Deadly Accurate, Green Bean, not only did Ben Stiller’s girlfriend not stand up for him the entire visit, she began the visit by sabotaging him as they walked in the front door.“Oh, Greg doesn’t like cats,” she says to her father who dotes on his cat. grr WTF?
Knocked Up. Woman gets accidentally pregnant then decides that teh baybee (and the loser baybeedad) is what she needed all along. Kids = only fulfillment possible. Yawn.
I liked Meet the Parents, although yeah, the girlfriend is a total wimp in it. She’s so bland as well, what on earth is Greg supposed to see in her?
Ummm, Forrest Gump was shown as a not so bright guy but hardworking guy who started out making quite a bit of money as an extremely talented professional athlete.
But you’re right, athletes of Forrest Gump level intelligence never get even moderately wealthy, much less filthy, filthy rich. I’m glad our real world doesn’t work that way.
Wow…sounds like a lot of people here really don’t like some realy good movies for some really silly reasons.
Forrest Gump? Who doesn’t like Forrest Gump? It’s a cute little Robert Zemeckis feel good film about an imbecile who meaders is way through late 20th century American history. If you are pissed off about anything, be pissed off at the way Jenny screws him over through the years.
You got Mail? What do you have something against Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan you souless automatons?
Wedding Crashers? Yes, it is stupid and pointless. It’s also pretty funny. People who hate this movie probably hate any movie with Will Farrel or Vince Vaughn and nothing can be done about that.
If Meet the Parents angers you then you must really be enraged by Meet the Fockers. But I can understand the anger. In every Ben Stiller movie, he plays this mild mannered “nice guy” who continously gets fucked over in an ever escalating series of “fuck yous” from people who supposedly care for him. Meet the Parents, Aong Came Polly, Keeping the Faith, etc. And it doesn’t star Stiller, but You, Me & Dupre is the same kind of movie.
Basically the premise starts with an ordinary guy in a good relationship with a great girl. Then some change takes place exposing our hero to an ever escalating series of unreasonable situations. Through various miscommunications and misconstrued actions, the oblivious or judgemental love interest becomes more and more agitated by what she views as “innappropriate behavior”. Eventually the situation escalates to the point where he is forced to do something so over the top as bordering on psychotic to win her back…which he of course does.
These movies make me mad because they serve no purpose. There is no character growth or development. What does the protagonist learn from his experiences? That he needs to performs some extraordinary feat for his partner to give him the benefit of the doubt in what would clearly be an unacceptable situation to most reasonable people?
At least with your goofy Will Farrel movie, the characters start out absurd and realize they need to grow up in order to win their love interest.
Good gods, I’m happy to see so many people having similar reactions to mine for this film. I found myself shouting at Robert De Niro in character. Hated the way that the daughter just dumped Ben Stiller’s character into this messed up situation with no warning, and that no one in the family tried to play mediator and try to smooth out what went wrong.
I have to say that Stiller’s character did lots of really really stupid things, I have to say, stupid enough to prove the patience of any parent. He got a good helping of anger as well.
Yeah. Thank goodness that people in real life don’t love their kids.
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I think you misunderstood the movie (or I did). The son isn’t embarresed by his parents, Calista isn’t embarresed by them either. The kid knows that if his fiance’s parents (a conservative politician) find out, they won’t allow the marrige. Both because of their personal values and the because they’ll lose the election if something like this went public. Nathan and Robin rearrange their whole lives to appease her parents. They are doing it because they love their son. It had homophobic subtext, that’s for sure, but it was coming from the soon to be in-laws, not the kids.
That and if they didn’t do it, you wouldn’t really have a movie.
Wow. I’m sure glad that you know us better than we know ourselves. I never even considered the idea that I might want to consult you about my movie opinions before posting them. Thanks for clarifying that. I guess us soulless automatons (are there any souled automatons out there?) should know better. Mea culpa mea culpa. :rolleyes:
Who would have thought a thread about movies that make you angry would provoke rage? :dubious:
The Passion of the Christ. None of the Gospels give a blow by blow account of Jesus’ torture. Plus, the way the movie was marketed to right wing Christians.
Sure thing man…that must be it. Don’t pull a muscle patting yourself on the back, okay? I don’t know what the medical coverage is for movie critics…
Nope. You’re intentionally misreading what I said to mock it. But you already knew that.
First of all, it’s Will Ferrell, Ferrell, Ferrell, Ferrell!!!
Not “FARRELL!”
Second of all, I love Mel Gibson as an actor and director - I honestly do, I think most of his movies are great - but I strongly suspect that he has a room in his house where he ties himself up with spiked chains and masturbates while watching The Passion of the Christ and slapping his own nuts with a barbed whip.
That movie was nothing more than a high-budget simulated snuff film.
This is a digression but it never ceases to amaze me how some denominations of Christianity literally fetishize Christ’s torture. As a history student I’ve read some fucked up stuff. Long before J.G. Ballard was writing Crash, the Moravian church would sing hymns about how they wanted to kiss and lick the “side-hole” (their term,) the wound in Christ’s side where he was penetrated by the Roman’s spear. Note, this is not a dig at any religions - I’m just pointing out a fact.
As for a movie that made me angry…Jurassic Park 2: The Lost World. By the end of the movie, I was rooting for the T-rex to eat Vince Vaughn. He and the female dino scientist were basically murderers.
I think that’s a completely innacurate and overly politicized view of the movie. The insertion of Gump into the historical scenes is a gimmick, a time-frame reference point.
The movie is about love, friendship, devotion and overcoming adversity.
Forrest Gump certainly didn’t “sit there” and watch history! He fought in Vietnam, he played football, ping-pong…
As far as the riches thing goes, that part is indeed farfetched…but psst! It’s a movie!
I don’t get the logic the haters of this movie have. It was fun, funny, touching and heartfelt.
There is no logic to it. The resident movie critic admitted he just had a gut-level dislike for the movie and sat down and invented a reason for it afterward. Apparently, that’s state of the art for movie criticism nowadays, or so I am told.
Ditto the “Meet The Parents” hate. It’s a movie! A comedy! So by definition it is NOT reality! The comedy value in the movie lies in the impossible situations Greg Fokker is placed in! The assholish nature of Deniro’s character is an intentionally-aggravating plot device. There would be no tension in “meeting the parents” if Deniro’s character were some normal nice guy schmoe! There would have been no movie, period!
My god, let it GO already.
There have been several movies which I’ve either hated, or made me angry, or elicited some other reaction which I could not explain until after I’d given it some thought. It happens. I hated Forrest Gump, and I didn’t figure out why until a while later. I hated it because it felt like one long gimmick, and it made me mad because Forrest was devoted to Jenny even though she was kind of useless, and that Jenny was useless because she was non-conformist. It made me angry that Forrest’s mental disabilities were used as a sort of magical “get into history free card” by the writers. But when I first left the theater, all I thought was, “Wow - I totally didn’t love that at all.”
My entry for anger is Do The Right Thing. If Italians own a business in an increasingly gentrified neighborhood, it doesn’t give a minority of another group the right to demand that the Italian hang pictures of their minority on their businesses walls, let alone the right to burn the store down.
Mookie, you didn’t do the right thing.
You were already told by a mod to stop this, and now you’re being told again. Now, knock it off.