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Can Someone Explain The Hate for Rocky


I don't see it. Yeah, she's a thief. But the way I see people talking about her on here, it's like she's the worst person ever. She's a victim of abuse. And now her little sister is also being abused. You don't know the desperation an abuse victim feels. To her, the robbery is a saving grace, finally a way out. Is it right? No. But she is young and alone and doesn't see any other way out. This is her ticket to save herself, but also save her little sister.

It was wrong to rob the man, yes. But this doesn't make her inherently a bad person or an evil person. She didn't want to cause harm to anyone, and only harmed the man when he started hunting them like animals and in self defense. She tried to rob him. He tried to kill her. There is a big difference there. I just don't see why everyone is making her out to be the bad person here. When you look at motives:

Alex (that's his name, right?): Wanted her attention/love/etc.
Money: Wanted money for the sake of money
Rocky: Wanted to save her sister
Old Man: Wanted retribution

I just don't see how out of everyone, Rocky is seen as the evil one.

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She showed virtually no hesitation and had no qualms with breaking into the house of a blind, elderly war veteran who lived alone off the proceeds of his daughter's death. That's why I hated her.

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I don't hate Rocky per se. But all the main characters we are shown are not very good people, including Cindy, who killed the blind man's daughter and got scott free thanks to her rich parents. However every one but Rocky got their due towards the end. The blindman lost another one of his children that night! Money lost his life. Alex was the only one out of all of em who deserved to come out alive from it. The least flawed person in the group. His only fault was that he was infactuated by the wrong girl. Alex got himself into this situation because of Alex. If you look from the blind man's perspective, if it wasn't for these three thieves, Cindy would have bore him another child. Cindy could have left afterwards and everything would have been fine. In conclusion, Rocky is the only one who got out of the situation without loosing much and gaining close to a million dollars. That I feel is why there is so much hate towards her. They think she deserved to die.

There is a scene earlier in the movie, where Rocky's sister thinks it's not fair that michigan doesn't have surf. And Rocky replies "Yeah, well somethings you can't change baby. No matter how unfair they are" and then receives a message from Alex. This is super ominous and kind of explains Alex's fate if you think about it.

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Yes, I can agree that if anyone should have survived, it should have been Alex, not Rocky! He was shown to have a little more common sense than them and was not as greedy as they were.

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Alex should have survived too. Because he was the best one. But, if Rocky hadn't survived she wouldn't have been able to help her little sister out of an abused home. Her little sister would have most likely turned out like Rocky or worse. So i was hoping for both of them to get out alive with the money. Maybe, Alex could have married Rocky and all three have a happy ending.
Rocky was not all bad.

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You have a fkn right to defend your home from intruders. How'd you like it if I came into your hause and took a shyt on your carpet!?

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I think the point of the movie was everyone was an anti-hero. The director made you choose who you wanted to root for. I'll admit I was rooting for the old guy in the beginning up until the turkey baster scene. But I felt most bad for Alex, overall a good kid, the only one out of the three that had a conscience.

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I don't feel too bad over Alex's fate. He had so many chances to get out of there alive. He had it coming, I feel. But yeah, you are right. Out of all those people, he deserved to die the least. But life is unfair. Rocky mentions this to her sister, quite ominously earlier in the movie.

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I didn't feel bad for him at all but I guess you are right about him being the least offensive of the 3.

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I didn't like her because there was nothing to like about her. But when Money had already died (didn't like him, either) and I think Alex had already nearly died after coming back to save her and Alex was trying to get her to go out the window she whined that she wouldn't get the money. Hated her for that after all Alex tried to do for her. Alex is the only likeable character. Well, he and the dog, who was only protecting his person. Hope crazy blind guy let his dog out of the car!

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Trashy single mother
Burglar
Thief
Attempted murderer
Abandons her partners in crime

The movie would have been better if he executed her at the end and justice was done. But that would have probably upset the SJWs who revel in her disgusting illegal behaviour at the expense of a man defending his home.

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she isn't a single mother though? she doesn't have a kid. the person she is trying to protect is her baby sister.

i guess the thing i don't get is after i watched this movie, i came on here and saw so many posts hating on rocky, saying horrible things about her. and i get that she's not a good person. but no one in this movie is. everyone is flawed in some way. but to me, rocky at least had good intentions. she wanted to save her little sister. that's a good thing. the way she went about it wasn't okay, but as someone who has been in abusive situations, it's hard to see other options. she did what she thought was all she could do.

i guess when it comes down to it, you have money who was simply motivated by money, alex who just wanted "to get the girl" and rocky. you also have a woman who killed a young girl in a hit and run and an old man who kidnapped and has said woman chained to the basement. none of these people are good people. but i guess it just shocked me to see all the hate aimed at rocky and mostly rocky alone when she was the one who was actually more "justified" so to speak than the others. money wanted to rob the old man to get money, and because in his mind, it was something to do. to me, that's worse. i don't know, i guess i just see it differently.

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The reason is simple. She survived. And then they show her with her cute little kid sister at the end like she is some sort of victim who survived. That is why people feel strongly about it. It was her greed for the money even after all the stuff that happened that made her much worse than just a burglar.

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SJW, herp derp 

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I hate the ex-military more than I hate Rocky. The most bitchiest thing that Rocky induces is her greedy personality. Believe it or not, but if I would want to rob a house, especially a Blind man's house, I would at least keep like two stacks of money just so that he has a few supply for his necessities, but she keeps on stealing until there were none left.

And that ex-military apparently, he doesn't believe in God, that's the part when I hated him the most. The way that he said it it's just so rude trying to make his way to punish the girl for the sins that she did.


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when you lose your eyesight and your child, come back and tell us how much you believe in god.

I would say my memory is not what it used to be. But I don't remember what my memory used to be.

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I will still believe in Him.. :)

In my religion, there are very subtle secrets and reasons of every single thing that God has planned for us, both good and bad. He's God btw, so let Him do what he wants, we're only the puppeteers. What we can do is just pray to him after being perseverance in our life.

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Out of all the shítty things he's done, his lack of faith is what bothers you? Seriously?

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Yeah, maybe it's weird to you but I take those kind of things srsly.. :)

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Why? Seriously, why?

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I don't see it. Yeah, she's a thief. But the way I see people talking about her on here, it's like she's the worst person ever. She's a victim of abuse.


If everybody with a rough life chose to punish total strangers for their misfortune, we'd be living in a daily hell.

Rocky was a bad person and I wanted her to die... or at least be forced to give birth. Either one would have satisfied me,

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