First rage at movie (Drag me to hell - SPOILERS!!) / What movie enrages you?

[keniakittykat]

"Drag me to hell".
This movie, this fucking movie...

I just saw it on tv a half hour ago, and it was one of the best horror movies I've ever seen.
Just the right balance between horror, suspense and even comedy.

But the ending... (SPOILER ALERT: STOP READING IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN IT, NOW!)







She did everything she could, she literally pushed the curse down the *****'s throat, and still she didn't make it?! I haven't been this angry at a movie ever. This can't end here, right? Right?
Was there anyone here who was as angry at this final gutpunch? Is there a sequel? I couldn't find any information about this, but this can't be IT, right?

Ugh, I'm sorry if this post doesn't make any sense, I've just never felt anything like this for a movie before.

So to have this make a point besides my well justified rage, and because I'm quite interested at what you guys find rage-worthy; what was the first movie you ever raged for and why?

 

[shootthebandit]

The knowing has a similar effect on me. This was a really good thriller and probably one of nic cages best performances and it was building up to a really exciting conclusion which ended up being a massive let down

Indiana Jones and the crystal skull is the same, It had all the elements of the previous trilogy but the ending was a bit of a let down. Indiana Jones has always been hugely fictional but somehow because the artifacts had a bit of historical or cultural weight behind them it was always somewhat more believable yet crystal skull just has a stupid ending

Spoiler

 

[Kenbo Slice]

"Drag me to hell".
This movie, this fucking movie...

I just saw it on tv a half hour ago, and it was one of the best horror movies I've ever seen.
Just the right balance between horror, suspense and even comedy.

But the ending... (SPOILER ALERT: STOP READING IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN IT, NOW!)







She did everything she could, she literally pushed the curse down the *****'s throat, and still she didn't make it?! I haven't been this angry at a movie ever. This can't end here, right? Right?
Was there anyone here who was as angry at this final gutpunch? Is there a sequel? I couldn't find any information about this, but this can't be IT, right?

Ugh, I'm sorry if this post doesn't make any sense, I've just never felt anything like this for a movie before.

So to have this make a point besides my well justified rage, and because I'm quite interested at what you guys find rage-worthy; what was the first movie you ever raged for and why?

Uh, she got the envelopes mixed up and stuffed the wrong one down that lady's throat. At the end her boyfriend said he found the button in his car.

OT: The Dark Knight Rises, for reasons I won't get into. It's too long.

 

[keniakittykat]

Uh, she got the envelopes mixed up and stuffed the wrong one down that lady's throat. At the end her boyfriend said he found the button in his car.

Yes, I got that. It just seemed like a dick move to have her taking the wrong envelope. And I got pissed off..

 

[Kenbo Slice]

Uh, she got the envelopes mixed up and stuffed the wrong one down that lady's throat. At the end her boyfriend said he found the button in his car.

Yes, I got that. It just seemed like a dick move to have her taking the wrong envelope. And I got pissed off..

I loved it. Happy endings are good and all, but there's too many. Plus, it's a very easy mistake to make. So it's not like they pulled it out of their asses.

 

[keniakittykat]

Uh, she got the envelopes mixed up and stuffed the wrong one down that lady's throat. At the end her boyfriend said he found the button in his car.

Yes, I got that. It just seemed like a dick move to have her taking the wrong envelope. And I got pissed off..

I loved it. Happy endings are good and all, but there's too many. Plus, it's a very easy mistake to make. So it's not like they pulled it out of their asses.

If anything, only a movie so good could have this kind of effect on me. If I wasn't invested, I wouldn't be angry, right? And after having it sink in a bit, it's a brilliant ending. It bothers me, I hate it, but it's genius.

 

[shootthebandit]

OT: The Dark Knight Rises, for reasons I won't get into. It's too long.

I kinda get what you mean however its more an issue of pacing rather than length. Ive recently watched wolf of wall street (perhaps a little longer then dark knight rises)and its excellently paced whereas DKR has quite a few flat spots that seem very drawn out and dont lead anywhere

disclaimer: DKR is still a really good movie

 

[Kenbo Slice]

OT: The Dark Knight Rises, for reasons I won't get into. It's too long.

I kinda get what you mean however its more an issue of pacing rather than length. Ive recently watched wolf of wall street (perhaps a little longer then dark knight rises)and its excellently paced whereas DKR has quite a few flat spots that seem very drawn out and dont lead anywhere

disclaimer: DKR is still a really good movie

No, my list of reasons of why I hate that movie is way too long. It was a horrible end to Nolan's film series.

 

[Barbas]

Probably Devil. My goodness me, that was a bad movie that thought it was good.

The intro, which sets an amazing standard, is a moving shot of the New York skyline, but get this.....it's upside-down.

Why?

Spoiler: The same reason anything happens the way it does in this movie.

The Devil, man.

[HEADING=2]The Devil.[/HEADING]

 

[shootthebandit]

OT: The Dark Knight Rises, for reasons I won't get into. It's too long.

I kinda get what you mean however its more an issue of pacing rather than length. Ive recently watched wolf of wall street (perhaps a little longer then dark knight rises)and its excellently paced whereas DKR has quite a few flat spots that seem very drawn out and dont lead anywhere

disclaimer: DKR is still a really good movie

No, my list of reasons of why I hate that movie is way too long. It was a horrible end to Nolan's film series.

my bad, i thought you were saying the movie was too long. I still enjoyed it however I can think of a lot of reasons why people (i would assume yourself being one) wouldnt enjoy it

 

[Sniper Team 4]

There are movies out there that I think are bad--Transformers 3, The Dark Knight Rises to name a few--but there's only been one movie where I have ever gotten truly upset at when I thought about it:

Revenge of the Sith. I honestly think it is the worst Star Wars movie, period. I have so many problems with that movie--characters, actions, plot--that I get angry just thinking about all of them. I cannot watch that movie without having my brain start to tear it apart bit by bit until I start feeling ill.

 

[balladbird]

Uh, she got the envelopes mixed up and stuffed the wrong one down that lady's throat. At the end her boyfriend said he found the button in his car.

Yes, I got that. It just seemed like a dick move to have her taking the wrong envelope. And I got pissed off..

I loved it. Happy endings are good and all, but there's too many. Plus, it's a very easy mistake to make. So it's not like they pulled it out of their asses.

If anything, only a movie so good could have this kind of effect on me. If I wasn't invested, I wouldn't be angry, right? And after having it sink in a bit, it's a brilliant ending. It bothers me, I hate it, but it's genius.

What you say is true, if you weren't emotionally invested, you wouldn't have had an emotional response.

That said, I must personally disagree with calling the ending "genius." Horror movies are always hateful of their leads, and love depressing endings. Final Destination has made a franchise out of turning the survival of its principle cast into the proverbial carrot at the end of a treadmill. Some people love it, personally... meh.

Don't get me wrong. I'm not the be all and end all of judging artistic merit. I don't require a happy-go-lucky ending with everyone walking into the sunset holding hands. I can enjoy bittersweet endings, I can enjoy legitimately bad endings. The type of ending I simply cannot stand, though, are the "shaggy dog" types.

I want the story I witnessed to have had a point. I want the actions I saw during the two hours i was in the theatre to have had a point, whether positive or negative. The difference between a "shaggy dog" type ending, and a bad ending that was nontheless rewarding to me can be insanely subtle, but it's there, and it makes all the difference. For example, here's a shaggy dog scenario, the kind of thing horror movies like "drag me to hell" adore:

-A man contracts a serious illness. With no means of fighting the illness locally, he journeys across the world to a place where research is rumored to have yielded a cure. His travels are long, and he survives many dangerous situations through sheer force of will alone. He arrives at his destination, but there is no cure. Now he's dead.-

and what little needs to be added for it to be a depressing, bad ending, with actual impact for me:

-A man contracts a serious illness. With no means of fighting the illness locally, he journeys across the world to a place where research is rumored to have yielded a cure. His travels are long, and he survives many dangerous situations through sheer force of will alone. He arrives at his destination, but there is no cure. As he succumbs to his disease, he reflects on all the work he had put into surviving, and realizes that in its own way, becoming sick helped him truly live for the first time. He dies, and he failed to accomplish anything, but there was value in his attempt.-

Like I said, it's subtle, but important. XD good examples of the kinds of shows with depressing endings that I like are things like "Grave of the Fireflies" and "Into the Wilderness"

 

[Clakbox]

My primary problem with Drag Me to Hell was one of the same problems I had with Surrogates and the train wreck that was the Russell Crowe Robin Hood: the final scene of the movie was featured in all the trailers hitting my television and elsewhere for weeks before I saw it. That's a good way to take the oomph out of your conclusion, especially when the conclusion is the climax, as is the case in Drag Me to Hell.

Edit: And yeah, I made an account here just to share that.

 

[JimB]

She did everything she could, she literally pushed the curse down the *****'s throat, and still she didn't make it?!

It fits the world the movie exists in, though. If the rules of that movie's world are such that a person can be damned to eternal torment not for sin, not for abdication of responsibility, but for revenge by an old woman whose problems are of her own making rather than of the curse victim's, then the world that movie exists in has no justice, and people will suffer when it is not right that they should do so.

 

[Vausch]

Uh, she got the envelopes mixed up and stuffed the wrong one down that lady's throat. At the end her boyfriend said he found the button in his car.

Yes, I got that. It just seemed like a dick move to have her taking the wrong envelope. And I got pissed off..

I loved it. Happy endings are good and all, but there's too many. Plus, it's a very easy mistake to make. So it's not like they pulled it out of their asses.

I'll grant they did set it up, but at the same time...why did Justin Long put the coin in an envelope to begin with? Why did SHE put the button in an envelope? Why not at least check to make sure?

It's not so much a plot hole as it is characters' stupidity being too contrived.

 

[[Kira Must Die]]

There's not a whole lot of movies that make me angry, in fact that rarely happens. There are movies I hate, like Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland and The Last Airbender to name a few, but I was never bursting blood vessels watching them. A few anime have enraged me, but there's not a lot of movies that do so.

However, there's one that comes to mind; The Doom Generation. I've only seen it recently, and it's by far the worst film I've ever seen in my life. I can't think of a single redeemable quality about that movie. The horrible acting, the pretentious, childish writing, the awful characters, and some of the worst dialogue I've ever heard in a film. It's like Natural Born Killers or Pulp Fiction as written by an angsty emo teen in the 9th grade. Scenes come and go with nothing holding them together, some plot points are never even mentioned or brought up again. There's a scene where they get in a fight in a bar and kill a dude, and his girlfriend vows vengeance, but she never shows up again and the scene is never brought up. There's another scene involving some FBI agents discussing the main characters crimes and how they should be stopped, but again, nothing comes up from that scene. All the death scenes are absurdly stupid and are edited like the filmmaker was deliberately trying to give you a seizures, and you can't for the life of you tell what the fuck is happening onscreen. All the characters are unlikable, gothic fucktards, and the movie is nothing but these fucktards driving around the country acting like fucktard, killing people and having lots of sex, and they're not interesting because 1) they're acted poorly and 2) they just come across as whiny emo kids trying to be poetic without any sort of irony whatsoever. It's not fun, it's not funny, it's not even disturbing. It's just a vile, detestable piece of garbage that I hope to never see again.

I also got really pissed at Nerawareta Gakuen, a recent anime film. I wrote a review of it somewhere on this site that summed up all the things wrong with it. It's one of the worst anime films I've seen in recent years. It looks pretty, everything else is an absolute mess.

Actually, if we're talking the very first movie to enrage me, when I was a kid, I hated a movie called The Trumpet of the Swan. I remember having fun beating up the video case and doodling on it. I haven't seen the movie in years, though, and barely remember it, so I'm not sure if it's as bad as I remember it. Looking back, I remember it being pretty stupid.

 

[Dwarfman]

"Drag me to hell".
This movie, this fucking movie...

I just saw it on tv a half hour ago, and it was one of the best horror movies I've ever seen.
Just the right balance between horror, suspense and even comedy.

But the ending... (SPOILER ALERT: STOP READING IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN IT, NOW!)







She did everything she could, she literally pushed the curse down the *****'s throat, and still she didn't make it?! I haven't been this angry at a movie ever. This can't end here, right? Right?
Was there anyone here who was as angry at this final gutpunch? Is there a sequel? I couldn't find any information about this, but this can't be IT, right?

Ugh, I'm sorry if this post doesn't make any sense, I've just never felt anything like this for a movie before.

So to have this make a point besides my well justified rage, and because I'm quite interested at what you guys find rage-worthy; what was the first movie you ever raged for and why?

Really?!?! I loved the ending to Drag me to Hell. It was perfect and proves that sometimes you're just gonna have to wear the consequences of your actions.

Me personally there are very few movies where the ending puts me in a blood rage, however, the original Neon Genesis Evangelion...oooooohhhhhhh FFFAAAAAARRRRRRRKKKK!!!! My Dad and I taped the last three episodes that aired on SBS seriously looking forward to a great ending. What we wound up with was dross. At one point the main character cries out loud " Why does everybody hate me?" Simultaneously my Father and I reply " Because your a fucking tool!" ...On a brighter note though the whole experience was a good Father Son moment.

 

[King of Asgaard]

Iron Man 3. Badly written character assassinations and a ridiculously over and underpowered villain. Shit ending too.

Dark Knight Rises. Plot holes galore and sheer stupid absurdity. Also, Bane's voice.

Spoiler

Man of Steel. Just... no. I don't even like Supes and this film annoyed me.

 

[Alarien]

My primary problem with Drag Me to Hell was one of the same problems I had with Surrogates and the train wreck that was the Russell Crowe Robin Hood: the final scene of the movie was featured in all the trailers hitting my television and elsewhere for weeks before I saw it. That's a good way to take the oomph out of your conclusion, especially when the conclusion is the climax, as is the case in Drag Me to Hell.

Edit: And yeah, I made an account here just to share that.

Welcome to The Escapist community.

That said, I thought Drag Me To Hell was fine for what it was. Keep in mind that this movie was not a modern horror movie, but a return to '70s and '80's style horror movies where there is always some sort of last scene antagonist win moment. Most of the '80's slasher flicks do it.

Sam Raimi was basically returning to his roots in The Evil Dead in anticipation of his remake. Is it a good ending? No, of course, not, but I think most people who are familiar with this kind of camp horror didn't expect it to be. Personally, I found the film to be a bit underwhelming on the humor side, if anything, as that's what I expect out of a Sam Raimi horror. He's not Guillermo Del Toro, by any means. However, his movies are usually fun as hell, and I found Drag Me To Hell to be suitably amusing. Especially the "gummed by toothless old woman" scene.