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!

Cannot stand ‘Love Actually’. Mark Kermode, film reviewer on the Beeb waxes lyrical about that film, even though his female listeners send in messages telling him how much they hate it for its cringe-inducing misogyny and he still refuses to back down!

I believe she's deaf . . .

So glad it wasn’t just me who felt betrayed by the last few minutes of Kingsman. Why??????? And so many others of these, same, i cannot bear nasty gratuitous torture/violence. I always really struggle with zombie apocalypse things and remember reading something years ago that said the reason why zombie films are so scary and horrific is because in most/all of them, the real threat isn’t the zombies themselves, it’s the other human survivors and their willingness to turn on anyone to save themselves. So they reveal this horrible dark truth about humanity and that’s why they’re so awful.

The Whistleblower. There are some things you can't unsee.

I think my interpretation of leaving a bad taste might be a bit different, but A Star is Born (with Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper). I found their whole relationship just a bit wrong through the whole film, she was so young and he was just...no.

I can't watch anything disturbing or scary because I'm a complete wuss.

I really enjoyed the Riot Club too but yes uncomfortable viewing, eye opening!

The boat scene in Armistaad was truly horrific.

There's also an episode of "Inside Number Nine" called something like the 12 Days of Christine, with Sheridan Smith. I cried for hours after that. I don't know why it affected me so much, it was just so incredibly sad.

The Loved Ones stands out, I stumbled across it mid-way through one night about 10 years ago. VERY weird and the 15 mins I saw were really uncomfortable viewing, so it didn't stay on!

I LOVE a good horror film more than most and violence in context is fine - but it has to be good old fashioned scares, not gratuitous rape and torture porn. Some of the garbage described on here is just experiments in shock factor from the imagination of weirdos 😳

Sex and the City 2

Open water 2004 - !
Couple go deep sea diving with an organised group. But they are left behind and only noticed as missing when the boat returns to the shore! Watched with my mum and we both didn't sleep well.

Oh the Open Water post has reminded me: Triangle! That was quite disturbing and thought provoking.

There was also one on Prime or Netflix recently about a couple whose daughter sustains a head injury and is admitted to the local hospital, and doctors then claim to have no knowledge. It follows the father trying to work out what's going on. I won't spoil the ending but it was pretty awful.

SerenityNowwwww
Whiplash......
I loved that film. You knew the ending...”

Still rather ashamed to admit that in the end, I concluded, as did most of my family, that actually, the method worked and the young man achieved perfection, which is what he had wanted.
Oops. Sure that wasn’t the moral of the tale at all

Nocturnal animals. I do wonder if its movies like this that put ideas into people's head...

Bloody About Time.

Misogynistic bullshit. I lasted about 12 minutes.

Sex and the City 2

Racist sexist ageist terrible terrible terrible acting and it was clear as day that SJP hated kim cattrall

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.

Angel Heart with Mickey Rourke. There's a sex scene in it which is bleurghhhh. It haunted me for ages afterwards.

Sucker Punch. It's about a collection of Ann Summers' outfits that just happen to have some women inside them. I only made it through because the music was so loud I couldn't hear myself think. "This is misogynistic bullshit." would have been one of those thoughts.

The Riot Club. I find the scene where they attack the pub owner completely abhorrent and horrifying - not just the physical scene but the prejudice it represents, and the fact that they basically get away scot-free.

Didn't leave a bad taste but Room unsettled me deeply. Well deserved Oscar for brie larson

Precious - I had to keep walking out. Just wanted to go home but went there with a friend who was having a really bad time so felt too guilty to ruin the night.

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.

Can someone please refresh my memory on this? I've read the synopsis on IMDB and I can't find it Don't remember that scene at all.

The help very white saviour and nothing like the book

Wolf Creek
The Human Centipede
The Accused

Oh another - This is England. (spoilers) Only saw it once, years ago, but remember when the young black guy starts chatting about his happy home life and family, and you see the other guy get more and more enraged before beating the shit out of him... Not comfortable viewing.

^^ it's awful you just know it's coming! The following tv series was very dark as well