Sometimes, a fire is stoked under a Gilmore Girls fan debate in the most unexpected of places. Eiza González’s new time travel movie Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice is one of those places.The new sci-fi action comedy follows Vince Vaughn’s gangster Nick after he finds a way to travel back in time. In a sharp twist, he’s made the journey to save his wife’s boyfriend Mike (James Marsden) from getting brutally murdered. The only person who could get in his way is the present-day Nick (also Vaughn) who vengefully set into motion a chain of events that led to Mike’s death after learning of his wife’s affair.cnx.cmd.push(function() {cnx({playerId: "106e33c0-3911-473c-b599-b1426db57530",}).render("0270c398a82f44f49c23c16122516796");});The movie is packed with surprising pop culture references and delightful needle drops. At one point, Future Nick, Present Nick, Mike, and Alice (González) even end up having a lengthy discussion about one of Alice’s favorite shows, the cozy but rapid-fire Gilmore Girls, and find themselves mired in the age-old debate of whether Jess is the best of Rory’s boyfriends or whether he, in fact, sucks.González tells Den of Geek at SXSW that she wants the audience to make up their own mind about Jess, but admits she has very strong thoughts about him. “I watched Gilmore Girls growing up, and I think that teenage years don’t give you a great perspective, because you’ve got a lot of hormones in you, and you’re just making impulsive decisions based on how [people] look,” she says. “In hindsight, after rewatching Gilmore Girls, including the Netflix special, I was like, ‘Oh, wait a second, I wasn’t thinking correctly.'”Milo Ventimiglia played “bad boy” Jess Mariano on the beloved Amy Sherman-Palladino series, who rolls into the fictional town of Stars Hollow and disrupts the fairly tranquil relationship between Rory (Alexis Bledel) and Dean (Jared Padalecki). Jess and Rory’s passionate yet tumultuous spark ultimately crushes Dean’s spirit, but when Jess finally forces him out of the picture and embarks on a romance with Rory, their relationship is marred by poor communication, and he eventually leaves town, breaking Rory’s heart. While the core characters of Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice clash over their different Jess opinions, the squabble is definitely more of a reflection of their own relationships than Rory’s. “These guys have become invested in Gilmore Girls,” explains director BenDavid Grabinski, who sides with Marsden’s Mike when it comes to the Jess debate. “They’ve watched it because they love [Alice], but they’re also talking about the pros and cons of different relationships.”Vaughn adds, “We’re fighting about Gilmore Girls, but we’re talking about so much more. It’s a way for the characters to focus on something that’s really about themselves without realizing it.”Ventimiglia himself has recently weighed in on the Jess vs Dean debate, noting that these days he’d be fine with his own daughter being Team Dean rather than Team Jess because he and Padalecki are such good friends: “I think it’s nice that more than 20-plus years later we all still can talk about this show we were growing up on and come together as grown men just to recognize that and still have loving words for one another.”Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice will be streaming on Disney+ and Hulu from March 27.The post Eiza González Settles Long-Running Gilmore Girls Fan Debate About Jess appeared first on Den of Geek.