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The bullying was awful and unrealistic!

posted 2 years ago by CodyXBrenda (326)
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There's no way the type of bullying in this film would be allowed today. Maybe back in the 70s, 80s, or 90s, but not today. Those bullies would be behind bars, at a juvenile center! Hollywood needs to stop with this cliched crap. It's very, very bad writing!

What's really sad is that Hollywood would continue this horseshit with movies like The Adam Project, a few years later. Honestly, they need to stop relying on old cliched stereotypes from 30-40 years ago, it's fucking sickening and downright toxic!

I'm so glad I never saw this film! Not saying it's a bad film, but when you shoehorn in this bullying crap, it just ruins the film, instead of making it more enjoyable! Just more crap that Hollywood spews out, while trying to claim they are "woke", which is what films like this and The Adam Project, are against. The only good thing about wokeness is that it doesn't tolerate this brutal type of physical bullying. Other than that, wokeness is bad and it should just die already! Nuff said!

[–] VectorOfTheMoon (183) 9 months ago

The bullying stuff was so over-the-top. I remember sitting there in the cinema just rolling my eyes, lol. You said it perfectly.

[–] Burk48917 (11354) 9 months ago

Watch Wish Upon, it's even worse, laughably so. It is a terrible movie regardless, but that part pushes it beyond bad.

[–] CodyXBrenda (326) 9 months ago

Great, another movie to "avoid like the plague" and possibly another reason to count down the days until I die and reincarnate as a girl! I don't care what people say; no matter how fucking verbally abusive, soul crushing, and borderline toxic female bullies tend to be, they'll never be half the monsters their male counterparts are!

You never hear a female bully threaten another girl with extreme physical violence and wanting to beat the living shit out of them. I mean, its not the most unrealistic thing and I suppose it's still possible, but its very unlikely. I'm sorry but male bullies are 1000% worse than female ones. No ifs, ands, or buts about it! The only time I ever thought "female bullies" took it too far was in Carrie. Now, compare that to any other movie where the boys are bullied! It's no goddamn contest! There's a reason "Toxic Masculinity" exists and "Toxic Femininity" doesn't.

Ever seen Pay It Foward? Here's what happens and keep in mind I've never seen the ending! My mother told me the ending when I was only 12 years old. (I'm actually 96 hours younger than Haley Joel Osment, no joke) Anyways, the kid (Haley Joel Osment) ends up dying when one of the bullies fatally stab him. He was trying to defend another kid from said gang of bullies. Due to bad writing, the bullies are (apparently) never punished for the murder of another student. In what reality is this okay? I just gotta ask? I don't care how old the perpetrator is, murder is never okay at any age. This makes the bullying scene from the opening of Jumanji look fucking tame by comparison! I mean, Jesus Christ! What in the actual fucking hell? You know what the sad part is? This movie was only released 1 year after the Columbine Shooting! You'd think they'd fucking know better and they wouldn't even include a bullying scene like that, considering what the vicitms (before they even planned the shootings) went through. That would be like if they made a movie in 2002 that had a scene where a plane hit a skyscraper.