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What is about this guy...? (spoilers)

posted 11 years ago by jeronavdg
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That makes all these women go crazy?

I liked the movie but this seems to be its biggest flaw. The audience, I felt like at least, is never given
any insight as to what's so great about this guy.

Honestly, why would the jennifer morrison character even care that much about a guy she broke up with FIFTEEN
years ago?! So much that she wants to know the girls name he went to prom with?

Why would this girl, who he basically assaulted when she was 11, still be attracted to him and feel the need to prove how sexy she is?

And the character played by Mia Maestro even mentions that it's so easy to forget guys, but he stuck with her. WHy, why, why?
There's something missing here because now he is just a dick with no feelings. He just isn't relatable.

Can't believe he doesn't see who's getting hurt by writing about these women, when three of them even mentioned
feeling hurt by his earlier pieces.

[–] plume_rider 10 years ago

I agree with you...I am a 30-something year old woman and not only do I do not find the main character attractive at all, but more importantly, he acts like a total *sshole to all these women, he's arrogant and narcissistic, so I really was at a loss about why they would even make this movie. Isn't rule #1 in writing class that if you decide to make your main character unlikeable, you have to at least give him/her some sort of redeeming quality at some point to make them relatable? The end of this film has the main character hitting on an airline stewardess....he has learned no lessons.

[–] modelajb 10 years ago

Well said. I thought he seemed like a totally self-absorbed creep. The ending scene just screamed "sociopath" to me.

[–] tetrahex 10 years ago

Trust me this guy not only doesn't appeal to women, he disgusts men as well. Usually such a lothario is someone men would want to be, but in this case its just unbelievable, he just is a boring hipster d-bag and it undermines the foundation of the film, there just is no credibility. The guy has negative charisma, honestly this film doesn't even seem like a professional production, its just so bland. The first couple of scenes alone should have told the backers enough to just cut the funds and run, its just painful to watch.

[–] megkegpegleg 10 years ago

I just finished watching the movie, so I haven't had sufficient time to think about it. I also thought "what the f is so special about this dude?" throughout.

Essentially, he's some sort of sociopath -- he is unable to empathize with the way he's treated these women or even to recognize that what he's doing is wrong. That particularly stuck out to me during the story with the girl he assaulted. He lies to them and tells them what they want to hear. He preys on the naive and innocent. A lot of these relationships are from when he was young, and confidence is attractive at this age. He's a persuasive narcissist. Regardless of looks, his complete disinterest in these women and other matters intrigues and attracts women.

I really believe that he is doing the same thing to his fiance and there wasn't actually a tentative date for the wedding. This is all a ploy for his ego and writing.

Sorry if I rambled! Like I said, I'm still thinking :)

[–] WizardsMug 9 years ago

i think the point is that these encounters are with his exes. they already had lived through a break up with him.
if he had been shown in action charming a girl the scenes wouldn't have excalated as much or he wouldn't have come off as unpleasantly as he did in this movie.

i'm surprised that this movie really stayed with me. he's like a wolf in a sheep skin.

[–] justbobkc 8 years ago

He is reasonably attractive, tall and thin and with "nice eyes". (Which women when polled generally rate "first" as the most important physical characteristic in men they are attracted too. Think "old blue eyes" - either Frank Sinatra or Paul Newman. ;-) And he is above average in intelligence, no doubt about it.

He FAKES empathy just well enough and lies extraordinarily well (think Bill Clinton and all HIS "conquests"). Words still mean a whole lot to women, in general - often more than "actions" - as women are more verbally oriented by both culture and biological nature than men are.

It is only after he gets what HE "needs" that his true nature becomes apparent. He just moves on to the next one without even a glance back.

The most implausible thing about this movie was that a man like this would EVER try and reconnect with any of his old flames "to make things right with them". He just wouldn't care. Which IS what makes "the twist" then make perfect sense - he was really doing it for a paid magazine article. And the egotistical personal reason would also be - can I make these "stupid, stupid" (his thinking not mine!) women STILL believe my lies?

This is illustrated when he pulled out ALL the stops with that last girlfriend who no longer WOULD believe his lies. That drove him crazy. Good for her, in all kinds of ways.

[–] NextDoorGirl 10 years ago

I think that with Sam, the High School sweetheart, it wasn't so much the guy that made her still be so hung up on a breakup that happened 15 years ago, but the way he did it. He broke it off for no apparent reason and that could be crushing for a 17 year old girl's confidence. She always thought he broke up with her because he found someone else, so that also explains it. You never forget someone who cheated on you.

"Stupid Bowls of Soup!"

[–] johnny-rose 10 years ago

Apart from the fact that Adam Brody is immensely hot, at least in my top five least, I guess he's my type of guy, there are other reasons why these women, fifteen years later didn't forget him.

The fact was that he ran out on them, and they never had closure. Not having closure from a relationship you were invested in, is something that remains with you for a long time. Of course he's not relatable, and that's the point. He was a great guy for as long as those relationships lasted because he was a pathological liar making all those women feel as if he was the love of their lives. And him running out without an explanation, breaking up without an explanation stuck with them.

I can tell you from personal experience, that I have at least one such ex, who ran out on me, without giving me closure, or explanation, and even though I don't love him, or even like him anymore, I will never be able to forget him, because just as Kristen Bell's character, Bobby said, he was an emotional terrorist who took something from me, something I won't be able to ever recover.

I think this movie is very relatable, for all of us, women, but also men, who have had our hearts broken at some point in our lives, and never had closure from that particular relationship. Those questions as to why it ended continue for years and years and even though you stop thinking about it, just a phone call, or a trip down memory lane lets you know that they've been in your unconscious for a long time, drilling into your very soul without you even knowing. All your future relationships and the way you relate to people has to do with that one relationship that broke your heart to pieces. Maybe it is the way in which you don't trust people anymore. Maybe it is in the way that you cannot commit anymore. I guess is one of those things that you must have experienced to be able to understand.

[–] goo-goo-ga-ga 9 years ago

Yeah, I don't get his appeal either. Zero charisma. And why would these women care after so much time had passed?! They were doing so well with careers and families. They had moved on. This guy is so self-absorbed! The female characters are emotionally stunted!