Five movies guaranteed to make you unreasonably angry
From 'The Hottie and The Nottie' to 'I Spit On Your Grave', here are five movies that will almost certainly leave you feeling infuriated and angry.
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Movies are often advertised as an escape from the world outside. When we go to the cinema, we’re usually given a message before the film starts, reminding us to switch off both our phones and our minds. This is your chance to drift away into a world far removed from your own, they suggest. In reality, films can elicit all kinds of emotions, one of them often being anger.
Some movies certainly intend to make you angry, highlighting the disparities of wealth and opportunities for people of different genders, class and race. These films often encourage us to do something about this anger or remind us that we’re not alone in feeling this way. Then there are the films that make us angry because they’re just so offensive, poorly made, terribly acted, or feature infuriating characters.
Different films appeal to different people, sure. However, the universal hatred and anger pointed towards the 2019 movie Cats, for example, is proof that sometimes movies can have no other response than unreasonable rage, even if that’s not what the filmmaker intended. Cats was meant to be a fun musical, after all.
From The Purge to I Spit On Your Grave, here are five movies that are guaranteed to make you unreasonably angry.
Five movies guaranteed to make you unreasonably angry:5. Cats (Tom Hooper, 2019)After finding acclaim with films like Les Miserables and The King’s Speech, Tom Hooper decided to essentially blacklist himself by making one of the worst films of all time, Cats. It seems as though absolutely no one liked the film, which featured horrible special effects, making the actors part human, part cat. Just thinking about them all slinking about in their weird CGI cat bodies while acting like humans is enough to make you wince, but sitting through the whole thing? That’s enough to make you angry.
The movie featured various CGI errors, too, like Judi Dench’s human hand being visible in one scene, which makes you wonder if Hooper even watched the movie back. He probably didn’t because if he did, he would’ve released the abomination he’d made and started from scratch. The movie is almost two hours and a complete waste of time. You’d be better off reading TS Eliot’s Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats in that time instead, or, alternatively, listening to ‘Memory,’ performed by Elaine Paige on repeat, for two hours.
4. The Hottie and the Nottie (Tom Putnam, 2008)There is a lot to feel infuriated by when you watch The Hottie and the Nottie. What is meant to be a stupid comedy is actually an offence to the following things: acting, women, cinema, people with albinism, hypnotism, and love. Suppose you advocate for any of these categories. In that case, you’re going to be infuriated by The Hottie and the Nottie, which stars none other than Paris Hilton in one of her very few and unnecessary acting performances.
The movie follows a man, Nate, who struggles to find any luck in love. Desperate to be with the gorgeous, blonde, widely-admired Christabel, she only agrees to go on a date with him if he can find her ‘ugly’ best friend, June, a date, too. With some hypnotism, makeovers, and very bad acting, the film sees our repulsive protagonist find love, but you’ll walk away from the film wishing you’d wasted your time on a less offensive piece of comedy.
3. The Purge (James DeMonaco, 2013)There are some horror films where you’re impressed by how resourceful and quick-thinking the characters are as they run to escape mass murderers. The Purge and its subsequent sequels do not feature many of these kinds of characters. The premise is also incredibly stupid and ill-thought-out. One night a year, America allows all crime to be legal, allowing everyone to do whatever they please. Emergency service workers are banned from doing their jobs, subsequently unleashing pure havoc across the country.
In the film, this is meant to be a solution to crime throughout the rest of the year, which is a bizarre idea. In The Purge, Ethan Hawke’s James lets people into his home when he shouldn’t, admits his safety system is actually not very strong, and then gets killed – unsurprisingly. In The Purge: Anarchy, we witness a couple take a rather unnecessary journey in their car during the Purge, which, of course, results in disaster. ‘Just stay at home and wait for it to all tide over’, you want to scream at the screen.
2. The Riot Club (Lone Scherfig, 2014)In 2014, Lone Scherfig assembled every posh 20-something-year-old British acting heartthrob for her film The Riot Club. Luring viewers in with names like Douglas Booth and Sam Claflin, who spend most of the runtime wearing suits (or Schöffel gilets) with their jaws clenched and their heads held high, Scherfig pulled back the curtain on the wealthy British elite. Set at Oxford University, the film follows a young man, Miles, as he gets enticed into a world of debauchery when he joins the titular Riot Club, based upon the Boris Johnson-attended Bullingdon Club.
The club promotes a disregard for everyone outside of it, encouraging hedonism, lavish spending, drinking, vandalism, and right-wing values, and soon the left-leaning Miles realises he is in too deep. After a private dinner turns awry, the movie shows us just how far entitled people will go, and how much they can get away with. Knowing that these characters aren’t so far removed from the politicians running our country certainly makes The Riot Club an anger-inducing watch.
1. I Spit On Your Grave (Meir Zarchi, 1978)Rape-revenge movies occupy a complex position in cinema, with some being genuinely feminist and, to many, empowering. However, there are also those which are typically male-directed and feel far too aligned with the male gaze and exploitation rather than actually raising awareness for the terrifying number of male-on-female violent crimes. I Spit On Your Grave, released in 1978, features 30 minutes of rape scenes (despite being just over one hour and 40 minutes long). There is a lot of nudity, too, seemingly encouraging viewers to leer at the abuse of these women.
The fact that the film was even allowed to be made is incredibly anger-inducing. It’s simply the kind of film that no one needs to watch. Iconic film critic Roger Ebert gave the film an overwhelmingly negative review, calling it “a vile bag of garbage.” He was also disturbed by many men in the movie theatre, who called out phrases like “That was a good one!” during certain rape scenes. I Spit On Your Grave is truly anger-inducing, not just for its content but also for how certain audiences have disgustingly reacted to it.
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