Yahoo Lifestyle 28 Movies That Made People Irrationally Angry Due To Terrible Twists, Unlikeable Characters, And Massive Plotholes
Recently, Reddit user Whitino asked about movie plots that made people angry, and people had lots of opinions on fury-inducing films. Here are some movies that made people legitimately angry.*
We also used responses from this Reddit thread.
1.The Game
"Ah yes, we, the family of a man who watched his father die by suicide at 48, are worried about him as he approaches his 48th birthday. I know! Let's sign him up for psychological torture disguised as a 'reality game,' rope his brother in, get a girl to date him as part of it too, and drive him to try to kill himself the same way his father did, and as he falls through the breakaway glass roof, we reveal our surprise birthday party?
No. Fuck everyone involved. He should have left the party and cut them all out. Fuck that whole movie. Why wasn't he angry????"
2.Jurassic World
"The movie is a soulless cash grab that failed to understand what made Jurassic Park good in the first place. It felt like a 'movie by committee' where every studio note made it in. It is a shallow, hollow, and cynical exploitation of a franchise that shouldn't have been resurrected."
3.Godzilla
"Bryan Cranston was featured in all of the trailers heavily. I expected a new take on Godzilla ... where it focused heavily on the character drama of overcoming a disaster of this scale.
The scene with Cranston waiting for his wife running down the hallway is still one of my favorite scenes of all time in any movie. Then he sees her at the door and says goodbye. I was like, 'Shit, this movie is exactly what I wanted.'
He then dies 10 minutes later in the movie...in the worst way possible. You then follow a cast of characters you give absolutely zero fucks about.
I was so salty that Cranston died that I hated pretty much everything in the rest of the movie. But on top of it...to pull a bait and switch like that..."
4.Into the Wild
"Basically any film or book that portrays Christopher McCandless in a positive light. The man was an idiot who, with zero training, thought he could make it in the Alaskan wilderness. And people think he's some hero for being an absolute dumbass."
"The quote from Peter Christian sums it up for me:
'When you consider McCandless from my perspective, you quickly see that what he did wasn't even particularly daring, just stupid, tragic, and inconsiderate. First off, he spent very little time learning how to actually live in the wild. He arrived at the Stampede Trail without even a map of the area. If he had a good map, he could have walked out of his predicament using one of several routes that could have been successful.'"
5.The Mist
"The ending of The Mist always gets me. The sheer hopelessness and the gut-wrenching decision the main character has to make left me so angry. It felt like a total punch to the gut, and the emotional manipulation was just too much."
"A Beautiful Mind made it seem like schizophrenia can be overcome by Sheer Gutsy Willpower (just tell yourself the hallucination isn't there!). I hated that he (Ron Howard) did such a huge disservice to an already suffering population. It's been 24 years and I'm still pissed."
7.Joker
"Joker made me upset — the incessant borrowing from much better films annoyed me from the start, but the extremely inauthentic and insincere 'commentary' on mental health tacked on to give this multi-million dollar piece of product some bullshit social relevancy was just aggravating."
"I listened to an interview with Todd Phillips on Fresh Air. When Terry Gross asked if he had a specific mental illness or illnesses in mind when building the character, and he said, 'No,' it really hammered home just how shallow that movie is."
8.It Chapter 2
"Pretty much everything about it, from completely abandoning the themes of the novel, to the hilariously badly designed CGI monsters, to Pennywise's goofy ass face and dialogue, de-aging 15-year-olds, that stupid ending, unlikable characters, the casual romanticizing of suicide... just no.
It's an absolute waste of over three hours. I would rather watch part two of the miniseries, and that's really saying something."
9.Interstellar
"Interstellar is a dumb fucking movie. It masks itself as a hard sci-fi for 80 minutes and then becomes pure fantasy drama. Everyone is so quick to tell you you didn't understand it. too. That, 'No, no, the wormhole was put there by FUTURE HUMANS.' No, YOU don't understand it, apparently.
Because the wormhole and the black hole are two separate objects. One of which was put there a few years before the start of the movie. The other is a billions+ years old supermassive celestial object.
The object that is billions of years old....is linked to his daughter's bedroom? And can also travel back in time? Exactly 53 years (the time spent by ORBITING the black hole)? Also, it grants you the power to park tractors in a semi-circle.
No other powers, though, because that would be fucking ridiculous. (Sarcasm.)
Oh sorry I forgot — 'The answer is love.'
Guess I can jump into a black hole and, because love solves gravity, I can see my childhood dog Ruffles again? Think my personal black hole will bring me to his doghouse in the year 1999?
Maybe if we calculate it right and find the right black hole, we can send Morse code to Hitler's art professors and let him pass. We just need to find someone who really loved their great-grandmother, the Austrian art professor. FUCK."
10.Remember Me
"It was genuinely a good movie.. until the extra four minutes of footage at the end. ... Basically, the movie was done, and then they added some dumb ending to pander to American emotions. It was completely unnecessary, and I've been mad about it for almost a decade."
"There was some Robert Pattinson cash grab movie that was completely forgettable if not for the last shot of it being him in the Twin Towers on 9/11. Milking a tragedy for your shit movie like that is just wrong."
11.Sully
"It was a complete distortion of the after-accident events, which were fully documented. As a pilot and son of a pilot/aviation safety expert, I was pissed."
12.Lucy
"I went into it blind and got irrationally angry at all the shit science it was using to prop up its plot for what was ostensibly a sci-fi movie.
Maybe if I'd been primed to think of it as solid B-movie territory, but I went in thinking it was sci-fi.
It started with the 10% of your brain BS, to ... actually, you can travel back in time now, to hey, 100% of your brain means you're a cosmic entity! Oh, and now she's a flash drive...what?
It was so unbelievably dumb and was even further dumbed down by Morgan Freeman speaking slowly to us to make sure we understood how unbelievably dumb the plot was. It still gets me worked up every time I recall the movie."
13.The Predator
"The Predator made me pretty upset. The plot is half baked and nonsensical, the characters were only present to make shitty jokes, the tension is gone, and the plot point of Predators upgrading themselves along with the depiction of autism throughout the film pretty much killed it for me."
"Imagine pitching that movie lmfao: 'The predators are now looking to literally weaponize autism.'"
"I mean, as an autistic person, it was pretty hilarious when they basically said we were aliens! But yeah, I actually went to the cinema for that and paid legal tender to see it, which is funnier than the film's jokes when I think about it."
14.Downsizing
"The entire movie Downsizing. I would pay Amazon the amount I paid for the movie so they could remove it from my memory. It feels like an 8-hour-long movie of Matt Damon’s character just not knowing what to do with himself."
15.My Sister’s Keeper
"Kate being the one to die in the movie really takes away how devastating the end of the book was."
16.I Care A Lot
"That movie made me mad. I know it's on purpose, but still."
"It also made me mad because it was terribly written. The hero/villain gets away with everything in the weirdest, nonsensical ways. It's like they play it straight drama for how she treats others and the plot but then comedy when it comes to consequences."
"I don't think I've ever been more angry during a film. I just wanted them to die."
17.The Bridges of Madison County
"Not me, but my husband. The Bridges of Madison County sets him off anytime someone mentions it. He said it glorifies cheating on a spouse and traumatizing your family. I see his point…"
18.Ghostbusters ll
"It makes me so mad that they saved New York and stopped a 60-foot marshmallow man, but now they're 'frauds'...how do you fake that in 1984??? It makes no sense. You can't fake an earthquake in front of Dana's apartment complex. It always annoys me."
19.The Lion King
"I watched the new live-action The Lion King on the airplane, and I just felt repulsed by the whole thing. Everything felt lifeless and soulless. I've watched way 'worse' movies, but nothing so utterly disappointing..."
"The original is one of my all-time favorites ever, so maybe I wasn't being a fair critic(?) but holy shit, I was miserable that entire time. I was just sitting there thinking, 'The original did this better. The original did that better. and that.'
"It's a shot-for-shot remake where every single shot is inferior to the original. It really bothers me that Disney tarnishes their own legacy with such an awful cash grab idea."
20.The Final Countdown
"It was a movie about a modern aircraft carrier sent back in time to fight the Japanese in WW2. It was a dumb plot, but all I cared about was the fighter action scenes. But there were none because the movie ended just before the final battle. I HATED that movie."
21.40 Days and 40 Nights
"If you've seen it, you'll know why. ... besides the thing that makes people angry, the film is shit; it's not worth a watch."
"The punchline is that the character who is attempting celibacy gets raped while he's asleep and physically restrained, and it's treated as him failing and letting everyone down."
22.On The Line
"Oh man, I will trash this movie any chance I get because it is truly that fucking terrible: On The Line with Mel Gibson is one of the most bullshit and infuriating movies I've ever seen. The 'twist'/ending to that movie legitimately pissed me off. I was actually angry and started yelling at the TV, lol. Such a dumb fucking bullshit movie. Even now, just thinking about it makes me mad. If you want to see one of the worst movies ever made, it's this one."
23.Valkyrie
"The entire plot of this movie still makes me mad. The movie had so much potential, dealing with the individual drama of Operation Valkyrie trying to recruit senior officers. They could have gone so in-depth with people's personal struggles, their family lives, literally anything. But what plot did they focus on?
DOES THE BOMB KILL HITLER?!
I don't know how they thought this would bring any kind of tension, but I am still inexplicably mad."
24.127 Hours
"That smug look at the end in the pool with the text, 'Still goes hiking'...I yelled, 'You fucking prick!'"
25.The Last Jedi
"There's a slow-motion space chase that everyone can jump in and out of, go to other planets, and come back to. Then they are running out of fuel all the sudden (which is never mentioned in Star Wars before) so they just ram the other spaceship which they could have done from the very beginning.
They go to a pleasure planet to find the One Guy who can do something, but then find some other dude who says he can do it, so hey, let's just go with that.
Luke fucking Skywalker, who said, 'There is still good in Darth Vader, I can see it,' has a bad dream and tries to kill his nephew and burns down the whole new Jedi thing.
They set up a lot of new characters in The Force Awakens just for them to be sidelined or go down like punks.
The whole movie shit on everything before it, and fuck the twats that let it get made. (Actors were fine; the shit rolled downhill from that)."
26.And, of course...Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
"I hated it after the first sentence in the opening crawl, and absolutely nothing in the actual movie helped change that. Star Wars is a property that has so many eyeballs to help monitor a quality storyline, and everything was just so wrong."
"'Somehow Palpatine came back' was what did it for me. I knew something was off at the beginning, but it just got progressively worse, and when that line hit, I knew I was going to be in for a shit show. I was right. The only good thing I can say is that they handled the Leia scenes very well and respectfully. Wish I could say the same for the rest of the film.".
"I stretched my disbelief and reluctantly accepted Palpatine. Then, his random fleet of advanced planet-destroying Star Destroyers appeared out of nowhere, manned by what must have been millions of men. Why didn't the Emperor just do that in the first Star Wars?"
27.Crazy Stupid Love
"The C-Plot of Crazy Stupid Love is about a boy who's infatuated with his babysitter. He's stalking her, harassing her over text, telling her he masturbates to her, and publicly embarrassing her at school. She repeatedly tells him to stop and that he's making her uncomfortable.
At the climax of the movie, he's giving a speech at his middle school graduation about how he doesn't believe in true love. His dad interrupts the speech to tell him not to give up on love, and the victory of the movie is the child telling everyone that he loves the babysitter and will never stop pursuing her.
The movie treats this as a major victory and ends with her rewarding his terrible behavior by GIVING HIM HER NUDES!
So the moral of this movie ends up being that if you like someone, you're free to harass them as much as you want because as long as you call it 'love,' you'll eventually be rewarded for it, no matter how uncomfortable you're making them."
28.And finally...Friends With Benefits
"It's the movie version of r/iamverysmart. It's like every single line of dialogue tries so hard to be this witty, cynic observation, and it's so obnoxious and unnatural. Mila Kunis and especially Justin Timberlake are horrendous and unlikeable in this."
What movie made you genuinely angry? Let us know in the comments!
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