There will be blood
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.
Really Bad Things is a total piece of shit.
First one I thought of. I always rooted for the the Principal in that movie.
Staying Alive 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.
Good, more for me.
A Clockwork Orange
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.
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.
Everyone in an Eli Roth movie.
Cabin Fever was full of selfish idiots and Hostel wasn’t much better.
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.
Most superheroes tend to be douches, IMHO. Superman is maybe the biggest. He’s just so damned unlikable.
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.
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.
Seven Years in Tibet (1997), Brad Pitt as Heinrich Harrer. Douchebag par excellence.
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.
Pretty much any slasher movie, and a goodly portion of other subgenres of horror.
It’s not a movie, but I was just watching an old episode of Bewitched, and Darren Stevens was a pretty big douche.
Phil and Alan in The Hangover are pretty douchey.
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.
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