most incredibly worthless, annoying character in an otherwise decent movie?

God yes. I love that movie but loathe her character (and her). Perhaps the writers were making the point that after dozens of mistakes, Charles still had terrible taste in women.

Blaine in Pretty in Pink. He is so wet!

Nobody has mentioned Mickey Rooney’s “Mr. Yunioshi,” in *Breakfast at Tiffany’s. *A totally gratuitous, offensive, obnoxious, pointless . . . I’d need a thesaurus to list all the adjectives. And the worst thing is, the character was supposed to be funny, not offensive.

Post #9.

I think that her being an annoying little so and so was the whole point.

Every guy watching that part of the movie is wondering what kind of magic pussy she must have to keep Butch coming back. It must be amazing. :smiley:

:smack:

Well, it was worth mentioning again.

*Mos Def’s *character in 16 Blocks and his endless whining about that stupid bakery.

Bruce Willis deserves a special recognition award for not shooting him after 3 seconds.

What is with Bruce Willis that pairs him up with these annoying characters?

Oh my god, yes. PiP is my least-favorite John Hughes movie because of Blaine, and it amazes me that people find it so romantic that he and Andie get together. I mean, Blaine is a spoiled rich kid who makes no attempt to understand Andie’s world. He takes her on the most awkward date ever so she can be insulted by his preppy, snotty friends. When his best friend calls Andie “trash” to his face, all Blaine can muster is a weak “So what if I like her?” He asks her to the prom and then starts avoiding her because his idiot clique doesn’t like her. Then he has the nerve to show up at the prom and tell Andie that he “always believed in her”. Right asshole, you believed in her so much that you treated her like shit and let your friends abuse her.

Blaine is a total pussy.

I think it is that same psychological thing that has an attractive girl hang out with a not attractive girl - the thought that they will look better standing beside them. I think Willis feels he will come off the more sympathetic character in a comparison.

Well, he certainly comes off as someone with the patience of a saint given that he has so far resisted shooting them in the kneecaps.

Apparently the original ending had her ending up with Duckie, but the test audiences didn’t like it. They wanted her with Blaine. Always bugged me, too.

I know it’s weird to say, since she’s the main character and all, but Rachel Getting Married would have been a much better movie without Anne Hathaway’s character. I would have happily watched an entire movie about that wedding itself, without Kym the Drama Llama trying as hard as possible to screw it up.

I realize the origin of the character but he annoyed the living shit out of me and was completely unnecessary in the film. Him burning down the office allowed the guys to get away with their plan, but that could’ve been accomplished any number of ways. And everyone except Peter - who was clearly done in that field of work - went right back to the same type of job anyway. Plus, working in an office ever since then, I’ve had to hear crappy impressions of
“th-that’smystapler” way too many thousands of times.

All of the John Hughes comedies are pretty creepy. Look at Sixteen Candles (Jake pretty much encouraging Farmer Ted to rape his passed out girlfriend) or Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (lying, scummy weasel cons his way through the day, manipulates his best friend, bullshits his girlfriend, et cetera).

Stranger

His real last name, Coppola, and the Coppola family ties are the only reason the guy is an ‘actor’ at all.

But bad actors should be a different thread.

Nigel in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. He’s not even in the books–why does he get so much screen time?

I don’t want to spoil anything for you, but there is another major (and non-evil) female character in Crystal Skull who does have a romantic relationship with Indy.

Sheriff JW Pepper in Live and Let Die. The most stereotypical southern cracker you ever did see, horribly acted by Clifton James.

http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0000393/

icwydt :slight_smile:

I was coming in here to mention Andie McDowell’s character in "Four Weddings and a Funeral,’ but I see that it was already mentioned. I loved the movie, hated her acting and the character. She’s so in and out of the movie that she’s almost a MacGuffin, something to just move the plot along.