Billy should have married the young girl

When was it implied in the movie, that "Billy" even wanted kids?

Marriage and procreation have no link - me thinks you're being controversial to start a troll debate!

But I don't disagree that 'perfect' endings aren't always what the audience wants!!

It was a bit too pious for me, the way it culminated in an engagement to a "suitable" woman. There was nothing early on in the film to indicate that he and Lisa had anything other than a close, honest relationship that could have succeeded. It didn't necessarily *have* to be moribund, just because she was younger. And 32 is certainly old enough to know your own mind, she was hardly an inept teenager. Superficial, hectoring drivel.

thats exactly what i though. We are supposed to believe that he's in love with this woman he met a day or so before and so throws away the other relationship.
The writers in hollywood can't seem to write anything beyond the formulas they learnt in film/writing school.
They could have had the exact same character development without the overused and illogical idea that two people with an age gap can't possibly really be in love.

I liked the film, and I find it funny that you'd harp on Marriage, and then complain about girls in skimpy bikinis. It's a movie about Las Vegas, be prepared for jokes about Bachelor/Bachelorette Parties, skimpily dressed women, douchebag bros, vibrant sparkling poolside's, loud popular music... the works.

I found the relationship between Billy and the Lounge singer to be very shoehorned, two and a half days in Vegas and it's true love? But he did schmaltz around the end that maybe he really wanted to marry her to make him feel young again, otherwise he's just an old schmuck creeping closer to death... maybe like a mid-life crisis?

Marriage has nothing to do with procreation, really... you can get pregnant without being married, loads of women do it, and I think marriage is becoming a dated concept... still, a lot of people want to believe there is a one and only out there for them.

Yeah, the trophy wife sounds like fun, but it takes a lot of energy to keep up with a younger person. Even more to match the sexual needs. And how much would you have in common? Someone that much younger would mostly be a companion. Beyond the physical beauty, I'm much happier being with someone close to my age.

Urgh, way to miss the entire point of the break-up.

Billy was marrying his trophy wife because she made him feel superficially younger. He says at the end that his mind cannot comprehend how old his body truly is. It wasn't true happiness; it was a facade on Billy's part so he wouldn't focus on the fact that he's around 70 and nearing his deathbed. Why d'ya think he proposed at the funeral? He realised he was about to expire, and he hoped getting married will give him some mental back-up. Plus, he'd never been married before and he assumed he was never gonna get another chance, so he went for it.

As for the girl, she was a gold-digger. Remember the exchange
"Actually she's your age!"
"You must be realllllly rich!"

So if Billy got married to her, he'd just wind up with the gold-digging whore who'd sap him of all his money on his deathbed, and he'd still die a lonely old man. For all we know, she probably planned to divorce him within a few months and just run with his money. They were never in love.

It would've been mighty sappy if Billy and Diane went to marry at the chapel immediately after the break-up (it also would've set up a cheap gag, with the priest marrying Billy and the woman he was previously told was his mum). But they didn't. The pair wanted to feel out the relationship and make sure they were right for each other, and a few months later, they decided to tie the knot.

Normally this type of chestnut annoys me, but the laughs are built around a solid, dramatic, character-based narrative foundation. There's real depth and heart here. Shame you missed it and just liked the idea of the old Billy banging the young gold-digging skank. Urgh.

~Cal

"Life is the Empire's currency. Spend it well."

I wish he had married the younger woman just to go against the grain that you can't find happiness with people outside of some kind of 10 year radius.


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