u/OnlyGold700

Everyone here is so quick to gang up on Bear but I was rewatching the movie and I think a lot of people get something wrong.

Bear literally tells Nikki that he just wants to be friends with her before she starts trying to get physical with him. Like he had just said he did not consent and she still did it. And Bear’s the rapist?

What’s next? You gonna tell me Bear was “asking for it” when he made the wish?

Nikki raped Bear. There, I said it.

I just watched it, and Scorsese + De Niro always seems like a perfect combo but honestly this movie started to bore me by the end. De Niro is at his best when he switches effortlessly between smooth and psychopathic and biblically angry, but the movie basically drops the first two parts of his character for the second half of the movie. And really that’s where most of my issues lie. I enjoyed the first half of the movie but around the time when De Niro is attacked by the hired thugs did I begin to feel like the cracks started to show. De Niro getting the thugs to each fight him 1v1 felt cartoonishly stupid. And from there it felt like everyone had their take with the idiot ball. “oh look he has a wig! Nobody could tell!” / “Oh man who could’ve possibly thought De Niro would be wired up.” / “Oh we’re just gonna disrupt the crime scene and leave? Ok.”

And I guess I’ll get to the 10th dentist part of this. De Niro actively hurts the movie in the last half hour. He’s completely one-note and all of it is so overwrought that none of it is particularly poignant. And whatever serious thoughts the movie had about the South or White Trash as some identity, it fails to really interact with any of it in an interesting way. By the time we were on the boat, I didn’t care about anything De Niro was saying. I was ready for the movie to be over

I’ve never seen the original but this way worse than I assumed it would be. Maybe 5-6/10? It’s not awful but it’s significantly worse than the minds behind it would imply that it is.

Yes it was a dumb move to try and go for goal himself. It probably fucked up Norway’s best chance. That said, folks pretending that Sorloth did something incredibly unforgivable or totally out of the blue is pretty detached from reality. It’s pretty clear that the people fueling this don’t actually watch the sport. They’re here for the World Cup.

Let’s start by saying that that chance was far from guaranteed. Haaland was marked basically as soon as he was open and Sorloth had a defender that could’ve tried to intercept. Getting a through ball behind two Man City defenders is not some easy feat. People seem to really believe that they could’ve made that assist if they were in that position, as if an assist in the World Cup quarter finals is anything less than a feat. Most players at even the highest levels never manage to land one.

This leads me to my broader point- a striker ignoring an open teammate to go for goal happens in probably every other game, sometimes multiple times in the same game. This isn’t some strange impossibility, strikers being selfish is a stereotype of the position generally. And to a certain extent, it’s a part of any attacking strategy. If your only gameplan is to get the ball to the guy who can tap it in, then the defense only needs to mark that person to effectively stop the offense. Sorloth fucked up, but the thought process isn’t insane or indecipherable. It’s a pretty standard part of any offense.

I don’t think I need to say that the death threats are ridiculous and out of line, but the tone of this conversation generally seems to be fueled by people who were here for the Haaland memes and don’t watch the sport generally. None of this is worth the attention it’s received.