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That's no way to treat your mother

posted 9 years ago by badgerbun
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This sucks!
I normally don't rate a movie based on stuff that happens for the sake of plot, but I did not understand why mark walbergs chracter was treating her mother like that? It was never brought up after she withdrew a lot of money for him to pay his debt,and he was acting like it was for granted, and went to gamble it all away again
Wtf kind of messed up person would do that?
Great acting on the moms part btw, and I guess great acting by mark walbergs too I guess if that's what kind of chracter the script want him to portray,

On a side note, Loki from the Thor series although a villain, show that he truly cared for his mother when he learned of her death, and made us root for him,

Here...I jus wanted Mark walbergs chracter to have his head chooped off near the end. /endrant

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Mamas boy

[–] seans_life 9 years ago

My mother gave me $1000 to help with a debt I had that I got while blowing money on gambling and the funny thing was I didn't have the I.D. to cash out and yet I kept playing on bet365.com. I also was at a point in my life where losing money wasn't the only thing on my mind. Now getting back to my mother well I can't forgive her for certain things she has done and any sort of money she could give me would never make up for those things she did wrong. I can relate to Wahlberg's character just wanting the money and being done with dealing with his mother.

[–] vabrown81 9 years ago

See if they could have delved maybe a lil deeper into why he was this way towards his mother then I could understand. Like maybe a brief convo between the too. Like Wahlberg saying something like "remember what you did to me at 13?", etc. The movie just shows him being a d!ckhead to his mother for no reason. I think he blamed her for his dad being absent or something but that story could go either way. You sometimes hear about spoiled unappreciative kids who just act out after their parents split and blame the mother for the split because now mom is the single mother who has to hand out punishments on her own since she's the one who will deal with most of the drama since more than likely the kid won't live with the father.

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[–] brockmeeks 9 years ago

See if they could have delved maybe a lil deeper into why he was this way towards his mother then I could understand.

I agree. I could buy Langes character as a bad mother here if they gave us a little more to go on.

Her reaction to him casually telling her over breakfast that the family would be next after he was beaten makes me think she may have been better than she comes off at first glance. Also, she was pretty devastating outside the bank. She really did have to lose her son over 260 grand. Sad.

I bought she was underused.

[–] jharmon64 9 years ago

He was messed up and has an addiction.

Every see folks addicted to drugs treat their family like crap? (watch intervention).

It's the same premise. Don't think it's not dirty because it's gambling and not drugs.

He was sick in the head.

[–] micirisi 9 years ago

He didn't like his mother and vice versa. I think she gave (not loaned) it to him because she had been threatened by one of his creditors. Remember how nasty the mom treated the woman at the bank, that was her persona probably since birth.

He killed sixteen Czechoslovakians. Guy was an interior decorator.

[–] tbirum 9 years ago

Not to mention that at the end of the movie mark had enough money left after his big win on the roulette wheel that he could have paid his mother back all the money she gave him to save his life, but what does he do, tells John Goodman to keep it?
WTF
This movie sucked major ASS

[–] HuGoL1101 8 years ago

Exactly you did not understand because there's so many things left unsaid about their relationship.

There's some things that should not be done to your mother and there's as much many things that a mother should not do to her son.

An I know what I'm talking about.

[–] tabbycat 8 years ago

The scenes with Lange are among the movie's strongest and yes, he is a complete dick to her. Not even a thank you. His mother knows him and his problem, but pretends not to, saying she wants no details. She is tortured knowing he is treating her abominably and yet cannot help wanting to save him from trouble -- hence the hostile eruptions.