Films that give you the rage!

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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 😁

Okay, so after posting about Knowing I was compelled to Google it to check if I’d remembered it correctly, and it turns out there was another film in the 2000s about Nicolas Cage predicting the future and saving the world called Next, and that was the one where he hooked up with Jessica Biel. Looking at his filmography reminded me of several other films of his from that era which I also quite enjoyed (Lord of War and Matchstick Men). Does this make me an actual Nicolas Cage fan?!

I did not watch The Wicker Man remake though. The whole point of Edward Woodward’s restrained performance in the original was to highlight the character’s repression in contrast to the decadence of the Summerisle residents. Why anyone though legendary scenery-chewer Nic would be suitable for the role, fuck knows...

*thought

Mrsfrumble the remake was a big exercise in misogyny. They had made the island populated entirely by women, and the younger ones went out to the mainland to seduce and sleep with men in order to get pregnant. They could then use the babies to lure men over to the island by telling them they had a son/daughter, and then capture and sacrifice them. There was no nuance or contrast between Nic Cage and the islanders, it was all just "evil sperm-stealing wimminz", and they changed the name of the community to Summersisle for no reason, and it was set in America instead of Scotland, and it was all just SHITE.

Léon a pedo? I didn’t get that vibe at all. His character showed not the slightest sexual interest in Mathilda. He was pretty much a large child himself - recall that his favourite drink was milk, and he basically got an allowance for his hits.

The movie was worth the price of admission just to watch a totally unhinged Gary Oldman.

And anyone who looks at this story and sides with Cal is ... either wilfully misunderstanding or just doesn't like women very much

Ah, a sweeping statement - I guess your opinion MUST be right!

It’s funny because on MN cheating is never acceptable, but you think it is. I don’t think so. I don’t, sorry. I actually think Cal is pretty nice to her in the beginning - he wants her to open up to him, he actually cares about how she is feeling etc. Obviously he becomes fairly unpleasant as he is progressively cuckolded, but I certainly can’t blame him for that. I would probably also be fairly pissed off at being treated that way in a confined space. His behaviour then becomes inexcusable, but only to carry out the theme of “rich people evil, poor people good” that is so important to these types of film.

Why anyone though legendary scenery-chewer Nic would be suitable for the role, fuck knows

I really LOL’d at that

I agree that the character of Leon doesn’t sexualise Mathilda, but film does. It made me uncomfortable, anyway.

Les Miserables most of which was totally miscast with actors who can't bloody sing! ( Russell Crowe FFS. ) which is a bit of a problem when you are making the film of a Famous West End musical.

Mama Mia- ditto.

Oceans 11- George and his friends clearly spent 3 months having a nice jolly whilst making this dreadful remake. The most cringeworthy part was Don Cheadle's accent- he sounded like he had done some sort of Linguaphone " Speak Cockney like Dick Van Dyke" course.

Anything with Brad Pitt- wooden as the Horse in Troy and don't get me started on the weirdness that is Tom Cruise... who has made a gazilloin films playing himself.

@gagabinks i was going to comment the same.

The Hobbit films. I loved LOTR and found the obvious camaraderie between the cast members really quite endearing. But with The Hobbit, everything was ridiculously drawn out just so they could stretch it into a trilogy, and in the DVD extras (yes, I watched them, sorry...) they all seemed really self-congratulatory and smug, like they were desperately trying to recreate the atmosphere from the first trilogy but forcing it instead of it coming naturally.

@JaneJeffer Excellent idea!
This is how dh and I watched Sweeney Todd but tbf, not even the fast forwarding helped make that film enjoyable

Les Miserables was the Christmas Day film of choice at the inlaws, the year my mum died. Never has a film been more, or possibly less, appropriate.

If you want to see a REALLY bad film with Nic Cage watch 'Mandy'. Oh my life it was terrible. Even by his standards.

Can I nominate a film that did not star Nicholas Cage?
The remake of The Stepford Wives completely changed the plot of the original book, and turned it into All The Evil Wimmins Fault.

Hereditary. Hilariously bad ending.

47 metres down (Mandy Moore) - it’s only saving grace is that it is so offensively stupid that it almost. reaches entertainment value.

If you love heckling films 47 meters down is the one for you.

Roadhouse. It makes me very "stabby"!!

Can I add my film that should be remade with a twist?
Working Girl - really should have been made with the Harrison Ford Character and the Sigourney Weaver characters swapped. So the slightly abusive credit stealing boss is male (just lie real life) - and the secretary/PA ends up with his "earth mothery" girlfriend.

There are lots of films here that I refused to see (Pretty Woman).
Hugh Grant can act - but often choose not to.

My most ridiculous film was The Lake House - after Speed they had noticed there was some Chemistry between Sandra Bullock and Keanu Reeves - so lets cast them opposite each other in a film where they barely ever share a scene...

@ittooshallpass

@Spacecudet

If you think Nicholas Cage was bad In Captain Correlli's Mandolin or Face Off, both films were in comparison Oscar winning worthies compared with the monstrous comedy that is the lamentable remake of the WickerMan

The Harry Potter Films. Not just the terrible acting, being on the big screen really highlights how awful and two dimensional all the book characters are.

We cant be friends.

I am baffled how Pretty Woman is seen as a modern fairy tale

Without Julia Roberts' luminous beauty and gangly radiance, it would be just the seedy pervy film it really is

@BerylReader

Great minds think alike
On the tripe
That is Nicholas Cage in The WickerMan
Gives me the rage

All the Bridget Jones films with their overwhelming theme of I Need a Man

Truly Madly Deeply. Couldn't stand all the snotty crying.

Sliding fucking doors. Plot holes miles wide crazy portrayal of UK/London - just shit.

The sound of fucking music (been done on thread already), actually not so much the film’s fault (though it is utter shit), but the fact so many people love the fucker.

Ghost. Laughed at all the over acting in the “sad” bits, then fell asleep. Bollocks