@Mio248 ALL the great actors like Jimmy Stewart, Cary Grant, Clark Gable, Lionel Barrymore could speak with their faces. Clooney has that same technique .
Funny how as a teenager watching this compared to watching it know at 29. The dialogue is funny and true. All the stuff we thought of or imagined fantasized at 16 years old and 23 all goes out the window. And deadlines on life are B.S. we go at our own pace. Lesson learn sometimes in life we all go through the cycles until one day there they are.
Funny, I met all my deadlines when I finished university (marriage and settling wasn't one of them). Then I moved abroad to be with my family, and everything I worked for 4 years just went out the window.
M M so.....did you get your 6 ft 1, brown eyes, works in finance but outdoorsy, nice smile, single syllable name, owns a 4 runner and has a golden lab???? I NEED to know!! lol😂
Single syllable? Matt (Matthew), Dave (David), Jon (Jonathan). Married with a kid and a corner office by 23. Nowadays she'd barely have got a sleeve tattoo and a hatred of everything that her professors hate by then.
@@darbyheavey406 Honestly that discovery towards the end surprised the heck out of me. Glad I didn’t see your comment before I watched this. Why are you spoiling it for someone who may not have seen it? Lol.
@@darbyheavey406 True about the lying, but the “happy marriage,” is debatable. She settled and now finds what she lacks in her relationship elsewhere. So ultimately, not the the best advice either
@@ShaunHensley phrase that different and it would be better understood Women have their best years 20-30 Men 30-40 Young women are beautiful, lively and fertile, but men are inexperienced, broke and often still childish But after 30, when women are past their best years, men are entering them, they start to earn, are still in great shape, gain experience and authority. So if women want to party, "live life" and don't commit during their best years, why men should? Some of my female friends in my country are starting eyeing me out now, when I'm older and acomplished, with my own specialisation. But in our younger years I couldn't get laid, because I was just one of many poor guys, when they were having dozens of boyfriends and adventures, and only now when they got old and started hearing ticking clock, they started looking for guys like me to settle down with. I get a lot of pressure from the society to marry, have kids and build a house with a women, but why should I sacrifice my golden years, time when I am most valuable, when she didn't sacrificed her best time on me? I want to reap the fruits of my labor, drive my bike, travel, earn a tone of cash and not share it with anybody. Why should I split my happiness with someone who wasn't willing to share my misery?
@@FAITHandLOGIC Well maybe if she wasn't so obsessed with working, maybe she would have had a chance to meet a guy she was describing. Cuz those guys actually don't need a woman like her. Those guys need a family woman that will be waiting for them at home, not being away 250 days a year
I am 32 and I got my first girlfriend just 6 months ago at 31 and I wasn’t looking for a relationship nor I cared to have one. I had trust issues with women. I’ve seen enough shit as it is. But she fell for me (somehow), she was the one that took all the initiatives and made me fall for her even tho I wasn’t actually attracted to her. Now I love her so much, she’s funny, caring, understanding and loves me very much. We never fight, we talk about everything and not get mad at anything and we have really great communication. What I want to say is, if you give yourself the chance to wait, someone will come to your life and change it for the better. I used to just work and go back home to play videos games. Now I have someone for whom I want to be better and have a better future.
lmfao the guy had no experience for 31 years and now after 6 months of being in a relationship where everything's still new and in the honeymoon phase, he feels like he can dole out life advice. You're delusional, bud, and yours is a cautionary tale, not something to follow.
you weren't actually attracted to her? and you didn't have a girlfriend until the age of 31? sounds like you might as well still not have a girlfriend. you got played. correction: you played yourself.
Same, my folks arranged Mom to work day and Dad to work night so that Dad could sleep at home and they wouldn’t have to worry about a daycare for my older bro and me. Also, my dad is the superior cook anyway.
Well this is awkward, my name is Matt, I’m a white collar college grad, I love dogs and funny movies, brown hair, hopefully kind eyes, I work in finance and am outdoorsy, I drive a 4Runner and I have a golden retriever, and hopefully a nice smile. I’m only 5’10 though. Close enough
Vera understood that what she looked for initially was a mistake and looking back, she should have had the criteria she just listed. If she did, she wouldn't be so flawed as a character. It's kind of surprising seeing her understand her flaws and a younger version of herself going through the same motions she did when she was younger.
I think Vera was speaking of her disappoint with her marriage, the man she chose. I get the impression that she likes the traveling..it's an escape from her disappointment. And one thing I noticed she picked out, please let him make more money than I do. That bothers her..she's the breadwinner in that family. Too bad we didn't get to see some back story on that.
Tiffany Bevis I think thats a huge assumption. No relationship is perfect! Its not always gonna be rainbows and sunshine. All relationships go through their own cycle of growth, stability, decadence and rejuvenation. Sure she might be going through some rough patch but to assume that she was disappointed with her marraige is naive. If that were the case Im sure she would have divorced her husband and not kept her relationship with clooney secret! Maybe she just needed some excitement in her life like we all do from time to time but that doesn't mean we hate our current lives! maybe her indulgence with clooney helped her relationship with her husband! Affairs are like vacations from marriage!......you dont spend your entire life vacationing...eventually you always come home!
I actually like that Natalie's (ex)boyfriend has only one scene. That way we don't see him as a bad person. Maybe he just wasn't ready to settle down. Which is pretty common for guys in that age range.
Yeah, and it’s just a farewell hug after dropping her off at the airport. Also, we can assume he was on the other end of a later phone call, where Anna Kendrick assures him that she doesn’t have romantic feelings towards George Clooney and that she thinks Clooney is old.
His reason for ending it isn't important. It's a plot device to reinforce Ryan's "empty backpack" philosophy. People working on the road shouldn't be attached to possessions or people. But then of course it also serves as a catalyst for Natalie's growth and change in philosophy. She learns to priorities her own desires and not have her life be determined by settling. But the breakup also serves as a catalyst for Natalie's and Ryan's relationship to grow and for both characters to speak about their philosophies on relationships and eventually influence each other's perspectives by the end. Amazing writing
The irony of this is that Alex was describing a guy she wants but a woman like her that is obsessed with working can only attract a guy like her husband. The guys she describes need a woman that will be waiting for them at home, not being away working all year round. Or she can attract a guy like Clooney that doesn't want any commitments.
1:50 - 1:53 You can tell the editor cut in a scene they weren't suppose to just the break up the monologue. Clooney is starting to talk in that 3 sec clip.
Good catch. Though it looks like they both were about to try and say something but then Natalie kept going with her "Ideal Man" criteria. They thought she was finished but kept going. Just a thought, but could also be the scene was clipped shorter.
@@Tuneman1984 The fact that George and Vera start to talk but Anna keeps going makes the execution of Anna’s monologue stronger, even if we can quibble about how George and Vera’s attempts noticeably look like their audio was muted.
I saw this movie when I had been on the road away from my own family for a nearly continuous 8 months. Do not recommend that experience. It's like watching a horror movie and there's a knock on the door, and then there's a knock on your own door. It's honestly one of the reasons I stopped traveling so much shortly afterwards.
@@Dancediva240 shes speaking from a place of whats important in a relationship like value wise while the other girl is speaking from a physical raw attraction. what you value at 23 isnt what you value at 35
@@Johenz im 40 and i still value physical attraction cos im not blind or sexually frozen or dead. The blonde is a married woman masquarading as a single one and still secretly wants an attractive guy who is tall with a full head of hair who has the other traits she listed. Im not really gonna believe a lying adulteress here sorry.
I’m literally in my twenties and I already want what vera was describing because of all the dating experiences I had in my teen years, the physicalities really just slip away and so does the deadline for anything really, at the end of the day you just want someone who’s gonna be as real with you as you are real with them and then some.
The Alex character is extremely complex, very much a person you might encounter in your own life. Amusing to observe some commenters, having watched the whole movie, in the end reduce the character to “just a cheater”. Perhaps the most fascinating aspect of the movie is that unlike all the other main characters here, her world does not get blown apart.
@@nathand4500 Incorrect. He hits on her to begin with. She’s receptive to the hit-and-run. She then states upfront that she’s the girl he doesn’t have to worry about. No deception or dishonesty at all on her part here. She’s willing to play his game. Ryan is the one who goes ‘undercover’, who despite his whole “light backpack” schtick is actually interested in forging a deeper connection. He does not let on, doesn’t let her know this at all. Until, finally, the GRAND GESTURE. The one where he researches her info, BEHIND HER BACK - but does not bother to research the one crucial component. You claim Ryan is ‘upfront’?? You are deceiving yourself. You portray Ryan as a victim of a “dishonest and deceptive” woman? She never lied to him, she never - in the context of their particular relationship - pretended to be anything other than a chick he could have fun with if the schedule permitted. Ryan pretends to have every component of his life neatly wrapped in a separate box. In reality he’s a mess, isn’t he. Alex is the one who actually has her life components neatly boxed.
@@Marcus-gw4bb Huh? Dunno about you, but I’ve been with ‘casual’ dates at weddings - and at least one such date attended my own wedding. She agreed because it would be fun.
@@Gk2003m anecdotal evidence does not equate the norm. Clooney's character asked her to be his plus one at his sister's wedding. Now I don't know what world you live in with that kind of twisted values but where I come from and where most people come from, I believe I speak for the majority that when someone asks you to attend their siblings wedding, you (if you're Vera's character) either draw the line or just break it off right there and then rather than leading the person on.
2:16 "You know, by the time you're 34 all the physical requirements just go out the window." Didn't know she was supposed to be 34? I thought she was early 40s.
“No matter how much success i make it doesn’t matter until i find the right guy” ironic cause in a popular podcast i heard a guy said when a man is successful in life he thinks about how to make a family, but when a woman is successful she thinks how she doesn’t need a man.
@Hassony523 Different generations. Anna would be Gen Y in the movie, while today’s twenty-somethings are Gen Z with completely different ideas (don’t need men) .
Tinder actually made this scene obsolete. Natalie would only swipe on the guy's she's described here, until she settles down with one or wastes her 20's trying. Alex, who is basically indirectly airing her disappointments with her husband, would use it to either cheat on her husband and nail one Chad after the other, or, she'll ask her husband for an open marriage and nail Chads while her husband gets squat. Dating apps have completely screwed men, from every way possible.
What does it matter if her wants have evolved? She still led a double life and cheated on her husband like any immature prick or prick-ess with no respect for their relationship.
@@Dancediva240 Exactly. But women can't reflect or self-reproach. Which is what the young girl *really* needs to here so she won't waste her life holding out.
@@Dancediva240 If she puts off marriage until she's 35, she'll find that all the eligible men are dating women 10 years younger than she is. A woman's peak marriageabilty is about 24-26. 27 or 28 is pushing it.
@@edwardgaines6561 but thats no way to approach marriage surely, with desperation. How does a mere number guarantee any success or any happiness?? Then she becomes no different from Vera's character who sits there and acts all wise about the kind of attributes you should look for in a partner but is cheating on her husband shamelessly, doesnt come clean about it to George C and when he shows up at her door with genuine feelings, she turns it around and blames him for ruining their arrangement and almost her married life. I am sorry i do not agree with what you said. This is how people in India for example get rushed into unions with the wrong people, because everyone is dangling their age ominously before their eyes.
I always thought that Clooney's wry expressions here, meant Vera was secretly talking about him, the perfect guy. It's almost as if he wants to brag but bites his lip. Too bad Vera turned out to be full of shit in the end.
Women past 30, unless they have baby rabies, think they are becoming more accepting and they say they are becoming more accepting, but they are not. The fake acceptance allows them to feel like they are more reasonable and virtuous, while at the same time they are actually deluding themselves wholesale. The original comment was completely on target.
I am 38 and i will still say i want someone i am attracted to physically. You settle for someone and later have all sorts of bullshit excuses for cheating on them, then y the hell marry heh? The way she is giving advice, as though she is such a wise woman. What a joke.
***** LOL. Yes George Clooney is almost a homeless actor and he is almost a slave to the director and has to beg for every role. No , Wait. That might have been true when he was just a famous relative of that Rosemary Clooney woman but by 2009 when this film came out,, he was on the list of 100 most influential people in the world so I think he had veto power on the script.
*****..Sensitive? have you even checked my channel to see I have about twenty two thousand original jokes there? It was almost a brilliant observation of mine to make a joke about midwest people wondering if George will soon get his second divorce. Most rich and famous people are not happy and that is why most celebrities get a divorce,, Did you even understand my last comment? Is your first language English? lol
Yep you can't control love that's all i got to say. Being in love shouldn't be something you can take advantage of. And i think that's why so many people are stressing out and crating something that some people just don't understand. If you ask questions about your love life do you really know about love at all.
@@jeffbrehove2614 Teenagers see age differently than adults. Anyone who isn't a teenager seems very very old to them. That's why they can imagine all sorts of stuff for themselves because they think that's a far away future while for us adults it's only a few years. But the mental development that happens between those years (16 to 23 for example) is huge. On the other hand, going from 26 to 33 is nothing, time passes in a blink of an eye because we're not developing anymore (in the same way teenagers and young adults are).
I feel Natalie's pain girl I dated broke up with me over a text message. It's sad and it shows that people don't have the guts to break up with someone in person. Text messages break up is so high school.
‘Guts’? Remember, it’s Natalie who created and implemented the whole program to not bother terminating people in person. It’s Natalie who, when confronted with the lady she helped fire in person who committed suicide as a result, did not have the guts to continue in this job she’d created for herself. Walked away, notified the boss via email.
I don't want to settle - it is failure by definition. Even her parents settled so that she could grow up in a caring, giving family. I think being in a live in relationship is overrated. And marriage made to look like its only for losers.
The Dictionary Brought Me Here...See I Saw The Word "Beauty" And It's Definition Said "Vera Farmiga!" Also, I Heard That People Use Beauty, But Beauty Uses Vera Farmiga!
funny how some women meet their "unicorns" in their 20's and early 30' but they're not willing to work on those relationships, so they lose all those wonderful people. And now...now all they have to settle for is donkeys. If you want a strong and stable relationship, help the other one build it, don't be vapid and don't let vanity get the better of you.
You're the type of guy that both characters would avoid and for a good reason. Worry about the wall you set around yourself as you make yourself increasingly less attractive to every woman of any age.
Alex (Vera) was really a hypocrite in this, giving advice on relationship? she cheated on her husband, disgusting character. Vera Farmiga did a great job with this character
This is why women are familiar with nice guys or bad boys (pricks). They forget the third kind: THE GOOD MAN; NICE qualities but Fierce like a lion. He doesn’t chase but present himself; nor they care about a woman’s success. Women don’t know what they want besides the daily essentials. As she says when you’re around 34- none of what a woman wants matters but just wants a regular traditional man: earns, looks decent in shape to play with kids. Unfortunately, settling in 20s doesn’t exist anymore. That’s the time you should be looking for someone so you can bet set in your 40s while the kids are in college.
1] Real life is actually much worse than this movie the vast majority of the time. 2] The older women do not get wiser and more accepting like in this movie. 3] They think they are becoming more accepting and they say they are becoming more accepting, but they are not. The fake acceptance allows them to feel like they are more reasonable and virtuous, while at the same time they are actually deluding themselves wholesale. 4] Women as they age actually get even more more picky, and even more petty and even more money focused for another 20-30 years, and usually until death.
This movie really shows how ruthlessly pragmatic women are with relationships: they are a means to an end, what they can get out of it, versus what both parties can mutually contribute for a mutually beneficial outcome.
Cue: Male TH-camrs using a movie written by someone who thinks feminism is stupid, to prove that feminism is stupid. And then explaining that to women.
By the time I'm 34... I'm John. I drive a 4Runner. Nice one, God. I'm such a sap. Another trap. I loved my dog. Past tense. Gave him up. That's what the hell is up. I'm single and I don't want to play this game and commingle. Fame? No. We all know how that all goes. Up In The Air. I still care. Buyer beware. Tripped another snare.
Nature is harsh to us women. It's like our value just dips past 30 and we become invisible to successful attractive men. I've seen my cousins settling for lesser men just because they didn't settle down at the right time.
Women in their feminist-laden conceit, think they can defy mother nature, freeze their eggs, etc. However some women, like in that Kevin Samuels video, are getting a hard dose of reality.
Well, settling is failing? Well, the guy she is asking for is dating models and fitness models so if you want your dream guy ask one of the models to give you their man lol. Which that won't work but if you marry your job/career will leave not married to your dream guy lol.
You mean your parents or relatives who got married in an entirely different era, when vvomen, relationships, and society was still somewhat normal? Hard pass.
Clooney's silent faces are the best.
They say so much in a half second. hahaha
He’s really good at that in all his movies I’ve noticed. I think he’s really like that too lol
@Mio248 ALL the great actors like Jimmy Stewart, Cary Grant, Clark Gable, Lionel Barrymore could speak with their faces. Clooney has that same technique
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Stellar performances. A very good film. Kendrick perfectly pulled off being a very bright young woman who possessed zero for wisdom.
3:21 - 3:27. Clooney's speechless expressions are priceless.
Excellent acting. Important talk. Equal measures breezy, deep, sad, humorous, opportunistic, and principled. What movies should be.
Funny how as a teenager watching this compared to watching it know at 29. The dialogue is funny and true. All the stuff we thought of or imagined fantasized at 16 years old and 23 all goes out the window. And deadlines on life are B.S. we go at our own pace. Lesson learn sometimes in life we all go through the cycles until one day there they are.
Funny, I met all my deadlines when I finished university (marriage and settling wasn't one of them).
Then I moved abroad to be with my family, and everything I worked for 4 years just went out the window.
@@juanarocha8629 it happens
@@juanarocha8629 life throughs you curveballs.
This just shows what three excellent actors can do with an excellent script - pure magic.
SO TRUE. I was that 23 yr old and I am that 34 yr old.
M M so.....did you get your 6 ft 1, brown eyes, works in finance but outdoorsy, nice smile, single syllable name, owns a 4 runner and has a golden lab???? I NEED to know!! lol😂
Single syllable? Matt (Matthew), Dave (David), Jon (Jonathan). Married with a kid and a corner office by 23. Nowadays she'd barely have got a sleeve tattoo and a hatred of everything that her professors hate by then.
And now you're a 42 yr old
I really liked Vera in this movie. Hyper-intelligent, yet flawed. Allowed to be a complete character.
Agreed. She's a highly underrated actress who deserves to be known more than simply "that woman from The Conjuring films".
In this scene she’s lying through her teeth. Her character is happily married she’s just having a flirtation.
@@darbyheavey406 Honestly that discovery towards the end surprised the heck out of me. Glad I didn’t see your comment before I watched this. Why are you spoiling it for someone who may not have seen it? Lol.
@@Boxxxxxxxxx didn't surprise me since she was full of herself the entire movie.
@@darbyheavey406 True about the lying, but the “happy marriage,” is debatable. She settled and now finds what she lacks in her relationship elsewhere. So ultimately, not the the best advice either
Honestly every woman in her 20s needs to see this scene.
Honestly every man should refuse to marry a woman who selfishly kept her best years for herself
@@ShaunHensley phrase that different and it would be better understood
Women have their best years 20-30
Men 30-40
Young women are beautiful, lively and fertile, but men are inexperienced, broke and often still childish
But after 30, when women are past their best years, men are entering them, they start to earn, are still in great shape, gain experience and authority.
So if women want to party, "live life" and don't commit during their best years, why men should? Some of my female friends in my country are starting eyeing me out now, when I'm older and acomplished, with my own specialisation. But in our younger years I couldn't get laid, because I was just one of many poor guys, when they were having dozens of boyfriends and adventures, and only now when they got old and started hearing ticking clock, they started looking for guys like me to settle down with. I get a lot of pressure from the society to marry, have kids and build a house with a women, but why should I sacrifice my golden years, time when I am most valuable, when she didn't sacrificed her best time on me? I want to reap the fruits of my labor, drive my bike, travel, earn a tone of cash and not share it with anybody. Why should I split my happiness with someone who wasn't willing to share my misery?
@@legatlanius8259 Accurate
@@ShaunHensleyGross man
@@ShaunHensleywhat do you mean?
1:15 That "it was our pleasure" was fucking perfect.
I always wonder if in this scene she's talking about her husband and why she's disappointed.
+IconMatthew1 Yha cause she wants to do the things she wanted to do and not focus on things around her that loved her but she just never saw that.
She's listing the things her husband doesn't give her.
That's the mindset of the woman. Always looking at what she doesn't have.
@@FAITHandLOGIC pretty sure that's the mindset of people in general. Not just women! Lol!
@@FAITHandLOGIC Well maybe if she wasn't so obsessed with working, maybe she would have had a chance to meet a guy she was describing. Cuz those guys actually don't need a woman like her. Those guys need a family woman that will be waiting for them at home, not being away 250 days a year
@@MishaElRusito That sounds misogynistic.
At 35, not getting ghosted is what I want.
Jesus, who would ghost you pretty face?
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Hope that phase is over for you by now.
At 35 if you would have worked 10 years, you will leave your slave job
Best four minutes from a movie, ever.
Manoffriendship I wanted to, I was really to keeep aside everything for him, but then he turned out to be that super possessive assshole
See unlucky me that way. Anyways I am moving to Kellogg(northwestern university) hope a new country brings a change in luck
Perhaps the greatest part in a totally GREAT movie !!
The one thing I can distill out from this scene that desires and expectations does not end.
I am 32 and I got my first girlfriend just 6 months ago at 31 and I wasn’t looking for a relationship nor I cared to have one. I had trust issues with women. I’ve seen enough shit as it is. But she fell for me (somehow), she was the one that took all the initiatives and made me fall for her even tho I wasn’t actually attracted to her. Now I love her so much, she’s funny, caring, understanding and loves me very much. We never fight, we talk about everything and not get mad at anything and we have really great communication. What I want to say is, if you give yourself the chance to wait, someone will come to your life and change it for the better. I used to just work and go back home to play videos games. Now I have someone for whom I want to be better and have a better future.
You developed trust issues with women without ever being in a relationship before? That's impressive.
lmfao the guy had no experience for 31 years and now after 6 months of being in a relationship where everything's still new and in the honeymoon phase, he feels like he can dole out life advice.
You're delusional, bud, and yours is a cautionary tale, not something to follow.
you weren't actually attracted to her? and you didn't have a girlfriend until the age of 31? sounds like you might as well still not have a girlfriend. you got played.
correction: you played yourself.
@@kiwin111Why)?
@@Th3UprightManI know right. And think about this lucky gal!
These three were phenomenal in this movie. I was especially impressed with Anna Kendrick's performance.
My mom earns more than my dad, but we're a still happy family together.
502nickster does she still earn more
Yeah. And my parents are still together.
Same. My dad was a construction worker and mom was a biologist. They were still very happy together.
@NINJAGUAR well I think your heart is
Same, my folks arranged Mom to work day and Dad to work night so that Dad could sleep at home and they wouldn’t have to worry about a daycare for my older bro and me. Also, my dad is the superior cook anyway.
Reitman has an impressive talent for casting, he menages to get the best out of the actors' natural charm
Well this is awkward, my name is Matt, I’m a white collar college grad, I love dogs and funny movies, brown hair, hopefully kind eyes, I work in finance and am outdoorsy, I drive a 4Runner and I have a golden retriever, and hopefully a nice smile. I’m only 5’10 though. Close enough
Hahaha
Nope anything under 6 ain't gonna cut it mate matt
Are you single?
Anna Kendrick is a hottie. Send her your photo & qualifications
". . . and the only person left to judge you will be the 23 year old girl with the target on your back". ZING!
Vera understood that what she looked for initially was a mistake and looking back, she should have had the criteria she just listed. If she did, she wouldn't be so flawed as a character. It's kind of surprising seeing her understand her flaws and a younger version of herself going through the same motions she did when she was younger.
I think Vera was speaking of her disappoint with her marriage, the man she chose. I get the impression that she likes the traveling..it's an escape from her disappointment. And one thing I noticed she picked out, please let him make more money than I do. That bothers her..she's the breadwinner in that family. Too bad we didn't get to see some back story on that.
Tiffany Bevis I think thats a huge assumption. No relationship is perfect! Its not always gonna be rainbows and sunshine. All relationships go through their own cycle of growth, stability, decadence and rejuvenation.
Sure she might be going through some rough patch but to assume that she was disappointed with her marraige is naive. If that were the case Im sure she would have divorced her husband and not kept her relationship with clooney secret!
Maybe she just needed some excitement in her life like we all do from time to time but that doesn't mean we hate our current lives! maybe her indulgence with clooney helped her relationship with her husband!
Affairs are like vacations from marriage!......you dont spend your entire life vacationing...eventually you always come home!
bindasbolre yea except the act of Affair is just not right.......and would seriously damage your 'home'
wenxiaomei Yes I agree....but thats the reason affairs are kept secret. if affairs come out in the open it will hurt the person we love the most
that is why you shouldn't do it in the first place.
***** agreed
Vera Farmiga is so beautiful.
@@jimmylogan1866 Pfff
Yes she is. An underrated beauty. And I love her smarts. And her eyes.
Their facial expression say more than their words. That's called A class acting.
This scene by it self cold be turned into a brand new Netflix/Prime series.
This is the most important scene of this iconic movie.
I actually like that Natalie's (ex)boyfriend has only one scene. That way we don't see him as a bad person. Maybe he just wasn't ready to settle down. Which is pretty common for guys in that age range.
Yeah, and it’s just a farewell hug after dropping her off at the airport. Also, we can assume he was on the other end of a later phone call, where Anna Kendrick assures him that she doesn’t have romantic feelings towards George Clooney and that she thinks Clooney is old.
He made the right move regarding that woman.
His reason for ending it isn't important. It's a plot device to reinforce Ryan's "empty backpack" philosophy. People working on the road shouldn't be attached to possessions or people. But then of course it also serves as a catalyst for Natalie's growth and change in philosophy. She learns to priorities her own desires and not have her life be determined by settling. But the breakup also serves as a catalyst for Natalie's and Ryan's relationship to grow and for both characters to speak about their philosophies on relationships and eventually influence each other's perspectives by the end. Amazing writing
Ashton Kutcher lol
@@BatmanHQYT Michael Kelso?
Every now and then I come back to watch this masterpiece of a scene
The irony of this is that Alex was describing a guy she wants but a woman like her that is obsessed with working can only attract a guy like her husband. The guys she describes need a woman that will be waiting for them at home, not being away working all year round. Or she can attract a guy like Clooney that doesn't want any commitments.
"obsessed with working" = woman has a job? You misogynists are just so weird.
1:50 - 1:53 You can tell the editor cut in a scene they weren't suppose to just the break up the monologue. Clooney is starting to talk in that 3 sec clip.
Good catch. Though it looks like they both were about to try and say something but then Natalie kept going with her "Ideal Man" criteria. They thought she was finished but kept going. Just a thought, but could also be the scene was clipped shorter.
@@Tuneman1984 The fact that George and Vera start to talk but Anna keeps going makes the execution of Anna’s monologue stronger, even if we can quibble about how George and Vera’s attempts noticeably look like their audio was muted.
@Wired4Life2 LOOKS perfectly natural to me. The script probably says “George & Vera start to speak, but Anna just keeps talking.”
Vera: ....Wants kids. Likes kids.
Clooney: well fuuuuuuck
I saw this movie when I had been on the road away from my own family for a nearly continuous 8 months. Do not recommend that experience. It's like watching a horror movie and there's a knock on the door, and then there's a knock on your own door.
It's honestly one of the reasons I stopped traveling so much shortly afterwards.
Greatest scene ever!
lovely satin blouse !
True she looks gorgeous in that.
I love this movie for so many reasons. Overall great.
Nice speech by Vera... but ironic as she's cheating on her husband.
Spoiler alert!
Chick Logic.
Probably why she’s giving good advice knowing firsthand the pitfalls
@@littletraveller5428 She settled, and now she's chafing at her Beta bucks husband.
The closer I get to thirty, the more I relate to the blonde. Natalie just described ever guy on Tinder.
Lol imagine settling with you!!
Relate to the blonde for what? She isnt speaking from a place of happiness, just what is expected of a person when they reach a certain age.
@@Dancediva240 shes speaking from a place of whats important in a relationship like value wise while the other girl is speaking from a physical raw attraction. what you value at 23 isnt what you value at 35
@@Johenz im 40 and i still value physical attraction cos im not blind or sexually frozen or dead. The blonde is a married woman masquarading as a single one and still secretly wants an attractive guy who is tall with a full head of hair who has the other traits she listed. Im not really gonna believe a lying adulteress here sorry.
Natalie just described every guy she'd swipe right to on Tinder*
That woman in Pink is married and at the same she is jumping on George and can also sit back looking so Profesh and giving people advices and ideas
@cenktoplar8378 WOMEN who cheat are very insightful about themselves, even if they recognize the hypocrisy
I’m literally in my twenties and I already want what vera was describing because of all the dating experiences I had in my teen years, the physicalities really just slip away and so does the deadline for anything really, at the end of the day you just want someone who’s gonna be as real with you as you are real with them and then some.
The Alex character is extremely complex, very much a person you might encounter in your own life. Amusing to observe some commenters, having watched the whole movie, in the end reduce the character to “just a cheater”. Perhaps the most fascinating aspect of the movie is that unlike all the other main characters here, her world does not get blown apart.
what's your point? she's fundamentally dishonest and deceptive. Ryan is upfront who he is.
@@nathand4500 Incorrect. He hits on her to begin with. She’s receptive to the hit-and-run. She then states upfront that she’s the girl he doesn’t have to worry about. No deception or dishonesty at all on her part here. She’s willing to play his game. Ryan is the one who goes ‘undercover’, who despite his whole “light backpack” schtick is actually interested in forging a deeper connection. He does not let on, doesn’t let her know this at all. Until, finally, the GRAND GESTURE. The one where he researches her info, BEHIND HER BACK - but does not bother to research the one crucial component. You claim Ryan is ‘upfront’?? You are deceiving yourself. You portray Ryan as a victim of a “dishonest and deceptive” woman? She never lied to him, she never - in the context of their particular relationship - pretended to be anything other than a chick he could have fun with if the schedule permitted. Ryan pretends to have every component of his life neatly wrapped in a separate box. In reality he’s a mess, isn’t he. Alex is the one who actually has her life components neatly boxed.
@@Gk2003m Then why did she agree to go with him to his sister's wedding?
@@Marcus-gw4bb Huh? Dunno about you, but I’ve been with ‘casual’ dates at weddings - and at least one such date attended my own wedding. She agreed because it would be fun.
@@Gk2003m anecdotal evidence does not equate the norm. Clooney's character asked her to be his plus one at his sister's wedding. Now I don't know what world you live in with that kind of twisted values but where I come from and where most people come from, I believe I speak for the majority that when someone asks you to attend their siblings wedding, you (if you're Vera's character) either draw the line or just break it off right there and then rather than leading the person on.
2:16 "You know, by the time you're 34 all the physical requirements just go out the window."
Didn't know she was supposed to be 34? I thought she was early 40s.
oh God George Clooney..u are a masterpiece..
“No matter how much success i make it doesn’t matter until i find the right guy” ironic cause in a popular podcast i heard a guy said when a man is successful in life he thinks about how to make a family, but when a woman is successful she thinks how she doesn’t need a man.
@Hassony523 Different generations. Anna would be Gen Y in the movie, while today’s twenty-somethings are Gen Z with completely different ideas (don’t need men)
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Could not help thinking how Vera’s character was an ingenuine one
"What a weasely prick" Says the woman cheating on her husband.
at least she called ryan and ask him what did he want
@@edifysalim5359 how does that make her better?
my reaction of the first few second of this clip when i first watched this movie: "HAHAHA.. BURN!!!"
If she thinks settling is a failure, yet she wanted to meet the perfect guy and "Settle" down, how is that not failing from a different aspect?
Chill out guys. It's just a movie.
Tinder should use this scene before they let people fill out their bio.
Tinder actually made this scene obsolete. Natalie would only swipe on the guy's she's described here, until she settles down with one or wastes her 20's trying. Alex, who is basically indirectly airing her disappointments with her husband, would use it to either cheat on her husband and nail one Chad after the other, or, she'll ask her husband for an open marriage and nail Chads while her husband gets squat.
Dating apps have completely screwed men, from every way possible.
The older I get, 35 going on 36, the more I see myself Identifying with Vera’s wants in someone.
What does it matter if her wants have evolved? She still led a double life and cheated on her husband like any immature prick or prick-ess with no respect for their relationship.
@@Dancediva240 Exactly. But women can't reflect or self-reproach. Which is what the young girl *really* needs to here so she won't waste her life holding out.
@@edwardgaines6561 Sorry, what do you mean by the last part "so she won't waste her life holding out"? I didnt quite understand that.
@@Dancediva240 If she puts off marriage until she's 35, she'll find that all the eligible men are dating women 10 years younger than she is. A woman's peak marriageabilty is about 24-26. 27 or 28 is pushing it.
@@edwardgaines6561 but thats no way to approach marriage surely, with desperation. How does a mere number guarantee any success or any happiness?? Then she becomes no different from Vera's character who sits there and acts all wise about the kind of attributes you should look for in a partner but is cheating on her husband shamelessly, doesnt come clean about it to George C and when he shows up at her door with genuine feelings, she turns it around and blames him for ruining their arrangement and almost her married life. I am sorry i do not agree with what you said. This is how people in India for example get rushed into unions with the wrong people, because everyone is dangling their age ominously before their eyes.
Vera's character wanted a husband that loves kids because she is on the road by choice and hates her own kids?
Now *_that’s_* an intriguing character reading!
I always thought that Clooney's wry expressions here, meant Vera was secretly talking about him, the perfect guy. It's almost as if he wants to brag but bites his lip. Too bad Vera turned out to be full of shit in the end.
Hahah, “it was our pleasure”
"All the physical requirements go out the window"
And yet there she is with George Clooney. Kind of invalidates her message.
Somebody doesn’t get it...
she was talking about Marriage and George Clooney was just a hook up. Perfect script........reality vs escape
Women past 30, unless they have baby rabies, think they are becoming more accepting and they say they are becoming more accepting, but they are not. The fake acceptance allows them to feel like they are more reasonable and virtuous, while at the same time they are actually deluding themselves wholesale. The original comment was completely on target.
I am 38 and i will still say i want someone i am attracted to physically.
You settle for someone and later have all sorts of bullshit excuses for cheating on them, then y the hell marry heh?
The way she is giving advice, as though she is such a wise woman. What a joke.
@@Menstral your comment is completely on point too❤
Who else has come on here after Matthew Hussey quoting this scene xx
Does she realize that two of those three names are simply short forms of proper names?
Well done
Midwest people are wondering how long George Clooney's marriage will last
hey,,I guess the verdict is up in the air? You did get the joke that George trashed Nebraska and Wisconsin in the movie?
***** LOL. Yes George Clooney is almost a homeless actor and he is almost a slave to the director and has to beg for every role. No , Wait. That might have been true when he was just a famous relative of that Rosemary Clooney woman but by 2009 when this film came out,, he was on the list of 100 most influential people in the world so I think he had veto power on the script.
The great thing about this movie is you may be able to see yourself in one of these characters.
*****..Sensitive? have you even checked my channel to see I have about twenty two thousand original jokes there? It was almost a brilliant observation of mine to make a joke about midwest people wondering if George will soon get his second divorce. Most rich and famous people are not happy and that is why most celebrities get a divorce,, Did you even understand my last comment? Is your first language English? lol
*****,, fun to laugh at you
Yep you can't control love that's all i got to say. Being in love shouldn't be something you can take advantage of. And i think that's why so many people are stressing out and crating something that some people just don't understand. If you ask questions about your love life do you really know about love at all.
I like his Stan Laurel face at 3:26.
@flyflh WOW nice catch & yes it’s the face Stan Laurel used often
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Best scene ever.
LOL girls at 16 think they can have a corner office at 23?
A 16 year old kid wants to be a mom at 23?
@@jeffbrehove2614 pretty much the historical and biological norm
@@jeffbrehove2614 Teenagers see age differently than adults. Anyone who isn't a teenager seems very very old to them. That's why they can imagine all sorts of stuff for themselves because they think that's a far away future while for us adults it's only a few years. But the mental development that happens between those years (16 to 23 for example) is huge. On the other hand, going from 26 to 33 is nothing, time passes in a blink of an eye because we're not developing anymore (in the same way teenagers and young adults are).
I feel Natalie's pain girl I dated broke up with me over a text message. It's sad and it shows that people don't have the guts to break up with someone in person. Text messages break up is so high school.
‘Guts’? Remember, it’s Natalie who created and implemented the whole program to not bother terminating people in person. It’s Natalie who, when confronted with the lady she helped fire in person who committed suicide as a result, did not have the guts to continue in this job she’d created for herself. Walked away, notified the boss via email.
@Gk2003m I think you misread the first post. He’s saying his real life girlfriend used a text. He wasn’t talking about the girl in the movie
I wish women would listen to this advice! Men too. It would avoid so much heartache.
What advice exactly???
What is a movie that is as good as this story. I need stuff to binge
Cracking good film
I don't want to settle - it is failure by definition.
Even her parents settled so that she could grow up in a caring, giving family. I think being in a live in relationship is overrated. And marriage made to look like its only for losers.
There's nothing wrong with live ins. It's only that she thinks settling down in life is some sort of failure.
Srinivas Kari please don’t settle then - god damn you look too ugly to reproduced... poor you
The Dictionary Brought Me Here...See I Saw The Word "Beauty" And It's Definition Said "Vera Farmiga!"
Also, I Heard That People Use Beauty, But Beauty Uses Vera Farmiga!
I already feel like the 2 older people lol
I’m only 23
Hopefully life will get better
It’s hard rn but I’m still trying
ambitious
funny how some women meet their "unicorns" in their 20's and early 30' but they're not willing to work on those relationships, so they lose all those wonderful people. And now...now all they have to settle for is donkeys. If you want a strong and stable relationship, help the other one build it, don't be vapid and don't let vanity get the better of you.
The wall is literally being channeled into Vera Farmiga character. Anna Kendrick character needs to listen
You're the type of guy that both characters would avoid and for a good reason. Worry about the wall you set around yourself as you make yourself increasingly less attractive to every woman of any age.
0:15 foreshadowing......
She is describing herself… she’s the pricj
As a man, we tend to find women who think like this young woman does repulsive.
Lies. U guys have sex with these women
Alex (Vera) was really a hypocrite in this, giving advice on relationship? she cheated on her husband, disgusting character. Vera Farmiga did a great job with this character
By the time you are 34…? I feel like maybe like 39/40 now? Looooool
This is why women are familiar with nice guys or bad boys (pricks). They forget the third kind: THE GOOD MAN; NICE qualities but Fierce like a lion. He doesn’t chase but present himself; nor they care about a woman’s success. Women don’t know what they want besides the daily essentials.
As she says when you’re around 34- none of what a woman wants matters but just wants a regular traditional man: earns, looks decent in shape to play with kids.
Unfortunately, settling in 20s doesn’t exist anymore. That’s the time you should be looking for someone so you can bet set in your 40s while the kids are in college.
The money comment...that was MGTOW GOLD!!! Pay close attention guys. she's talking about when it's time to rake you over the coals
Which comment? You didn't say. There is a lot of RPA content in here though. No doubt about it.
@@vandogtrailer6701 at 2:49. Pay close attention
@vandogtrailer6701 THE 34 woman says her man needs to earn more money than she does
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1] Real life is actually much worse than this movie the vast majority of the time.
2] The older women do not get wiser and more accepting like in this movie.
3] They think they are becoming more accepting and they say they are becoming more accepting, but they are not. The fake acceptance allows them to feel like they are more reasonable and virtuous, while at the same time they are actually deluding themselves wholesale.
4] Women as they age actually get even more more picky, and even more petty and even more money focused for another 20-30 years, and usually until death.
Naïveté screams.
This movie really shows how ruthlessly pragmatic women are with relationships: they are a means to an end, what they can get out of it, versus what both parties can mutually contribute for a mutually beneficial outcome.
No eggs, no eggs
Empty egg carton
You don't have any more eggs.
@ajbahus WOMEN never runout of eggs. By age 50 they still have ~1000 left, but they stop working, even when artificially inseminated
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Actually by age 35 most eggs are nonviable. That’s why many women find it difficult to conceive after 35
Cue: Male TH-camrs using a movie written by someone who thinks feminism is stupid, to prove that feminism is stupid. And then explaining that to women.
Wait I’m a bit confused. She said she dont want to settle but she wants to settle with the guy who dumped her? Or am I getting it wrong? Haha
The guy who dumped her has the desired qualities. So it wouldn’t be settling. It would be achieving her desired goal
If this movie doesn't overdose you on red-pill knowledge then nothing will.
By the time I'm 34... I'm John. I drive a 4Runner. Nice one, God. I'm such a sap. Another trap. I loved my dog. Past tense. Gave him up. That's what the hell is up. I'm single and I don't want to play this game and commingle. Fame? No. We all know how that all goes. Up In The Air. I still care. Buyer beware. Tripped another snare.
Did you really just write a rap about this? Lol
@@escabasket153 I was probably under the influence of something or other. Alcohol, cough medicine, or both
that lady is a player, deceitful
Good luck with marrying up, ladies. Men are now looking to marry up. I've taught my nephews to never marry down, never settle.
John Smith good luck with marrying up, gentlemen. Women are now looking to marry up. I’ve taught my nephews to never marry down, never settle.
Who gives a shit what you’ve taught your nephews to do?
Watching this whole now knowing that Vera was cheating on her husband as she was speaking kinda ruined the "older woman wisdom" vibe.
she's not lying though, she's just a big hypocritical cheater
How old are Ryan (George Clooney) and Alex (the older woman) supposed to be in this scene?
Anyone know?
probably mid 40s.
He’s 50-something and she’s 34
Women get off on being dissatisfied. It's their way of telling themselves how wonderful they are. That they're actually *worth* more.
Totally.
Go cry about it.
Nature is harsh to us women. It's like our value just dips past 30 and we become invisible to successful attractive men. I've seen my cousins settling for lesser men just because they didn't settle down at the right time.
leser men equal simps never be a simp mgtow fo life
Women in their feminist-laden conceit, think they can defy mother nature, freeze their eggs, etc. However some women, like in that Kevin Samuels video, are getting a hard dose of reality.
lesser men?harsh much?
Define lesser
They deserved much worse than those "lesser" men..you should be happy if those "lesser" men did not see your message here
3:10 - Okay, and what kind of woman will he be getting in you?
One day you’ll wake up and be 60.... they’ll be pluses and minuses.....
men can be choosey too
Anna Kendrick’s type is so generic it’s laughable.
Well, settling is failing? Well, the guy she is asking for is dating models and fitness models so if you want your dream guy ask one of the models to give you their man lol. Which that won't work but if you marry your job/career will leave not married to your dream guy lol.
For tinder 1:40
Don't take this scene as life advice. It's just a movie scene. Talk to your parents or uncle/aunty who have a good marriage.
I can tell you have no clue what they are talking about.
You mean your parents or relatives who got married in an entirely different era, when vvomen, relationships, and society was still somewhat normal? Hard pass.