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Films that give you the rage!

684 replies

crispysausagerolls · 06/11/2019 17:33

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 😁

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Beveren · 07/11/2019 18:22

A Little Princess, for totally changing the original story.

DaveCoachesgavemetheclap · 07/11/2019 18:23

I watched about 5 minutes of Les Miserables and then switched off. The singing is dreadful.

Djchickpea · 07/11/2019 18:27

Pretty Woman. WTAF?

Bobbyflay · 07/11/2019 18:31

What’s so bad about Dirty Dancing?

Aridane · 07/11/2019 18:34

My SIster’s Keeper.

Because the ending was the best thing about the book. And they changed it angry

@FruitSaladSandwich

I so agree

Went to see it with my mother who had also read the book.

At the end, the audience was divided between those moved by the sad story of a young girl dying of cancer - even some tears - and the low rumble of chatter of those who had read the book saying ,WTF? the wrong sister has died'!

SongforSal · 07/11/2019 18:35

A banned one. I should not have watched it. I had NO idea of the content, very stupid of me. It was so disturbing even though I fast forwarded through most of it. It pops into my head every few weeks even though I watched it years ago. If ever I met the writer I would punch him and happily do time. Utterly disturbing and sick film.

VanyaHargreeves · 07/11/2019 18:37

Completely agree about Showman

Cannot understand how it became the phenomenon it did

Ravenesque · 07/11/2019 18:39

The English Patient. About an hour in I shouted at the screen - was watching on DVD or video so I didn't cause a kerfuffle in the cinema - "why don't all of you die, you utter fucking cunts!"

NaviSprite · 07/11/2019 18:47

Any live action Disney Remake... the most tolerable was Jungle Book and with only one RL actor on screen I don’t consider it a live action remake.

Any classic Japanese or Korean horror film remade by Hollywood...

Most Rom Coms make me 🤢

And the Hunger Games, fucking rip off of Battle Royale with elements of Running Man thrown in for shits and giggles Angry

Inspiralcarpetry · 07/11/2019 18:50

Is the crocodile film either Rogue or Black Water? Both low budget Australian films. I actually like them (and Lake Placid) but I love a monster movie!
I'm concerned that I like most of the films mentioned on this thread!
I like Taken but yes, always wonder if they just leave the other poor girls?! Maggie Grace appears unaffected by her ordeal and losing her best friend! Angry

TheHodgeoftheHedge · 07/11/2019 18:50

Yes to the Live Action Disney Remakes. Other than being a cynical and lazy money making scheme, what’s the point?
See also: any remake of a foreign film into English but done virtually identically.

Actually remakes in general.

Frosters30 · 07/11/2019 18:51

I think the fact that Billy Zane’s character was a cockwomble is what made him the bad guy. He hit Rose, got his minion to plant jewels on Jack that resulted in him being arrested as the ship was sinking, treated Jack like shite from the get go and used a scared third class child to secure a place on a lifeboat just to name a few

Purplealienpuke · 07/11/2019 18:54

Johnny Depp version of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is seriously creepy. I say that as a JD fan

Mrsjayy · 07/11/2019 18:55

Black swan was a load of pretentious rot and so much masturbation imo I hated it from start to finish!

1forAll74 · 07/11/2019 18:56

Love Actually and Mamma Mia,both crappy,

GlitterMagicPompom · 07/11/2019 19:01

Mama Mia because I didn’t like any of the characters.
Pret à porter because there was no storyline. I was still waiting for the plot to start when the end credits started to roll!! Confused

WellGoshDarnIt · 07/11/2019 19:02

The Break Up - because it was heavily marketed as a comedy and it's nothing of the sort - it's a miserable tale of two people tearing each other apart.
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie - I was made to watch this during my film studies A level. I still have absolutely no idea what the hell it's about. (The module we were working on was 'surrealism'). Total self indulgent nonsense.
Dead Ringers - another film studies one. Jeremy Irons playing identical twins who are both shagging the same woman. And she's got three fannies. Or three cervixes, or wombs or something. Anyway, it was unmitigated, gratuitous codswallop.

Aridane · 07/11/2019 19:09

I really don’t understand the love for the “heart warming” TRAUMA FEST that is Slumdog Millionaire. It’s just pure misery, abuse and terror for hours and then at the end there’s about 10 seconds of happiness and a catchy tune. Was sitting in the cinema with this face shock thinking “what have I seeeen?”

Heart warming as fuck

PenCreed · 07/11/2019 19:15

I love Sliding Doors mostly due to my teenage crush on John Hannah!

But The Notebook, why do so many people love it? She's a spoilt brat who doesn't deserve either of the two perfectly nice men who have fallen in love with her because she's awful to them both. They deserve better!

Braveheart - historically inaccurate shite that is all the worse because so many idiots think it's true and have been using it in Independence marketing for the last 20 years. At least if it was accurate it would be marginally less fucking irritating to see "Freeeedoooooommmmm" plastered across walls.

Aridane · 07/11/2019 19:21

To,the poster who said The Human Centipede - I love that monstrous aBoring of a horror shock film. I have even watch The Human Centipede 2 Shock

Aridane · 07/11/2019 19:21

That was supposed to say monstrous abortion of a shock horror film

ScreamingCosArgosHaveNoRavens · 07/11/2019 19:24

Aridane I've seen them both too, but I have to admit I had my eyes closed for significant portions of them. There is a third one, apparently. Shock

RaubahnsLeftArm · 07/11/2019 19:27

Pacific Rim, it’s a rip of Neon Genesis Evangelion (An anime). They try to claim it isn’t but it TOTALLY IS

3timeslucky · 07/11/2019 19:35

Any James Bond film. I sat through them every Christmas as a teen (because that's what you did) with every latent feminist cell in my body screaming. This would have been late 70s/early 80s. I don't know if they changed because I was too scarred to give them another chance.

InforaPenny7 · 07/11/2019 19:35

Sliding fucking doors. Wish they’d closed on her head. Annoying nasal voice and him! Spanish Inquisition twat. Just no.

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