# 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:** 10\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2010, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-the-protagonists-are-total-douches/531721/81 "2010-03-11T16:36:32Z")
> [@Gangster\_Octopus](#): > > Well Han Solo is kind of a douche. 😕 Han’s a scoundrel, maybe, but he’s pretty much an anti-douche. He did far more for Luke & company than he had any obligation to. ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2010, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-the-protagonists-are-total-douches/531721/82 "2010-03-11T17:02:22Z")
_A law abiding citizen_, both protagonists and almost everyone in the picture are douches. The only sympathetic character was the hot blond prosecutor friend of Jamie Foxx. ---
**Author:** ![runcible\_spoon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9fc29f/32.png) [@runcible\_spoon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/runcible_spoon)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2010, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-the-protagonists-are-total-douches/531721/83 "2010-03-11T17:14:09Z")
_Being John Malkovich_. I made it maybe halfway through, but I couldn’t take it. The only character who wasn’t hopelessly unpleasant was Malkovich, and there wasn’t enough of him to keep me interested. ---
**Author:** ![Nature\_s\_Call](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nature_s_call/32/19006_2.png) [@Nature\_s\_Call](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nature_s_Call)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2010, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-the-protagonists-are-total-douches/531721/84 "2010-03-11T17:47:27Z")
> [@Gangster\_Octopus](#): > > Not a total douche, but he certainly had some douche in him. I came in to mention Groundhog Day, but this quote conjured an image of Harry enjoying a Massengill… [shakes head] Bill Murray’s character in Groundhog Day, of course, needed to be douchey to make meaningful his ultimate conversion to sensitive-man. I’ve always been impressed how he was able to pull off a likeable asshole. ---
**Author:** ![TV\_time](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f17d59/32.png) [@TV\_time](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TV_time)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2010, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-the-protagonists-are-total-douches/531721/85 "2010-03-11T22:54:04Z")
> [@Sam\_Stone](#): > > It’s not a movie, but I was just watching an old episode of _Bewitched_, and Darren Stevens was a pretty big douche. But to be technical, Samantha is the protagonist of the show not Darren. I know, I know, I’m being a douche pointing that out. I actually came in to point out that Austin Powers is pretty much of a douche, especially in the first film. But that was part of the point of the comedy in the first place - pointing out just how much the characters from the old spy films were douches. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2010, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-the-protagonists-are-total-douches/531721/86 "2010-03-12T00:27:14Z")
> [@TV\_time](#): > > But to be technical, Samantha is the protagonist of the show not Darren. > > I know, I know, I’m being a douche pointing that out. Oh, I don’t know about that. Not about Samantha being the protagonist; obviously she was. You’re not douchey to point it out. Darren, Endora, and the rest all need to be douchey for her to have conflict. ---
**Author:** ![lshaw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e36b37/32.png) [@lshaw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lshaw)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2010, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-the-protagonists-are-total-douches/531721/87 "2010-03-12T02:27:11Z")
Match Point ---
**Author:** ![The\_Second\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2010, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-the-protagonists-are-total-douches/531721/88 "2010-03-12T03:02:41Z")
> [@Cowboy\_Moe](#): > > Miles (Paul Giamatti) in Sideways is a total douche. Particularly when he steals money from his mother. Also, Randy (Micky Rourke) in The Wrestler is an amazing douche who screws up absolutely every relationship in his life. Miles was invited by his mother to take the money, he told her he didn’t need it and took it anyway without telling her. She knows damn well he’s going to take it, he has probably done it before and will do it again and she keeps it in the same place. She specifically offers him money so that she can rest easy knowing her little baby isn’t a thief. Yeah, this is screwed up, but it shows his pathetic relationship and low self esteem. I left sometime during the date because I hated these two so much. ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2010, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-the-protagonists-are-total-douches/531721/89 "2010-03-12T23:21:33Z")
> [@Cat\_Fight](#): > > Most superheroes tend to be douches, IMHO. Superman is maybe the biggest. He’s just so damned unlikable. **Superman Returns \*\* was pretty much Superdickery: The Motion Picture** : so this guy’s a deadbeat dad, a stalker, a home invader, a serial ingrate _and_ a home wrecker, and we’re supposed to cheer for him? Best bit was when Kevin Spacey kicked the shit out of him. ---
**Author:** ![Linty\_Fresh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Linty\_Fresh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Linty_Fresh)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2010, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-the-protagonists-are-total-douches/531721/90 "2010-03-13T01:36:55Z")
> [@The\_Tooth](#): > > Another entry in this thread might be _Repo Man_. Is anyone in _Repo Man_ nice? Well, Miller wasn’t too bad. He was just weird. But he had some good stories about John Wayne and plates of shrimp. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-the-protagonists-are-total-douches/531721.md?page=4)