# Film characters that made you very, very angry. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 3, 2007, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/film-characters-that-made-you-very-very-angry/421384 "2007-10-03T15:03:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Figaro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ea666f/32.png) [@Figaro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Figaro)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2007, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/film-characters-that-made-you-very-very-angry/421384/101 "2007-10-05T18:27:28Z")
[QUOTE=TheLoadedDog] Marvin the Martian? 😃 [/QUOTE] {{Earth-Shattering KABOOOM!}} ---
**Author:** ![Poysyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Poysyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poysyn)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2007, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/film-characters-that-made-you-very-very-angry/421384/102 "2007-10-05T18:29:44Z")
Jude Law in \* Closer\* ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2007, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/film-characters-that-made-you-very-very-angry/421384/103 "2007-10-05T19:06:30Z")
[QUOTE=OneCentStamp] …creating the archetypal slacker anti-hero protagonist of virtually every teen/college film of the 40 years since. I mean, can we not draw a line straight from Ben in _The Graduate_ to Largeman in _Garden State_? 😛 [/QUOTE] True enough, but most other slacker anti-heroes have some sort of pseudo-charm, or are at least _interesting_ assholes. Hoffman’s character doesn’t have even the minor grace of being annoying in a funny or clever fashion. ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2007, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/film-characters-that-made-you-very-very-angry/421384/104 "2007-10-05T19:08:56Z")
[QUOTE=Miller] True enough, but most other slacker anti-heroes have some sort of pseudo-charm, or are at least _interesting_ assholes. Hoffman’s character doesn’t have even the minor grace of being annoying in a funny or clever fashion. [/QUOTE] This is true. But the soundtrack is just _so damn good!_ 😛 ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2007, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/film-characters-that-made-you-very-very-angry/421384/105 "2007-10-05T19:19:02Z")
Duc d’Anjou in **Elizabeth**. Not only was he a jerk, but he was a supremely annoying jerk. Pretty much a standard role for Vincent Cassell, though. ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2007, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/film-characters-that-made-you-very-very-angry/421384/106 "2007-10-05T19:36:21Z")
[QUOTE=Lemur866] If she’s really so scummy, why does Forrest love her? [/QUOTE] Because Forrest is an idiot? ---
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2007, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/film-characters-that-made-you-very-very-angry/421384/107 "2007-10-05T20:44:08Z")
Well, yeah, he’s an idiot. But he’s a Hollywood idiot, a holy fool, rather than a realilife idiot. I mean, I can watch idiots doing idiotic stuff all day for free just by looking around the office, why would I want to watch a movie about a real-life idiot? Forrest is presented as the idiot who always does the right thing as contrasted to smart people who figure out clever reasons to do the wrong thing . That means that it is right for him to love Jenny, because he always does the right thing. Except Jenny is a miserable bitch who doesn’t deserve his love. Which implies to me a scriptwriter with unresolved anger issues towards women. ---
**Author:** ![Viridiana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/ebca7d/32.png) [@Viridiana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Viridiana)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2007, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/film-characters-that-made-you-very-very-angry/421384/108 "2007-10-05T20:54:49Z")
[QUOTE=Poysyn] Jude Law in \* Closer\* [/QUOTE] I was gonna say, **everyone** in _Closer_. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2007, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/film-characters-that-made-you-very-very-angry/421384/109 "2007-10-05T21:21:34Z")
Brenda Blethyn’s and Michael Caine’s characters in _Little Voice_. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2007, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/film-characters-that-made-you-very-very-angry/421384/110 "2007-10-06T00:44:20Z")
TNT has been airing _Forrest Gump_ a lot lately, and I’m starting to question Jenny’s motives at the end. At first I thought, okay, here’s a screwed up girl who finally realizes the one guy who would never hurt her is the one she’s supposed to be with. But then I thought that she might be finally settling down with Forrest not because he’s her baby’s daddy or because she has HIV, but because he’s very very rich. I think it was pointed out before on the boards that in _Saving Private Ryan_, the grave-digging Nazi and the Nazi who kills Melosh are not the same. I thought they were too, but someone was kind enough to post the links to the actors and they’re not the same. Ivylad thinks Upham is despicable, I think Upham was in way over his head and should have stayed where he was, making maps and translating safe behind the lines. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2007, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/film-characters-that-made-you-very-very-angry/421384/111 "2007-10-06T01:54:21Z")
[QUOTE=Zoggie] The Natalie Portman character in “Garden State.” She was just a little too precious and cutesy…and her habit of making weird sounds when she felt unoriginal did NOT impress me. [/QUOTE] You’re no longer one of my favorite posters. ---
**Author:** ![bathsheba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9e8a1a/32.png) [@bathsheba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bathsheba)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2007, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/film-characters-that-made-you-very-very-angry/421384/112 "2007-10-06T02:30:52Z")
The character Kathy, played by Jennifer Connelly in **House of Sand and Fog**. Whining to people that she didn’t open her mail, how was she to know her house was being repossessed, even if she knew that was the consequence of not paying the tax bill which she was too lazy to follow up on? Then Ben Kingsley and his wife are kind to her and she repays them by screwing their lives right up. And then after they are all freakin’ dead she decides the house isn’t hers after all. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH. ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2007, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/film-characters-that-made-you-very-very-angry/421384/113 "2007-10-06T03:44:49Z")
[QUOTE=bathsheba] The character Kathy, played by Jennifer Connelly in **House of Sand and Fog**. Whining to people that she didn’t open her mail, how was she to know her house was being repossessed, even if she knew that was the consequence of not paying the tax bill which she was too lazy to follow up on? Then Ben Kingsley and his wife are kind to her and she repays them by screwing their lives right up. And then after they are all freakin’ dead she decides the house isn’t hers after all. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH. [/QUOTE] Yes. The one person who gets shot in that movie is the one who least deserves it. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2007, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/film-characters-that-made-you-very-very-angry/421384/114 "2007-10-06T04:14:28Z")
[QUOTE=ivylass] I think it was pointed out before on the boards that in _Saving Private Ryan_, the grave-digging Nazi and the Nazi who kills Melosh are not the same. I thought they were too, but someone was kind enough to post the links to the actors and they’re not the same. Ivylad thinks Upham is despicable, I think Upham was in way over his head and should have stayed where he was, making maps and translating safe behind the lines. [/QUOTE] Ah, but the grave-digging soldier _was_ in that squad that was taking pot shots at Miller at the bridge, eventually killing him. As Reiben predicted, he was scooped up by his own guys and thrown back on the line. I agree that Upham was way over his head and therefore, not hateful. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/film-characters-that-made-you-very-very-angry/421384.md?page=5)