Comments on: I’ll Eat You Up, I Love You So http://www.thefilmcake.com/2010/03/09/ill-eat-you-up-i-love-you-so/ Cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake. -- Alfred Hitchcock Wed, 13 Jul 2011 00:06:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Dwight http://www.thefilmcake.com/2010/03/09/ill-eat-you-up-i-love-you-so/comment-page-1/#comment-587 Dwight Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:49:43 +0000 http://www.thefilmcake.com/?p=877#comment-587 Summer is perhaps no dream girl in that movie, but I think she fits the trope by being a blank slate of sorts that almost solely exists in order to push him towards <em>his</em> dreams. And I don't think she is so much bad in character as bad for Tom (in that she doesn't love him back). But, I don't see the awful behavior. Summer seems to be up front about the relationship. She says at the beginning that she doesn't want anything serious. No matter how much you love someone else, you can't demand that they love you in return. I can't blame her for that. And is she to blame for, in the end, actually falling in love with somebody else? I don't think so. Is it heartbreaking? Sure. But, it doesn't maker her bad (in my book). That's not to say that I liked Summer. She is quirky. She is physically attractive (she is Zooey Deschanel). But, she is distant. Summer is perhaps no dream girl in that movie, but I think she fits the trope by being a blank slate of sorts that almost solely exists in order to push him towards his dreams. And I don’t think she is so much bad in character as bad for Tom (in that she doesn’t love him back).

But, I don’t see the awful behavior. Summer seems to be up front about the relationship. She says at the beginning that she doesn’t want anything serious. No matter how much you love someone else, you can’t demand that they love you in return. I can’t blame her for that. And is she to blame for, in the end, actually falling in love with somebody else? I don’t think so. Is it heartbreaking? Sure. But, it doesn’t maker her bad (in my book). That’s not to say that I liked Summer. She is quirky. She is physically attractive (she is Zooey Deschanel). But, she is distant.

]]> By: Ian http://www.thefilmcake.com/2010/03/09/ill-eat-you-up-i-love-you-so/comment-page-1/#comment-586 Ian Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:08:16 +0000 http://www.thefilmcake.com/?p=877#comment-586 So I totally agree with you on Where the Wild Things Are - it's absolutely what it feels like to be a nine-year-old boy. But I really hated 500 Days of Summer. Summer isn't an MPDG in that movie - she's a horrendous she-devil hellbent on having everything she wants no matter how badly she hurts the people around her. It seemed like we spent the whole movie putting up with her awful behavior, culminating in the knife-twisting ending and were expected to leave the theater thinking, "aw, shucks, wasn't she cute?" I get angry even thinking about that movie. Trust me, in real life, the way she acts isn't cute. Should I mention at this point that I may have dated someone who acted similarly? So I totally agree with you on Where the Wild Things Are – it’s absolutely what it feels like to be a nine-year-old boy.

But I really hated 500 Days of Summer. Summer isn’t an MPDG in that movie – she’s a horrendous she-devil hellbent on having everything she wants no matter how badly she hurts the people around her. It seemed like we spent the whole movie putting up with her awful behavior, culminating in the knife-twisting ending and were expected to leave the theater thinking, “aw, shucks, wasn’t she cute?”

I get angry even thinking about that movie. Trust me, in real life, the way she acts isn’t cute. Should I mention at this point that I may have dated someone who acted similarly?

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