Isn't this trope getting old? Does every major movie have to be about daddy issues?
I was so bored with this movie... went with friends who are fans of the first one... glad we went to an early show so the evening wasnt ruined and we still gad time to go out...
Lots of screenwriters who were raised by single mothers, it seems!
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If they were raised by single mothers, why would they be having daddy issues? Most men have mommy issues from being raised by their mothers. Not the other way around.
Maybe you should give up on pop psychology
Seriously, that's what you think? Sigh.
"What Is the Definition of “Daddy Issues”?
By Dr. Marie Hartwell-Walker
From the U.S.: The “daddy issue” is a problem and no professionals seem to have done research on it or come up with an actual term for it. When I say”daddy issue” I mean a the effects on a child of a father is abusive, absent, in and out."
ABSENT
https://psychcentral.com/ask-the-therapist/2016/01/20/what-is-the-definition-of-daddy-issues/
It's like saying "oh no, not *another* love interest"
What makes movies is not the action or the number of special effects crammed into one scene, it's the characters and their humanity. We are who our parents make of us for better or for worse, and our interaction with them, as well as the way it carries into our interactions with others is one of the very foundations of our personalities.
If you have too many daddy issues to deal with seeing movies that mention them, maybe you should just stick to the Transformers. You won't risk running into anything that might challenge your intellect.
except that giving the central characters "daddy issues" isn't deep, or emotionally resonant or anything in and of itself... it's just a knee jerk trope at best, and a lazy trend at worst because it's a way to make these characters "relatable"... As if we're supposed to like them out of pity...
If it was one movie, fine, it would't be an issue, but it's a common theme... It's as if there is a formula applied, or worse it is that writers don't realise that an audience can empathise with a character without feeling sorry for them, or even liking them...
It's a common theme because it's a common thing. All the movies that are made and you think only ONE should explore this? If you don't like the theme, that's fine. I tend to dislike romance being overused, so I tend to avoid movies where it's obviously the main theme. But romance is so omnipresent that I accept it as background noise in stories with an actual core.
At least parental conflict is a part of character background. Romance is usually just a cheap audience grabber, or filler, or present due to expectation.
Romance can be used well, though. Eternal Sunshine did that, made the love story integral to the plot. Hell, even An Officer & A Gentleman was a killer movie.
It was a main theme in the movie ... Youre right Renevatio
But finding a new family/ team /crew to roll with was also a big theme in this series so far...and i just bought into it
I guess themes or tropes or whatever ARE pretty corny and hack 101 ... Agreed that its a standard story telling device
But i enjoyed it anyway
Really fun movie imo
It's a "universal theme" something the vast majority of humans can relate to. Most humans seem to crave more closeness and approval in their relationships with their fathers than they have.
And when you're trying to get about half the world's population to see your big-budget blockbuster movie, you need to have something in it that billions of people from all culture can relate to. So it's that, or getting laid. Now there's a universal theme!
haha... I definitely related to the latter theme more!
shareDaddy-issue is the best-selling story trope since ancient time. Religions are basically daddy-issue sagas. Spanning and fascinating people around the world for centuries, even millenia.
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