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who is hotter?

posted 8 years ago by chillpillory
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I enjoyed the movie, but I felt like I had to accept that Rebecca is out of Bret's league, which I am not sure is true. Bret acted very, well, beta. He almost pleaded to sleep over, demanded that they label their relationship, pleaded with her to leave his clothes at her place, blindly believed the stuff about Diana, and risked his life to help her. Very beta. Basically, Bret was Rebecca's dog. I liked both characters, but the movie kind of asked me to believe that a nice looking guy like Bret would do pretty much anything to have Rebecca as his girlfriend. Palmer is very attractive, but the guy who plays Bret is good looking too. He's not Chris Hemsworth or Tom Brady. I mean he's not a 6' 3" blue eyed white guy. He's an average height latino or arabi guy dating a hot white chick, but the guy had a good face and a ripped body. However, he was poor. Or that's how it seemed. I mean he wasn't driving a Panamera or an Audi S7 (or even an Audi S5).

Online dating implies that white women most value whiteness, height (over 6' 1") and high income. Bret has none of those things, but he's a good looking dude. But as a latino or arab guy under 6 feet driving an old Volvo or whatever, were we just to assume that he lucked out with Rebecca, and that Rebecca's mom's insanity and the family's haunting sort of evened things out between Rebecca and Bret?

[–] loopinthoughts 8 years ago

I've seen nothing Beta about bret. It's just he fell in love with her, but she had complications. That is all. (We had very few scenes about their relationship, that's all i could observe from it)

and also i would like to point out that Aplha is not the equivalent of being rich.

[–] chillpillory 8 years ago

I never equated being alpha with being rich. What I said is that women in Manhattan tend to date for wealth, height, and clean-cut Ivy League whiteness. I am not making value judgments. I am just reporting what I see and encounter. I don't try to imagine a better world. I just observe teh world I live in as it is.

[–] twwarrior 8 years ago

Your post is stupid and racist.

[–] chillpillory 8 years ago

my post is true: That's how dating in the world is. I'm 45. I've seen a lot of the world. I live in Manhattan and see interracial couples (excluding Asian woman/White man pairings) about once every two months at most. Maybe four couples a year. And that's NYC.

I'm not saying it's good or bad. I am saying it's reality.

[–] Seth_Rogue_One 8 years ago

I feel like I have to accept that you are as amazingly shallow and dumb as you sound in your OP. Have a nice day.

Death to mainstream cinema!

[–] chillpillory 8 years ago

I am telling you how shallow women in Manhattan are. That's how dating is in Manhattan. I'm 5' 7". I wish it were different. Also, in NYC, Ivy League women want to date only Ivy League men. furthermore, most women won't date men who earn below 250k/yr.

Reality is very shallow.

[–] Seth_Rogue_One 8 years ago

Ahh well fawk them hoes.

Death to mainstream cinema!

[–] peanutsinspace 8 years ago

There was nothing shallow about Rebecca. She lived in a crappy apartment, didn't have her own means of transportation and was dating a musician, that was it. She came from an unstable home where her father left at an early age and her mother was crazy and it turned her into a young woman that kept people at arms length.

She liked Bret because he was stable and she knew it. It wasn't about money or cars or anything else to her. Bret provided stability and she liked that about him but still kept him at a distance because even though she knew he was a good guy she wouldn't let herself believe that he was. She had so many walls built up that her walls had walls. That's why that scene where she's trying to calm Martin down is so interesting because as she's saying 'he wouldn't do that' she's kinda saying it to herself too. Reassuring herself that he wouldn't just leave and of course, it's proven to be true at the end.

Also just FYI, Bret's actor Alexander DiPersia, is of Italian and Russian-Jewish descent and stands about 6'0" so your previous assumptions about him were more than a little off.

Finally, I think it should be mentioned that not all women are these shallow, materialistic leeches and if those are the types you're running across, it's probably time to widen your dating pool. It also might be a good idea not to tell women you've just met how you think they're only interested in alpha's and are materialistic and shallow and basically all around horrible, cause that might factor more into why you're unable to get a date.

[–] tradewithme4444 8 years ago

How is this post relevant to the movie?

[–] Movie_Buff_Brad 8 years ago

This has been a public service announcement from an MRA.

[–] chillpillory 8 years ago

Magnetic Resonance Angiogram?

[–] blister_in_the_sun890 8 years ago

Diana was the hottest, dayum...

[–] smokescreensemerge-538-372043 8 years ago

You seem like a racist POS.. Diana seems like what deserve. Maybe she'll finger bang you from behind with two of big long clawed fingers LOL....

[–] Krossant 8 years ago

True, their relationship was weird

This beautiful, mysterious and cool girl has sex with this attractive looking hunk.
After the sex is over the guy goes all nice guy on her ass and the girl loses interest in him.

Classic "badboy" gone good boy (boring)... However the nice guy is desperately trying to prove to her that he can take care of everything and due to extremely weird Diana, brother and mom situations this nice guy despite low interest from the girl is allowed to stay with them.

Then the miracle happens. Boring good boy proves his worth by not running away when the supernatural *beep* starts to happen. Even after he almost gets killed he still comes back with cops proving that he is suitable mate for the girl.

Not the most unrealistic movie of all the time in terms of this, I have seen few similar cases with cancer patient girls (still hot) marrying low social status or low provider nice guys because they provided the support when they needed it most.