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 😁

The Notebook irks me too - I don’t really like any of these films where there has to be a competitive rivalry for the affections of a woman. They are so predictable. Either one man ends up being some evil shit to make it acceptable to fuck him over, or he’s so nice that he’s just ok with it, like in the Notebook. Poor James Marsden (is that his name?!)

Dreamgirls was also dire; but mostly because Beyoncé has all the acting talent of a grapefruit.

Can't believe 'It's a Wonderful Life' hasn't been mentioned. The independent, perfectly happy woman who is just doing fine as anbespectacled librarian marries some over optimistic fella ( nah, it won't just be ok, life isn't like that). Her eyesight is suddenly improved so she doesn't have to wear gasses anymore and she has to be the skivvy and look after millions of the kids he had with someone else.
That's not a wonderful life, that a shit life. Keep your job and pay for laser eye surgery if the specs bother you that bad.

Grease is terrible. It's not just the shitty moral of the story, it's everything - the terrible over acting, the lack of plot, the fact that every single character is unlikable. I hate the fact that it's lauded as some classic film.

Anything with Ryan Gosling. He's distractingly odd looking and the fact that he keeps getting "handsome" leading man parts baffles me.

I love Titanic and everything about it.

@crispysausagerolls but she didn't love him and he was an arse to her!

Love four weddings and a funeral but Carrie ruins it. Possibly the worst female character in any film ever. Trollop. Carrie in SATC was also a dick in the films.

(although at the time the film was made his behaviour would have been considered normal)

The film was made in 1997! He was seen as a bad guy then. If you mean 'at the time the film was set' - then yes that behaviour might have been normal, but it is still bad behaviour and women who refused to put up with it were not in the wrong - even if society would tell them they were. That was part of their oppression. FFS, if all women in the past put up with that shit because 'it was normal' then it would still be normal!

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.
She is a 17 year old girl being sold against her will in marriage to a cruel, abusive and much older man. This is happening because her own father pissed the family money up against the wall and her mother is now putting the entire survival of their family on her 17 year old shoulders - expecting Rose to put up with Cal's cruelty, possessiveness, treating her as a trophy/ child but never a person, his physical abuse and - once they're married - conjugal rape. Meanwhile the mother gets to live her life as society widow, with the pressure of money removed and none of the burden of having to be the one sacrificed for it.

NO! Rose is not being unreasonable for saying 'fuck this - this is my life and I'm not living it this way'.
(nor is a 17 year old girl unreasonable for 'falling in love' with a good looking boy of her own age with whom she shares and interest and who treats her kindly and with respect.)

Yes she's breaking the social mores of the time, and yes she gets approbation for that - but the point is the social mores were wrong - and the women who fought against them (in real life - but fictionalised in Rose) were brave, and it was their rebellion that led to the realisation in wider society that these social mores were wrong and so we got positive change.

@SachaStark you are so right about The Greatest Showman, I’d forgotten about that one.

I listened to a Dollop (podcast - would recommend!) about the guy and he was just awful. Really really horrible. The film obviously glosses over him as a person, but in general it’s not great is it? I genuinely don’t understand what made Hugh Jackman want to make the film and why it’s been so popular.

I was totally bored with Titanic when it came out but @Icantreachthepretzels is completely right.

Split- Just shite film, using a trope that's been overdone several times.

Icantreachthepretzels

I'm always pleased when another poster takes the time to write a full, articulate explanation of exactly what I think. I can never be bothered!

You are spot on about Rose, a teenager being sold as a bride. Can't believe people are criticizing her actions!

Alan Rickman in love actually!

How could he do that to her!

DobbyLovesSocks, the Nic Cage film you’re thinking of is Knowing. The list of numbers his kid finds in the time capsule predict the dates and death tolls of disasters, ending with a solar flare hitting earth and wiping out humanity. I admit to quite enjoying it. Despite the hokey plot, I found the least plausible aspect was Nic Cage’s character hooking up with Jessica Biel’s....

And yes to whoever mentioned Leon. I remember finding it uncomfortable and a bit “off” when I watched it as a teenager. I saw it again recently was genuinely WTF about how sexualised 12 year old Natalie Portman is. Grim.

I'm glad I'm not the only one who found Wounds horrendous 😂😂😂 honestly the worst thing I have ever seen on Netflix

Blair Witch. The single most un-scary film I've ever seen. And that snivelling snot bubble scene made me pray that something would come out of the woods and terminate her.

Saw. I watched this at the cinema and, for some reason, someone in the audience started giggling. It changed the whole vibe and made the film ridiculous. By the end the whole theatre was in fits of mirth.

I Don't Know How She Does It

The book is one of my absolute favourites and I've read it about a million times. It's intelligent, it's funny, it's sad and it's well written. It's also SET IN THE UK.

I confess I never actually watched the film because I was so incensed after watching the trailer and seeing that they'd a) set it in America (WHAT is it with US film studios doing this? Do they really not credit their audiences to be able to 'relate' to something set in the UK??) and cast SJP whom I loathe in the main role, but worse b) turned it into a frothy chick flick without any of the wit and intelligence of the book.

I still get angry about it now because all people will think about when they hear about IDKHSDI is that stupid fucking film

I haven't seen the film but I hated that book. I found it depressing!

Poor James Marsden I hate The Notebook! Who in their right mind would have left James Marsden's character who was gorgeous, funny, rich, so nice and could sing like an angel for that loser?!

The new Ghostbusters wtf is that all about

Reacher - Haven't seen the film and refuse to due to the absolute travesty of casting tom cruise as a character who is supposed to be a physically huge, brooding, serious sexy ex army general. A great character in the books, now ruined by the thought of tiny megolomaniac tom cruise

Another vote for Love Actually. For a supposedly sweet film about "love", there's something incredibly mean-spirited and shallow about it. About half the jokes seemed to involve fat-shaming women.

ah thanks @Mrsfrumble - i just found it bizarre in the last 10 minutes or so. I love Nic Cage - particularly Gone in 60 seconds

I hated Calendar Girls when I saw it at the cinema too. Just seemed like a really creaky attempt to shoehorn an inspiring but not terribly substantial true story into a formulaic feelgood plot.

Deadpool 2.

Fridging all over the place. Waste of a great female character.

Hated the scenes with the nude film doubles in Love Actually. So seedy and awkward looking. And yes, the jokes about Martine's character were awful - it really jarred when the woman she worked with commented to the PM about her ' huge thighs'.

jezebel.com/i-rewatched-love-actually-and-am-here-to-ruin-it-for-al-1485136388

This article pretty much echoes all of my feelings about Love Actually. When I meet people who like that film, I judge them hard.