Nice guys
OK, I have to vent. I just watched the movie My Best Friend's Girl and it was, predictably, horrible. What made it horrible, however, was not the usual half-assed script/acting troubles that usually grind these moronic romcoms into crapdom. The main problem was the Jason Biggs character, the so-called "nice guy."
Let's re-cap how this "nice guy" treats Kate Hudson after she tells him she doesn't want anything serious with him:
1. He tells her he loves her (pressure!)
At which point she dumps him entirely, so:
2. He hires his friend to take her on a date so unbelievably horrific that she would theoretically come crying back to him by morning
3. He decides to be her best friend EVAR until she relents, so he stalks her day in and day out in order to continually surprise her with fresh coffee and little donuts arranged to make creepy smiley faces
4. He shows up AT HER HOUSE to keep applying pressure, and when he finds out she's with a guy, he goes busting in to confront the couple
5. He gets angry that she's not taking him as her date to her sister's wedding, where he was hoping to be presented to her parents as her boyfriend
6. He drunkenly upsets said wedding to shame her in front of everyone
This is the nice guy we girls are always accused of hurting? Of choosing jerks over? This guy, who refuses to take no for an answer, who won't listen when she tells him to stop, who won't back off, and who thinks he knows what she wants better than she does?
And let's not forget the entire premise of the movie is a guy that ex-boyfriends hire to take girls out and treat them like crap so they will realize what they "gave up" with the ex and go back to him. Of the two exes we meet during the movie, one is a cheating bastard and the other is a guy who refuses to ever take his girl out in public. So these girls really were on the right track by dumping those losers.
Gentlemen, believe me, we girls may not always know what we want, but we quite usually know what we don't want. If we tell you that you're what we don't want - walk away. That's what an actual nice guy would do.
That is all.
Let's re-cap how this "nice guy" treats Kate Hudson after she tells him she doesn't want anything serious with him:
1. He tells her he loves her (pressure!)
At which point she dumps him entirely, so:
2. He hires his friend to take her on a date so unbelievably horrific that she would theoretically come crying back to him by morning
3. He decides to be her best friend EVAR until she relents, so he stalks her day in and day out in order to continually surprise her with fresh coffee and little donuts arranged to make creepy smiley faces
4. He shows up AT HER HOUSE to keep applying pressure, and when he finds out she's with a guy, he goes busting in to confront the couple
5. He gets angry that she's not taking him as her date to her sister's wedding, where he was hoping to be presented to her parents as her boyfriend
6. He drunkenly upsets said wedding to shame her in front of everyone
This is the nice guy we girls are always accused of hurting? Of choosing jerks over? This guy, who refuses to take no for an answer, who won't listen when she tells him to stop, who won't back off, and who thinks he knows what she wants better than she does?
And let's not forget the entire premise of the movie is a guy that ex-boyfriends hire to take girls out and treat them like crap so they will realize what they "gave up" with the ex and go back to him. Of the two exes we meet during the movie, one is a cheating bastard and the other is a guy who refuses to ever take his girl out in public. So these girls really were on the right track by dumping those losers.
Gentlemen, believe me, we girls may not always know what we want, but we quite usually know what we don't want. If we tell you that you're what we don't want - walk away. That's what an actual nice guy would do.
That is all.