but this movie is absolutely horrid! i hate Jennifer's character! she sleeps around with people's emotions, tries to kill Holden (although she does back out), gets pregnant by Holden, tells him its his baby then turns him in, goes back to her husband and tells HIM its HIS baby! i love Jake Gyllenhaal and i like Jennifer Aniston but this movie sucks! sorry to offend anyone who likes it.
I did it again.
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Aniston's character is real. I guess what she does is wrong but stuck in a dead end job in a boring marriage her behaviour is understandable. In her position many people would act the same. Oh and whilst it was probably Holden’s baby there’s a chance it could have been Bubba’s. I don’t see how anybody can ‘hate’ Justine when it’s so easy to identify with her. Holden had died, she couldn’t run off with him. If it was Bubba’s baby it wouldn’t change the fact that Bubba was sleazy and a bit of a jerk. She had to stay with her husband and saying it was his baby seemed kinda justifiable if not understandable. Do you prefer Jennifer Aniston to play perfect pretty flawless characters? Jennifer’s character is real. If you don’t like her character in this film maybe you’re not so keen on reality.
sharefirst off, Holden died because she turned him in. she wasnt going to run away with him anyway. another thing, its highly unlikely that it was Bubba's baby because he was just as much (if not more) of a pothead as her husband so he was probably infertile as well. mind, i'm not saying that there isnt a chance. if her husband believed it was his baby, then he was pretty dense. he was just told that his sperm was no good and he found out that Justine had slept with another guy on many occasions. oh, and im not keen on reality because i dont like her character? no. all that is saying about me is that i dont like people who sleep around with other people's emotions and turn against them. so i must be a pretty bad person not to like someone like that, right?
I did it again.
http://www.geocities.com/bubble_vata/jakegyllenhaalshrine
She's scared. She's always been scared. She didn't go to College because she was afraid she'd lose Phil. She's scared of letting people down, and of being found out, and of losing what she has.
I can't hate Jennifer Aniston's character because it is so real. It sounds horrible but if I'm honest I see aspects of myself in her--its horrible when you feel trapped and you make terrible, costly mistakes. But there is an element of hope at the end, a bittersweet redemption and she makes the right choice. And whilst she does not help him...she does not kill Holden...Holden kills himself.
shareWell, she could have garnered enough courage to just drop everything else, let her husband know she was leaving him. Then, she should've skirted off with him before Holden ended up stealing money as he did.
The Good Girl is not really quite so good after all.
"The Good Girl 2" could have Justine be the "ho" that she is, but then throw in Joey Greco and that camera crew from Cheaters in. I'm listening to Paula Abdul's "Ho Down" right now as I write this, and the combination is funny.
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I didn’t like Justine’s character at all, but I liked the movie. I’ll tell you what I don’t like, though: LemonJeans . Not even a little bit, and I don’t even know her (or him).
Well, things could always be worse. I could have had my nose bitten off by a Saigon whore!
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Ummmm...Bone78, do you realize it's just a movie??!! You act as though you dislike the movie because you are mad at the main character for being a bad person. It is just a ROLE played by Jen Aniston. It's a STORY. It's NOT REAL!
As a HUGE hater of all the Hiltons and Simpsons and Jolies and yes Aniston tabloid magazines, I thing Jennifer should be commended for her portrayal of a small-town country girl who gets herself in hot water. She did a GREAT JOB in a GREAT film. As opposed to garbage like "Rock Star".
"she sleeps around with people's emotions" ??? that sounds like fun.
Bone78 et.al. may perhaps be suffering from a bout of post-FRIENDS withdrawal anxiety.
Sometimes real people play imaginary characters and they get all dressed up in costumes and stuff. It's called ACTING. And also, sometimes good people make crappy life decisions ... it's called BEING HUMAN.
This movie is awesome.
of course page turn is the new star wipe
She was defanitly the definition of a flawed human being. She wasn't all bad though. She probably didn't tell Phil the baby wasn't his because she had just hurt him so badly, and it would have been comforting for Phil to think that the baby was his. It was kind of like her small act of redemption for hurting Phil. She at least had good intentions, she just didn't think things through.
sharelol i love how people justify wrong actions because she's only human. i enjoyed the movie personaly but the person jen played was the worst kind of person out there. she too afraid to upset anyone too scared cuzz maybe ONE person might not like her so she keep making mistakes over an over again and seriously lying to your husband about the truth whether the kid was his or not is not redemption its just another lie and another wrong decision in the web of lies that she had created. she just a bad person plain and simple.
shareI loved this movie, and I think many people could relate to Justine -I, for one, can; not her actions, but her feeling of frustration and discontent with her life, and how she feels that life must be more than a boring job, a husband that doesn't get her, etc. I think the character (and the movie) are basically about how every one of us wants to live life with a passion, but we can hardly name what is it exactly that we want. She's a confused girl with a general feeling of depression, but at the end of the day, what she wants is what she's always had.
shareDon't feel guilty. I despised Justine too. This movie is horrible the way it tries its hardest to portray Justine as a victim when she's actually a selfish, whiny, pathetic, sullen, sadistic, immature coward who never once takes responsibility for her actions. In the end I just wanted to see her take a bullet to the brain. That would've made the movie worthwhile. For someone who hates her life, she never once makes an effort to change things for the better; she just insists on keeping herself miserable and clinging to a reputation she doesn't deserve. This movie is pointless. I'd rather see films about people who actually suffer and show strength of character and reasons for admirality. Chinnifer Maniston is only capable of playing one type of character: a self-obsessed whiner. I'd rather watch The Shawshank Redemption. There's someone who's trapped. There's a character worth caring about.
You say she does bad things but she was a good person deep down? It's our choices that make us who we are. Choices and actions define a person, not who they are "underneath it all."
You say she was scared? She was scared of owning up to her actions? That's called cowardice. I hate cowards.
So what if she's real? Justine is a monster. If anyone even thinks of justifying her actions, they're no better.
You hate cowards? It is easier to hate than to understand I guess. That would sort of make you lazy then, wouldn't it? How many out there hate lazy people? Justine did a lot of things I wouldn't dream of doing, just as I've done shameful things others would never do. Humanity is too complex to figure out and those who think they can label people neatly according to their flaws and mistakes, are the simpletons chewing cud that Justine's character alludes to early in the film.
Glove slap, baby, glove slap!
Glove slap, I don't take crap!
Glove slap, shut your big yap.
So what if she's real? Justine is a monster. If anyone even thinks of justifying her actions, they're no better.
Characters in films aren't always likable.
It doesn't make this a horrid film. It simply makes it more realistic than a film where everyone is kind and live charmed lives.
She did not run off with Holden because she knew, Pick one, He really just wasn't right for her, Could not hurt her husband in this manner, would be running from the law for the rest of her life, they had no means of real support, she loved her husband more then she thought. My guess was she simply could not go thru with it in the end. As far as Holden goes, He kills himself, he was not stable as a suitor for her at all, He kills himself not even knowing what happened, she could have been held up by traffic for all he knew. killing himself would have been for nothing with her finding his body, he just assumed she backed out without even knowing the truth, I would have felt sorry for some one really being hurt but he just assumed something, then gives his life for a assumption.
share"it's not what the movie is about, it's how it is about"
so many movies, so little time