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 😁

mostly the current run of music biopics disappoint me.

we just watched 'Yesterday', far too bloody long, if they'd edited all the 'social meeja' bits they could have trimmed 20 mins off easily. Also typical Richard Curtis (Working Pictures) love element. music was ok.

could say the same for the recent Springsteen one - far too long (although he gave the music rights for free, unlike the Beatles who charged $1m)

Rocket Man - patchy.

Bohemian Rhapsody - absolutely loved it.

The English patient, nobodies leaving me in a cave, I’d crawl after them forever! Also, breaking the waves, nearly left the cinema and have never forgiven Emily Watson for that unmitigated tripe. Every time a film with her comes on I mutter darkly about BTW until my family are chorusing “get over it” well I’m not going to!

Punch Drunk Love.. about an angry man, just makes me feel angry. Hateful character, boring plot

The Break Up, ugh.
Oh, and Leaving Sarah Marshall or whatever it is called

This thread proves that Mumsnet needs a 'like' or 'dislike' option. I have loved reading this thread. Kudos OP!

And The Perfect Storm! I remember watching that and wondering what was the point as they all died!

I read the book and I couldn't see how they could make it into a film, and I was right.

The book is factual, it explains things like why in a storm you head for deep water rather than shallow and how you control a fishing boat in different sea conditions.

It also explains who you would go out fishing in less than ideal conditions who owns the boats and who trents them etc.

It would make a good documentary film but not the type of film they attempted.

@Newbie1999 I watched It Comes At Night and thought that!

The absolutely worst film (well, in terms of something you could reasonably expect to be half-decent) I've seen is The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford...not only does the title ruin any element of surprise, but it is mind-numbingly FUCKING BORING. I was begging to leave after half an hour.

A bit of fun my dad and I used to enjoy was to record and watch films given "one star" by the Radio Times, for a laugh. Most of them were barely heard of because they bombed at the box office. Two of them were Raise the Titanic, and the New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking, which was "enjoyably bad".

although he gave the music rights for free, unlike the Beatles who charged $1m

Were these films charity projects then? You sound a bit bitter about this if not.

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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

This! I have never been so disappointed in a film! Why did they tell her to speak like that? It was hilarious. Would have been terrifying if the clones hadn't spoken at all. I think they tried to be too sophisticated with the story line and it totally ruined what could have been an excellent film.

I really liked Yesterday, but must admit it did flag at times. But it's the music that makes it, so it was worth the £10m (not £1m) song rights.

Apple Records and Sony/ATV Music Publishing own the rights. The Beatles (families and surviving members) wouldn't have made anything but apparently the film was discussed with them beforehand and they were OK with it.

Mothership, my DH and I are (re)watching Yesterday right now- it's such a pleasant film!

Hey Dude

SPOILER FOR 'US'

She wasn't a clone. She was the ORIGINAL little girl. She was snatched by the doppelgänger, strangled and dragged into her world. The doppelgänger then took her place. That's why she didn't speak for ages - she was learning how to. When the ORIGINAL girl came back she had damaged vocal cords / hadn't spoken aloud for decades. That's why her voice was croaky. None of the other doppelgängers could speak coherently at all.

Any misogynistic film annoys me which is quite a few.
The dullest film I ever saw at the cinema was tinker tailor soldier spy. Lots of men in grey coats talking. Christ I was bored witless.

I liked star is born but didn’t feel sorry for him in the slightest he was abusive to her see the scene in the bath. Lost all sympathy for him then.

@Redcrayons

But the door isn't buoyant enough to float with both of them on. Been ages since I watched it but I'm sure they show him trying to get on it it dipping under the water.

@yolofish its the record company that owned the rights to beatles songs not themselves-he spoke to them about the film but they had no say over rights

The theory of everything
Loved the film but when they said the atom was split at Cambridge that ruined it. That's a lie - it happened in Manchester! Pointless lie to look good.

@SachaStark my teenage dd moaned at me for spoiling The Greatest Showman for her because when we saw the trailer for it I told her how awful he was in real life eg his first "exhibit" was an old slave woman that he bought and toured around the country, pretending that she'd been George Washington's nurse.

I'm the only person I know in RL who still hasn't seen the film.

There's quite a few films mentioned that I really like: East is East, Slumdog Millionaire, Shakespeare in Love, It's a Wonderful Life, Robin Hood Prince of Thieves (geography's all over the place but worth it for Alan Rickman), The Wizard of Oz, Jean de Florette, The Shape of Water, The Quiet Place.

Two I can't stand but don't seem to have been mentioned:

Mrs Doubtfire. It might be different if I'd seen it as a kid but I was already a mum when I watched it on dvd. It made me so angry that the responsibile parent was portrayed as boring and in need of lightning up in contrast to the bloody useless fun dad that we were supposed to admire.

Hannibal (2001 sequel to The Silence of the Lambs). Horrible, horrible film. I can't believe that I paid good money to see that at the cinema. Should have listened to the reviews.

Open Water. I was rooting for the sharks at the end. Horrible useless couple.

Sirroco I just could not follow it or warm up to any of the characters. Grim.

@QuestionableMouse - Mythbusters did a Titanic special & proved it was buoyant enough. Rose was just being a cah

The book of Esther. It's so bad I am offended that Tesco sold it to me.

It reminds me of the year my primary school teachers wrote and performed a panto for us - only their silly script and over-acting were deliberate for comedic effect.