I was thinking about this earlier today and it just doesn't add up when you think about it as the movie clearly isn't interested in actually unpacking the family Drama there's only 1 scene where they seriously do that and its cut short pretty quickly.

so to be honest I think the film would have left a way less empty hole in my heart if it had just changed the dynamic so Bro zone were Branch's old boyband and his childhood friends who he lost touch with over the years as opposed to them being his family who abandoned him for crappy reasons.

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because as it is the movie's family aspect drives me crazy the bros were not made redeemable people each of them left for petty reasons Floyd never returned despite promising JD Bruce and Clay all showed no regret over leaving the family.

JD and Bruce straight up pestered Branch into letting them back into his life only to later turn around and mock him for thinking they would be a family and in the end Branch has to save them after they get captured he has to convince them that they don't need to be perfect to do the harmony.

and they do jack all to actually show they've changed and are actually worth forgiving Branch just forgives them because Family I guess despite in truth them being total strangers to him since they literally missed out on his entire life.

so Velvet and Veneer are more family in the ways that matter than Bro zone are to Branch so like I said why have Bro zone be family? if they were just made friends who were in a band together as kids it would fix this entire problem imo.

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and it would mean the movie had less dark character drama to rush through since the film can just be a nice tale about old friends who broke up on bad terms reconnecting to save one of their own.

as opposed to setting up a very dark serous family drama for which there was serous consequences to their actions yet the movie doesn't properly take the time to pay it off so it just feels empty by the end.