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This movie was made for girls

posted 13 years ago by OO_Donpay
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I went into this movie knowing that it would have some romance aspect to it but I also like Dane Cook's movies. But I feel this movie is made entirely for girls. I mean Jason Bigg's character was a nice guy who clearly likes Kate Hudson's character and tells her this and she then rejected him for it. Dane's character is the the jerk and this is how he treats her. Once they get involved however he starts becoming a sweet and nice guy. This just shows me how girls want a bad boy jerk who they can eventually change to be a nice guy in the end. I don't get it when Jason's character was nice along. I really wanted Jason's character to end up with the girl. What I got from this as a guy is if you want to get the girl you have to be the jerk because if your the nice guy you don't have a chance. Other than this I thought it was an alright movie.

[–] gillies 13 years ago

Hey in the real world women prefer *beep* and will dump a niceguy for an *beep* in a heartbeat. At least *beep* are genuine and have character. They mistake the confidence of an *beep* for masculinity, then they stupidly get all bent-out-of-shape when they cannot turn the *beep* into a niceguy.

So the movie was totally realistic (up until the end, where Dane Cook impossibly turned into a niceguy, at least.)

[–] j0hnayres 10 years ago

SURPRISE! Girls are retarded and just grow up into retarded women. They continue to make the same dumb decisions each generation and never learn, yet somehow are too blind to see the solution to the simple problems they whine and cry about day in and day out.

Bottom line is, women are dumb, and this movie is just dumb women being dumb.

If it makes you feel better, very few aren't AS dumb as the rest. I got lucky anyway.

[–] AtheistRevolution 12 years ago

Women like the challenge of being able to change a guy.The feeling of being able to turn a douchebag into some whipped boyfriend/husband because nobody else was able to change them.

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.

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[–] Seraphine3 12 years ago

I think it's fair to say that this movie's story is attractive to girls, but I disagree with that it's about the fantasy of ''changing the bad guy''. Personally, I would never look twice at the Dustin character, whereas I frankly had a, ahem, positive physical reaction over Tank - why? Not because he falls in love towards the end - the guy shows plenty of affection for his best friend from the beginning of the film - he's not a psychopath.
Tank is great because HE EXPOSES THE B.S. He never once looses his edge - not even at the romantic ending - which, yes, is romantic, but mostly because it's still playful, it's still crude and it still has personality.
As I see it, Tank does not change, he just falls in love. If Tank had gone all Hugh Grant on our asses, I would have lost interest.
Do you think we're supposed to think that Tank will behave really well at family occasions from now on? I hope not.

Give me a difficult man who exposes the B.S. over someone who plays by the rules any day!

[–] maximusveritas 11 years ago

Let me expose some BS for you. You'll be wishing for a guy who plays by the rules when your difficult man cheats on you and isn't a good father or role model to your kids.

[–] freebird1987 11 years ago

Jason Biggs's character wasn't a nice guy. He hired his best friend to be a jerk to her so he could win her back. Not very nice at all.

[–] TheFatDruidofNacyl 11 years ago

Like he said, he made a deal with the Devil, but what does it make the Devil for doing it? Kind of reminded me of Hitch. Except for having a bad date to get her back, Hitch creates the perfect setup to get the first date.

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[–] kairingler 11 years ago

yupp pretty much the story of my life,, girls don't want a nice guy, they want to be treated like crap, so they can change you later on .

are you going to bark all day little doggie,, or are you going to bite

[–] gcarras 10 years ago

I love this movie and just watched it last night. All the actresses here were hilarious and the guys were too.

MAGIC=Sarah Silverman.

[–] Harvestmoonman13 10 years ago

The fact is that Jason Biggs deserved someone better than that girl. They weren't compatible. Biggs needed a nice girl not some bimbo like Kate Hudson. Sure some girls want the bad boy and shun the nice guy...those are the girls you avoid like the plague and drop like hot potatoes before they cheat on your ass. They are the female version of the "bad boy."

[–] raulfaust 10 years ago

Well, I believe the movie doesn't try to spread the idea that "all women prefer jerks". In my opinion, the film's story is centered on A girl that falls in love with jerks with ease, but that doesn't mean all women are like that. If so, all the girls exposed in this movie would've loved Tank, which wasn't the case. I know some girls who act like Alexis, and that's what made this story funny to me; I could see them acting like that, even thought all of her friends would be against the "romance".

[–] eksmith6 9 years ago

It's not that women love all jerks. That isn't the point. The point is that you can't be "nice" to win a girl over. Attraction isn't a choice. You don't and can't negotiate genuine desire. Tank in this movie is not the pushover soft guy that Biggs character was. Biggs character had no clue about women. Tank was a guy who had confidence and didn't cater to women for affection. Attraction and affection happens naturally when attracted men and women get together. There isn't something a man does or says to a women that makes her all the sudden think he's hot. It's how he actually is that does this. Tank genuinely and naturally treats women the way he does from who he is. It's genuine and not an act to get into a girls pants. He doesn't need to put on an act because he already knows women find him attractive.