I think Ellis was way too persistent-- too pushy... I'm not too sure but by the time they go up to meet his parent, it's like what 2 weeks max? And he tells her he loves her? I don't know if it rubbed anyone the wrong way too
shareHe rubbed me the wrong way too. At the hotel he keeps grabbing doors and blocking her from leaving, at the library he threatens to pull his donation unless she has lunch w/ him, then at dinner he's all in her personal space even though she keeps leaning away like the cat running from Pepe le Pew. Just...yuck.
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wow, I bet you've never been in love, girls...
no, there is no timeline to fall in love and to intruduce someone to your parents.
also, persistence is a vertue, when it doesn't look like harassment. And by no means this was no harassment whatsoever, you've seen her response. She was actually rejecting him because she was afraid to fall in love and share her secret.
What is embarassing in your reaction is how negatively judgemental you've been to a story with reciprocal happy ending. Instead of learning something from it, you're like "hmm, hell no, he harassed her". Whaaat?! :)
Let me guess, you're a Twilight/Fifty Shades of Gray fan? I'm actually in my forties and have been happily married for over a decade to a wonderful man who actually respects women and doesn't regard us like some object to be conquered or prize to be won. Persistence, especially after someone has declined your advances is not a virtue. It's a sign of someone who at best has very poor social skills and very little respect for you, your feelings or your boundaries. She didn't return his phone calls so he goes to her work and gets her address without her consent and then ambushes her when she comes home demanding her attention? As a long time resident of San Francisco, I can tell you that wouldn't get a you second date, it would get a restraining order in a city like this.
The director romanticizing overbearing and aggressive behavior in service of a contrived romance (he's declaring his love for her after knowing her for less than a week) is just lazy and gross. The character was a creep and having Adeline apologize to him after he shows up at her home like that turned me off of the rest of the movie. Again, just yuck...
you miss a thing, ugly duck: in this specific movie, the only reason why she was reluctant to both men was because a very unusual fact: she was in fact 100+ years old!!
so spare me your lectues, I've been more than twice you've been with you probably impotent husband with the love of my life and I know what I say.
and BTW, "yuck" means only bad taste or disgust, so I don't care how long you pretend you lived in SF with a guy you hmm loved, you look like pointing to the act of making love when you express this reaction. Send your husband my sympathies, I'm trully sorry for him.
P.S. For you too, because you lived so long with no idea what true love is about...
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You're wrong, they're right: dude was super pushy and disrespectful. Kinda ruined the movie for me, to be honest - I couldn't root for them after that.
shareYep he was wa weirdo. He was completely void of charm & charisma, & most women would have called the police with that kind of creepy harassment. An interesting actor in this role would have changed this utterly shallow drivel.
shareI disagree that a different actor would have changed anything. I found this one attractive enough, and even charming (when not being Pepe LePew), but his insistence in defiance of her repeated rejections was just way, way out of line. Unacceptable behaviour is unacceptable behaviour, whatever the source.
shareIt's clearly not stalking because he's not bad looking, neither social awkward. Also, being rich somehow is a romance thing in cheap books aimed at middle-aged women.
I came here just to check the trivia to see if this wasn't adapted from those kind of books. I must say I'm disappointed.
Specialy in the dog moments and no-tension moments. Looked like something abruptly taken from a long, thick book.
Oh man, that bugged me so much! I hated him and his overbearing pushiness, then his creepy stalker behavior. SO not cool!
shareHe was presented as being rather pushy in contrast to his dad.
It's that man again!!
Yep. From the beginning, I was like "Agh! Back off dude!" And felt that way stronger with each scene he was in. I was not thrilled that she actually apologized to him!
shareI can see why she had to end up dating Ellis from a story telling point of view, so she could meet his father/her ex again, but I think Ellis came onto way too strong. Their getting together could have been better written I thought, even if she was reluctant (at first) to be involved.
I think others have made the same point here in other threads here as well, but I didn't sense a great deal of chemistry between Adaline and Ellis, the romance always seemed a bit contrived, even at the end.
It's too bad, the idea of the story had a lot of potential.
Besides, he is one of the ugliest male lead I have ever seen, LOL.
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