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Jacob’s Ladder II: The Laddering

Fun fact: Megan Trainor is neither of those things 

I think many people can relate to both characters at different points in their lives. On hand we have a person who fell deeper into the fantasy than the other person but the other person wasn’t sure at all about how they felt. I don’t mind starting a relationship off from a list of tastes but surely something else…

Caroline is definitely one of the good ones around here.

Juno and Little Miss Sunshine still hold up.

Okay, I like that part, too.

That’s why I’ve never seen it. Everything I’ve read about it tells me both characters are insufferable.

The song and dance sequence after they have sex the first time is underrated.

This column rules.

I remember I went to see this with one of my best girlfriends in college (we were 2o at the time, so really the perfect age for this level of twee). We both really enjoyed it, but I walked out bemoaning how much of a bitch Summer was, while my friend thought Tom was such an asshole. In retrospect, I think I fall more…

To the best of my recollection, this movie is one amazing sequence (expectations vs. reality) surrounded by a pretty average rom-com that isn’t nearly as smart as it thinks it is.  

I saw this the summer it was released with a college friend with whom I shared mild mutual romantic interest. We came out with different opinions of the movie. We didn’t date.

My understanding of “nice guys” is that they bitch about how they are so great but women won’t show them any interest because in reality they’re actually pieces of shit. Tom likes Summer, pines over her for a bit, they date for a while, and then he’s a miserable sadsack. I think that’s pretty standard romantic…

“You won’t believe this,” I sometimes tell young’uns, “But I was there when we thought ‘Garden State’ was a great movie.”

I absolutely hated this movie the one and only time I saw it. But it did spark an interesting discussion / argument between my wife and I. We didn’t argue over whether the film was good or bad. We both hated it. Our argument was over which of the main characters is worse. She contends that Tom is clearly The Worst…

We have all been or been in a relationship with somebody who said they “didn’t want anything serious” and then indulged in the relationship to the nth degree because they/we felt it gave them carte blanche to be as fully committed as possible, having already put the other on notice that they might decommit at any…

I’m mad this never got a sequel. By the end, I was invested in Tom’s journey, and wanted to see him complete his quest to date all the seasons so that God would finally allowed him to die.

I’m glad it helped somebody. All it did for me was to get depressed about people I’d dated not really seeing me as a—ya know—“person.”

I forget where in the movie it happens (whether it was pre- or post-breakup), but there’s a scene I think about a lot - Tom and Summer are at a party, and Summer tells her friends that Tom is a really talented architect. And Tom (paraphrased) says, “Yeah, but I decided to write greeting cards, because I wanted to…