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      The difference between what I took away when I first read that book and the 2nd or 3rd time I watched the movie was night and day.

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        I feel bad the kid he had a privileged shit life. But going out into the middle of the Alaskan wilderness to survive with no formal training was punching way above his weight…

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        The thing that dawned on me when I watched it as an older adult was his sheer selfishness. Smug, cliched little prick. His father’s violence aside, what about the rest of his family?

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        Except he dies alone at the end, so it was definitely a cautionary tale.

        This is sort of like saying Don Quixote was about a famous knight saving the world and not a crazy rich guy fighting windmills

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          Except he dies alone at the end, so it was definitely a cautionary tale.

          If the last recent years has taught us anything, it’s that how you present a thing matters a lot more than what the thing is that’s actually being presented. Unfortunately.

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              that only the dudebros it mocks like it.

              or, hear me out, movies don’t need to be lectures and is ok to just do something for the entertainment/artistry/visuals/storytelling of it.

              I can tell you that I’m the opposite of what the movie depicts, I’m fragile, never been in a fight, I sincerely hope that will never be in one, I cried like a baby in ET or the time traveles wife, the Schindler’s list broke my heart, I dislike the dudebro dynamics, and I adore that movie. I also like horror movies as a genre and I don’t go around killing people.

              It’s fine that you use movies as lectures of life and ethics, or that you don’t enjoy them if they don’t have a message that you agree with, but some people like them for other reasons, so please try not to profile people for what they like to watch.

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                  sorry I wasn’t clear, my criticism wasn’t towards you not liking the movie, anyone have their own taste and there is nothing wrong with it, we all just want to enjoy things :-)

                  My problem was about you profiling people that do like the movie as “dudebros”, that wasn’t very nice IMHO