I love love! And I'm a sap for a good romance story; but some characters are just better built for it than others.
So let's live within this realm of movie/TV characters being propped up as bachelor/ettes, and if they're actually someone you'd want to bring home or someone who kinda sucks and might actually be toxic.
Allow me to start...
❤️ Filipe from 'Eat, Pray, Love' is probably the best thing in the third act (indeed, the 'Love' part) of a mid-tier movie. Javier Bardem's charisma and openness feels natural and fun, and it spares us from Julia Robert's character essentially starting her world tour because she felt some first-world sadness (not like that's bad/unrealistic, it's just not that deep here). Anyways, he says a lot of cheesy romantic stuff, but because its Bardem (played with all the warmth ofAnton Chigurgh Juan Antonio, Uxbal, Stilgar), you believe it.
...I'll also defend he 'Eat' part of this movie too. Because if you go abroad and don't gain at least 10 lbs in good food, then what's even the point? 🍝
💔 Seth Cohen from The OC is kinda terrible. I think he's a fine character (he's funny, perfectly annoying, and played well by Adam Brody), but given 90% of The OC IS focused on relationships: he's a terrible boyfriend. He keeps Anna on ice because of his crush on Summer; he wants to flirt with his comic book Manager ("a chick likes comic books?!" lol); pestering Alex about being a lesbian; the whole Seth x Summer x Zack love triangle essentially repeats itself TWICE in Season 2, and just a general self-centered attitude. I respect that most of the show's run is focused on his relationship with Summer — they're "that couple" and their (very real) chemistry shined in how well they bickered — but the roadblocks they put in their way never made him look better.
Summer is maybe The OC's MVP; she also nails that bitchy teen attitude flawlessly and without being terrible for it.
So let's live within this realm of movie/TV characters being propped up as bachelor/ettes, and if they're actually someone you'd want to bring home or someone who kinda sucks and might actually be toxic.
Allow me to start...
❤️ Filipe from 'Eat, Pray, Love' is probably the best thing in the third act (indeed, the 'Love' part) of a mid-tier movie. Javier Bardem's charisma and openness feels natural and fun, and it spares us from Julia Robert's character essentially starting her world tour because she felt some first-world sadness (not like that's bad/unrealistic, it's just not that deep here). Anyways, he says a lot of cheesy romantic stuff, but because its Bardem (played with all the warmth of
...I'll also defend he 'Eat' part of this movie too. Because if you go abroad and don't gain at least 10 lbs in good food, then what's even the point? 🍝
💔 Seth Cohen from The OC is kinda terrible. I think he's a fine character (he's funny, perfectly annoying, and played well by Adam Brody), but given 90% of The OC IS focused on relationships: he's a terrible boyfriend. He keeps Anna on ice because of his crush on Summer; he wants to flirt with his comic book Manager ("a chick likes comic books?!" lol); pestering Alex about being a lesbian; the whole Seth x Summer x Zack love triangle essentially repeats itself TWICE in Season 2, and just a general self-centered attitude. I respect that most of the show's run is focused on his relationship with Summer — they're "that couple" and their (very real) chemistry shined in how well they bickered — but the roadblocks they put in their way never made him look better.
Summer is maybe The OC's MVP; she also nails that bitchy teen attitude flawlessly and without being terrible for it.
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