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Why the hell would you do that?!


I think I need a guy's perspective on this..

When Celeste is making out with the photographer dude and he starts jacking off all of a sudden... why the hell would you do that?

Does he not realize that is the most offputting thing ever. Especially when they only just met.

Do people actually do this...? xD

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Of course it was weird. That was the point. It's not like the filmmakers put it in there thinking it was normal.

Are you confused as to why Norman Bates killed people as well? I mean that is pretty offputting as well so why would anyone do that?

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No need to be rude.

I was wondering what the idea behind it would be, except just for comedy's sake.
The character's motivation to do this.

I mean if he played his cards right, she might have slept with him. That must beat masturbating. So the question still remains, what was he thinking?

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He obviously had a weird fetish. It seemed like everything was going good and then he ruined it. You can't just spring that on a girl right away. Unless that is his fetish. Luring girls back to his room thinking the date was so awesome and then just beating off and creeping them out. Seems like that's what his deal was actually.

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the impression I got was that he obviously seemed really good to her - e.g. she liked his looks, humour etc. And just when she thought 'ah this is really good' he suddenly starts jacking off like that and acting all weird.

I do know and have heard stories over the years of guys who do act this odd, although myself and most of my guy mates wouldn't do this but there we go.

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I've known college aged guys that would be clueless enough to do that but I can't imagine guys like in the movie doing it. It was purely for humor.

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Real persons do sometimes act in baffling ways. I think Rashida Jones and Will McCormack are both talented and they wrote an interesting, believable script for this movie.

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I dunno why u need a guy's perspective on this
it goes both ways, a guy or a girl could be that selfish and could really not be able to control themselves or maybe like to ruin good things when they seem to be working.

"It is never about what happened, it is only how you look at it!"

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In the DVD Rashida after the movie lets the viewers know that the character Celeste is just a exaggerated version of her own life. And all those horrible dates shown in the movie are those she had personally experienced. Including the one who decides to pleasure himself in the middle of the action.


I also learnt from a friend of mine once that her first boyfriend also loved pleasuring himself while in action and as he was older and had more experienced, he told her that this is something that all guys do, otherwise it's difficult to get an erection. Mt friend who was 16 then, so she believed him and put up with it.

Excuse my English, it's not my native tongue.

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Well... I'd rather get a blowjob myself if it doesn't automatically get up. Personal preference.

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Yes, I think it was to show how bleak the dating world can be.

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I think they were trying to suggest he was so addicted to porn that that had become the only way the could reach it.

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As a female, I have to say I've had a guy do this with me before. Not in the middle of our first kiss but when we were already doing stuff he did then start just wanking himself off while I was just...there. Actually, if I'm being honest, it's happened twice.
So it is extreme but not unheard of.
But for the record in the future guys - it is so f'ing offputting!! DO NOT DO IT UNLESS A GIRL EXPLICITLY ASKS YOU TO IF THAT'S HER THING!!

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