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 😁

That would be Les Miserables.

maybe i should rephrase she looked older than 30 she looked like his mum not his teacher

So glad to see lots of mentions for Saving Private Ryan on here. At the time everyone was going on about it and I hated it but it was like you can't say that because brave heroes. Tom Hanks and his spooky forehead emoting all over France like a massive bellend, that bit in the church where they all discover themselves with swelling music and the entire take-home message was that the yanks saved the world. Pish.

Anything with Any Schumer in.

Eat Pray Love is utter tripe .What an absolutely selfish , self centered thingy woman.I watched it a second time on Netflix to see if maybe i was mistaken.I wasn't.

No one has mentioned Black Hawk Down! Everything he did was just stupid, any film where I tell at the tv "but you just wouldn't DO that!! Why would you?" gives me the rage. Goes for most horror movies too. Don't be stupid!

Inception definitely: trying to be intelligent and mysterious but really just shit.
Shape of Water: trying to be heartwarming, with an underlying message but really just boring and I was completely disengaged.
Wolf of Wall Street: trying to be edgy and telling it how it is but really just exploitative pap, with a fuckton of unpleasant characters.
Plenty: by David Hare with Meryl Streep at her most mannered
Calvary: the most depressing film I've ever seen and billed as a dark comedy. Not one character in it you'd put out if they were on fire. Another film that thinks it appears intellectual and enlightening if it piles on the misery: newsflash, it doesn't. No moral centre.

I just let my daughters watch Grease as I remembered loving it years ago. I was shocked that I'd never picked up on the whole changing into a different person to get your man thing before! Had to have a chat with my daughters afterwards about it is not the right thing to do!

I hate any films where there's an easy solution but they just keep doing the opposite. Gives me the rage lol.

The book Eat, Pray, Love is self indulgent bilge. I couldn't finish it and I always read books to the end. From the sounds of it the film is no better.

I agree about that book. The Italian part wasn't too bad because of the lovely food but the rest was completely self-indulgent crap. Haven't seen the film because I suffered enough finishing the book. Also your woman wrote Coyote Ugly which is another pile of shite film.

Agree with the English Patient being boring as fuck.

Mind you, I also,found the Bridges of Madison County boring and lost time I will never get back. However, some firmeds of mine did find it profoundly moving

Some classic posts on this thread - @VanyaHargreeves your comments are hilarious and @InforaPenny7 :

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

Completely agree; also hate the way she walks off with her new hair and it looks as though someone's shoved an immense, elongated corn kernel on top of a snooker cue.

Three suggestions have made me recoil in shock; The Breakfast Club, East is East and Jean de Florette are all some of my favourite, ever films.

Although I like both of them in parts, aspects of Drew Barrymore in Never Been Kissed and Ever After properly give me the rage. in the former, her "May I have five minutes on the clock, please" and the latter "You will give me back my dress, Sir!" Ah, just fuck off.

Although I love them, a lot of disaster movies piss me the hell off too. Dante's Peak is awesome, except for the (apparently unnecessarily) self-sacrificing granny, and the "alert" refuser bloke who keeps trying to start his van as the bridge is slowly getting swept away, instead of doing what every sensible person would do when they're 5-10 metres from the end - getting out, legging it and jumping for land.

Eat Pray Love

Ok only seen clips but that’s enough as I have read the book. It’s a pile of smug self-indulgent wank

Titanic ffs as if Rose and the cabin boy would get it on the scene when she ventures down below nonsense

Dirty Dancing annoying whiny Baby can stay in the corner

SATC 2 - I feel embarrassed for them

Another one for “Top Gun.”

I dislike any movie where the characters, male or female, become “hotshots” and try to act so cool that it’s cringe worthy, and from what I remember, that was “Top Gun.” I saw it with my friends in the theater years ago when I was a teenager. They all wanted to see it because of Tom Cruise. I was annoyed right off the bat.

The only character I liked in the whole thing was Goose, but I didn’t even get upset when he died. Meanwhile, my friends and everyone in the theater were bawling their eyes out, and I’m thinking, For the love. WHO CARES? That’s how much I resented the movie; I couldn’t even get upset when the only character I liked got killed. I probably figured he was lucky to be rid of the shit show.

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Not one character in it you'd put out if they were on fire.

The plot might have been quite interesting, but I was so annoyed by the fact that men get to carry on with these virile action hero roles, beyond middle age, being paired with younger and younger women (Especially Tom Cruise, who is annoying anyway) that I could concentrate on what was happening.

Yep, I was thinking of a film called Chef. Jon Favreau starred in it and also wrote, directed and co-produced. And the love interests he found fitting for his middle aged under achieving shlubby character? Sofia Vergara and Scarlett Johannsen, both of whom love him unconditionally...

Oh yes, the man with substantially younger and more attractive wife trope.

It's so grim.

I noticed it in the last 2 Tom Hanks films as well

Hanks is 63

Sarah Paulson is 44
Amy Ryan is 50

Not huge age gaps, but they aren't exactly employing women of his own age either 🤔

Some upthread said Star Is Born and I can't find the post

I loved it when I first saw it and still think the songs are brilliant but I rewatched and it does beyond a shadow of a doubt normalise a very abusive relationship as a romance to be aspired to

Saving Private Ryan. Even from the beginning when the top Army guy recognises that poor old Mrs Ryan has lost more than one son (I forget how many) and decides to use half the American army to make sure the last surviving one doesn't get killed. As if

It's based on a true story and the 'sole survivor' directive. After 5 brothers died when the ship they were on was attacked in WWII. The US war department started splitting up brothers so they were not in the same regiment / on the same ship / and theoretically not in the same battles and if all but one brother was killed then the 'sole survivor' was sent back to the US.

That doesn't mean I like it, I've never seen it.

My most hated film, anything post Top Gun that has Tom Cruise in it.

A Wrinkle in Time. None of it made any sense, biggest load of self centred wank I've ever watched. Walked out of the theatre half way through. I dont care how "diverse" and important a film is because it's got a black female director or whatever, doesn't mean make it a good movie when the movie is irredeemably full of shit.

PS I Love You - over sentimental, pass the sick bag, Gerald Butler is quite handsome but not that gorgeous.

Moulin Rouge - complete twaddle

The Way We Were - should have had at least half an hour shaved off, irritated the life out of me.

Recent film:
The Favourite - wtaf. Just thought it was weird. The friend who I went with and I were looking at each other every few mins thinking I have no idea what’s going on!! It got a bit better but it was very odd. I had to google after to see if all the lesbian stuff was true.

The Circle on Netflix. Just don’t. Book was clever, film is dire. Left out bits, added bits etc.

Also hated Love Actually but can’t remember It very well. Just remember hating it!

I don’t want to rewatch ‘old’ films from the 80s or early 90s with ‘modern’ eyes as I feel most will disappoint or make me stabby!

I see that someone haS mentioned “Mother!” - what a deeply unpleasant film, just for the sake of it.

Top Gun - no, the leading lady isn’t the most beautiful, but at least it’s believable that she would work in that field. It’s more irritating when you have perfectly turned out supermodel types in films playing scientists etc. Not realistic (apologies to any scientists who do look like supermodels!)

Absolutely agree on any Richard Curtis film. Really misogynistic and cynical in their sentimentality and and About Time was the creepiest

LOVED a few mentioned here like Midsommar and Silence but understand they're not films for everyone

Remember "wish you were here"? Emily Lloyd's character is a feisty 16 year old enjoying herself until her dad's best mate coerces her into sex, she gets knocked up by hi., her dad disowns her and everyone calls her a tramp, and her life is ruined because she can't find an abortion. And the film doesn't seem to disagree with the period view that it was all her fault because she said fanny a few times and had a fumble with a boy her own age. At no point does anyone - the filmmaker included - seem to think the creepy middle aged man has done anything wrong. I watched it when I was a teenager and it horrified me - particularly the lack of consent she has in that moment.