It seem like it
Trent didnt seem like THAT bad a guy
of course least that orginal. It doesnt make the boyfriend a COMPLETE douce just to make the main character likeable like most movies
So guess it good in that way
but were we suspose to dislike Trent? Didnt see him enough to dislike him
and didnt it make the girl somewhat manipulative by stringing them both along
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Since this was a dark (or at least darkish) comedy, it is not all that crucial for the protagonist to be completely sympathetic. To answer your question, Nick is definitely a bigger jerk than Trent. Nick destroyed two cars, a trailer and a several buildings. He also tricked a mentally unstable girl into drugging his girlfriend to get her kicked out of school. Trent's only crime was wearing that "adorable" sweater. I agree that we were better served by not knowing much about Trent rather than appending some mostly unnecessary scene showing Trent being a tool. He was Nick's foil and he played that role well enough.
think Cera was a good pick for the role
he can pull off that pretty evil stuff without seeming like to bad of a guy
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Indeed. The criminal draw also makes him more attractive than Trent. I don't really blame him for what he did to his GF though, because of all the trouble he went through to be close. LOL.
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It annoyed me because of that. Trent was OTT and irritating, but not a complete jerk like Nick. He committed crimes and was busy with a girl who he knew had a boyfriend! And thought it was okay to drug her.
So it basically said "girls only like a guy who's a jerk", which is the whole point it was trying to fight against. Sure he cared for her but are you meant to just take that over everything else someone does? Plus she was a bit of a bitch too so it was confusing.
I think that was kind of the point. Twisp comes out and says something like, "In the movies, nice guys wind up with the girl. Real life isn't like that."
Trent was the nice guy. He wasn't a Karate Kid bully, he behaved pretty much how the average person would around a wanted arsonist who secretly poisoned/sabotaged a girl they're interested in. So, Trent never got the girl. Instead she wound up with the jerk -- who just happened to be the star of the movie.
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Ohh. Clever.
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