Films that give you the rage!

[crispysausagerolls]

Inspired by the excellent thread on songs.

Mine is Titanic. Billy Zane is marrying Rose knowing he is used as a money mule to help the family - she then cheats on him, flaunts it, and he is somehow the bad guy. WTAF. If roles were reversed it was be horrendous. Just because Leo was hot doesn’t make it ok 😁

Wounds on Netflix - wasted 90 mins watching this crap. No storyline, nothing tied together and nothing made any sense!

VanyaHargreeves
And nottonightjosephin

You are so right about the devil wears prada - I always think this!!

@theoffice101 oh god! That has to be the worse film I've endured for a long time. It ended and I was "WFT?"

The Greatest Showman. Fucking unacceptable this movie is so beloved, as far as I’m concerned

I had to switch off after 10 minutes it was so shit

Also, re titanic. Yes, Cal is an abusive twat (although at the time the film was made his behaviour would have been considered normal - doesn’t make it right; but it wouldn’t have been surprising or a reason for her not to marry him)BUT it still doesn’t mean it’s fine for Rose to be galavanting about the ship blatantly disregarding her family’s precarious financial situation and flaunting her affair. If you put her behaviour in the context of the time it was set, it was outrageous. Even now, it’s a pretty shitty way to have behaved, even to arseholes. Like her mother isn’t a pleasant person etc, but she’s still her mother!

Grease. Moral of of the story - change who you are, become slutty and everyone will like you.

Never really thought of titanic in that way. Billy zane was pretty horrid to rose and she never wanted to marry him anyway so I don't see it as cheating particularly. She was forced into a loveless relationship by her family and was trying to escape.

Dunkirk - like a poorly planned amateur reenactment with modern harcuts and uniforms. Thoroughly boring compared to the same scenes in the recent World on Fire series.

@EleanorShellstrop100 I'm with you about Warhorse, partly because when everybody else is sobbing around me, I'm thinking, "But it's animatronics/CGI/trained to do that - that's not sad!" For some reason suspension of disbelief was suspended for that film. Yet I was a blubbering mess by the end of Marley and Me.

@theoffice101 also watched wounds recently, wtf was that about?!

Nicholas Cage being involved is pretty much a good indicator that the film will be total wank.

Anything descrbed as a "chick flick" is liable to send me into a frothing rage.

V for Vendetta made me want to throw my dvd player out the window. One of my favourite books ruined forever.

they were engaged! Of course it’s cheating!

@crispysausagerolls

www.quora.com/Why-was-Cal-portrayed-as-a-baddie-in-Titanic-He-loved-Rose-but-Rose-was-having-an-affair-and-cheating-on-him

You’re not alone, lol.

@MolyHolyGuacamole my apologies, it was Nicholas Cage, not Keanu reeves - my bad! Still can't remember name of it though. Numbers?
I am genuinely surprised by the hatred toward Pretty Woman. That is my fave film and my go to when I am sad
Someone upthread mention Downsizing - yes that is also awful. I waited for ages to see it and then fell asleep part way through it!

Another sickener...The Devil Wears Prada. Ambitious career-oriented women= hard nosed bitches. Fashion= superficial, inconsequential, unworthy of respect, interest in it leads to moral corruption and loneliness.

Don't really agree. The Stanley Tucci character's speech to what'sherface when he's telling her about how fashion is so important to the economy, really explains the film.

Miranda Priestly doesn't act nearly as badly, as a boss, ad so many senior men. But blimey, she's a woman SO IT'S NOT ALLOWED

You’re not alone, lol

This has filled me with warmth!

Requiem for a Dream: simplistic garbage that would be embarrassing coming from a teenaged boy held up as a shattering piece of art. Cheap and cheesy.

I love the Devil Wears Prada though! There's a lot going on underneath.

Fantastic Beasts - I abandoned it halfway through, on a ten-hour flight. All that "No-maj" rubbish - just call them Muggles!

"Cringe" films such as Meet the Parents, and there something about Mary. In the former, you just know he's going to destroy the vase containing Jack's mother's ashes. I've refused to watch any Ben Stiller stuff since.

Mr Bean's holiday - and I haven't even seen it! I got fed up with seeing his enormous ugly face grinning at me from roadside posters.

Grease
Pretty Woman
Dirty Dancing

all left me feeling WTF - what sort of message do they send to the world - well I guess the era of casting couch and abuse of women in the acting world was in full flow when they were made...

Would not watch them again.

The greatest showman.

Now I love a musical... Thought this would be right up my street. I was wrong.

Why was he exploiting all those people!! And I HATED the interracial romance... It was so cringe and passé the way it was done. Very unoriginal.

I just didn't get the love for it! Absolute drivel

Jurassic World. The snivelly mum of the kids bugging her sister to get in a relationship and have kids rather than focus on her career.

1. Her kids are a mix of obnoxious and sickening with zero charm. If I had an assistant, I'd be palming them of on her too.

2. SHE RUNS A DINOSAUR PARK. She's living the dream.

But Chris Twathead Pratt or whatever.

Another vote for Titanic as well. I watched it on a coach during a French homestay and the lads all cheered when the ship sank. Though at least it didn't have a rapping dog in it, I guess.

To everyone who said The Devil Wears Prada, if you think the film is bad, do NOT read the book. Andy is even more obnoxious, as is her friend Lily, and Miranda is basically a cartoon villain. Also, Nigel is a completely different character.

@DisgraceToTheYChromosome

They did address it in band of brothers actually. Episode 2 Malarkey is chatting with the captured German soldier and find's out he's from Oregon, then Spiers hands out cigarettes to them all shortly before killing them all with a machine gun and letting them fall into a shallow grave.

It wasn't a focus of the series I grant you but it was addressed.

Jurassic World

Yes! I was so irked about how the dino park manager was portrayed; as if she had no business being a successful woman as it interferes with being a auntie and other such homely, womanly obligations.

The Devil wears Prada did have a good ending though ! Miranda did help her right at the end so she redeem herself a bit!
As did La la land which I really didn't like and was annoying , but the ending was great.

Le Mariage à Trois - bit of a niche one, but the most stereotypically awful French film you can imagine. Lots of brooding-into-the-distance, irrational behaviour celebrated as "passion", and barely coherent "philosophical" chat about love and relationships. It was my fiancée's choice, and I sat for 2 hours absolutely fuming that I'd been suckered into the French equivalent of a Richard Curtis film (although, disclaimer : I really like the one about the time-travelling).