Storylines in mainstream films which are morally wild

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Big Daddy
Overboard
While you were sleeping

Define morally wild

@jemenfous37 so if you were explaining the characters motives to a friend as if you were the character, they would say you were out of order.
For example:
Hi, my friend was out of town and whilst he was gone social services turned up with a kid and said it was my friends secret love child. My girlfriend had just broke up with me so I said that I was my friend so that they would leave the kid with me. During my time with the child, I regularly shouted at random members of the public and acted aggressively. I turned up at my ex girlfriends house with the kid to guilt trip her into taking me back and then shouted at her and her new boyfriend. Then social services found out and took the child away and I brought a load of my friends to court and they all said what a good guy I was.

I don't watch Adam Sandler movies to learn ethics and morals

@araiwa damn that must be where I'm going wrong

😂 I like you

Pretty Woman and Dirty Dancing make me wince now. Especially when I remember how soppy I was about them as a teenager.

Any where an adult male befriends a young child - preferably an orphan - and promises them a lifetime supply of chocolate.

disclaimer - big RD fan and thoroughly enjoyed the latest film.

Lots of kids remake films try too hard to be clever when kids haven't even got the basics of right and wrong yet. It's a bit of a weird experiment IMO cause the kids they're aimed at aren't grown up yet. 😕

Specifically I'm thinking of ones like Peter Rabbir and Fantastic Mr Fox.

BIG - watched it about 5 years ago and my god I'd forgotten 'that bit'!

The strange life of Timothy Green, its my sons favourite film. But yeah, treating children as nothing more than play things to suit the needs and wants of adults, not the best message.

Niche but … The Parent Trap . I know the Lindsay Lohan version was the remake of an old Disney film but parents of baby twins split, take one baby each , different continents, ….and never see either child ever again until they randomly bump into each other ….. AND THAT’S FINE???!

@sprigatito
Exactly
Oh my god I met this guy over the summer and we had an incredible love affair. He was a bit older and my dad didn't like him. He was being paid to grind against rich old ladies but he grinded with me for free! Then he called me up because he knew I was rich and his female friend needed money for an abortion so I got that from daddy but he had to find out anyway as it turned out to be dodgy.
So instead of me using this experience to highlight the need for safe and legal birth control and abortions, we just did a big dance at the end to really stick it to the man.

That’s to draw adults in who are watching the film with the kid most of the time.

Kids don’t buy cinema tickets, adults do - so the film has to be appealing to adults too.
Marketing 101

Yep me too.

Also Grease. Change yourself completely, take up smoking! for a boy!

Mrs Doubtfire

Aside from the obvious he literally tries to kill Pierce Brosnan.

Great movie though!

Yes to Grease.

"Your problem, teenage child, is that you're not slutty."

Lots of time travel ones:

About Time where the male character goes back in time constantly in order to bed the girl.
Back to the future : where Marty meets his young mum.

Littlebearpad, re grease, isn't the point that they both try to change for each other

Pretty Woman the "happy hooker" narrative is terrible she just needed a billionaire to save her, Bleurgh!

No hard feelings, Jennifer Lawrence recent movie, awful storyline

and I think its now a musical.i mean what!

Dirty Dancing - teenage girl went to Butlins, shagged a redcoat, told her dad off for not being happy about it.

Every storyline in Love, Actually is ‘woman gets fucked or fucked over by a man, except the Liam Neeson one, which is just plain odd.’

The Holiday - American woman breaks drink driving laws in small country village, plus what the fuck happened to the dog?

Home Alone - child neglect and abandonment. Then they do it again.

I always feel sorry for the giant in Jack and the Beanstalk, too. What did the poor fella do wrong? He was getting repeatedly burgled! Just because he’s tall…

Lots of them - and many books, plays and songs too.

Why should the purpose of art be to provide morally good examples?

Home Alone.

My DC love it (and all the sequels), I just cringe inwardly. Wrong on so many levels

Exactly!

When you have failed to sort out your immigration status because you’re so busy being a Top Bitch NYC Editor, known to your subordinates as the Witch, and are facing immediate deportation, you blackmail your put-upon male assistant into pretending you’re engaged and go with him to his adorable Alaskan hometown and continue the pretence in front of his adorable (and very wealthy) family, while he takes every opportunity to smack you on the ass because he’s your fake fiancé, right?

After which, obviously, you thaw out, genuinely fall for him, admit the wedding is fake mid-way though etc, but really? We’re supposed to be rooting for someone whose first instinct when facing visa issues that would let your main rival be promoted over you is to blackmail your hapless assistant into marrying you?

(Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds, The Proposal, 2009).