see if they had given him a scuzzier girlfriend like I suggested, they could have written it so that she was into doing it in public places in the first place. Make it her idea to get his energy level up rather than the way it was done that dean objected to.
Yup I totally agree. The character just didn't work at all and was just handled so poorly. If she was a, say, Julliette Lewis type character, then I would be thinking better of that scene.
They couldn't let him "finish" in Chinatown, just like the girlfriend not "finishing him off" in the car, he would get tired or fall asleep afterwards.
See, that works in the story, sure, but I just figured if you're going to have a public sex scene, at least have more of the fun parts rather than an idiotic quasi-rape scene, despite how much we as the audience knew she'd be all over it anyways. I wasn't so much annoyed at the rape part, but at the thinking behind it. That is, someone actually sat down and thought "Let's have her scream "NO" in the middle of a busy street. Come on guys, it's both funny and HOT!"
This is opposed to "let's make it a great, fun, sex scene which really has the potential to be both entertaining, and sexy, and yes, ridiculous'
I guess I just would have handled things differently.
I can also see the problem with the "Al Qaeda" scene, it was one of those "that's awful but I'm laughing at how in bad taste it is" moments. Plus it seemed like the kind of thing a character like Chev would do. Just like his picking the fight in the black club to keep going. That one bothered me a bit (must be a Southern US thing) when he said it but it confirmed the direction the makers were going with the movie.
I'd laugh at how bad taste it was normally, since that was a great line, it was the reaction to which it was given that just annoyed me. Old people beating a taxi driver just because someone stole his car yelling 'AL Qaeda'? I hate to sound like Wyre Wizard here, but it just seemed plain stupid to include it. I think as a joke/entertainment it just fell completely flat for me, and instead of making me laugh it just made me hate the film.
Not much offends me, but I really do get angry when a good idea for a film is used in such a terrible way, and I just can't forgive it for being so damn idiotic. You don't need to make it believable to make it a good film.