# Movies that make you angry **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 1, 2008, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-make-you-angry/458538 "2008-08-01T20:46:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 12
**Author:** ![well\_he\_s\_back](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/3ab097/32.png) [@well\_he\_s\_back](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/well_he_s_back)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2008, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-make-you-angry/458538/221 "2008-08-07T01:43:35Z")
I was reminded today how much I hate the 2nd and 3rd “Pirates” movies. And I hate em even more because I still adore the first (the perfect popcorn movie/eye-candy movie). I hate em like Highlander fans hate that Highlander sequel … ---
**Author:** ![Dan\_Norder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4af34b/32.png) [@Dan\_Norder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dan_Norder)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2008, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-make-you-angry/458538/222 "2008-08-07T19:49:30Z")
[QUOTE=Argent Towers] There’s a situation (home invasion, rape, robbery, zombie attack, whatever) that could have been easily solved if the victims had the forethought to have a few firearms lying around, but of course they don’t, and so are helpless against their attackers. [/QUOTE] That makes you angry? That not everyone is armed to the teeth on the off chance that zombies will attack? Do you also get pissed off at movies that don’t feature zombies or robber or etc. and in which the characters don’t have guns sitting everywhere just in case they were really in a different type of movie? ---
**Author:** ![MikeG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mikeg/32/4329_2.png) [@MikeG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeG)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2008, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-make-you-angry/458538/223 "2008-08-07T20:22:37Z")
[QUOTE=well he’s back] I was reminded today how much I hate the 2nd and 3rd “Pirates” movies. And I hate em even more because I still adore the first (the perfect popcorn movie/eye-candy movie). I hate em like Highlander fans hate that Highlander sequel … [/QUOTE] “There can be only one” Man, did they get that right or what? ---
**Author:** ![jbstarr10](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b5ac83/32.png) [@jbstarr10](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jbstarr10)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2008, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-make-you-angry/458538/224 "2008-08-07T20:42:54Z")
[QUOTE=Petrobey Mavromihalis] _Ghost_ [/QUOTE] Did you post this right after Meenie7’s on purpose? If not - ooooooooh! ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2008, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-make-you-angry/458538/225 "2008-08-07T20:42:59Z")
[QUOTE=Dan Norder] That makes you angry? That not everyone is armed to the teeth on the off chance that zombies will attack? Do you also get pissed off at movies that don’t feature zombies or robber or etc. and in which the characters don’t have guns sitting everywhere just in case they were really in a different type of movie? [/QUOTE] Yeah, I agree. Besides, if the zombies, rapist/attacker, etc. gets to you before you manage to reach for your gun, or if they’re safely hidden away, what good are they? ---
**Author:** ![WarmNPrickly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d78d45/32.png) [@WarmNPrickly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WarmNPrickly)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2008, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-make-you-angry/458538/226 "2008-08-07T21:08:03Z")
[QUOTE=Rubystreak] I think Bridge to Terebithia was a horrendously sad book, though I didn’t see the movie yet. [/QUOTE] Had they advertised it as such, My wife and I would have never rented it and be fine. I can’t speak for my wife, but I don’t enjoy tragedies. Unfortunately, they advertised it as a childerens fantasy, and we were pissed. ---
**Author:** ![cactus\_waltz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@cactus\_waltz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cactus_waltz)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2008, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-make-you-angry/458538/227 "2008-08-07T22:10:48Z")
Several posters have mentioned Meet the Parents, but what angered me was **Meet the Fockers**. The concept is this: two families (the Fockers and the Byrnes) meet for the first time in conjunction to the marriage between the children of the two famlies. The families are eachothers’ opposites: the Fockers are liberal, jewish, sexually open, etc. The Byrnes are conservative, christian and reserved. After a whole lot of mess, the children marry and as a “happy ending”, Jack Byrnes (Robert De Niro) is congratulated and told by Bernie Focker (Dustin Hoffman) that he “is a Focker now!” And the movie ends by showing the different ways in how Byrnes has loosened up and gotten more liberal and more sexual. What angered me: why has Jack Byrne got to be only one to change his ways? If it’s a true merging of families, wouldn’t both families learn from one another? It’s like Byrne is seen as having only \*bad \*personal traits, as opposed to \*distuingished \*personal traits, like they serve no purpose at all. This makes it all come across as if the entire Byrnes personality and way of thinking must be corrected, which frankly, is pretty saddening, since it completely diminishes him. ---
**Author:** ![Iggins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Iggins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iggins)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2008, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-make-you-angry/458538/228 "2008-08-07T23:45:49Z")
[QUOTE=The Walking Dude] I’ll have to go with _Bridge to Terabithia_. [/QUOTE] Absolutely agree… It’s on cable all of the time and I like 90% of the movie so much, I just refuse to watch the end again. Like other people mentioned, I watched it expecting one thing, and got another. _King of Kong_ is manipulative and slanted, but I was still very angry at the end of that movie. It did it’s job well. ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2008, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-make-you-angry/458538/229 "2008-08-07T23:51:37Z")
[QUOTE=Iggins] _King of Kong_ is manipulative and slanted [/QUOTE] Don’t see that. ---
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2008, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-make-you-angry/458538/230 "2008-08-08T04:26:44Z")
[QUOTE=WarmNPrickly] Had they advertised it as such, My wife and I would have never rented it and be fine. I can’t speak for my wife, but I don’t enjoy tragedies. Unfortunately, they advertised it as a childerens fantasy, and we were pissed. [/QUOTE] I haven’t seen it, but my brother tells me he had the same experience with [Big Fish](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0319061/) ---
**Author:** ![WarmNPrickly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d78d45/32.png) [@WarmNPrickly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WarmNPrickly)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2008, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-make-you-angry/458538/231 "2008-08-08T04:45:36Z")
I’ve avoided seeing Big Fish for that reason. On the otherhand, it is quite clear the guy is dying from the beggining as I understand it. It might be watchable to me, but I don’t think its worth finding out. The movie [Jack](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_%28film%29) did that to us. A group of us went out to see it looking for lighthearted fair. All of the ads had Robbin Williams falling off his undersized chair, and goofy things happening. I know the kid was sick, so maybe we didn’t think it all through, but the ads were quite clearly presenting fun and light. Not one of us in the group gave a second thought that this was going to be anything except a fun movie. ---
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2008, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-make-you-angry/458538/232 "2008-08-08T04:51:01Z")
[QUOTE=WarmNPrickly] The movie [Jack](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_%28film%29) did that to us. A group of us went out to see it looking for lighthearted fair. All of the ads had Robbin Williams falling off his undersized chair, and goofy things happening. I know the kid was sick, so maybe we didn’t think it all through, but the ads were quite clearly presenting fun and light. Not one of us in the group gave a second thought that this was going to be anything except a fun movie. [/QUOTE] Eh, I hate it when that happens. Next time you should be sure to settle on seeing on a warm-hearted family movie [like this one](http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=sfout_rgPSA). ---
**Author:** ![WarmNPrickly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d78d45/32.png) [@WarmNPrickly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WarmNPrickly)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2008, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-make-you-angry/458538/233 "2008-08-08T04:56:31Z")
Well I don’t see how that could go wrong. I’ll tell my neighbors to bring their kids. They’ve been having trouble sleeping from nightmares lately and I think a good family film like that would wash their fears away. We could even rent it and play it at a rented cabin in the woods. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2008, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-make-you-angry/458538/234 "2008-08-08T05:10:17Z")
[QUOTE=Belrix] _Serendipity_ gave me the same reaction. Cusack & Beckinsale’s characters each dump a long-term relationship so they can hook-up with each other. Maybe it’s my history but I couldn’t get past the pain they caused their former loves. Just seemed overly selfish. Not angry about though… [/QUOTE] Ditto _Four Weddings and a Funeral._ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-make-you-angry/458538.md?page=11)