I like you so much, take my virginity. - The Spectacular Now (2013) Discussion

[–] Room_On_Fire 9 years ago

What else do you expect? "I hate you, take my virginity"? You're going to want to have sex with people you comfortable with and feel emotionally close to, no? I didn't see the problem. And sex scenes are only supposed to be in 100% comedic films?

What do they smoke in your country?

"Oh, my God. Bear is driving! How can that be?!"

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[–] lanis_cupus 9 years ago

Didn't it seem a little soon though? Shouldn't she have made him work for it a little?

Is this to be an empathy test?

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[–] lulupalooza 8 years ago

Shouldn't she have made him work for it a little?

Work for it? Somehow, that sounds like promiscuity in disguise - like exchanging favor, much like monetary value, for sex.

Perhaps you mean that they should've taken the time to know each other much better. If that's the case, then yeah, not a bad idea...especially in real life.

"Don't get chumpatized!" - The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters (2007)

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[–] lanis_cupus 8 years ago

Men tend to lose respect for a woman who gives it up too easily. The thought is that a woman must not have too much else going for her if she puts out in short order.

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[–] sage2112 9 years ago

Thank goodness not everything about a movie has to be a message or a moral. Sometimes, gosh forbid, somebody just wants to tell a story.

And this was a good story, with some messages/morals mixed in rather nicely.

So there ya go.

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[–] Zhgzh12 9 years ago

The funny thing is, Sutter didn't take Aimee's virginity. She wasn't a virgin when they had sex. So, there's that.

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[–] tristanp25 9 years ago

Aimee, the outcast girl, told Sutter she had not been with anyone before, much to his own surprise. It was Sutter who wasn't a virgin because he had an ex.

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[–] Zhgzh12 9 years ago

Whoops, never noticed that in the movie. But in the book, she wasn't.

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[–] B_Light 9 years ago

It was also in a deleted scene

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[–] leiastarkiller 9 years ago

I thought she wasn't really acting like a girl losing her virginity. They made a point of saying she'd never had a boyfriend but seemed to have no problem getting laid the first chance they got. Usually you'd start with a hand job or something, not jump right to it the first time you see a guy naked.

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[–] ricky_says_hi 9 years ago

There's apparently a deleted scene where Aimee reveals that wasn't her first time and she'd had sex when she was fourteen. I thought the sex scene was realistic, and not idealised like Hollywood can often make sex between teens. It's realistically awkward and a little painful. The way I see it is that Aimee doesn't have high self esteem - and she doesn't think herself to be pretty - so she has a guy interested in her and goes along with it because she feels she should take the best option she has. Throughout the film she actually is quite a forward girl, so it's in character.

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[–] lulupalooza 8 years ago

I think she was trying to "correct" the horrible rape experience that she had at 14 (deleted scene on DVD).

"Don't get chumpatized!" - The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters (2007)

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[–] DeniP 9 years ago

She did not say that. She just said she never had a boyfriend before.

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[–] lulupalooza 8 years ago

Actually, she said that she didn't have a boyfriend before him. In the film's deleted scene she admits that her stepbrother raped her at 14. Not sure why that took that out.

"Don't get chumpatized!" - The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters (2007)

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[–] BewareOfTheAvalanche 9 years ago

Movies are not supposed to act like advise books and much less be representative of some countries youngsters. They tell a story of a few individuals that might be common or not among the viewers.

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[–] ninjababy-12463 8 years ago

So? High school kids are gonna bang regardless. At LEAST it's teaching them to do it with someone they really love

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