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CaptCanada924 Mar 28, 2026 +417

I haven’t watched it in forever, but Thanks For Smoking is a fun great movie starring Aaron Eckheart playing a cigarette spin doctor, where the climax is him successfully arguing in court k behalf of tobacco companies, it’s a pretty good movie

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dont_fuckin_die Mar 28, 2026 +72

Great movie, but yeah - In the end, everyone just sucks, but you have a mortgage to pay, so ... I guess it's all permissible?

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Nate0110 Mar 28, 2026 +36

This movie reminds me of being fresh out of college, I got a job that sucked and had a friend who worked for Phillip Morris. Dude literally acted like this guy and even offered me a job, I declined but probably should have taken him up on it.

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Zealousideal_Fix_761 Mar 28, 2026 +22

Oooh this is a fun movie. Need to rewatch.

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KillerKill420 Mar 28, 2026 +26

Thank you for Smoking is one of the best movies ever made.

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FaceMaulingChimp Mar 28, 2026 +7

Great movie , Nick Nailor

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1107rwf Mar 28, 2026 +277

Bob in What About Bob. Maybe I’m the only one, but I fully empathize with Richard Dreyfus. I think. I honestly hated all the other characters so much I had to leave the room for large chunks of time, so for all I know Dreyfus deserved it all. But really, I wanted everyone in that movie dead.

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DarwinsPhotographer Mar 28, 2026 +102

You should read about how Murray treated Dreyfus on set. Murray hated him and wasn't afraid to say so in his shitty/cutting way in front of the crew. Dreyfus has been candid about this.

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Humbabwe Mar 28, 2026 +1

That’s not exactly true. Dreyfus was an insufferable acTOR for much of his early career (at least). Go watch “making of jaws” documentaries and you’ll find he was a problem on that film too. Not to say that Shaw and Murray were completely innocent, but it’s not just out of the blue.

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1107rwf Mar 28, 2026 +34

Yuck. That makes it even worse.

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ItsCowboyHeyHey Mar 28, 2026 +1

Dreyfus is also a well-known set cancer and Hollywood a******, so do t feel too bad.

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Kevin_LeStrange Mar 28, 2026 +37

You're not the only one. Dreyfus' character was pompous, arrogant, and out of touch with his wife and kids, but compared to the absolute tornado of mental and emotional issues that was Bob, you really have to feel for the guy.

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RocknRolla2008 Mar 28, 2026 +25

It's nice to see somebody else who had the same reaction to that movie.

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Lord_of_Allusions Mar 28, 2026 +6

God, thank you.

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boethius61 Mar 28, 2026 +1

That's the point of the movie. Only the audience and the doctor can see how problematic Bob is. We're meant to ride along in his frustration. All the other characters are there to create that frustration. "Why can't they see Bob has to go?!"

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AutomaticQuestion557 Mar 28, 2026 +208

Henry Hill. Wasaaay worse in real life, total amoral scumbag with no redeeming features

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TheyTried2BanMeAgain Mar 28, 2026 +142

Ray Liotta had a story about actually meeting the guy, and Hill thanked him for not making him look like as much of a douchebag in the movie. Liotta said he walked away flabbergasted, because he thought he very much had been doing that.

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Caserious Mar 28, 2026 +1

He also stole Ray’s wallet, and when Ray was looking around for it knowing full well that Henry took it, he dropped it in the middle of the road like “oh there it is!” Super scummy guy

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throwawaybobamu Mar 28, 2026 +1

Was this at a grocery store in Los Angeles?

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DAHFreedom Mar 28, 2026 +19

The Swindled episode involving him is great. It’s actually about a college basketball points shaving scheme, but all of a sudden it’s about Goodfellas also?

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Funandgeeky Mar 28, 2026 +22

The book the movie is based on, Wiseguy, goes into the points shaving scheme in much more detail. They briefly mention it in the movie as well.

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jambajew42 Mar 28, 2026 +104

All he did was sell propane and propane accessories! PS: I've don't think I've ever heard anybody refer to him as Henry. He usually goes by the nickname Hank. (Just making a dumb joke, don't mind me)

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Funandgeeky Mar 28, 2026 +28

“As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to sell propane and propane accessories, I tell you what!”

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Traveshamockery27 Mar 28, 2026 +179

Riddick from Pitch Black. He could only be trusted as far as your interests align.

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Th3Dark0ccult Mar 28, 2026 +89

Good point specifying Pitch Black. I think they made him way more classically heroic in the sequel.

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Accomplished-City484 Mar 28, 2026 +1

In the third one he spies on Katie Sackhoff showering then later in the movie comments on her nipples

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echelon42 Mar 28, 2026 +1

Its ok because at the end he was so manly and heroic that it turned on katie Stockholm so much it made her want to have sex with him even after there was no connection, and her saying specifically that she was a lesbian.

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bubbles_loves_omar Mar 28, 2026 +1

By the end of the movie he had definitely had some character development.

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SinkHoleDeMayo Mar 28, 2026 +11

Meh. He wasn't really that bad. He only went after Johns who completely deserved it.

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ZorroMeansFox Mar 28, 2026 +343

Nefariously, Kubrick intentionally made Alex in **A Clockwork Orange** charismatic and a suffering tragic figure, so you'd feel for him even though he was a sociopath.

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ScreenTricky4257 Mar 28, 2026 +109

Which is truer to the book. Kubrick had the edition of the book with the final chapter excised. In in, Alexander finds that one of his other friends has settled down and gotten married, with a stable job and no more crime, and he wonders if that wouldn't be so bad to do himself.

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ZorroMeansFox Mar 28, 2026 +51

I agree. And I'm glad Kubrick's film didn't follow Burgess's inclusion of a final redemptive chapter. Burgess could never utterly shake his religious upbringing and traditions, which helped his work be more mythic, but sometimes didn't allow him to be as cynical as "reality" would seem to require. (That is, I find it psychologically unlikely to the point of being ridiculous that Alex would have "grown up" and developed a conscience. The inescapable pressures of the world/society he's trapped in don't ever seem to allow for such "miraculous" conversions. And having this "character flip" would have, I think, taken much of the sting out of Kubrick's indictment of Mankind.)

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eversible_pharynx Mar 28, 2026 +29

I think reading *A Clockwork Orange* as a story about a violent man being punished and meeting the consequences he deserves doesn't do it justice, especially because it makes the coda look like a ham-fisted attempt to rehabilitate Alex's character. Burgess actually really liked Kubrick's adaptation off the American edition, and iirc personally hemmed and hawed for ages about whether the coda was actually necessary (although my memory on this is fuzzy, I don't have my copy of the book atm). I think Burgess is trying to examine two things: the nature of violence, and its place in human society. The auxillary texts in [the restored edition](https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/386123/modern-classics-a-clockwork-orange-by-anthony-burgess/9780141197531) indicate that Burgess thought destructive violence is actually, ultimately and paradoxically, a creative force, just without discipline or craft. Like making art, it's an attempt to leave some mark on the world as a confirmation of one's existence, to see one's effect on the world; it's just that art requires discipline and craft, which takes time to acquire. Alex actually has an intensely creative soul with no disciplined outlet: music whips him into a passionate frenzy, which he then expresses in raw form, i.e. violence. Thus the second point: Burgess's (very Catholic) idea is that choice is a necessary component of virtue, i.e. that good that isn't freely chosen is not actually good. In this way Alex's "treatment" is doubly dehumanizing: not only has his capacity for choice been removed, thus robbing him of the ability to *be* good; the most human aspect of him, the excruciating passion for music, is twisted into a punishment. He's essentially robbed of his soul, and forced to live without it (because they removed his ability to commit *any* violence, even to himself). He's even been robbed of any chance of redemption, because he can't choose it. The most interesting thing to me though is what happens after he's "cured" of violence: he gets booted back into a violent world, without the means to meet violence with violence. His ex-gangmates are now cops, visiting legal, righteous violence on him, and Alex is even less than animal, reduced to grovelling and debasing himself, unable to run, unable to fight back, unable to live as a human being, unable to die with dignity. This is apparently supposed to be a just consequence; the violent criminal has been visited with righteous, gleeful violence, and violence is justice if it's used against people we consider deserving. In fact, the reader is complicit in this, if they haven't quite caught the point being made yet. Clearly if violence was the problem, we wouldn't reserve the right to gleefully visit it on people who deserve it. *This* is what's supposed to make you sympathize with Alex. It's not the idea that Alex is actually a good person, he's very much not, but he's supposed to be *human*. Far from being an indictment of humanity's inherent evil, it's an argument that violence (and more broadly, evil) actually has a place in society and the human soul, and the misapplication of violence is a product of context. Evil exists in order for good to be chosen, and either violence is always wrong, or it's sometimes not wrong and the choice to use it must remain. The coda at the end is supposed to tie this all together. It's not that somehow Alex is "cured" of evil, it's just that having reclaimed his soul, the capacity for good is also returned to him. Or put another way, the coda doesn't try to redeem Alex, the coda just closes off the story by saying Alex will have to redeem Alex. I will note that for whatever reason, at some point in our moral/physical development (at least for most people) the urge to violence fades a little, the red mist clears, and we find ourselves more able to discipline and direct that fundamental creative energy into craft and hopefully art. iirc Burgess thought that Alex would've become a great composer if his circumstances were different.

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tanstaafl90 Mar 28, 2026 +11

It's the excess of youth forced into society, taken to an extreme. He's just last of his gang to get there.

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ZorroMeansFox Mar 28, 2026 +20

Agreed; but the members of Alex's gang who "join society" also don't develop morals. They become immoral cops. Alex *also* joins up with his immoral society, becoming a useful cohort of the Governor.

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tanstaafl90 Mar 28, 2026 +10

The society is corrupt as well, which is the end point of the book. He can continue, just with state backing, like his old cohorts, as long as he conforms enough. Cynical book and film.

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DogApprehensive2575 Mar 28, 2026 +485

The Wolf of Wall Street. Jordan Belfort is a charismatic and intriguing character, but awful and misguided. The amount of stock/crypto bros that still look up to him and missed the whole point of the movie genuinely concerns me.

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CertainlyNotDen Mar 28, 2026 +140

Reminds me of a Wall Street bro coming up to Oliver Stone in the late 80s telling him how seeing WALL STREET made him want to be a stockbroker “You really didn’t get the idea of the film, did you?” Stone said

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shwarma_heaven Mar 28, 2026 +1

Just like Full Metal Jacket being anti-war, but every gung-ho military guy being able to quote it word for word...

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Loggus Mar 28, 2026 +1

In the same type of beat, Christian Bale has talked about how finance bros have repeatedly told him how they loved American Psycho.

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TJ_McWeaksauce Mar 28, 2026 +1

It's pretty much a guarantee that any work of fiction that criticizes a way of life will unintentionally get some people to admire that way of life. I recently read that some neo-nazis like American History X, even though that film makes them look like vile pieces of shit at worst and misguided dumbasses at best.

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SapientSlut Mar 28, 2026 +38

I agree with the charismatic part through around act 1. After that I couldn’t stay on board with rooting for him - and very agreed the amount of bros who worship him is scary.

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Feeling-Visit1472 Mar 28, 2026 +27

He seems to be likable in spite of being such a d***** in real life, too. Or maybe it’s just that Grant Cardone interview 🤣

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YoureUsingMyOxygen Mar 28, 2026 +24

Unfortunately I don't think they missed point. More that they do not care and want the money and all that comes with it no matter what.

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boycart Mar 28, 2026 +1

The movie dos not want you to root for this person, so this is not a good answer to the question

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roastbeeftacohat Mar 28, 2026 +1

only exists because Belfort's cell mate connived him to write his story; that man being Tommy Chong.

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Mr_Evil_Dr_Porkchop Mar 27, 2026 +503

*Catch Me if You Can* He was so charismatic and charming and a pleasure to watch on screen, but in reality was just a con artist and awful human being and turned out to be a total liar

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Mindofmierda90 Mar 28, 2026 +281

Turned out the guy even lied about his lies.

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Timozi90 Mar 28, 2026 +96

This guy's a nesting doll of deception.

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NorCalFightShop Mar 28, 2026 +51

Deception inception.

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Electrical-Sail-1039 Mar 28, 2026 +47

That’s my favorite part. The only con the guy pulled in real life was convincing Spielberg that all of that bullshit really happened. He became a doctor? Really? That’s so hard to pull off and so easy to check. Even Braveheart was more accurate, lol.

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DieSowjetZwiebel Mar 28, 2026 +35

That honestly makes it even better.

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Bluest_Skies Mar 28, 2026 +19

I mean, you sort of have to respect it. If only I had that kind of ingenuity.

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Orion14159 Mar 28, 2026 +20

Same with Wolf of Wall Street. He's a charismatic sociopath

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one_bean_hahahaha Mar 28, 2026 +215

Mrs Doubtfire

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animeman59 Mar 28, 2026 +1

Yep. The court decision on him was the correct ruling. And then he tries to shame his wife by asking if she knows what it feels like to have someone monitor his time with the kids. No, she wouldn't, because she's not a psychopath. Also, shout out to Pierce Brosnan's character. The guy is dating a woman with three kids and he states that he wants to settle down and be a dad. Especially for the youngest one. That guy would be a ten out of ten for anyone.

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NuclearTheology Mar 28, 2026 +1

Has anyone else noticed that movies like this in the 90’s had some weird hate boner for stand-up average guys being good step dads?

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PegasusReddit Mar 28, 2026 +85

I love the fanmade trailer for that movie, but shot as a horror. Way more fitting.

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Wishart2016 Mar 28, 2026 +1

I like to see One Hour Photo as a sequel but shot as an actual psycho thriller.

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aseedandco Mar 28, 2026 +1

This is the most correct answer here.

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Mammoth-Ad6145 Mar 28, 2026 +1

If it wasn’t a comedy film, the idea of your ex husband using a disguise to invade your home is f****** terrifying.

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BattlinBud Mar 27, 2026 +498

Back to the Future. Marty can never get anywhere on time, and I'm sorry but he's just too darn loud.

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RekopEca Mar 27, 2026 +159

He's a slacker!

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Stock-Ad2495 Mar 28, 2026 +75

He’s a chicken!

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SparrowBirch Mar 28, 2026 +45

His dad is a pervert

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pudding7 Mar 28, 2026 +13

What'd you call me?

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sanban013 Mar 28, 2026 +68

Rest in Peace James Tolkan. Died today age 94.

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these-things-happen Mar 28, 2026 +18

Did he ever have hair?

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OobaDooba72 Mar 28, 2026 +12

Oh wow. Ninety four years is a pretty good run. RIP.

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maskaddict Mar 28, 2026 +37

Found Huey Lewis's burner account

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NeverCadburys Mar 28, 2026 +52

Can't get anywhere on time, can't control his volume, has varied hobbies, quite active, interesting fashion choices that clearly pits function over comfort, not many same age friends.... that boy has ADHD.

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gamersecret2 Mar 28, 2026 +12

Marty would be fun for one day, then the chaos and volume would probably wear me out fast.

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Fexxvi Mar 28, 2026 +4

Plus, he's a chicken.

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APartyInMyPants Mar 28, 2026 +117

The obvious answer is *Uncut Gems*. But I was rooting for the outcome that came on the end.

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Junethemuse Mar 28, 2026 +56

I’ll never forget when I saw that movie, because I made it a double feature with 1917. I left feeling like I’d been hit by a bus.

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bargman Mar 28, 2026 +22

Man I hope you watched Uncut Gems first.

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Junethemuse Mar 28, 2026 +1

I did not lmao

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ringwraithfish Mar 28, 2026 +25

Uncut Gems really hit for me because I knew someone just like that - likely bipolar, loves his family, tries so hard to make something of himself, so sure of himself even when he's wrong. Not a terrible person, but not a great person either.

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gliterellaclitorella Mar 27, 2026 +38

Billy Brown in Buffalo 66 - absolute nutcase, but when you learn about his upbringing, I can’t help but feel sorry for him.

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traws06 Mar 28, 2026 +68

I feel like Jack Sparrow is the best example Coach Carter. Dude is an abusive a****** who physically assaults his owns players. Memento. But to be fair only 99% of the movie wants you to root for him and the last 1% is them clearly making sure you understand you shouldn’t have been rooting for him lol Jim Carey’s character in Liar Liar. Mark Zuckerberg in the Social Network

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BeserKing Mar 28, 2026 +1

I really dont think you’re supposed to be rooting for Mark Zuckerberg in the Social Network, him being the villain of the story by the end of it is very clear

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QueensOfTheNoKnowAge Mar 28, 2026 +194

Friggin douchebag from Limitless. Goes from wannabe writer to having “limitless” potential and what does he do with it? Goes into finance. After realizing the error of his ways, he does what? Goes into politics. Talk about going from loser to evil to super evil. And it’s meant to be redemptive.

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bigmarkco Mar 28, 2026 +84

The TV show version of Limitless was awesome. Open spoiler below. Bradley Cooper's character isn't the protagonist, and we get a chance to view him from an entire different, and arguably more accurate lens.

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chadthundertalk Mar 28, 2026 +39

I love that the premise of the show is essentially "okay, now what if they gave the pill to someone who *isn't* a complete self-involved d*****?"

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Luneowl Mar 28, 2026 +1

That might be worth watching. I love me some competency p***.

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DUNEBUGGY213 Mar 28, 2026 +1

It’s a fun show. Be warned, it was cancelled after one season 🥲

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Green-Web792 Mar 28, 2026 +1

Such a slept on show. So disappointed it didn’t get renewed. That was such a great cast.

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Pepper_Thyme Mar 28, 2026 +25

That movie annoyed the c*** out of me. Guy hires a team of chemists to figure out the formula of this drug he needs to maintain his lifestyle and can't be buggered to do it himself.

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traws06 Mar 28, 2026 +22

Ya it more just shows he’s extremely smart but still has his limits to the point he can’t just learn an entirely new field and be in expert in just days 🤷‍♂️

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BaltIndyNash Mar 28, 2026 +65

Fight Club?

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Blammo32 Mar 27, 2026 +30

Ever seen that Kevin Bacon film “The Woodsman”? jfc

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123jjj321 Mar 28, 2026 +28

Ever seen Kevin Bacon in "Footloose"? Wrecking tractors, cutting loose, blurring the line between church and state quoting Bible verses at a Town Council meeting, kicking off Sunday shoes, etc. Dude is clearly unhinged

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Special-Fix-3320 Mar 28, 2026 +9

Bacon is so underrated. The fact he was able to make you almost feel bad for the guy is really impressive.

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Sad-Artichoke-2174 Mar 28, 2026 +16

The man saved us from Graboids, makes him a hero in my book

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anotherwave1 Mar 28, 2026 +178

The Big Short The protagonists were hedge fund managers and the like who made off with billions.

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lsaz Mar 28, 2026 +85

that’s why Ryan Gosling character is hilarious “hey, I never said I was the hero”

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SinkHoleDeMayo Mar 28, 2026 +22

"jacked to the t***" is a phrase I enjoy from time to time.

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Amon7777 Mar 28, 2026 +65

That movie was so freaking good, it made you the audience feel like someone stood up and got justice against the big banks that fucked everyone over. Especially because there never was any criminal justice for the entire Great Recession. But to the OP question, holy c*** in a pita these guys were all just betting in a pure gambling sense. They were rich guys trying to get richer. And they did on the backs of everyone who did get screwed, just profiting on the other side of the transaction. They are portrayed as near heroes which is a wild, wild, take on hedge fund managers.

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Darmok47 Mar 28, 2026 +1

The scene where the two guys are celebrating and Brad Pitt tears into them for celebrating an economic crash and all the misery and suffering that comes with it was great.

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hillswalker87 Mar 28, 2026 +1

they did but it wasn't them who fucked everything up. Mark Baum(or however it's spelled) was horrified most specifically at how irresponsible people were. Brad Pitt's character wasn't happy about any of it and even gave the younger guys he was helping a lecture about it when they were happy things were going their way.

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NeverCadburys Mar 28, 2026 +17

To be fair, one of them did feel bad about it. I can't remember which one but he was the one to say it wasn't a good thing and people's lives were ruined.

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tomtttttttttttt Mar 28, 2026 +28

Brad Pitt's character (the ex trader who helps the two "kids" from colorado or wherever it was) has a rant when the duo are celebrating about banking and how when unemployment goes up by 1% 40,000 people die and to not be happy about the money they've just made because of the wider implications of what they've bet on happening. https://youtube.com/shorts/WHTzCSufbfU?si=zvT7cGNdC2q7yuZF

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anotherwave1 Mar 28, 2026 +26

He took every cent though. A bit like performative concern about the evils of Wall Street whilst at the same time being the absolute embodiment of it.

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Alternative_Word_219 Mar 28, 2026 +26

Reminds me of Margin Call where they knew the market was collapsing but sold securities to their customers for a high price because they had info that their clients didn’t have.

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NeverCadburys Mar 28, 2026 +17

I tend to watch The Big Short and Margin Call together as a double bill, and sometimes i'll even throw in Boiler Room as a cherry on top

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darksiderevan Mar 28, 2026 +5

It's not like they screwed anyone over or did anything illegal. They just gamed the system.

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shitty_owl_lamp Mar 28, 2026 +6

It was Michael Scott

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Electrical-Sail-1039 Mar 28, 2026 +5

They were the smart ones that saw the scam for what it was. There’s a lot of blame to go around for that disaster.

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stanley_leverlock Mar 28, 2026 +21

Hustle and Flow - It wants you to root for a man that sexually exploits multiple women.

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Persef00ne Mar 28, 2026 +22

Shrek, in Shrek Forever After. Acts like an idiot throughout the first part of the movie, treats Princess Fiona terribly, destroys the cake at his kids’ birthday party, and ruins their moment with all this “I want an ogre day” nonsense. Meanwhile, Fiona and all his friends are there to celebrate his children. Then he gives in to his tantrum, and that’s how he ends up losing everything to Rumpelstiltskin.

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laurasaurus5 Mar 28, 2026 +25

You've Got Mail. Dude finds out his online pen pal is his irl business rival and goes out of his way to manipulate her feelings. It's fucked up. Tom Hanks pulls it off, but irl that'd be my nightmare.

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530SSState Mar 28, 2026 +20

Michael Douglas' character in "Fatal Attraction." Michael Douglas' character in "Falling Down". Michael Douglas.

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VicViolence Mar 28, 2026 +40

Send Help

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CartoonWeekly Mar 28, 2026 +22

Yeah, I wouldn't trust either character in that movie.

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BattlinBud Mar 28, 2026 +54

Most if not all Kevin Smith movies

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yeswewillsendtheeye Mar 28, 2026 +74

To be fair Dante, Brodie, and Holden all get called on out their shit by other characters. And if we wanna count Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back: "Jay and Silent Bob are stupid characters. A couple of stoners who spout dumb-ass catchphrases like a third-rate Cheech and Chong or Bill and Ted. F*** Jay and Silent Bob. F*** them up their stupid asses."

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dr_wheel Mar 28, 2026 +38

Who the f*** said that shit?!

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yeswewillsendtheeye Mar 28, 2026 +40

"What the **f***** is the internet?!"

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Shadpool Mar 28, 2026 +24

The Internet is a communication tool used the world over where people can come together to b**** about movies and share p********** with one another.

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MantisFetish Mar 28, 2026 +22

I was told it was a series of tubes

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Biggapotamus Mar 28, 2026 +23

You are the ball lickers!

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KILRbuny Mar 28, 2026 +16

I am the c*** commander!

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TenaciousJP Mar 28, 2026 +11

Agreed. They’re f****** Clown Shoes.

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vsimon115 Mar 28, 2026 +9

Whatever you say, MagnoliaFan.

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AcrylicPickle Mar 28, 2026 +50

Fast & Furious Heat Baby Driver Now You See Me Scarface Goodfellas The Town Wolf of Wall Street Inception Pulp Fiction Melania Anything starring Dwayne Johnson TV honorable mention to Sopranos and Breaking Bad

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RocknRolla2008 Mar 28, 2026 +15

"Anything starring Dwayne Johnson" 🤣🤣🤣

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meaahi Mar 28, 2026 +25

lol. Upvoted for Melania.

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ComprehensiveYam5106 Mar 28, 2026 +16

The dude in Hard Candy IMHO

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rbrgr83 Mar 28, 2026 +20

Man its wild to think about that tiny indie movie and the two unknown own actors that were in it.

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LookAtMyKitty Mar 28, 2026 +10

You're supposed to root for him ?

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snacksandmetal Mar 28, 2026 +1

wait, what?

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530SSState Mar 28, 2026 +17

"Gone With the Wind". Everyone is a jackass when they're 15 or so (Scarlett's age at the beginning of the story). But she never matures beyond that point, and is a selfish, lying manipulator on top of that.

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quitewrongly Mar 28, 2026 +29

Mel Gibson's Payback and so many noir and neo-noir films. So The Talented Mr. Ripley for sure. Simon Pegg's character in World's End is an absolute toerag.

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saintsithney Mar 28, 2026 +13

*Interview With the Vampire.* Compelling, likable, if overdramatic drinkers of human blood.

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Big_fern189 Mar 28, 2026 +13

The Doors. Jim Morrison seems like the worst hang on the face of the planet.

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roto_disc Mar 28, 2026 +26

The protagonist in *Hostel* is such a f****** douchebag. But you can’t help but root for him to escape and defeat the even bigger douchebags.

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FreeRange0929 Mar 28, 2026 +12

(Whistling) yes…I certainly…rooted for the protagonist

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voice_in_the_woods Mar 28, 2026 +24

50 First Dates was like a horror movie for me. Adam Sandler's character was creepy and I'd hate to wake up every day and learn I had a kid with a guy I couldn't remember. I don't know if I'd even trust the journal or notes she read everyday to catch up to be honest, either.

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SomeKindoflove27 Mar 28, 2026 +12

Imagine waking up with a 9 month pregnancy belly and some dude is like no no no just watch the tape I swear it'll make sense Movie should have been categorized under horror, *Then* It would make sense

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530SSState Mar 28, 2026 +25

Kurt Russell's character in "Overboard". The only reason that movie is not a straight-up horror film is because it cast two extremely attractive lead characters with great chemistry.

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konoha37 Mar 27, 2026 +79

Marty from Marty Supreme.

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limernick Mar 28, 2026 +28

Absolutely correct. And really anyone from Marty Supreme except the holocaust survivor. They were all awful people

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kryonik Mar 28, 2026 +13

From like minute one, is incredibly clear that he's a piece of shit.

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HarlequinKing1406 Mar 28, 2026 +26

The movie doesn't want you to really root for him.

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radar_backwards Mar 28, 2026 +16

As soon as Edo (his rival) is introduced, I was like "Oh the movie doesn't like Marty either". Great movie.

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Dependent_Room_2922 Mar 28, 2026 +16

I agree. Marty is totally exhausting and I think the script and director present him as alienating

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_LebronsHairline_ Mar 28, 2026 +19

Based on interviews I think Josh Safdie is just THAT annoying lol

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Adventurous_Bread359 Mar 28, 2026 +8

I'm not so sure about that. I would love to agree with you because I found myself infuriated at the end of the movie because it FELT like (IMO) the director wanted you to root for this absolute jackass. I went looking for some interviews from Safdie but couldn't find anything that would make me feel better. I hope someone can prove me wrong.

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gamersecret2 Mar 28, 2026 +8

He has that exact kind of energy where the movie makes it work, but real life would be a lot.

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haventsleptforyears Mar 28, 2026 +4

I have to say, I did not root for Marty. What an insufferable character.

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kors Mar 28, 2026 +72

Anakin Skywalker.

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gigashadowwolf Mar 28, 2026 +22

You underestimate his power (with audiences)!

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Kevin_LeStrange Mar 28, 2026 +10

I disagree. In a combat situation you can absolutely trust Anakin Skywalker with your life. It's the long term where things become dubious.

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Wrong-Vermicelli4723 Mar 28, 2026 +10

To be fair…. The characters didn’t really trust him as well

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Less_Perspective_915 Mar 27, 2026 +22

Hundreds of Beavers

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KarmaDispensary Mar 28, 2026 +17

This movie is so dumb, and I can’t remember laughing as hard at a movie since like Borat.

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530SSState Mar 28, 2026 +16

"O Brother, Where Art Thou?" Ulysses Everett McGill was charming and a good singer, but he was also a liar and a fool.

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kmill0202 Mar 28, 2026 +1

Agreed. You want to root for him because he's an absolute delight to watch. But at the same time, you can't really blame his wife for divorcing him and wanting to settle down with someone a little more stable (albeit a tad slimy). After all, he ain't bonafide.

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fairiestoldmeto Mar 28, 2026 +31

New Girl.. tv series i know. But Nick Miller is a terrible friend, a selfish unreconstructed misanthrope and he does not deserve the girl or in fact any of his excellent friends who just buy him a cookie because he likes cookies ffs.

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_buffy_summers Mar 28, 2026 +19

Also, Jessica Day. You can't just move into an apartment and start foisting yourself onto your roommates. I just wanted someone, maybe Cece, to tell her to chill the hell out and be quiet for ten damned minutes. Like when Schmidt's college friend (who turned out to be an ass) showed up and they started singing that song, We Built this Schmidty, and she wasn't even there when they made it up... but she felt the need to try to sing it with them. And she got the words wrong because she didn't know their song. I feel like their relationship was just weird. It was supposed to be opposites attract, I guess? But it just seemed more like she nagged him to be not himself until he gave in, to make her shut up.

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CustardKind2104 Mar 28, 2026 +9

Snake Plissken. He’s got a code of honor and a set of morals but if you’re not useful to him they might not apply to you.

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givebusterahand Mar 28, 2026 +15

There was this stupid rom com called something borrowed, where our protagonist starts having an affair with her best friends fiancé and we are supposed to root for them because she actually liked him ~before~ her friend started dating him but never made a move. Nahhhh f*** you b****, you suck.

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Noothyy Mar 28, 2026 +6

Sweet Home Alabama. Total gold digging nut job of a protagonist

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CarterHayes Mar 28, 2026 +14

Pitch Black. Richard B. Riddick.

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Sad-Ocelot-5346 Mar 28, 2026 +5

Yeah, but you root for him for the sake of the others. At least I did.

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bottlerocketz Mar 28, 2026 +6

There Will be Blood. Plain view is a monster

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banter_pants Mar 28, 2026 +5

Jenny in Forrest Gump.

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Sea_Perspective6891 Mar 28, 2026 +12

Corbin Dallas from The Fifth Element. He lost all his points on his license & wrecked his cab. Would trust him with an important military mission but would not trust him with my car.

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Awkward_Bison_267 Mar 28, 2026 +19

Nick Rice (Jamie Foxx) in “Law Abiding Citizen”. He didn’t give a single f*** about Clyde Sheldon’s (Gerard Butler) loss.

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bolivar-shagnasty Mar 28, 2026 +8

I rooted for Clyde more than I did anyone else in that movie.

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Mediocre-Location971 Mar 28, 2026 +18

Gordon gekko

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ScreenTricky4257 Mar 28, 2026 +14

I thought the movie wanted us to root against him, but at least at the time, people thought he was cooler than Charlie Sheen.

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dodeca_negative Mar 28, 2026 +6

Only wanna be sales douches rooted for Gordon Gecko

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Whole_Breakfast8073 Mar 28, 2026 +22

American Sniper. A story about a glorified macho man suffering from not seeing his family and not saving his men - set against a backdrop of non stop war crimes. It's like making a film about a Japanese soldier participating in Pearl Harbour and focusing on his glory and personal struggles whilst completely ignoring the atrocity being committed.

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GrandWorldliness5959 Mar 28, 2026 +1

I think most people know at this point but the movie and the book it was based on are very very dubious with multiple other witnesses contradicting it.

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TheChubbyGolfer66 Mar 28, 2026 +28

Dune. Paul. You’ll see, if you haven’t already.

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EnterprisingAss Mar 28, 2026 +18

The thing about the Dune books is that the Atreides family *was* more or less justified. They broke a few trillion eggs to make the omelette of human survival. The sex ninjas and the robots can’t win!

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Wild-Lychee-3312 Mar 28, 2026 +5

If I was attacked by sex ninjas, I might just let them win.

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kors Mar 28, 2026 +16

I read the books. I still understand Paul. Not like, understand.

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souryoungthing Mar 28, 2026 +10

It’s cute when people think he’s a hero just because he’s the protagonist.

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Azazel_The_Fox Mar 28, 2026 +30

Michael Scott is the defacto answer sorry, not a movie for a movie I'd say The Big Lebowski, The Dude. I've grown up around a ton of bums in my life and it's so taxing. There's always an angle of petty grift.

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BattlinBud Mar 28, 2026 +34

To be fair to The Dude he just seems like a slacker, not the kind of bum you're describing. Literally the only thing he tries to get out of anybody, the whole movie, is a replacement for his rug, and I think that was totally reasonable of him. He didn't even want to try and steal the million dollars, that was all his dumbass friend. If anything Walter is more like the type of guy you're describing. The Dude seems to be able to pay his own way through life somehow, it doesn't make sense since he doesn't seem to have a job, but despite all the bad shit that happens to him throughout the movie, he never seems concerned about money or asks for loans from his friends or anything. Apparently an early draft of the script actually explained it, saying he was an heir to the inventor of the Rubik's Cube lol The Big Lebowski *calls* him a bum, sure, but The Big Lebowski is an a******, and is also projecting; he is, in fact, the real bum. The money really belongs to Maude and the Foundation, and HE'S the one who tries to pull a not-so-petty grift, trying to use his wife's kidnapping (which turns out to be fake anyway) as a cover to steal a million dollars of what he pretends is his own money.

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Hi_Im_Dadbot Mar 28, 2026 +23

Like, that’s just your opinion, man.

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BattlinBud Mar 28, 2026 +13

Don't be fatuous, Jeffrey

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EnglishTony Mar 28, 2026 +17

>Literally the only thing he tries to get out of anybody, the whole movie, is a replacement for his rug, and I think that was totally reasonable of him. It really tied the room together, man.

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BattlinBud Mar 28, 2026 +5

All The Dude ever wanted, was his rug back

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Ankylowright Mar 28, 2026 +13

Honestly I have people in my life that are similar to the dude. They make their way through life just kinda floating along. Pick up a few bucks here and there to pay for your minimalist shit and just chill. I have zero idea how these people just exist like that. I’m a nervous wreck about everything.

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BattlinBud Mar 28, 2026 +10

Well our society seems steadfastly determined to make that kind of life less and less possible every day, so there's that

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Redkris73 Mar 28, 2026 +9

Danny Ocean.

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MarbleMimic Mar 28, 2026 +5

Tracey Flick from Election. She would have been absolutely obnoxious to go to high school with. But I will cheer on someone who's ambitious and hardworking over a bitter, mediocre man who's trying to... derail a high school election? To prove a point to a child?? Get a life, dude.

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Mindofmierda90 Mar 28, 2026 +8

Django. Django really wasn’t all that likable, and he was also responsible for a slave being torn apart by dogs. I’d never trust a guy like Django, the type of guy who doesn’t care about anyone but himself. Did at any point in the film it seem like he cared about the plight of the other slaves. And don’t give me that “he was in character” bullshit.

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DarwinsPhotographer Mar 28, 2026 +5

I thought the slave that was torn apart because he ran? I don't disagree with your characterization of Django, but his redeeming quality was his love for his wife and his desire to rescue her at all costs. I agree that none of those things were a moral justification for his other actions.

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Creative_Eye7413 Mar 28, 2026 +8

P.T. Barnum in The Greatest Showman. Atrocious human being in real life

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haysoos2 Mar 28, 2026 +3

I Care a Lot. I'm not sure there's any movie with characters I care less about.

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bearfootin_9 Mar 28, 2026 +4

O Brother Where Art Thou

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SpiritedOwl_2298 Mar 28, 2026 +3

Send Help, it was very weird and confusing that I actually couldn’t root for her at times

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fieatsbees Mar 28, 2026 +5

im pretty sure you're not supposed to root for her at all

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Elberik Mar 28, 2026 +4

Every single character that Michael Cera & Jonah Hill have portrayed.

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Novogobo Mar 28, 2026 +4

inception

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The_Mark_Nutt Mar 28, 2026 +1

Mrs. Doubtfire - Daniel is an irresponsible manchild of a parent who resorts to gaslighting his ex-wife for months and nearly kills an innocent man, all to violate a custody agreement in the most batshit-insane way possible

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What is a movie that clearly wants you to root for someone you absolutely would not trust in real life

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