Funny how all the girls


Funny how all the girls who sympathize with the Julia Roberts character are in middle school or high school.

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well thats just not true. I've always sympathesized with Julia's character since the first time I saw this film! And Im not in middle school nor high school! AS I watch the film I know he's meant to be with Cameron and what Julia is doing s wrong, but Ive always wanted them to end up together!

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I'm in my 20's and I, having watched this movie for over a decade, always sympathized and identified with Jules. Just because she was doing nasty things to try to win her 'true love' doesn't mean she is evil. People are people, and sometimes love/lust/whatever makes us act a bit over-the-top. And let's be real, Michael/Dermot was not making it easy for her to move on.

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I agree with you
She was acting crazy and perfectly knew she was being a bitch with Kimmy but she just did it because she wanted to go back with Michael.

She said it to George that she hatted Kim because she had to, but she knew Kim was a good girl and she wasn't acting the Right way.

And hey we discovered that despite her crazy attitude she had her limits when she decided to not send the card.

The card was sent by mistake because she didn't came back to the office to stop it but she didn't want to put Michael's job in danger.



The character is what makes me love this movie so much, this is one of the very few times that we are able to see not a perfectly sweet protagonist.
Most of the times the Bigest flaw we can see is the typical problem of not being able to open up or being a little stuck up.

But Jules was a really flawed character who had the ending she needed, sorry she realized too late she was in love with her best friend and now that man was in love with someone else.

Congrats to the producers who made a more realistic ending without being depressing and congrats to Julia Roberts who wasn't sacred to play a more flawed character than all the actresess who make rom Coms.

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There is no justification of her actions. Period. She snoozed, she losed.

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You completely misunderstood the scene with the "card", which was actually an email. It was never her intention to send the email to Michael's boss. Her intention was to bring Michael back to Kimmy's father's office so he could see the email for himself, and then he would think that Kimmy was behind this email. (Remember how frantic she was when they couldn't get in the office?). Anyway, the email did get sent by mistake, but Michael didn't get fired. Instead his boss sent him the email so Michael could see for himself what kind of girl he was marrying.

Just what Jules wanted to happen.

And just as Jules predicted, Michael blamed Kimmy for the whole thing, and called off the wedding.

Just what Jules wanted to happen.

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I was rooting for her to come to terms with saying goodbye to Michael, who I found to be kind of a jerk.






Get me a bromide! And put some gin in it!

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Yes Michael was good looking but not good husband material at all!!
Jimmy was expected to quite school prior to getting her degree which would have made her an architect so she could have her own career. She was made to have no honey moon cos Michael was going to drag her to Texas!! He took jules to Florence years ago so why not treat his wife the same. I thought his behaviour was disgusting. Singing to jules in the restaurant at how Shen looks beautiful, And his fiancé is bloody sitting right there. Laughing & joking with jules, ordering for each other in the karaoke bar and completely ignoring his wife to be!! If I were Kim, I'd have said "u know, what, I don't need this *beep* I'm meant to be number one in your life & im nobody's second choice!!

What a selfish *beep*

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I can sympathize with Julianne, but I'm well out of college. Just because I sympathize with her doesn't mean I condone her actions.

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This!!
I think the OP is being a little judgmental and stereotyping a lot of women.

"Do you even remember what you came here to find?"

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I'm way past my high school years and I sympathise with Jules 100%. I know that exquisite pain of liking someone, but not realising until it's way too late. She wasn't a bad person, just especially determined in not letting the man of her dreams slip away. Cameron's character seemed so over the top and fake, Jules was the real deal. She wasn't putting on a fake smile for anyone, and she wasn't going to attempt to cover up her misery for losing Michael.

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Exactly! . I felt Jules' pain before I even knew that kind of heartbreak. So, I really felt for her when I'd experienced it.

I agree with you! I think Kimmy was kind of fake, but maybe it was because she was young.


"Do you even remember what you came here to find?"

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True - Kimmy was young. But even I wasn't that idealistic and perky in my early twenties. It's probably partly because of her upbringing and background: I'd imagine she ruled her school, had tonnes of friends and a wealthy and nurturing family. She was naive, in that sense too, because she had no idea about Julianne's motives initially, not to mention she doesn't even seem to understand that Jule's was his first serious girlfriend, so she may not exactly be over the moon to see them all lovey dovey as a couple. Who can blame her? I wouldn't even want to be in the same room as my ex's current partners.

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《I can sympathize with Julianne, but I'm well out of college. Just because I sympathize with her doesn't mean I condone her actions.》

That's a great way of putting it. I feel the same. Whenever things get too personal, you have to look at it from an objective, unbiased humans will be humans... Julianne showed her claws. That was underhanded, low and vicious what she did to Kim. Even though she admitted she liked her, she was still setting out to manipulate and destroy her. Do anything she could to make Michael dump her. And if she didn't decide to redeem herself after confessing to Michael, she would have really no saving grace.

Buy on the other hand, as young as Kim was, she was right about love. Every opportunity has a shelf life. Sometimes people don't know until it's too late, due to arrogance and lying to yourself. Is that pitiful? Yes. But this is America, we aren't into the "icky love stuff". People are too afraid too be intimate until it's too late. It's a good message with some weight on it.

The important thing was that Julianne learned from this and didn't stoop lower. To me, this is one of the better written "romantic comedies" of the 20th century.

A person hates you because they either wanna be you, see you as a threat, or hate themself

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Nope. I'm 31 and I completely sympathise with her. Validate your point, if you would.

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