Not only is this movie goddawful, the characters are horrible people. If I was meeting my fiance's family and I got treated like this I would dump her ass immediately. Love is nice but it's not enough to put up with abuse from people who treat you like a loathed outsider.
sharePerhaps. But on the other hand, any guy who would put up with that amount of crap as graciously as this guy does, because he loves you is my idea of a man!
He is definatly the better person, and the best character in the movie!! And Jeremy London plays the part beautifully.
"Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat". ~Henry Emerson Fosdick
He proposed and she accepted. If she truly loved him and wanted to marry him then she damn well should have laid down the law to her father. She should have firmly stood up for her boyfriend/fiance instead of letting him put up with all the crap that was directed at him. Instead, she dismisses it and then criticizes him when he stands up for himself.
She didn't put her foot down when her aunt kept pushing her ex boyfriend on her. She let the boyfriend standby when the ex boyfriend flirts with her. She gets mad at him for standing up to the ex boyfriend. Finally, she remains silent with a disinterested look on her face when the boyfriend finally did stand up to her father then tells him to leave.
I thought it laughable when she finally told her father that he drove him away, like she had no part in it by the way she behaved.
Yes the boyfriend dealt with horrendous behavior graciously and with a great deal of patience but he would have been more of a man if he had stood up to the father much sooner. He allowed him and her family to ride roughshod over him. There is a limit to the amount of abuse a man will take before he's considered a featherweight. The father probably would have respected him more if he had stood up to him sooner. Marrying her means becoming a part of her family and to having to put up with that crap for the rest of your life. The sooner you put your foot down the better. If the girlfriend can't handle that then he would be better off walking.
What really didn't make sense was after accepting his marriage proposal, she introduces him as her boyfriend. I guess so as not to upset her father and hoping that he would approve of her boyfriend. What if he didn't? Would she then not marry him? If so then she never really loved him.
Personally, by the second day, I would have told the father to have sex with himself and left. When then challenged by the fiancé/girlfriend, I would tell her that I did what she should have done and that since she didn't have the courage and love for me to stand up to her father then she wasn't the type of person I wanted to marry. No loss since I still had the ring that she gave back to me.
The father was overbearing and her aunt was a jerk with her repeating the same dumb line, "First shoot all the lawyers." He was too nice to not telling her off.
I understand overprotective families but not not this abuse.