone has to lower themselves briefly into the horror of normal working life before they realise they are superspecial above it and succeed

incredibles prompted it but like this is every movie tbh

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Jack Black deserves severe sanctions and probably some jail time at the conclusion of School of Rock. The more interesting character arc belongs to Joan Cusack’s principal although she definitely should lose her job.

Haha yes otm

Lol

as a teacher I agree 100 pct

Yeah agree on School of Rock. I was part of a live read of the script last year and we all were like “...let’s change some lines”

Listening to 2112 for homework = quality education.

flappy which role did you take?

I was given the role of the obnoxious drummer kid. it was fun

I assume there has been a court case and a suspended sentence between the concert and the end credits in School Of Rock

And the judge is some kind of indiscriminate fan of both Rush AND Led Zep? Not likely

yeah good luck finding an older white man who loves those bands

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHVjs4aobqs

I found Ferris Bueller more insufferable than anyone else in the film

Lost in Translation

ScarJo's husband wasn't a bad guy, he was just trying to work. That's why you're in Tokyo to start with!

viewing humperdinck, count rugen and vizzini as the 'good guys' of princess bride is up there with

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92yHyxeju1U

There was nothing particularly likeabke or sympathetic about the lead characters in Lost in Translation. Being a bored spouse who moved somewhere for their partner’s high paying job is v 1% problems.

uh

Ok I barely remember the plot of that movie so if that’s not a totally accurate rendering for some reason w/e. It was boring.

It was a long time ago that I saw it but were we supposed to think that Charlotte's husband was a bad guy or even that she was especially 'good'? I didn't really see it that way.

he wasn't outwardly dickish but he was thoughtless and selfish iirc

I somehow have never seen Lost in Translation. I remember it coming out, and don't know why I never saw it, 2003 was right when I started going to art houses, it must've passed thru here in a couple of weeks. I remember it came out in August. I've had a copy of it for 2 years, I should watch it this week.

So little is made of the husband that I think that all the romantic confusion is from whitin Charlotte.

Also the shark in Jaws is mostly minding its own business.

spielberg's war of the worlds, where an emasculated tom cruise proves his manhood and parenting skills by killing a half-crazy person.

i'm not saying the aliens were the good guys. but it was aliens.

i mean given the situation...

i know he's a failing / deadbeat dad in the beginning but still. end of the world, rules don't apply

speaking of aliens, the bugs in starship troopers are good not bad

the screenwriter is 100% of that view!

The Thing, as well. Who among us hasn't impersonated Wilfred Brimley in a simple effort to escape the planet earth?

iirc in pirates of the Caribbean the pirates’ dastardly plan is to... give Orlando bloom a tiny cut on his palm and then immediately die. That doesn’t seem so bad tbh? Kinda cunty of depp et al to put so much effort into preventing that

i think there was consequences for eg knightley as well as bloom but i mean whod weep for a pair of mannequins like em throw in harry potter and youd have done 2003-present cinema a real fuckin favour

hero of potc ii and iii is davy jones this is canon

the character known as maverick in top gun is in fact a dangerous maverick

I have vague memories of having to sit through The Beach in the cinema, with a group for someone's birthday. Correct me if I'm wrong, but as I remember it, Leonardo DiCaprio's protagonist character is a terrible guy who cheats on his loved ones, disrupts the status quo not necessarily (intended) in a good way, goes on a drug trip, then offers some holier-than-thou moralising words in the end.

also rentons curve in trainspotting

Almost everyone in Love Actually is pretty horrible; same goes for most Hugh Granty movies like 4 Weddings etc.

this is because richard curtis is a fucking monster iirc

I feel the format of the thread demands that you have to indicate who you think the good guys are, and whether they’re played by Bill Nighy.

yes this is key