All movies with a manic pixie dream girl seem to have the point missed. 500 days of summer, eternal Sunshine of a spotless mind, garden state, Scott Pilgrim etc.

[–] apotheotic@beehaw.org 1 points 2 weeks ago

Its crazy to me how many people don't realise that scott is portrayed as an awful guy. Dating a teenager as a mid twenties y.o, even though he doesn't actually like her, never apologised to his ex that he still hangs out with for being a massive douche, freeloading off his friend for ages, the list goes on. Over the course of the film he smoothes some of these things over and that is supposed to redeem him marginally in the viewers' eyes but like. Ugh. At the end of the film "nega-scott" is literally just a nice dude. What does that tell you about actual scott ;-;

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, this video does a really good job of showing why it's a trope that isn't worth attempting to mess with