# Movies where the protagonists are total douches **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 8, 2010, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-the-protagonists-are-total-douches/531721 "2010-03-08T14:56:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Superfluous\_Parentheses](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8edcca/32.png) [@Superfluous\_Parentheses](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superfluous_Parentheses)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2010, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-the-protagonists-are-total-douches/531721/41 "2010-03-08T22:27:27Z")
**There will be blood** ---
**Author:** ![Mavis\_Topholese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7feea3/32.png) [@Mavis\_Topholese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mavis_Topholese)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2010, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-the-protagonists-are-total-douches/531721/42 "2010-03-08T22:35:42Z")
The wonderfully bad Japanese/Italian/American production THE GREEN SLIME stars Robert Horton as the supposed “hero”, yet every single crisis in the film - which involves a space station under attack from men in Green Slime suits - is caused by his character’s incredible douchebagitude. He makes bad decisions, compounds bad decisions with more bad decisions, and steadfastly refuses to consider alternatives or realize his own ineptitude throughout the picture. ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2010, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-the-protagonists-are-total-douches/531721/43 "2010-03-08T22:39:00Z")
> [@lissener](#): > > Think of most of the best dark comedies: _ **Showgirls, Really Bad Things, Citizen Ruth,** _ etc. And some classic films, like \*\*\*Hud \*\*\*or _ **The Searchers** _. Really Bad Things is a total piece of shit. ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2010, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-the-protagonists-are-total-douches/531721/44 "2010-03-08T22:40:43Z")
> [@Darth\_Nader](#): > > …Bueller? Bueller? > Wake up, 'cause I don’t care if yer sick, I need a ride. Yeah, gonna pick up my hot vapid girlfriend and I need your sorry ass to help out. First one I thought of. I always rooted for the the Principal in that movie. ---
**Author:** ![Manduck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manduck/32/256_2.png) [@Manduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manduck)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2010, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-the-protagonists-are-total-douches/531721/45 "2010-03-08T22:56:06Z")
_[Staying Alive](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086361/)_ would be the gold standard for this, except I don’t think many people saw it. The Travolta character is a complete jerk throughtout, but still gets the girl and the lead in a broadway show at the end. ---
**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:** [March 8, 2010, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-the-protagonists-are-total-douches/531721/46 "2010-03-08T23:02:48Z")
> [@Justin\_Bailey](#): > > Really Bad Things is a total piece of shit. Good, more for me. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2010, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-the-protagonists-are-total-douches/531721/47 "2010-03-08T23:10:51Z")
A Clockwork Orange ---
**Author:** ![Small\_Hen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ad7895/32.png) [@Small\_Hen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Small_Hen)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2010, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-the-protagonists-are-total-douches/531721/48 "2010-03-08T23:18:04Z")
I though the main character in Avatar was a total douche - “I came here on a mission to spread peace…” Um, no. You came there on a mission to help the villain conquer or move the indigenous. Then you realized that it was cooler to be a 12 foot naked blue tree dweller than a parapalegic soldier. You douche. ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2010, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-the-protagonists-are-total-douches/531721/49 "2010-03-08T23:27:21Z")
Wait, it’s NOT cooler to be a 12-foot naked blue tree dweller than a paraplegic soldier? I came in to say Daniel Plainview from There Will Be Blood, but **Superfluous Parentheses** beat me. He’s one of my all-time favorite characters in one of my all-time favorite films, but yeah, he’s kind of a douche. ---
**Author:** ![mrpayday](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e57/32.png) [@mrpayday](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrpayday)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2010, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-the-protagonists-are-total-douches/531721/50 "2010-03-09T00:09:07Z")
Everyone in an Eli Roth movie. Cabin Fever was full of selfish idiots and Hostel wasn’t much better. ---
**Author:** ![PatriotGrrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9dc877/32.png) [@PatriotGrrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatriotGrrrl)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2010, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-the-protagonists-are-total-douches/531721/51 "2010-03-09T00:37:37Z")
> [@Small\_Hen](#): > > I though the main character in Avatar was a total douche - “I came here on a mission to spread peace…” > > Um, no. You came there on a mission to help the villain conquer or move the indigenous. Then you realized that it was cooler to be a 12 foot naked blue tree dweller than a parapalegic soldier. You douche. He was a disgrace to the Corps long before that, as soon as he took control of the avatar body. If he weren’t the only one who could use that body, I’d have discharged hm right then. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Fight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/90ced4/32.png) [@Cat\_Fight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Fight)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2010, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-the-protagonists-are-total-douches/531721/52 "2010-03-09T00:47:31Z")
Most superheroes tend to be douches, IMHO. Superman is maybe the biggest. He’s just so damned unlikable. ---
**Author:** ![pepperlandgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@pepperlandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pepperlandgirl)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2010, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-the-protagonists-are-total-douches/531721/53 "2010-03-09T04:15:36Z")
> [@JSexton](#): > > Seth rogen in observe and report has no redeeming qualities. Nor does deniro in taxi driver, the obvious inspiration for the movie. Strangely enough, this makes me want to see **Observe and Report.** Also, I disagree that DeNiro had no redeeming qualities in **Taxi Driver**. Part of the tragedy of that particular movie was that at first he was genuinely trying to be a normal, pleasant human being. He was just…crazy. ---
**Author:** ![Maiira](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Maiira](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maiira)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2010, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-the-protagonists-are-total-douches/531721/54 "2010-03-09T04:44:15Z")
This was probably the point, but just about all of the main characters in **Chicago** were douches. Or at least unsympathetic. I wanted them to win their trials, but I also wanted them to rot in jail, too. ---
**Author:** ![Isamu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7c8e57/32.png) [@Isamu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isamu)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2010, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-the-protagonists-are-total-douches/531721/55 "2010-03-09T05:11:41Z")
Seven Years in Tibet (1997), Brad Pitt as Heinrich Harrer. Douchebag par excellence. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2010, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-the-protagonists-are-total-douches/531721/56 "2010-03-09T05:50:21Z")
Uh, guys? I thought The Wedding Crashers was funny. Two douchey guys uh, y’know, _crashing weddings?_ Are you saying it’d be funnier if the movie focused on Vince and Owen as office workers going to their jobs? Maybe you could write a movie where that shows them in their cubicles. Making work-related phone calls. And warming up their lunch in the corporate microwave. And then we could watch them go home and turn on the TV! Who says you have to like the protagonist(s) to laugh at a movie? Sheesh. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2010, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-the-protagonists-are-total-douches/531721/57 "2010-03-09T05:56:33Z")
Pretty much any slasher movie, and a goodly portion of other subgenres of horror. ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2010, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-the-protagonists-are-total-douches/531721/58 "2010-03-09T06:05:26Z")
It’s not a movie, but I was just watching an old episode of _Bewitched_, and Darren Stevens was a pretty big douche. ---
**Author:** ![It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/it_s_not_rocket_surgery/32/312_2.png) [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2010, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-the-protagonists-are-total-douches/531721/59 "2010-03-09T06:05:32Z")
Phil and Alan in The Hangover are pretty douchey. ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2010, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-the-protagonists-are-total-douches/531721/60 "2010-03-09T06:06:14Z")
> [@Freudian\_Slit](#): > > I don’t know that I would phrase it as total douche, but Thora Birch’s character in Ghost World is sort of unlikable. Enid manipulates Seymour and flakes out on Becky over and over. Though I actually still liked her and identified with her. Not that I’m like her, exactly, but I could sort of relate. Wow. It only took seven posts for someone to name the first character that came to my mind. Enid doesn’t just manipulate Seymour; she viciously messes with his head. One of my favorite movies, and yet I find the protagonist despicable. . [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-the-protagonists-are-total-douches/531721.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-the-protagonists-are-total-douches/531721.md?page=4)