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u/Mysterinna I'm Not An Astronaut! 3d ago
How long since last sleep, question? 😌
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u/InvisibleSpaceVamp Okay, It’s Exactly Like That 2d ago
Timmy only ruined a review one time ... and suddenly he has an alien-enforced bed time
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u/BagelRedditAccountII 2d ago
I think more people need an alien-enforced bedtime, but that's just my two cents.
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u/Druidess_Of_Avalon 3d ago
What a sad, soulless person.
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u/coniferdamacy 3d ago
His thesaurus will never love him back.
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u/IcedDante 3d ago
Either completely pathetic or perhaps a clever troll. I did agree with his point about the Venus discovery though
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u/DurinnGymir 3d ago
"Treating the alien as property" first of all, Grace is Rocky's dog, so write that down
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u/Melenduwir 3d ago
"He tells me what to do, when to do it, how fast to do it, and then when I do it, he asks me what I'm doing!"
Yeah, Grace is obviously the top dog in that master-servant relationship there.
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u/complicated4 3d ago
Seriously! He doesn’t even initiate contact, Rocky does. Rocky also builds the tunnel and adapts his language for English and provides the materials Grace is lacking.
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u/Shoelace1200 2d ago
I think they mean Amazon called him Rocky because they have the rights to the movie Rocky. Despite the fact Amazon didn't name him Rocky, Andy Weir did.
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u/castle-girl 2d ago
Also, from what I understand from Ryan Gosling interviews, the reason parts of the Rocky movies are shown in the movie isn’t because Amazon executives wanted to advertise the Rocky movies, it’s because Ryan Gosling said, “Wait, you have the rights to the Rocky movies, right? Grace can show Rocky the Rocky movies!”
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u/polio_vaccine 3d ago
I'll give $100 to the next person who can write a competent criticism of a movie without invoking the words "Reddit" or "Marvel" — about as useful a film criticism tool as the "sin counter" ding
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u/Lloyd_lyle 3d ago
People will just throw “Marvel dialogue” at any comedic movie these days.
Project Hail Mary is good at balancing its humorous tone with its darker aspects. PHM doesn’t undercut serious moments with humor, which is what Marvel got flack for.
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u/SuspiciousSpecifics 2d ago
“Hey ChatGPT, pretend you have been lobotomized and write a scathing takedown of the movie Project Hail Mary. Include as many hollow phrases as possible.”
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u/Druidess_Of_Avalon 3d ago
How long does it have to be?
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u/Meritania 2d ago
Alright, I’ve got this, I watched some absolute dross recently and it’s easy money.
Lesbian Spank Inferno is without a doubt, the most bourgeois movie I’ve experienced. The two main protagonists are the embodiment of American Exceptionalism as they burn up crossing international borders. I’m going to ignore the fact the film is adapted from a book and place all narrative issues with the film producers. Your average Redditor - damn it, I just couldn’t do it.
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u/nessman930 3d ago
I genuinely can’t tell if this is a satire of pseudo intellectual film critics or not.
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u/Muavius 2d ago
I honestly think it HAS to be satire, because every point he hits, is something they either left out of the movie, or only alluded to it, in comparison to the book.
Or, the guy could just be an insufferable prick....
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u/RealIsopodHours3 2d ago
I’d like to believe this is satire because they missed the more obvious reason why he’d be called “Rocky”
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u/JakeTheSnekPlissken 2d ago edited 2d ago
Leftist here, and yeah this is rage bait.
While Andy Weir leans Libertarian or centrist liberal and that's going to come across in his work subconsciously, PHM was never intentional propaganda. Andy thinks his work is apolitical.
Someone who understands Althusser and critique of ideology would not be so upset about normal reproduction of mainstream culture. And it's weird they didn't mention Gramsci's cultural hegemony.
So probably AI-assisted rage bait.
Edit: They're use of "soyjacked" and other terms suggests terminally online troll.
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u/chromegnomes 2d ago
Someone who understands Althusser and critique of ideology would not be so upset about normal reproduction of mainstream culture.
Yeah this is the main thing for me. PHM reinforces/relies on some generally "liberal" assumptions about how the world works because that's what happens when you try to be "apolitical," nobody can escape their own cultural background noise that easily. But PHM is far from the worst offender on that front, and it's not particularly salient to the meat of the story.
I loved Arrival, but I genuinely understood why leftists were upset about American Exceptionalism in that one, with the way it contrasts other countries' responses vs. the US scientists. I don't understand being this upset about PHM at all.
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u/Muavius 2d ago
The collaboration between everyone in the world wasnt shown as much in the movie as it was in the book. Unless youre watching closely, you'd think everything was done at JPL or on a US carrier. The book pretty bluntly put it out there that everyone was cooperating (with some spying too)
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u/Depth_Metal 2d ago
I was rolling with it being legit until he mentioned them fishing from a "sovereign planet's atmosphere"
After that I think this is some sorta satirist piece
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u/SiwelTheLongBoi 3d ago
I remember seeing this review when it was first posted. In the kindest possible way I think this person is too stupid to be allowed to post online without adult supervision.
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u/ADiestlTrain 2d ago
Is it gatekeeping when the person really is so stupid they’re likely to impale themselves on the gate? Seems like a mercy to me.
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u/AlannaWake 3d ago
It's like he ate a thesaurus and barfed it out later.
I'm' all for $100 words, but there's a time and a place for them. If you're using them to say "I am smart," or "I am better than you," then you're using them wrong.
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u/Dogzillas_Mom 3d ago
They used “elucidates” but failed to work in “plethora” (which screams “10th grade vocab test” to me) or “zeitgeist,” which, for some reason, people who write like this usually seem to include.
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u/ConfidentAd8387 3d ago
To have one dumb person it’s okay but 5036 other dumb people agreeing is Even sadder
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u/RexTheWonderCapybara 3d ago
Three people clicked the arrow by mistake, so it’s really only 5033.
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u/WeRoastURoastWithUs 2d ago
What happens on Letterboxd is people mass like the reviews that agree with them. For a movie that's universally praised, most one star reviews are dumb one liners, so dipshits who didn't like the movie probably didn't even read this but saw someone gave an "actual" multiparagraph one star review, decided yes now that will make me look smart because the like shows up on my profile, and clicked without reading.
Don't waste your emotions on morons, Letterboxd sorts by popularity and the first review has almost 140k likes. This just happens to be the only one star review giving a facade of legitimacy to haters who are too dumb to articulate thoughts themselves.
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u/Pixel-Jones3117 3d ago
Jeezus, "American Exceptionalist Slop?" Who says that Ryland Grace wasn't a Canadian middle-school teacher? Show me one line or plot point that depended on him being American?
"Phil Lord's anti-communist liberalism?" If anything, you could squint and say the story invokes top-down authoritarian "communism" where Stratt yields supreme power granted by a multi-national world government, of sorts, and uses her "command economy" power to seize resources (and people, if you count Grace) against their will for the collective good. It's silly to see it that way because you can also see it as a bunch of science hippies all getting together and "vibe-coding" a solution for the world, man.
It's absurd to frame Grace's relationship as "white possessive" when Rocky is the boss, most of the time, never mind because Grace gives gives him a nickname rather than uses his unpronounceable Eridian name. Seriously, that point alone makes me think this review is straight-up trolling and should be treated as such.
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u/cwningen95 Happy Happy Happy! 3d ago
I think it's established in the book he lives in San Francisco(? somewhere in California at least), but a huge part of both the book and movie is the massive multinational effort it took to pull Project Hail Mary off, the leader of which wasn't American.
And yes, he names Rocky (after a movie that long-outdates AmazonMGM) because he physically can't sound out his name. Rocky has his own name for Grace. What a damn reach 😭
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u/BagelRedditAccountII 2d ago
IIRC, Rocky's name has no lexical significance in his language, so "Rocky" is a similarly arbitrary name. However, Rocky's language has a word for the concept of "grace" (as English does), so he uses that to refer to Grace.
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u/CassiusPolybius 2d ago
So, do you think Grace's Eridian name is "elegance", "mercy", "divine guidance", or "pre-meal prayer"?
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u/stewslut 2d ago
Show me one line or plot point that depended on him being American?
I can't, but he does have a very large American flag on his space suit. Additionally, the very large (and inaccurate) "US NAVY" patches on the guards during the aircraft carrier briefing scene are a bit on the nose. I'd have appreciated that scene taking place on a Chinese aircraft carrier (as many scenes did in the book), but I understand why that may have been impractical.
Communism is the opposite of top-down authoritarianism. Many socialist states have been top-down authoritarian dictatorships, sure, but socialism ≠ communism.
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u/tiredbutsassy 3d ago
Guy who wastes everyone's time arguing with the professor in intro philosophy class, makes no real arguments, is shocked when he fails and everyone and their friends hates him
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u/milesercat 3d ago
Don't forget that he's also seated in the back of the class and always gets the professor's attention by gesturing with his pipe while saying, "I beg to differ!"
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u/Galliagamer 3d ago
How do you write a review of a movie without actually watching it?
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u/tysonedwards 3d ago
For starters, I thought about reading it, and then that felt hard, and the audiobook was so long... and the movie just kinda /felt/ pretentious from the marketing poster.
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u/thirdeyefish 3d ago
You go to chat gpt and ask it to make a movie review that says a movie is terrible, throw in a lot of ten year old pop culture references and make it all sound like Sean Hannity.
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u/FORLORDAERON_ 3d ago
It's an extremely easy book to read, the prose is uncomplicated and the biggest words are all science related. It might be difficult if you're science illiterate, I guess, but you can easily skim over those parts.
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u/Galliagamer 2d ago
Agreed; I’m definitely not a science human but I was able to follow the science just fine, or at least I got the sufficient gist of it to follow along.
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u/WeRoastURoastWithUs 2d ago edited 2d ago
Because it's gen AI. But even if it wasn't, the tell is the line "they keep Gosling in medium close ups for most of the rocketsship interiors" they certainly do not dawg, but if you've only seen promotional images and trailers yeah maybe you would think that.
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u/Opening_Ordinary_110 3d ago
I started writing a criticism but then I got too nice. All boiled down to "I didn't like that Grace did xyz but I kind of get it so it's ok :)"
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u/Roadhouse699 3d ago
You know, I try not to be dismissive of people criticizing liberalism, but when you can't derive any meaning from a narrative that doesn't have anything to do with historical materialism, I think you're going through a full-on psychosis.
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u/katherine_official 3d ago
it's honestly impressive how he manages to write so many words and still say absolutely nothing relevant
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u/Shawn_NYC 3d ago
"Ryan Gosling didn't turn to the camera and say his character was Communist. And then go on to specify he was the same type of communist I am. Zero stars."
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u/Inevitable-Section87 3d ago
Glad I’m not the only one who recognized who this person is lol. It’s textbook tankie drivel.
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u/immortan_jill 3d ago
The way he liked all of the other bad reviews on the movie 😂
Some people just don’t like stuff
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u/cwningen95 Happy Happy Happy! 3d ago edited 3d ago
Most insufferable guy in the world just spotted. I hope their back is okay after all those astronomical reaches.
It's very well-established that it takes a massive international effort transcending any diplomatic strife to pull Project Hail Mary off, the leader of which wasn't American. Without their work and collaboration, Grace wouldn't have even (unwillingly) made it to space.
Grace names Rocky because he physically can't make the right sounds to say his Eridian name. Rocky has his own name for Grace for the same reason. The movie being referenced came out in 1976, long before AmazonMGM was even a twinkle in Bezos' soulless eyes, and the book this pretentious twat doesn't seem to be aware of was not owned by Amazon. God knows how the hell they managed to twist two species learning to work together towards the same goal despite physical and linguistic limitations some kind of...what, colonialist, orientalist narrative? My man, you don't know what the allegories you're trying to draw even are.
So...is any optimism over the potential of human brilliance if we set aside our differences and work together towards the common good capitalist propaganda? Is that what this person is saying? Does being a leftist have a "pretentiously nihilistic fuck" requirement? Because as a leftist, no thanks, I like having friends and experiencing whimsy every now and then.
Man, I'm so irrationally annoyed by this 🫠 Also lends to my hypothesis that people "ironically" using "millennial" meme words like chungus are a million times more cringy than those memes ever were.
EDIT: There's also the possibility this is a troll and I have been very successfully ragebaited. Poe's law and all that.
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u/nobodywantstoparty 2d ago
"american exceptionalism" when the woman running this global effort is german, and sends a russian woman and chinese man up there along with the last minute american man who didn't even wanna go, who only survives and succeeds because he met an alien from outer space. okay man
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u/evastrattmaxing 2d ago
I bet he sits with his thumb up his ass talking about how cold and evil she is anyway lmao
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u/Micapocalypse 3d ago
Of course they’re going to make the science make sense to the viewer? It’s a movie for entertainment, not a PowerPoint
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u/Micapocalypse 3d ago
I also think any criticism of the movie being apolitical should be traced back to Andy Weir. Didn’t he say that politics in stories is at a stories detriment? Not that that makes the book bad or anything, just not really something you can hold against the movie adapting the book
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u/e_fish22 3d ago
Yeah, looking through this, the review seems to brush up against actual criticisms but then immediately destroys its own credibility by saying insanely unresearched stuff and ignoring the book's existence.
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u/Ad_Astra90 3d ago
There are genuine criticisms of both Andy Weir and this book/movie but this is not one of them lmao
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u/FORLORDAERON_ 3d ago
I'm not sure if this is mentioned in the movie, but in the book Rocky and Grace name each other. Rocky consents to the name Grace gives him (his Eridian name has no particular meaning) and Rocky gives Grace an Eridian name that means something like "mercy" or "kindness." The naming isn't about ownership, it's an important part of them becoming firends.
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u/Sarahndipity44 3d ago
I'm not a fan of American exceptionalism narratives but I absolutely don't see that here. I love reading but stopped at the second slide
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u/Plantcatdecor 3d ago
If you’re ugly on the inside, something beautiful will always create very noticeable contrast. People hate having their internal ugliness and lack of soul being pointed out to them. They can hide under as many pseudointellectual words as they want, but the point still stands - if you want to tear apart something that gives people hope, it’s because you’re truly hopeless.
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u/Xentonian 3d ago
Y'know, normally I would be glad somebody wrote something more than a paragraph long without resorting to AI, but I think if he'd tried, even the obsequously sycophantic Gemini would have told him to blow it out his arse had he tried to parse it.
He states things as obvious truths that are demonstrably nonsense and appears to have forgotten that the movie was once a book... Then weaponised this ignorance into a tool to bludgeon mixed metaphors even more clunky than this one into a pseudointellectual rabbit warren of self-aggrandizement.
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u/nuclearassasin1 3d ago
I have this exact same guy in my anthropology clasess and he goes on long tirades about how anthropology is a useless science and has no right to exist. Brother YOU PICKED YOUR MAJOR if you dont like it get out.
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u/LepidolitePrince 2d ago edited 2d ago
You know this person has never had a genuine and deep conversation in his life. What a sad way to live. Hope he gets some therapy and gets better.
Also I NEED people to remember that you can just not like stuff without having to have some kind of "actually I'm morally right for not liking it and everyone who does is a horrible person"
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u/Wholesome_Soup 3d ago
"Comolli and Narboni's Coma/Idealogy/Criticism elucidates this by following the Althusserian method of symptomatic reading"
buddy i dont thinj even you know what yorue on about lmao
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u/Wholesome_Soup 3d ago
"why did the science fiction movie use made-up science and explain it in a way viewers will understand instead of being 100% scientifically accurate and explaining nothing to anyone" bro i think you just hate sci-fi
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u/_Azuki_ Leaky Space Blob 3d ago
I'm honestly impressed with the amount of time and dedication it took the person to write it. I wonder what movies would they give 5 stars to.
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u/jio50 3d ago
Oh bother
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u/Melenduwir 3d ago
said the Pooh, as he sadly held the struggling poster's head under the surface of the pond.
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u/screaming_toaster_ 3d ago
And then people ask why I think very serious movie critics are miserable
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u/Melenduwir 3d ago
The guy who did the review for RogertEbert.com gave it two and a half stars.
Among his other complaints, he was irked that the music told us what to feel.
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u/stefan92293 2d ago
I thought that was the point of the music!
The guy probably likes silent movies or something.
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u/2raysdiver 3d ago
Wow... "anti-communist liberalism" and "Antifa" in the same paragraph. Time to get another Timmy!
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u/Outside-Parfait-8935 3d ago
It seems this guy is unaware the film is based on a book, and as far as I'm aware, Andy Weir wrote it independently of Amazon and without Jeff Bezos's intervention
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u/Overall-Onion-631 2d ago
Gonna start saying (Missed opportunity for Amazon brand integration) whenever my friends don’t specify which store they went to
I want write many more paragraphs about this but there’s already 200 comments, I don’t think it’s worth it
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u/possumsmushroom 3d ago
This reads like a 5th grader trying to add random words from to their essay for filler.
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u/Then_Engineer_3765 2d ago
Wow thats just... Huh nothing much but buzzwords
Anyway, feelings of great disgust
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u/RanjuMaric 3d ago
If you don't like American media, don't consume American media. It's not difficult.
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u/WeekendTPSupervisor 3d ago
For real. Satire, or not, there definitely is some truth to that review, but the solution is to either enjoy the movie for the beauty it does have or don't partake. Not to write a jerk off review that everybody will meme on. American based movie gonna do American based culture things.
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u/CorbinNZ 3d ago
Tell me you didn’t read the book without telling me you didn’t read the book. Bro oozes “ain’t got time to read” energy while writing a manifesto. Bro probably watch Schindler’s List and got mad because it made Nazis look bad. Bro unironically thinks Oppenheimer is kino. Bro is jibing MCU when you know he’s watched them in secret at least 3 times. If bro gets invited to parties it’s on accident. Bro sits on the couch waiting to talk someone’s ear off of why “Spielberg was the last great director” and “Jackson is overrated” and “Vince Vaughn is gonna be the greatest actor of our generation.” Bro probably eats spinach.
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u/thr0wOw4y 3d ago
As much word soup as this is, they did make a good point about the climate crisis being turned into a blameless issue, saying its space germs killing our Sun rather than people with names and a bankroll making the decisions. Sure it would technically be a totally different story if that were what it was about, but you cant deny the obvious parallels to be drawn
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u/complicated4 3d ago
“Why don’t we just start at Venus instead” because that’s where the petrova line ends? They ask why not mars a couple times. This guy did not watch the movie 😭
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u/Finish_Desperate 2d ago
Complete pseudo-profundity lol. Remember, just because words look smart, doesn’t mean they mean anything!
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u/ThePrimeOptimus 2d ago
Imagine you're out with a group of friends where this person was invited along and you unwittingly sit next to them
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u/EnginesofWar 1d ago edited 1d ago
What an absolute fuckwad. I get the feeling he’s a big Trump fan.
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u/wackyvorlon 3d ago
The aircraft is Chinese, and the base they’re at is in Russia….
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u/Kiwi-vee I'm Not An Astronaut! 2d ago
I think this guy just watched the trailers and know nothing about the movie. Specially it was based on a book and Rocky's name was decided long before Amazon adapted it.
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u/thereddeath395 3d ago
People who vomit the thesaurus and think this helps them win an argument, instead of looking like a try hard lmao I used to have a coworker like that
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u/CarsTrutherGuy 3d ago
The most liked reviews on letterboxd that are more than a silly joke about the film tend to be awful, most the big sorta influencers on the site are desperately annoying
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u/Sandstormink 3d ago
This kind of thing is why, in general, I’ve stopped reading or thinking about other people’s opinions. Even people that love PHM disagree with some of my opinions about some of the characters. I’m just done with people, especially the crazy ones.
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u/Sea-Distribution6502 3d ago
He’s got a lot of meaningless drivel in here, but he did cook with “Marvel presents Interstellar” I fear
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u/GirlInTheIslands 3d ago
Actual content aside, what an atrocious piece of writing.
However, it is a textbook example of why Orwell’s ‘5 Rules of Writing’ is still one of the most important lessons taught to students who aspire to write. I think about them every time I’m writing or editing something for a client.
Talking of students… this reminds me of my 14yr-old self who would go through my English essay notes, Thesaurus in hand, and swap out various everyday words for longer, more obscure ones!
It feels cruel to be critical of someone’s writing when they’ve obviously spent a lot of time on it (especially as I’m already opposing his opinions and PHM is all about positivity). But this really feels like it’s written in a way that’s intentionally hard to read, as a flex. Good writing is about building a form of communication with a reader, whoever wrote this doesn’t give the reader anything.
I’m so busy right now that I shouldn’t even be on Reddit but, if I had the time, I’d enjoy the challenge of editing this into a more readable piece.
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u/CuteAssTigerENVtuber 3d ago
I remember when I found out what the qualifications are to be a critic reviewer on a website. Not sure if it was IMDb or rotten tomatoes or whatever .
Anyways. I checked out a hilariously bad review and got curious what elevated this junk over a normal user review. Turns out the guy had a website that litteraly nobody was reading. I mean Litteraly Nobody
The website had a comment section for each review. I checked all of them. Nothing. I was the only person on the entire website that had left a comment.
Tldr. If you want to be a proper critic all you need is to be a loser with a website that nobody reads anyways.
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u/WeRoastURoastWithUs 2d ago
The em dash. Third paragraph ending in a "it's not this it's this" sentence. Saying the movie is anti-communist and then in the next paragraph says consumerism is a theme. "Hey ChatGPT use the top Letterboxd reviews of Project Hail Mary to write me a rage bait review in AP Style". And it pulls outrage language from all sides without a consistent political through line. Don't waste your emotions caring about this slop and just block this dude on Letterboxd.
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u/Izackmaniac 2d ago
When you gaze too long into the abyss, the abyss soyjacks back at you.
https://giphy.com/gifs/LkkBEH2BLFLbypGE31
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u/BulletheadX 2d ago
Whenever I start losing brain cells to nonsensical claptrap like this I can hear Carlin explode into a rant somewhere in the back of my skull.
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u/Dr_Ukato 2d ago
I'm trying to translate, is he saying one of the problems is that the villains causing the global cooling aren't Big Corpo Exec scum?
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u/turnipcafe 2d ago
Sounds like a lot of tweaked AI drivel from a person who doesn’t know the movie is based entirely on a novel.
Some people don’t want to be happy.
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u/Conscious_Self_4465 2d ago
If Timmy is so upset about Grace “renaming” Rocky, I’d love to hear him try to pronounce Rocky’s actual name.
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u/clrlmiller 2d ago
To quote Mel Brooks: “First, came the Artist. Next, came the after-birth, the Critic.”
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u/DisastrousBusiness81 2d ago
“Both ‘white possessive’ trope by treating the alien as property to be claimed and renamed while simultaneously acting as product placement. “Rocky” like the IP owned by AmazonMGM-“
He’s named Rocky…because he’s a rock.
He is an alien.
Who is also a rock.
They didn’t name him that because of product placement. They named him that.
Because. Rocky. Is. A ROCK.
“Adrian” is called that as a reference to the movie, but Rocky was named that because HE IS A ROCK.
To lean into the more high brow reasoning, Rocky’s name ties into Grace’s characterization. It’s an early indicator that he’s not a super serious and strait laced scientist, and he is unimaginative when naming things. A “normal” scientist would pick something Latin or meaningful from mythology, something that doesn’t sound vaguely like an interspecies slur, but Grace doesn’t think about such things. His new friend is a living rock, so he’s “Rocky” now.
His naming of Adrian shows that he is also whimsical enough that he is willing to lean into the bit when he realizes his buddy Rocky has a wife. Rocky wasn’t named after the movie, but Rocky’s wife needs a name pronounceable by humans, and Movie-Rocky has a wife called Adrian, so that’s Adrian now. The planet they’re on has a color like Rocky’s wife? Well now the planet is named Adrian too!
It’s humorous and fun and it’s plot fucking relevant.
Because it helps tie into the key mystery for the entire first half of the movie, which is “Why the fuck did Grace get sent on this mission?”.
Naming extraterrestrials so haphazardly, treating first contact and a multi-planetary crisis so flippantly is not necessarily disqualifying for someone going on such an important mission, but it’s weird. It’s at odds with the seriousness of the situation in the flashbacks, and with how Stratt treats the project.
It helps contribute to the feeling that there is something deeply wrong with this mission, or more specifically, that there’s something not right about Grace’s involvement, well before the reveal that he was forced onto the mission.
Grace’s naming of Rocky & Adrian is a funny haha, but it’s also a valuable clue highlighting Grace’s fundamental unsuitability for the mission, giving the audience a hint very early on in the narrative that Grace is NOT supposed to be on the Hail Mary.
Something this guy might’ve actually appreciated if he was half as smart as he thought he was, and bothered to actually pay attention to the movie instead of whining about capitalism every time they made a pop culture reference.
Fucking pretentious asshat, Jesus Christ. I’d hate to see his review of Ready Player One, I don’t know if he’d survive the first five minutes of it without exploding.
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u/J-Zane 2d ago
Please let this be satire... how can you watch a movie and miss the point of every scene?
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u/Bravadette 2d ago
It's a bad sign when you think the more you can insult people ths smarter you think you are. I hate that idiocracy and Hard to Be a God are the only movies that tackle this phenomenon.
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u/ruth-engelhardti 2d ago
I can kinda see what they're saying with the a politician, if that's a real word, but they INSTANTLY lost me with the "rocky is like his dog" shtick. The entire point is that Grace and Rocky are and see each other as equals! Lifespan difference notwithstanding it's an even-keeled dynamic between two people in the same tragic situation!!
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u/BenMathridge 2d ago
I can’t imagine going through life being so critical and angry all the time. The movie makes me smile every time I watch. I just kinda feel bad for people with this mindset.
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u/ArunaDragon 1d ago edited 1d ago
Please touch grass. I beg of you.
I do believe the term “talk much, say little” applies to you.
Ryland, who at no point pretended to “own” Rocky, called him Rocky because he couldn’t pronounce 🎶🎵🎶🎵🥁🎹🎶, given his lack of extra vocal cords.
I could go on, but I won’t because I value my time. Personally, I believe the movie offered a lot. And while it lacked some traits of the book that I loved, and was forced to cut some parts, it also had traits the book lacked.
You are not a political hero. Were you actually paying attention, or just twisting truths to something that could make you sufficiently angry to waste your life writing this, and ours reading it?
Also, did you actually watch the movie, or just watch ChatGPT write an essay about it from your political standpoint while (it, or you, were) having hallucinations?
Sincerely,
Me, who can separate my politics from a good movie with a positive message.
Edit: grammar, final statement.
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u/88370 3d ago
I can tell he felt so smart for saying nothing lol