I didn't care for him either, but to be fair, that's probably just prejudice on my part. He just came across as one of those extremely bland, dull, uninspired but reassuringly competent people, who often come from privileged upper-middle-class families, and go through life never really having encountered any hardship. The kind of safe middle-brow cookie-cutter Ken-doll type who likes sports, soft music, is vehemently straight (and probably a little homophobic, but far too polite to express these views outside the company of his likeminded fraternity 'bros'), doesn't read too much (certainly not for pleasure) but got good enough grades at high school to go to a top college (probably one his parents have had their eyes on him joining for some time) without really excelling at anything in particular.
I've never understood what women see in guys like that, but then again, I guess these types of guys seem nice and safe and free of the annoying neuroses that plague the rest of us, which I suppose is attractive to some people. Then again, it's often those types of guys who turn out to be the ones who have affairs (often with prostitutes). They've found everything so easy in life that they think it won't hurt to try out some temptation, since they don't count on being caught.
Like I said, I'm probably just stereotyping and being unfair, but that's definitely the vibe he gave me.
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bigcat20
10 years ago
Yes, I hear you. That's why I kind of throw up in my mouth a little bit whenever I watch this. I have zero interest in the life Annie and Brian were going to live in Boston, it just screamed boredom to me. Welcome to suburbia and the 9 to 5 live Annie and Brian, yuck. Should have stayed in LA and partied and lived off their parents for a while. That's another story though, we know Brians parents were rich, but George wasn't exactly broke either, he was a company president for god sake, they made him out to be an average joe. God this movie sucked, thank god for Franc and Howard.
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HarveyManfredSinJohn
10 years ago
Yes, I hear you. That's why I kind of throw up in my mouth a little bit whenever I watch this. I have zero interest in the life Annie and Brian were going to live in Boston, it just screamed boredom to me. Welcome to suburbia and the 9 to 5 live Annie and Brian, yuck. Should have stayed in LA and partied and lived off their parents for a while. That's another story though, we know Brians parents were rich, but George wasn't exactly broke either, he was a company president for god sake, they made him out to be an average joe. God this movie sucked, thank god for Franc and Howard.
I'd probably have had
even less respect for Annie and Brian if they'd partied and lived off their parents' wealth, but at least they'd have been more interesting and fun to watch. Like you say, Franc and Howard were the only people that made this film watchable, and the idea that George was an average joe because he was 'only' on say $100K a year or whatever...
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squeemu
10 years ago
Wow...it's not like you have some really specific, well thought out prejudices there.
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