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 😁

Mother! was awful. I went to the cinema with a friend to see that because I'd seen a trailer and it actually looked like some kind of period war film from that - obviously I wasn't paying attention. I could see what they were trying to do but the nastiness was so gratuitous and extreme I wanted to walk out. I only stayed because I thought my friend was enjoying it, but afterwards it turned out she really wasn't and she would have been happy to leave after about 20 minutes.

Kill Bill where Kiddo has been in a coma for four years yet is fit enough to wake and in the same minutes violently murder men. (Albeit deserving men).

La La Land - completely overrated, boring and generally meh. My mum and I were feeling very 'was that it' on our way out of the cinema, as were a group of ladies behind us.

I loathed Lalaland too.

The favourite was just weird and I think Olivia Coleman's gushing nonspeech at the Oscars was just her surprise because she probably thought it's a pile of shite

There is so much wrong with The Parent Trap.

Firstly is of course the decision to separate twins as a result of their marriage failure, but then the twins spend the rest of the film not respecting their parents decision to split and manipulate them into getting back together and it WORKS.

Come to think of it I absolutely hate the amount of Hollywood films that feature separated parents, that invariably end up back together because it can't possibly be a happy ending without a traditional family unit, no matter how wrong they were for each other, how valid their reasons for splitting were and how happy they were in their subsequent relationships. Sends an awful judgy message to any separated parents and teaches their kids that they should hold out hope their parents will get back together, and maybe try and pressure them into it.

Sex and the City 2 for every reason imaginable - check out the Mark Kermode review on You Tube

Satc2 should be burned and never spoken of again it was as clear as day that . Sarah Jessica Parker who produced it hated the bones of Kim Catrell and that was before the racism !

Crispysausagerolls I also dislike the “top female scientist in her field who is also 22 trope”. The fact they cast a woman who was actually old enough to have plausibly gained the qualifications and experience to be an astrophysicist and elite instructor might be Top Gun’s only redeeming feature.

Also agree that Uma Thurman’s character would have needed a substantial amount of physio to recover from such a long coma. Can you imagine if Quentin Tarantino made a film about physio therapy?

I didn’t like American Beauty. When I watched it first, the whole thing about his daughter’s friend left a nasty feeling of.... just, ugh (I have very personal reasons for that be so utterly distasteful) And why did the whole midlife crisis thing involve being ‘cool’ like he wasn’t able to be as a younger man?
It’s become an even stronger dislike now I’m 52. Sure, one’s 50’s are a time to look back wistfully on the past, and remember what you did, and regret what you didn’t do, but it’s rose tinted, and we forget the bad stuff. My late teens/early adult years were a lot of fun, but a hell of a lot more of it wasn’t, and I’d rather not go through that again. I’m perfectly happy where I am.
Also, I have an 18 year old daughter and stepdaughter. The feelings of revulsion become even more strong when I think he’s a man the same age as me with a girl the same age as my daughters.
A lot of 80’s films I loved at the time are just horrid now. Top Gun mesmerised is at the time, but take away the planes and guns (which actually ARE still cool), and the rest is crap. I suppose it’s the whole ‘never go back’ thing.

On a different note, I’ve met a few fighter pilots in my life, and none of them are cocky little shits like Tom Cruise. Yes they revel in doing a job that 99% of us can’t do, and would love to do, but most of them drive sensible cars, live in married quarters and have very ordinary lives.

Before I go and calm down, Tom Cruise’s acting style is as hackneyed as Hugh Grant’s. Most of his characters have been cocky little shit types, morphing into irritating, wannabe alpha types. He is lucky that he permanently looks about 13, but when the Picture of Dorian Cruise falls over, he will age 90 years overnight, and his creaking, dyed hair man of action schtick will fizzle out.

Face Off - John Travolta and Nick Cafe. It's such a stupid idea. They end up surgically swapping faces, and yet his wife couldn't tell it was a different bloke, especially in bed? JT & NC are hardly same build, height, voice, not to mention like EVERYTHING ELSE! Just typing this now is pissing me off 😆

Mama Mia - I lost all respect for Colin Firth who, up to that point, I admired as a cool and excellent actor. I was embarrassed for him...for all of them. The acting was embarrassing too. Unless it was meant to be like that?

Also,Taken - my stomach clenched from the beginning and didn't relax till the end.

Oh, and The Holiday. Cameron Diaz, Jack Black, Jude Law and Kate Winslet. The acting from beginning to end was absolutely horrendous, embarrassing and painful. Badly mis-cast and an unbelievable story. Awful. Cringe cringe

Titanic; completely agree with other posters. And The Perfect Storm! I remember watching that and wondering what was the point as they all died!
Another one for me that no one has mentioned is Atonement; the book confused me and the film just gave me the rage! All the imagined stuff by the protagonist when the couple had actually died.......argh!

JT & NC are hardly same build, height, voice, not to mention like EVERYTHING ELSE!

To be fair, they were given a voice implant - remember NC (as Sean Archer) having to repeat 'I could eat a peach for hours' while they fiddled with the computer?

It's his hands I thought would be the giveaway to Sean's wife. But the implication was that Sean's wife preferred Castor Troy's skills in the bedroom, so presumably she was so carried away with lust that she didn't notice.

I really like Face/Off so I'm happy to explain the anomalies!

I fucking LOVED The Favourite.

Thought it was ace.

I also love English Patient

I'll phone a taxi...

Oh jeez! There was another one from about 15 years ago, if not longer. It had Sadie Frost, Jude Law, Ray Winstone and various ‘Cool Britannia’ types in it. It was all about who killed Jude Law’s character. He was a young film maker who’d recorded his life on film, and the whole tale was told with these clips. Because it was such a cool film, all the characters had their own names. It was billed as ‘brilliant’, ‘experimental’, ‘hilarious (a sure sign it won’t be), etc. In fact it was tedious, smug, self indulgent- a real vanity project.
Cannot for the life of me remember it’s title, so if any of you can it’ll be nice if you could tell me. I’m working a late shift on a busy high risk ward this afternoon and it’ll haunt me to the point of affecting the care I give...

Xornorph I think you saw Love, Honour and Obey. It was released in 2000 and starred most of what we used to call the "Primrose Hill Set". It does indeed sound irredeemably awful.

VanyaHargreeve I loved The Favourite too, and The Lobster by the same director. But I can see why some people wouldn't have done. It was very artful and gimmicky in parts.

@Xornorph it was probably Final Cut
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_Cut_(1998_film)

Not seen it myself, but I’m stuck at home on the sofa with a poorly child and CBBC, so have better to do than google...

*nothing better

Mrsfrumble! That’s it: Final Cut!
Thank you! You might have saved lives this afternoon...😜😏

That was def Final Cut. I have seen. Bloody awful film. By coincidence I just read a review of it in an old Empire magazine. It got one star out of 5 and that was obviously very reluctantly .

@icelolly99 I have to disagree re Atonement... Well, the novel at least! I remember I used to read it during college free periods when my friends were in class, and the reveal that the couple were dead and their lives had been imagined by the sister hit me like a ton of bricks. I remember sitting in the college library sobbing trying to hide my face!
Haven't seen the film version though... Too traumatised from the book!