There was also the police sergeant character. An old school cop from before the police were privatized, he knew how bad the OCP guys were, but he also knew how bad the city would be if there was no police presence at all. He tried to walk the line between caving to the stupid corporate nonsense, or going on strike like all the other cops wanted to do.
Sure, in the end, he failed to find the balance he wanted, but he did at least try, which was more than most other people in the movie did.
If you pay attention to the subtext, the leftists are also pretty vicious. During the final battle, they give as rough as they get. In the grand finale, they do to Vidal’s son what the Argentinian fascists did to the children of their victims.
The likable characters are mostly caught in the crossfire.
Bonnie & Clyde corrupted every person they came in touch with (or so the movie would have you believe).
From what I can remember, all of the (main?) characters in Fight Club aren’t just not likable, they’re detestable - with the possible exception of the character played by Meatloaf, who is merely horrifying.
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The movie Closer.
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Detour (1945)
The Lady from Shanghai (1947)
Badmen of Tombstone (1949)
Gun Crazy (1950)
Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
*The Graceful Brute *(1962)
The Last Valley (1971)
Boachi Bushido: Code of the Forgotten Eight (1973)
That’s not how I remember it.
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.
Another: “Trainspotting.”
mmmmm i was going to concur but he murders an unarmed Travolta on the toilet…and really only because he was shitty to him in the bar. If it was a woman gangster he wouldn’t have done it. If he didn’t know the guy he might have kneecapped him.
I just thought of something. You know the thread we have of basically 'I’m so stupid i didn’t realize…"
My brain is so stupid that it realized that Willis always planned to win the fight…but also somehow thought Willis WAS GOING to throw the fight until his dream guilted him into not doing it.
Damn im stupid.
He killed Travolta because Travolta had been lying in wait to kill him. If he hadn’t killed him, Travolta would have come after him, or even if kneecapped he would have revealed that Butch was still in town. It would have been stupid not to take him out.
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I didn’t exactly get all that from Willis. What I did get was…“Awwwww lookie here.” BRRBRBRBRBBRBRAPPPPPP
And he did it pretty quickly for a guy who has never murdered someone.
Yes, He’s got a code. But its a little twisted. ‘Punchie’=dead.
But leaving a man behind to die from oogedy boogedy? No. Not on his watch.
Disagree with this one. Both the main character and his way-too-young GF were flawed but likeable.
His name is Robert Paulson.
One of my favorite movies, which the whole world seems to loathe, is ‘Pennies From Heaven’ - Steve Martin and Bernadette Peters, 1981. I think poor Ms. Peters’ character is so tragic you really don’t like what a bad turn her life took in that movie, and so she is unlikeable.
The first ones that come to mind are all David Mamet works:
Glengarry Glen Ross
Heist
House of Games
I leave off The Spanish Prisoner because while he’s not terribly likable, Joe is likable enough.
Dang, Willis killed Travolta when the toaster-and-poptart surprised him, kind of fun payback for Travolta calling him “Punchy”, or was it “Slappy”? Someone with a better memory will chime in.
Kill Bill.
Dan
The exchange in question:
Nice chimein’, friend.
Dan