Sleuth.
Wasn’t Beau Bridges’ character pretty likeable? Easy-going country-boy, wounded war hero, and the only one with the guts to stand up to the bad guys.
A Clockwork Orange
A Boy and His Dog
Requiem for a Dream
I enjoyed In Bruges a lot, but all of the characters are various flavors of terrible.
I thought Elisabeth Shue’s character was pretty likeable.
Good call.
That’s probably an exception for me though. Generally if I like a movie I find one of the characters likeable in some way, even if they’re evil.
Yes, you are 100% correct, but for some reason, I didn’t like him.
I saw the movie as an allegory for society. “Together We Stand, Divided We Fall”
This was the first one I thought of.
Also:
Requiem for a Dream
Gummo
Drugstore Cowboy
Rope
Death and the Maiden
Pan’s Labyrinth
Pulp Fiction
and probably too many others to list.
WRT Requiem for a Dream: I thought the characters were likable, just tragic. I didn’t like what happened to them, even if it was largely due to their bad choices.
Chicago. They’re all horrible people except for the Hunyack, and she’s a less than minor character.
*The War of the Roses. *Perhaps the Danny Devito character evokes some sympathy, but he’s just telling the story, and Douglas and Turner are pretty unlikable.
My first thought was The Grifters.
I don’t remember details, but why was the lead character in Pan’s Labyrinth (the girl) not likable?
And I’ll go with Bruce Willis being likable in Pulp Fiction. Yeah, he killed his boxing opponent and wasn’t upset about it — but it wasn’t on purpose, and we don’t know how corrupt his opponent was. Beyond that he was brave, honorable and even tender. His girl friend was also written as naive, but sweet and likable.
I just remember all the violence in “Pan’s Labyrinth.” It’s been a while.
Another movie I haven’t seen here is “American Beauty.” I didn’t see it in the theater because it got such mixed reviews; I finally saw it on video a few years later, and LOVED it - although I certainly understood why so many people wouldn’t have liked that movie, because they were living it.
The only unlikable human characters in Pan’s Labyrinth were Captain Vidal and the other fascists. (Of course the Pale Man was pretty horrific too, but not human.)
Everyone in **Clue **was there because they were unlikeable.
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What did the mother do wrong? Minus the pills, which was the result rather than the cause, I think many older widows go through her suffering on some level.
Rush - Niki Lauda and James Hunt were both deeply flawed men.
Way of the Gun - there are no “good guys” here.
John Wick - everyone’s a murderer. Except maybe the dog.