I rooted for him at the beginning but after he banged the 18 year old girl, missed the kid's b-day, and hit on that nerd's gf, I could no longer empathize with him at all. What a douchebag.
The band is just fantastic, that is really what I think, oh by the way, which one's Pink?
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I kinda agree w/lockon_statos. Ben was disgusting, but I don't think that's what made him MORE interesting. I wanted to see his comeuppance and if there was a slightest chance of redemption for him. It was annoying/fun that the ended the movie with him just standing from the bench-- that way you can decide which path he took.
sharei think casting Michael Douglas as the lead was a mistake. He is too old to be pulling these young women and it was totally unbelievable that his girlfriend's daughter would want to sleep with a craggy, wrinkly old man like that.
I agree, a very unsympathetic portrayal of someone who really isn't very kind to people. Didn't really care what happened to him in the end.
That's the whole point of the movie you twit.
shareYou're supposed to find the character atrocious, that's how the role was written to be portrayed.
This story is almost tragic in a Shakespearean sense...except that, at the very end, the ambiguity of "what he chose to do" allows for a slight hope he'd get in the car with his ex, rather than chase one more skirt.
Had it been a full-fledged tragedy, he'd chase the skirt, stay on campus and likely get killed by the thug hired by his ex-ladyfriend.
But, this is not a superficial action flick where the hero kills the bad guys, saves the girl, and everything is wonderful. It is a story about a guy who makes a mess of his life, yet has people around him with his best interests at heart, and are capable of showing him the value of a good life, one that he might find boring and frustratingly bereft of the thrills and temptations he can't seem to fight off.
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I'm trying real hard to be the shepherd.
You're supposed to find the character atrocious, that's how the role was written to be portrayed.
This story is almost tragic in a Shakespearean sense...except that, at the very end, the ambiguity of "what he chose to do" allows for a slight hope he'd get in the car with his ex, rather than chase one more skirt.
Had it been a full-fledged tragedy, he'd chase the skirt, stay on campus and likely get killed by the thug hired by his ex-ladyfriend.
But, this is not a superficial action flick where the hero kills the bad guys, saves the girl, and everything is wonderful. It is a story about a guy who makes a mess of his life, yet has people around him with his best interests at heart, and are capable of showing him the value of a good life, one that he might find boring and frustratingly bereft of the thrills and temptations he can't seem to fight off.