To be fair, though, there were a lot of pert boobies in that movie.
I’m not aware the film really has a point, but the scene at the end with the explosion and collapsing building was scored and presented in such a way that it struck me as glorification.
Audition
I understand that some of the flashbacks toward the end were supposedly from the guy’s point of view and some were from the director’s omnipresence. But it got all tangled up. I found myself on more than one occassion thinking, “he can’t be flashing back to that! He wasn’t there when it happened!”
I know a lot of people love this movie, but to me it was sloppy filmmaking. You can show me anything, as long as the internal logic holds. But the guy was having flashbacks to things that there was no way he could have seen. I watched the ending twice and again with the commentary (where, at one point Miike says something along the line of “Here, the screenwriter must have been on drugs.”)
As I said before, a director can show me anything, as long as he earns the right. I don’t believe he did. The ending seemed gratuitous. An in your face just to see how much can the viewer take. If it was set up better, I’d be all over it. But don’t jerk me along and then throw something like that at me.
I also did not like Seven, for much the same reason as posted by WordMan
Did something about the movie piss you off, or are you just saying it sucked?
I found it watchable, if not particularly great.
If I have to choose between “it sucked” and “it pissed me off” I’ll be here all day trying to decide. I had seen Boothe in several roles that really impressed me with his overall talents. He was the Jim Jones I had read about and found so weird. His part of Southern Comfort was also impressive.
But his role in that abomination (EF) had him portraying somebody totally stupid, and I didn’t want to watch any more of that than I had already seen.
It may have been my mood at the time, and maybe I could see that flic now and not be as enraged as I was then. If it comes on cable, I may give it a try. But I will definitely not be wasting a Netflix choice on it.
The Rotten Tomatoes page on Emerald Forest makes me wonder if I was just in a bad mood that day. The first few minutes pissed me off enough that I didn’t want to wait to see if it got any better. It must have! 
Birdcage pissed me off. I’ll admit it had some funny moments and Williams and Lane both gave good performances with what they had to work with, but the cowardice pissed me off. In the original French film and in the Broadway play, Alb(ert) and Armand are every bit a couple. The son, though understandably embarassed by his unusual family when his super conservative in-laws are coming, at least in private loves Albin/Albert and sees him as a co-parent. There is a physical chemistry between the two middle aged lovers in the original film and the show.
In Birdcage, Williams seems as ashamed of his lover as everybody else is. There’s only one scene when you glimpse even slight tenderness between them. In the original film Armand gets beaten up for taking a bully to task for making fun of Albin while in the movie it’s changed to just Armand being macho for no real reason that causes the fight. I thought that the whole thing waaaay underplayed the fact that this is a couple that has been together for 20 years (since the 1970s, when gay visibility was almost nil and marriage and adoption were just not even issues) and they have a major bond. Like any couple together for a long time they get on each other’s nerves and sometimes may want to kill each other, but ultimately there’s love and comfort at the basis. I thought they could have shown more of this without sacrificing any of the humor instead of just making Nathan Lane a simplistic drag queen joke. (I’ve read that Lane also was irked by the final script and wanted Albert to have more guts and dignity [the whole “I Am What I Am” scene from the musical was nowhere in the movie] and Williams [who’s an actor first and a wildly annoying self caricature second] was more than willing to play up the romance part, but the producers and elderly screenwriters were uncomfortable with it.)
Whenever anybody learns I’m gay and makes a comment like “I just loved the movie Birdcage”, I groan.
I know I’ve made the same post on many different similar threads, so I’ll keep it brief.
Face/Off So many plot holes…brain hurts…
First Knight. I think it was the hand-held cross-bows, and the horse-drawn getaway boat. If the director wanted to make a 1920’s gangster movie, why did he set it in Camelot?
I’ll give you three:
Fame: Good Night! We’re self-absorbed, whiney, stupid, purberty ridden kids, but that’s okay, because we’re aritsts, and that excuses everything. What a steaming pile of sh—aving cream.
American Beauty: If you think drugs, pedophila, and self-absorbtion are okay as result of a mid-life crisis, then, you need a psychiatrist – not a doobie and not doing a nubile teen.
A Chorus Line: I HATED the play and had no expectation of liking the movie, but somehow, Michael Douglass actually made it worse! Again, I think you’ll see a common thread in things that piss me off: Vain, self-absorbed BS hiding as artistic temprament —no way!
The Incredibles. If you have inborn talent you will be a hero, and if you don’t you will never amount to anything no matter how hard you try.
I would say your issue is with the concept of the super-hero, as opposed to this one movie. Batman may be the only example of a self-made super-hero.
Moulin Rouge.
Terrible acting. Godawful singing. Butchering of at least 3 billion songs at my last count. Ugly, ugly costumes. The entire movie looked like a really tacky drag queen just threw up all over it. And sounded that way, too. Generally, when I find out someone liked this movie, it means we can’t be friends.
I’d go on, but this isn’t the Pit.
Dead Poets Society irritated the crap out of me because the audience was supposed to applaud Robin Williams’ character’s narrow-minded view of what poetry was supposed to be. Sure, it’s foolish to use a graph to measure the success of a poem, but it’s just as ludicrous to throw out the collected works of Alexander Pope and other non-Romantic poets in response. Meet the new status quo, same as the old status quo.
I had friends who loved that movie, and I ended up seeing it four times, and I hated it even more each time. (In part because of the ridiculous crown of thorns Christ imagery with the doomed character, though I only vaguely remember that anymore.)
I liked Broken Flowers. Thought the ending was perfect, though I can see how it would piss some people off.
I was disappointed with Fight Club because I thought it started out strong - pointing out the idiocy of consumer culture and the self-help movement - then devolved into increasingly unbelievable scenarios. I didn’t buy the idea that men would pay for the opportunity to get the shit kicked out of them, and by the time the “they were the same person” M. Knight Shyamalan-style gimmicky twist came around, there weren’t enough eyes in my head to roll.
I also agree with Audition, as well as all the rest of the new Asian “transgressive” cinema (Suicide Club, Oldboy, etc.). I don’t mind nonlinear plots, but I do mind them when they serve no purpose.
Just plain beautiful! I will be using this. Guaranteed! (Not necessarily about this particular movie, but when the item in question is so vile that I can’t tolerate the notion that another human being liked it.)
But The Incredibles is the only superhero movie I’ve seen where they make a villain out of the guy who honestly tries, whose “evil plan” is to give EVERYONE superpowers. Oh noes! We must protect our superiority and power over the masses!
But she’s not a nubile teen. She has just decided that if Lester is interested it’s time to stop lying about being a nubile sex goddess and actually do it. Then she freaks out.
Lester’s the hero of American Beauty for a reason.
I think the movie that pissed me off the most was Super Size Me.
You cheated Spurlock, admit it!
Go right ahead! 
Sadly, it is all too true, all too often.
Another movie that just pisses me off is Sideways. Seriously, I just do. Not. Get it. Why are two jerks (I mean, one of them steals from his mother like 10 minutes into the movie! The other guy’s entire mission on their adventure is to cheat on his wife-to-be!) careening about drunkenly and just generally acting like asshats funny? I did not crack a smile a single time during the entire movie. Unfortunately, I can’t apply the “if you like this, we can’t be friends” to this movie, because it was recommended to me by several close friends. They’re otherwise intelligent people, so I’ve chosen to forgive them. 
I don’t know. His “evil plan” is to send a giant robot in to cause mayhem and death, and then swoop in and stop it, for his own self-glorification.
That’s villain stuff.
I don’t get that Mr Incredible rejected him because he had no powers, he rejected him because he was a creepy stalker punk fanboy.
Thank you! I feel the exact same way, though you summed it up better than I would’ve. I also agree with what’s been said about Se7en, it was definitely built up on disgust and shock value. I saw it once, will never see it again.
My nomination will be Palindromes by Todd Solondz. Much like Se7en,much of the film is just visual plays with the viewers head and using your uncomfortable reaction not as a way to reach the point, but as the point. Annoying.’