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Films that give you the rage!

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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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BrendasUmbrella · 08/11/2019 15:53

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.

Nooo they have not. At least not in the one Daniel Craig Bond film I saw that featured a victim of sex trafficking who gets used for sex by Bond (he literally walks into the shower she's in and shags her, I don't think a word was exchanged) then she is shot and killed shortly after.

slipperywhensparticus · 08/11/2019 16:15

Gamer? The film was about a prison where they could be controlled in a fight by outside people if they won they got free? Thst part was good but inbetween there were shots of fat men masterbating controlling women making them do things for money 🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢

SnugglySnerd · 08/11/2019 16:52

Cloverfield. The shaky camera made me feel nauseous. I saw it at the cinema and spent the whole time staring at the fire exit sign to avoid vomiting.

cathpinc · 08/11/2019 17:18

I think that what really annoyed me about Titanic was how very, very bad some all of the dialogue was. There was so much painstaking historical detail but the human element was solid cheddar. I watched it first time round thinking, FFS, all these crazily expensive effects means there'll probably never be another film made about the Titanic, and the dialogue/plot absolutely sucks.

Then I realised James Cameron had written the script. He probably had to fight Celine Dion to sing the theme toon too.

TheHodgeoftheHedge · 08/11/2019 17:24

French and Saunders did the best pisstake of Titanic. I far prefer it to the Cameron film.

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crispysausagerolls · 08/11/2019 17:30

TheHodgeoftheHedge

Need to watch that!

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SunnyFlover · 08/11/2019 17:31

I just live this feed....😂 Made my chuckle !

La la land... should have been called Bla bla land. Seriously boring and so overrated!

Mrsfrumble · 08/11/2019 17:33

Yes cathpinc, in that respect Titanic reminds me of the Star Wars prequels; so much potential in terms of budget, effects, cast, anticipation etc. If only the egomaniac directors had allowed someone else to write the script! It’s pretty well known that the original Star Wars movie would have been a rambling mess without Marcia Lucas (George’s wife at the time) who edited it.

On the subject of James Cameron, Avatar was wank.

Millie20202 · 08/11/2019 17:41

Us
Came out last year I think? Looked so good on the trailer. It got to the bit where lupitas nyongos character ( the clone thing or whatever it was) started speaking and I burst out laughing. She tried to sound scary but it just didn’t work at all.
Load of absolute bollocks.

TheHodgeoftheHedge · 08/11/2019 17:46

crispysausagerolls It doesn’t seem to be on YouTube anymore! But it pics out everything we’ve moaned about and more.

slipperywhensparticus · 08/11/2019 17:54

Cloverfield! I forgot about that I tried to watch it then hurled spectacularly I never did see the ending

Vanilla sky I stopped watching where tom cruise was about to jump? Never saw the end of that either

iklboo · 08/11/2019 18:06

@Millie20202 - she wasn't trying to sound scary, she was trying to sound like she'd not spoken out loud properly in decades / had damaged vocal cords.

MozzchopsThirty · 08/11/2019 18:09

The PC-ness on MN drives me insane!!!

Clearly none of you were ever young or impressionable
Wouldn't life be boring if all the men were in touch with their feminine side, the women were the high earners bla bla blah

American Beauty is one of my all time favourite films

And watching pretty woman / top gun / dirty dancing has not led me down a dark path in adulthood

HearMeSnore · 08/11/2019 18:29

Lockout.
I watched it because I adore Guy Pearce, and his wisecracking rough-diamond character was the best thing about it.

But I'm also a scientist and a science fiction nut...and when two people basically fell off a space station and landed with a bit of a bump on an American Freeway...my rage was a thing of epic proportions.

slipperywhensparticus · 08/11/2019 18:41

Having likes and dislikes is nothing to do with being PC?

EoinMcLovesCakeJumper · 08/11/2019 18:45

Wouldn't life be boring if all the men were in touch with their feminine side, the women were the high earners bla bla blah

Sounds great to me, why would you think that would be a bad thing?

Seems like a weird reaction to have to a few people on the internet not liking your favourite film. Why not join in with the spirit of the thread and say which ones you don't like? It's more fun than being nice about things.

Snoozysnoozy · 08/11/2019 19:06

Urban Legends 2.

My mate and I really enjoyed the 1st film. After seeing that pile of shite I genuinely felt I'd wasted 2 hours of my life.

Spanneroo · 08/11/2019 19:39

I can't believe Passengers hasn't come up yet. Painfully boring film. And such a weird premise: creepy pervy guy fantasises over a woman he doesn't know, then essentially condemns her to a lonely death...

CantspellWontspell · 08/11/2019 19:45

I just watched mother! this afternoon. What a pile of stinking shite and grim to boot.

Nextphonewontbesamsung · 08/11/2019 19:52

101 Dalmatians - the Glenn Close remake. Almost the opening scene when Pongo goes chasing Perdy through the park and the two humans meet - the seasons change from high summer to late autumn back to high summer again within the space of 5 minutes. All shown in glorious technicolour by the leaves on the trees.

Something similar happens in the Bridget Jones film where Colin Firth and Hugh Grant have a fight outside the Serpentine Gallery.

TigerJoy · 08/11/2019 19:54

Passengers has come up and yes it absolutely gives me the rage. Chris Pratt's character is a CREEP!!!

TigerJoy · 08/11/2019 19:59

Oh god Hateful Eight i couldn't stand. Only watched 20 mins and it was just dripping in misogyny and racism. And the dialogue....it just seemed so pleased with itself and self-referential

TheSandman · 08/11/2019 20:03

Lockout.
I watched it because I adore Guy Pearce, and his wisecracking rough-diamond character was the best thing about it.

But I'm also a scientist and a science fiction nut...and when two people basically fell off a space station and landed with a bit of a bump on an American Freeway...my rage was a thing of epic proportions.

Is that the one where the orbiting space prison crashes into the ISS which they only notice minutes before the impact because someone looks out of a window? The one with space suits with built-in parachutes - just in case?

That one had me throwing things at the screen and swearing a lot.

Gamer lost me when the 'hero' drunk on spirits pissed in the fuel tank of a long abandoned car to transfer the alcohol in his body into it so he could...
...oh for crying out loud.

There is a rule of thumb that says 'Any SF Film Set in a Prison is Shit'. I have yet to see one that isn't. (Except maybe Wedlock, that at least had an interesting idea at its core.)

HearMeSnore · 08/11/2019 20:12
  • 'Any SF Film Set in a Prison is Shit'

Alien 3 comes immediately to mind. What a travesty that was. Vandalism, I'd call it.

schoolsoutforever · 08/11/2019 20:17

Mama Mia also. Just no story that you can believe in. Closely followed by The Greatest Showman. For the same reasons. I'm not a fan of musicals.