# Movies You Like w/ No Likable Characters? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 23, 2020, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-like-w-no-likable-characters/848377 "2020-02-23T02:28:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2020, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-like-w-no-likable-characters/848377/61 "2020-02-26T22:44:21Z")
Though I prefer this exchange, to be honest: > [@](#): > > **Turk Malloy** Watch it, bud. > **Virgil Malloy** Who you calling bud, pal? > **Turk Malloy** Who you calling pal, friend? > **Virgil Malloy** Who you calling friend, jackass? > **Turk Malloy** Don’t call me a jackass. > **Virgil Malloy** I just did call you a jackass. From a movie that definitely doesn’t qualify for this thread. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Dandan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@Dandan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dandan)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2020, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-like-w-no-likable-characters/848377/62 "2020-02-26T23:35:36Z")
OK, come on, what movie was that? Dan ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2020, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-like-w-no-likable-characters/848377/63 "2020-02-26T23:41:01Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > Godfather > Gone With the Wind > > Two great movies about despicable people. > > I disagree about Robocop. Both Murphy and Lewis are fine, and Miurphy-as-Robo is a fine honorable “person”. Everyone else with more than one line of dialog, however… I came in to mention GWTW. Even the so called nice people thought it was okay to **OWN** people. I did kind of like Belle Watling, but her role was so small. If you read the book you’d like Melanie even less than in the movie. She thought it was fine that Scarlett offered Ashley a job, because then they wouldn’t have to move north, and her kid wouldn’t have to go to school with “pickaninnies.” ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2020, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-like-w-no-likable-characters/848377/64 "2020-02-27T00:00:09Z")
Any movie where Harvey Keitel is considered to be the ''most likeable" of the characters (i.e. “Reservoir Dogs”) probably qualifies for this thread. Oo, also “Taxi Driver”. “Miller’s Crossing” is the first movie I thought of in connnection with the OP. ---
**Author:** ![x-ray\_vision](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/x-ray_vision/32/351_2.png) [@x-ray\_vision](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/x-ray_vision)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2020, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-like-w-no-likable-characters/848377/65 "2020-02-27T00:58:06Z")
Thee seems to be a lot of confusing [this person did bad things] with [this person is unlikable] in this thread. ---
**Author:** ![Grestarian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grestarian/32/3227_2.png) [@Grestarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grestarian)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2020, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-like-w-no-likable-characters/848377/66 "2020-02-27T01:10:05Z")
I’m surprised Payback isn’t in the responses. I think the only three people who weren’t despicable human beings were the pickpocket victim, the pawn shop clerk, and the waiter apologizing for the rejected credit card. Even the bartender was a self-absorbed prick. –G! ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2020, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-like-w-no-likable-characters/848377/67 "2020-02-27T03:21:58Z")
Pretty much everyone in _Uncut Gems_, except maybe Adam Sandler’s girlfriend. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2020, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-like-w-no-likable-characters/848377/68 "2020-02-27T05:34:33Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > Any movie where Harvey Keitel is considered to be the ''most likeable" of the characters (i.e. “Reservoir Dogs”) probably qualifies for this thread. > > Oo, also “Taxi Driver”. > > “Miller’s Crossing” is the first movie I thought of in connnection with the OP. Mr. Orange was a likable guy. ---
**Author:** ![SciFiSam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/47e85d/32.png) [@SciFiSam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SciFiSam)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2020, 9:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-like-w-no-likable-characters/848377/69 "2020-02-27T09:33:11Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > Another: “Trainspotting.” > [@Dark\_Sponge](#): > > Disagree with this one. Both the main character and his way-too-young GF were flawed but likeable. And Ewan Bremner’s character is hugely flawed but also hugely likable. The main character’s parents are doing their very best and not doing too bad, considering. The guy who dies of AIDS is just an ordinary bloke. Almost everyone in it is likeable except Begbie. ---
**Author:** ![MortSahlFan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@MortSahlFan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MortSahlFan)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2020, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-like-w-no-likable-characters/848377/70 "2020-02-27T12:31:27Z")
> [@Grestarian](#): > > I’m surprised Payback isn’t in the responses. > > I think the only three people who weren’t despicable human beings were the pickpocket victim, the pawn shop clerk, and the waiter apologizing for the rejected credit card. Even the bartender was a self-absorbed prick. > > –G! Starring Rip Torn? ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2020, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-like-w-no-likable-characters/848377/71 "2020-02-27T15:38:30Z")
> [@Dandan](#): > > OK, come on, what movie was that? > > Dan The Clooney version of _Ocean’s Eleven_. ---
**Author:** ![Pantastic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3bc359/32.png) [@Pantastic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pantastic)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2020, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-like-w-no-likable-characters/848377/72 "2020-02-27T16:17:40Z")
> [@x-ray\_vision](#): > > Thee seems to be a lot of confusing [this person did bad things] with [this person is unlikable] in this thread. I agree, for example I found Leonard in Memento very likeable even though he set himself up to continually murder drug dealers named John G (or sometimes James G). He seems quite likeable in his conversations with people that he’s not being attacked by. ---
**Author:** ![Ynnad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/4491bb/32.png) [@Ynnad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ynnad)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2020, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-like-w-no-likable-characters/848377/73 "2020-02-27T17:40:10Z")
**The Room**. No character in this movie is even remotely close to likeable. But I only “like” this movie because it is so incredibly cringeworthy. It is so cringeworthy that I have never been able to watch it continuously from beginning to end. I have to stop and rest about every 10 minutes or so. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2020, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-like-w-no-likable-characters/848377/74 "2020-02-27T19:26:03Z")
_The Beguiled_ Eastwood is, ostensibly, the victim here, but he’s none too likable while he’s working his way through the ladies of the school, IYKWIM. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2020, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-like-w-no-likable-characters/848377/75 "2020-02-28T03:24:39Z")
Mike Leigh’s “Career Girrls” “Broken Vessels” "4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days " “The Boys” 1998 Australia ---
**Author:** ![Dale\_Sams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/779978/32.png) [@Dale\_Sams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dale_Sams)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2020, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-like-w-no-likable-characters/848377/76 "2020-02-29T06:23:39Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > _The Beguiled_ > > Eastwood is, ostensibly, the victim here, but he’s none too likable while he’s working his way through the ladies of the school, IYKWIM. He’s about likeable right up to when he’s done singing so…1:22 into the movie. ---
**Author:** ![jerez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c68b51/32.png) [@jerez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jerez)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2020, 11:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-like-w-no-likable-characters/848377/77 "2020-02-29T11:01:43Z")
> [@CairoCarol](#): > > Is anyone likable in “Burn After Reading”? It’s been a while since I’ve seen it, but IIRC all the main characters are hilariously self-centered. That was brilliant. I just about bust a gut at the expression of Brad Pitt’s character, slurping at his soda with that straw in his mouth. (Sorry, don’t know how to “multi-quote.”) American Beauty was mentioned upthread. The daughter and her boyfriend next door seemed likable, given their age and circumstances. How about Citizen Kane? I don’t remember any likable characters, although it’s been a while since I last watched it. ---
**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 1, 2020, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-like-w-no-likable-characters/848377/78 "2020-03-01T21:44:23Z")
Just watched it: **The Favourite**. ---
**Author:** ![Grestarian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grestarian/32/3227_2.png) [@Grestarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grestarian)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2020, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-like-w-no-likable-characters/848377/79 "2020-03-04T00:06:34Z")
> [@Grestarian](#): > > I’m surprised Payback isn’t in the responses. > > I think the only three people who weren’t despicable human beings were the pickpocket victim, the pawn shop clerk, and the waiter apologizing for the rejected credit card. Even the bartender was a self-absorbed prick. > > –G! > [@MortSahlFan](#): > > Starring Rip Torn? Hmmm?! What?! I’m thinking of the [1999 Mel Gibson flick](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120784/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1) based on a Donald E. Westlake novel called The Hunter. And, while I normally like Director’s Cuts better, I found I prefer the theatrical edition better. My friends and I liked it because Lucy Liu steals the show as Pearl. But while I certainly have no dislike of dominatrices or BDSM (quite the contrary!) Pearl’s unlikable flaw is that she just doesn’t know when to stop being an abusive bitch. –G! It just occurred to me that Val probably learned about the Chows from Pearl. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-like-w-no-likable-characters/848377.md?page=3)