What films have left a bad taste in your mouth?

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Spoilers, sorry! I just put a film on to procrastinate doing the housework and now im regretting it! It was called Exhibit A, on amazon prime. It was one of those found footage films so I assumed it would be a bit of paranormal silliness, but not at all. Has anyone else seen it? I just found it really really unpleasant and I think anyone who's been through domestic abuse would really struggle to watch it. Particularly horrible when you think of news stories where abusive men have just annihilated their whole family.
What other films just leave you with an unpleasant feeling afterwards? Another for me was one called Megan is Missing. It was about a girl who meets up with a guy online and goes missing. And her friend tries to track her down. It was quite good in a creepy way until the last half hour where theres a really brutal close up rape and bits of torture. Another one I went away from wishing I hadnt bothered!

Knocked up is just that typical American rubbish where the woman is cute and beautiful but the not so good looking man gets the girl! There are very few films where it's the other way around.
I didn't find it disturbing as such, more annoying!! :)

I agree re dreams of a life. Was very poignant and sad how such a beautiful well liked woman could lay undiscovered for what 4 years? She had a good job, she had friends, she had wrapped presents for her family, her bills mustnt have been paid for years and yet not one person raised the alarm that she was missing. Is the most baffling thing ever.

It was a thoughtful and well-meaning film, but left out some key things her family were looking for her all along. They contacted the Salvation Army to trace her and hired a private detective who actually found her address and relayed it to her family. They wrote to her, but she was already dead, and as there were no replies they believed she had deliberately cut contact with them. Half her housing bills were being paid via benefits, and her heating etc via direct debit, and obviously she wasn't doing anything about threatening letters etc so arrears weren't actually pursued for years, and that was when her body was discovered by bailiffs.

So its not really that no one at all came looking.

Dancer in the Dark bored me to tears, too much Bjork singing, and I usually like her. However, Breaking the Waves broke me

We only just watched Wolf Creek thought it was crap. Didn't like the fact that the guy escaped almost Scott free but the girls both died horrifically. We then watched the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre and saw how much Wolf Creek had stolen/copied/plagiarised!

I agree with pp and Kingsmen and the abominably shit 'anal sex as reward' bullshit.

I didn't fancy watching any GoT after hearing/reading about it.

I'm actually very disillusioned with most films/TV series as they're constantly sexist, misogynistic, stereotypical claptrap.

Oh, one of the most godawful films I've seen is Locke, Jesus

Ref: Boxing Helena, I think that's the film Kim Basinger backed out of at the last minute and had to pay millions to the studio, stalled her career for years. Good on her!

@SheWranglesRugRats - Kids was horrendous. I watched it at the cinema when it came out and ended up in the toilets sobbing. Looking at it now from a parents perspective, it is very disturbing in the way it sexualises children. A horrible film.

Midsommar was really nasty and unsettling. I also felt very upset by the end of it.

Funny Games - the original version. I think that the whole point of it is to test the viewer and point out the depravity that people are prepared to sit through in the name of entertainment. At one point, one of the characters turn and looks at the screen knowingly and asks "are you still here?".

Oh yes Kim Bassinger was snubbed in Hollywood because of boxing Helena branded "difficult " if I remember right.

Dogtooth it reminds me of my neighbours

The children (2008)
The first time I watched it I was properly affected by it.

Two families gather at an upscale English estate in late December. Elaine (Eva Birthistle) and her sister, Chloe (Rachel Shelley), along with their husbands and children, are set for a weekend of family bonding and winter fun. But when they arrive, one of the children becomes sick, and all of the children exhibit strange behavior. The adults don't realize the disturbing truth until it's too late: The children have contracted a disease that has turned them into brutal, psychotic killers.

It's the premise that I find scary. the idea that your child suddenly isn't in any meaningful way you're child anymore but still looks like your child so even as they are brutally trying to murder you, you see your child so you either override your basic instincts to protect yourself or you allow this thing that looks like your child (but isn't anymore) to kill because you can't bring yourself to do anything else.

@icebearforpresident thanks for the heads up on the Molly Ringwald MeToo article. A good read.

I don't know what possessed me, after reading some of the comments yesterday, but I watched Uncut Gems last night.

My blood pressure must have been sky high! It's so stressful!

I didn't get to the end, cos I went to bed, but i do kinda want to see how it ends, so I'll watch the rest of it later.

This is a joy. 👍

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Oh yes, Nocturnal Animals. That was bloody awful. Man takes revenge on his ex by writing a novel in which a woman who resembles her is raped and murdered, and sends it to her. All for the terrible crime of making some negative comments about his writing. Don't even get me started on the slo-mo obese women dancing sequence at the beginning.

I hate pretty much all Richard Curtis stuff, but Love Actually and About Time are particularly heinous in treating women like they're adjuncts to the much more important lives of men.

What is it about About Time you don't like? I saw the story was mainly about the father and sons relationship. It's actually one my all time favourite films.

Forgot about The Cook, The Thief, His wife and her lover. So many horrible scenes in that.

I really liked Wall Street back in the day, but Wolf of Wall Street is just an awful, awful film. It's seems to be the same drunk fuelled scene over and over for many hours.

I didn't like Gone Girl at all. I didn't enjoy the book, and the film even less.

Wolf of wall street was on for 15 hours or at least it felt that long I watched it on tv so had the adverts .

@longtompot it was really just the way the Domhnall Gleeson character manipulated Rachel McAdams into falling for him by going back and repeatedly redoing the bits he got wrong. He used his powers for evil!

Kids has been mentioned a lot here, and I would also add Spring Breakers by the same director. It was just 2 hours of looking at young women in bikinis and James Franco being utterly repellent. I read somewhere that it was meant to be "empowering", which seems to be the standard excuse for portraying women as nothing but vaginas on legs.

@Enb76

Black Swan

It felt like I was watching someone's wet dream. I don't like David Aronofsky's work at all - he was also involved in Requiem for a Dream.

I absolutely despise this film. Made me so uncomfortable, and don’t even get me started on the completely irrelevant lesbian sex scene that was clearly only thrown in for titillation.

James franco is a creepy pervy fecker t he apparently had "private sex scene classes" at his theatre school which has been closed down after complaints were made so him being in a film with women in bikinis is no surprise he probably executively produced it or something.

The War of the Roses, with Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner. It's supposed to be a dark comedy, but it was so horribly uncomfortable to watch.

Ugh. I wouldn’t watch anything with slimeball creepy James Franco in. Was really disappointed when Coen Brothers gave him a part in Ballard of Buster Scruggs. Horrible reptile he is.

My nieces tried to persuade me to watch GoT, but my nephew hates it and said “don’t - it’s full of rape and torture and it’s horrible.“

You know, I was watching a series on Netflix called Slasher and must have missed a bit because I googled something. Lots of trigger warnings for ‘completely objectionable male rape scene that added nothing to the narrative’. Strange how when it’s a rape of a woman it’s seen as ok

We started watching Hateful 8 recently but turned it off after about half an hour. It’s horrible. It’s a blatant vehicle for Tarantino to display his horrible attitude and get away with it. I actually like a lot of his others.

The fourth Kind. Anyone seen it? If you get jumpy at alien films then strap yourself in!

Agree with lots of previous mentions. Also very glad people have mentioned Seth McFarlane and Ted. All his films and Family Guy have tons of misogyny and red flags in them in my opinion.

Never mind the obvious characters in family guy, but its how he writes and treats Meg that's the worst IMO.

And Irreversable, French film 2002 (not sure if anyone else mentioned it). Just don't watch it.

I've avoided the torture porn kind of horror films mentioned earlier. My choices are far more bland.

Big: I hate the subplot with the woman having sex with Tom Hanks. He's in a man's body but he's still a child. Gross.

Mrs Doubtfire: Robin Williams is the useless Fun Dad but we're supposed to empathise with him and admire him. The mum is just getting on with the tedious but essential job of actually parenting her children but we're supposed to wish that she'd lighten up. I was already a mum when I watched that for the first (and only) time and it made me so angry.

I agree with both yours @cariadlet, but why are the rest of you all still watching these films which are torture porn and/or films where a graphic (but often also titillating-for-the-male-gaze) rape is filmed in graphic, extended closeup, and treated as a kind of spring board for the rest of the plot?

Women are a large percentage of the cinemagoing/film streaming audience. If they stop watching these films and are vocal about why, no one will fund or distribute them..

The Lobster.

Horrible shocking hideous, rocking in the corner sobbing...

I now check doesthedogdieintheend.com to check for animal cruelty before watching anything.

I don't watch torture porn or films which show abuse of women for titillation either.

I'm not the demographic who enjoys watching that sort of thing and believe it's bad for society.

@ChavvySexPond brilliant link. Thanks for sharing.

Me, Myself and Irene. Stars off like a comedy but then Jim Carrey's character scalps someone. I wasn't expecting it and it made me feel sick.

Are you getting it mixed up with Liar, Liar where Carrey's character pulls a toupee of a man's head and slams it on the wall?🤔