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 😁

Anything by Robert Altman since MASH. Especially The Player and Pret a Porter.
I hate that whole thing where influential critics label films amazing and give them 6 out of 5, etc. They heap accolades while implying that anyone who sees them for the pretentious shite they are are just too dim to get the joke.

The Dark is Rising. The book is quite brilliant- written as a childrens' book, but clever, dark, thought-provoking. It's set in Windsor, at Midwinter, and this is central to the plot; the young hero was born there, at the right time, at the right place, so that he could be there to battle the Dark. He's NOT from the US- it makes no sense at all for him to be so, but clearly for marketing purposes they changed the story. The whole thing is dismal, a waste of wonderful opportunity to make a truly memorable film.

I LOVED Atonement and the Favourite and the Lobster too.

Boyhood drove me bananas. Filmed over something like 15 years and it is SO BAD. It has such amazing actors in it and they're wasted on a series of cliches. Gave up watching it. Such a waste of such an interesting idea and so much work!

The film of Miss Peregrine had DS(14) outraged. So much changed and not for the better.

@sweetsaltypopcorn my problem was that I didnt really 'get' that they had died when I read the book; I just thought it was a bit of a weird meh story; and then I watched the film and thought what the heck! disappointment all round for me.

Oh god, Born To Run, about the Asian lad that loves Bruce Springsteen.

I cringed so hard it took about 48 hours for my spine to straighten out

City of angels. SPOILER ALERT

she is cycling on a main road with no helmet and her eyes closed. Just after Nicolas cage became human to be with her. The sheer stupidity gives me the rage.

The Holiday. Cameron Diaz’ bad acting drives me mad.

Love Actually, so misogynistic and awful with the way they talk about MM's character. I had no sympathy for Kiera's husband though. At the wedding they are talking about the prostitutes at the stag do and finding out they weren't women. Bit worse than a quick peck. The Laura Linney bits really made me want to bang their heads together as well, especially his.

What’s so bad about Dirty Dancing?

I don't understand this either. I've seen people complain that Patrick Swayze was too old to be having a relationship with a 17 year old but Jennifer Grey was actually 27 in real life. So if she was playing a character 10 years younger maybe we should assume Patrick Swayze was as well? And as for having sex after seeing Penny's abortion, maybe as a middle class doctor's daughter she had access to contraception (pill had been available since 1960 in the US, film is set in 1963). Or Johnny used a johnny. I actually think it's quite a feminist film.

Marley and Me on the other hand is shite, wife is there just to support her DH and he buys increasingly large houses while apparently only writing a 500 word column a week about their bloody dog. I was so happy when the bloody dog finally died.

Die Hard 2/3/4/5

Say no more

CountFosco but Johnny was a bit of a dick to her for the first 30 minutes of the film. He was all moody and contemptuous, and it just seemed to reinforce that message that women like men who treat them mean. I don't claim to be an authority on the fashions of the time, but I wasn't sure how authentic Baby's increasingly skimpy and tight outfits were, especially that pink vest that she wore with no bra underneath. I felt like it was a rather clumsy way to hammer home the point about how she was having this big sexual awakening, which I think was fairly obvious anyway from all the grinding they were doing.

I’m with @Linguaphile

The Holiday- it gives me the rage so much! The stereotypes, the cliches, Cameron Diaz...just utter tripe. I don’t understand why people love it so much, it’s so twee!!

A Night To Remember is the best version of the Titianic story, the Cameron version is total shit.
There are two excellent books about the tragedy that I recommend, Titanic Survivor the memoirs of Violet Jessop is about a woman who was a strewardess on the ship, and later on in WW1 was a nurse on the hospital ship Brittanic which also sunk.
The other book is And The Band Played On by Christopher Ward about his grandfather who played the violin in the orchestra, both would make excellent films.

Has anyone seen raise the titanic?
If you think titanic is bad watch this.

Oh, blimey, yeah. Truly awful, but then so is the book. A really good, but little known Titanic book is The Maiden Voyage. It was one of the earlier books about the tragedy, from the 60’s I think. I’ve got a much thumbed copy of it somewhere.

Gonna be awkward and say I preferred the ending to the film version of 'My Sister's Keeper', thought the book one was a bit unrealistic

I hated 'Unfinished Business', not funny at all - my friend eventually leaned over and asked if I wanted to leave, we couldn't get out quick enough.

Yeah, 'The Revenant' was trash - what was even the point??

I hated Reservoir Dogs. I love Pulp Fiction, but I just found Reservoir Dogs unpleasant.
And Blair Witch Project is useless, hyped to buggery. I’ve watched it during the day, at midnight, 3 in the morning, midsummer and Halloween, and at no time have I been scared at all.

Rancid Aluminium. WTF?!

Sex tape with Cameron Diaz and that tall Segal fella is so embarrassing I don't think either of them have worked since !

Some of these comments are really making me re-examine the way I look at films.

I felt like the final third of atonement was a write-off because it didn’t even happen! Like watching a film that’s then all a dream. Stupid.

I quite liked the favourite though - very watchable. Although Olivia Coleman does her very silly acting and I’m not sure I’m a fan of that.

Oh, and the hateful eight!!!!!

The blowjob thing at the end really stuck with me and made me feel sick, it was so depraved. Horrible!

Hotsauce did you only catch the end of It's A Wonderful Life? The female Librarian only exists in the alternate universe where George Bailey had never lived. In the film, pre Angel Clarence, she married Bailey as a young woman and all those kids were theirs, given Bailey decides he really had, had a 'Wonderful Life' she doesn't live out the alternative reality and so never becomes a librarian who ruins her eyesight reading books

Pretty Woman. Utter bollocks.

Sisters was rubbish.
Hated that film so much.