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Miranda is a terrible person

posted a year ago by Ticketsplease (4024)
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She's at work and hears that her old crush wants to meet her. She's already plotting to leave her husband.

She comes home and uses her own sons birthday party as an excuse to launch into a tyraid about how terrible Daniel is.

Then when met with valid points screams "It's over!"

While her own son on his birthday listens from the staircase, she says "I want a divorce."

On his birthday she used his own birthday party as the catalyst to divorce her husband.

[–] Otter (24464) a year ago

You have no idea how relationships work, do you.

Since you obviously don't, I guess I have to be the one to tell you that they end when one person gets sick of the other's shit, and there's nothing evil about that. It just happens, particularly when one person is such a Peter Pan that they force the other into the role of Wendy, because nobody likes being the Wendy.

[–] strntz (12224) a year ago

Then when met with valid points screams "It's over!"

Which valid points? I missed them.

Miranda fell out of love with Daniel because she grew up, which is something people do out of necessity when they get married, build a career, and have kids. Daniel didn't grow. Miranda fell in love with the spontaneous and funny teenager, but you can't be 18 forever.

Miranda was the breadwinner, she was the housekeeper, she was the nanny, AND, she had to take care of a perpetual adolescent who instead of contributing to the household as an adult, made her road to life more difficult.

It took a divorce for Daniel to finally start to grow up. Too bad he didn't read the ten years of signs that his marriage was failing.

[–] Ticketsplease (4024) a year ago

Valid point about the mess "it's paper plates not nuclear waste".

I love that point. Probably written by Robin Williams, I heard that they shot every scene twice, once was the script and the second was whatever Robin wanted to say instead. Apparently most of what he says is his own material.

[–] strntz (12224) a year ago

It comes down to degrees I suppose. No, it was not nuclear waste certainly, but when Miranda has spent the day working a high stress job, she doesn't want to come home to her house trashed and have to pick up donkey shit to boot. I don't think she was asking too much, and it seems that this was not out of the normal course of events in Daniel's parenting.

Daniel to his credit did finally grow up even if it did take losing his wife to get there. Some people wouldn't grow up even if they weren't kicked to the curb, but Daniel did, which is why we like him.

[–] blindfolded (1618) a year ago

This isn't the first time I've seen you use completely weird and stupid leaps in logic to concoct some sort of idiotic post.

Please refer to your Mr Miyagi post🤣

[–] Megan254 (304) a year ago

I think the point of the movie was they brought out the worst in each other. The kids loved them both, but Daniel and Miranda couldn't go on pretending. They both needed to change; and at the end, they both became better people, better parents, and were even able to be friends in the end.

[–] blindfolded (1618) a year ago

No, the point of the movie is that two married people can grow apart and if they do, it doesn't mean it's the children's fault and the separated parents don't love their kids any less. It's spelled out explicitly at the end.

Even if we go with your premise, that does nothing to support the idea Miranda is a "terrible person" which is a completely idiotic and moric take by the OP

[–] Megan254 (304) a year ago

Well, one of the points, I guess. Like you, I don't think Miranda's a terrible person, but she did make some selfish choices, and she acknowledged that, and Daniel realized he needed to grow up if he was going to be a parent. At least it ended with everybody happy.

[–] Furienna (3342) 8 months ago

Actually, I agree with every word that the OP said.
She was definitely lusting for Stu and looking for any excuse to dump Daniel even if it had to happen on her son's birthday.
And she also was a vindictive bitch, who preferred to leave the kids with a stranger than with their own father.
If I had been her kid, I would have made her life so miserable that she would have begged Daniel to take me...

[–] daredevil1 (180) 9 months ago

She's the worst. But I also think Sally Field is really annoying and shrill so she seems even more vindictive than reasonable. Someone with a lighter touch would have smoothed over the script issues but she seems outright villainous.

[–] Furienna (3342) 8 months ago

Yes, thank you!