What film(s) make people the most angry?
Here are mine, in no particular order:
Grizzly Man: It's incredible how unsympathetic some people can be when they say that the man who lived with the grizzly bears, got too close to them, and then got eaten deserved it. Harlan County USA: The way that the miners get treated, and regularly get the shaft, especially because they do such risky, unsafe and dangerous, hard and dirty work all day is beyond disgusting Schindler's List: The fact that people are capable of killing others for no reason. Garden of the Finzi-Continis: see above Defiance; See above. The Town: The message that it conveys to me angers me, as does the fact that the lead protagonists are rooted for and considered sympathetic, especially because one's an armed felon who's wanted by the FBI, with ample reason(s), (Doug MacRay), and the other protagonist (Claire Keesey, a former bank manager who quit her job after the robbery), because she abetted Doug and tipped him off to the presence of the Feds in the end, enabling him to go free. Iraq Is Not For Sale: Because of what we've been doing to a country and its people for no reason, and because of what's been happening to our own soldiers as a result, as well. An Inconvenient Truth: What's happening to our environment. |
Re: What film(s) make people the most angry?
Generally the films that make people angry are the ones that are saying things people don't want to hear, so anything remotely contradictory of religious doctrine (Last Temptation of Christ, Life of Brian, Constantine's Sword), of a higher ruling power (Salo, The Ruling Class, V for Vendetta, a million documentaries), or of taboo subjects generally dealing with social commentary (American Psycho, The Testament of Dr. Mabuse).
Btw An Inconvenient Truth was conveniently exaggerated, take it with a grain of salt. |
Re: What film(s) make people the most angry?
Any documentary Michael Moore has made.
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Re: What film(s) make people the most angry?
Obviously, political and religiously-themed films are the most likely, as is any kind of documentary on either subject.
But that's kind of too easy. In a much broader sense, excluding all the factors mentioned above, my experience is that people get maddest about films that they perceive are too highly praised, particularly among younger moviegoers. Often they're mad not so much because of a film's objective worth (or lack thereof), but as some sort of counterbalancing agent to what they see as over enthusiasm by others. IE: The Matrix or other similar films that are liable to be pretty good to people who have seen a great number of films, but might be downright mind-blowing to a 15 year old who's still exploring the medium or some of the concepts therein. |
Re: What film(s) make people the most angry?
^ Just ask Hitchfan about Michael Bay. Ahaha! :p
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Originally Posted by Yoda (Post 770948)
In a much broader sense, excluding all the factors mentioned above, my experience is that people get maddest about films that they perceive are too highly praised, particularly among younger moviegoers. Often they're mad not so much because of a film's objective worth (or lack thereof), but as some sort of counterbalancing agent to what they see as over enthusiasm by others. IE: The Matrix or other similar films that are liable to be pretty good to people who have seen a great number of films, but might be downright mind-blowing to a 15 year old who's still exploring the medium or some of the concepts therein.
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Re: What film(s) make people the most angry?
2001: A Space Odyssey - desire to commit suicide. ;)
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Originally Posted by Yoda (Post 770948)
In a much broader sense, excluding all the factors mentioned above, my experience is that people get maddest about films that they perceive are too highly praised, particularly among younger moviegoers. Often they're mad not so much because of a film's objective worth (or lack thereof), but as some sort of counterbalancing agent to what they see as over enthusiasm by others. IE: The Matrix or other similar films that are liable to be pretty good to people who have seen a great number of films, but might be downright mind-blowing to a 15 year old who's still exploring the medium or some of the concepts therein.
They're deprived. |
Re: What film(s) make people the most angry?
^ I think it should be acceptable for people to feel angry about those big blockbusters which are causing the foreign films to lose out in the box office.
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Originally Posted by MrPink (Post 770952)
2001: A Space Odyssey - desire to commit suicide. ;)
Yeah. You're the only one. |
Originally Posted by WSSlover (Post 770940)
Harlan County USA: The way that the miners get treated, and regularly get the shaft, especially because they do such risky, unsafe and dangerous, hard and dirty work all day is beyond disgusting
This doc was made into a tv movie starring Holly Hunter. It's called Harlan County War (2000) It's really, really good. So good, in fact, I saw it once, then many years later saw it in a bargain bin and snatched it up. |
Originally Posted by WSSlover (Post 770940)
Here are mine, in no particular order:
Grizzly Man: It's incredible how unsympathetic some people can be when they say that the man who lived with the grizzly bears, got too close to them, and then got eaten deserved it. So, yeah, hate me for bing one of those people. Sometimes stupid people face the consequences of thier actions. Get over it. Films that make me mad: All of Michael Bay's films except for Transformers 3. Every big budget film that actively insults it's audience's intelligence. |
Originally Posted by wintertriangles (Post 770951)
I think the problem is that most of those people don't progress past that stage.
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Originally Posted by Tyler1 (Post 770954)
^ I think it should be acceptable for people to feel angry about those big blockbusters which are causing the foreign films to lose out in the box office.
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Originally Posted by bouncingbrick (Post 770973)
He didn't deserve to die, but he's an idiot for not seeing it coming. Even "domesticated" wild animals in the zoo/circus/etc. often end up attacking thier human masters. The fact that he thought he could invade their teritory and not face consequences proves that he was dumb. The film may want you to sympathize, maybe even empathize with him, but he was still doing something really stupid and should have seen it coming.
So, yeah, hate me for bing one of those people. Sometimes stupid people face the consequences of thier actions. Get over it. Films that make me mad: All of Michael Bay's films except for Transformers 3. Every big budget film that actively insults it's audience. |
Originally Posted by MrPink (Post 770979)
you're totally exaggerating
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Originally Posted by bouncingbrick (Post 770973)
he's an idiot for not seeing it coming.
i gotta see it again, though. i remember it being a great documentary. |
Re: What film(s) make people the most angry?
I would hope this thread wouldn't devolve into a discussion about Grizzly Man, but I think the word "deserve" is probably what sparks debate. It implies a moral judgment above and beyond the "he knew what he was getting into" response that I imagine everyone agrees with.
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I'm pretty sure there's a Grizzly Man thread somewhere.
Anyway, the film that made me angry was Jack The Bear. I was only angry at the end, but I remember crying with anger. I Spit On Your Grave, Boys Don't Cry, The Accused. Actually, most 'rape' films make me really angry. At least "Grave" (and the like) have that cathartic revenge murder to expel the anger. :D |
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