Most intellectually insulting movies you can think of

[softclocks]

Probably Avatar.

Negative marks all about.

 

[EvilMaggot]

The Doom movie offends me, being the worst example of source material mistreatment that I can think of.

"Eragon" tops that... Read the book.. watch the movie.. now that is abuse against source material... and i hate them for it.. because the Book(s) can turn into GREAT movies.. but.. with "Eragon".. it kinda got screwed :/

 

[Riot3000]

Lets see that movie that tested my patience was Avatar the Last Airbender movie good lord. I mean hollywood if you are going to turn Sokka, Katara and Gram Gram caucasian thats fine but still keep the rest of the village eskimo that is just lazy hollywood. You made Birth of a Nation and made John Wayne as Genghis Khan that whole igloo village should of looked like somewhere siberia I am disappoint.

Also Tyler Perry movies in the words of futurama your "actors should not announce how they feel".

Also the movie Baby Boy a splotch on John Singletons resume where it was really stupid that it was an unintentional comedy and now since life happened I realized it is actually true to life for some in some ways which makes it even funnier and kind of sad.

Also I would say Sci Fi original movies but they serve a purpose they are like cheap made grindhouse movies that are so terrible thats the point and sometimes you get rare diamond in the rough out of it.

 

[Scarim Coral]

The Tree of Life. Honestly I cannot think of a movie with less to say that was given such a large budget with which to say it.

This. I didn't get the whole philosopher side to the film which I guess I was too thick to fully understand it as I only understood the film to being the first 30 minutes being the birth of the universe and then it became some kind of a flashback of some guy childhood, oh and there was animal abuse aswell!

 

[Eddie the head]

Man of Steel was intellectually insulting, but not the most. That one just sticks out in my recent memory. For one thing evolution doesn't work like that. And for another thing the whole eugenics thing was handled much better in an episode of Star Trek. And they didn't need to destroy a city to do it. In fact quite the opposite.

 

[Ambitiousmould]

U-571. I mean it's like they just expected us to believe that the US captured to enigma machine after it had already been captured and deciphered by the British/Europeans a year ago by this point. Not only does it insult the viewers intellect, it insults the memories and heroism of those who really did capture the enigma machine, and also makes it seem as though the US hasn't got it's own heroic wartime achievements, so it is also insulting to the US and their WW2 servicemen. I believe that the director expressed his shame at having made it, but he shouldn;t have made it in the first place and should not be forgiven. If I had it my way every copy of this film would be destroyed and him stripped of any wealth he has. (Also everyone that thinks what happened in this film is what actually happened should be made to sit through all of primary school and secondary school history again. Actually put the people who produced the film in there too.) That's not even mentioning how the German U-Boat crew kills some allied survivors from a sinking ship by shooting them in the water. And just how the Germans in that film in general are portrayed as some non-human evil things designed to kill anything that isn't them without feelings or remorse. Nazis are bad, we get it, but to think that every German in WW2 was just an evil entity that delights in the slaughter of now harmless shipwreck survivors is blind and childish.

I don't think that I communicated that very well. I get rambley and make little sense when I am pissed off (and therefore every time I think about this piece of shit film.

 

[jademunky]

The Tree of Life. Honestly I cannot think of a movie with less to say that was given such a large budget with which to say it.

This. I didn't get the whole philosopher side to the film which I guess I was too thick to fully understand it as I only understood the film to being the first 30 minutes being the birth of the universe and then it became some kind of a flashback of some guy childhood, oh and there was animal abuse aswell!

And Dinosaurs. Fucking Dinosaurs.

Yeah I count myself lucky that I waited to rent that one. I would've actually walked right out of the theater.

 

[Flutterguy]

John Dies at the End.

Everything made by 'Asylum'.

New Godzilla.. probably because I seen it last night and I'm offended just how horrible that was given the franchise and budget. I sincerely hope the people involved find themselves in poverty unable to afford their cocaine addictions.

 

[PrimitiveJudge]

Any religious based movies ruin it for me. I get it, your on a mission/crusade/struggle to find a path in life. BAH. The real culprits are:

Starwars episode 1 and 2: Fuck Aniken and JarJar. ( I liked the third one because he killed children like a true dark knight)
Druids: Shoot me now.
Transformers 2: WTF, Megan Fox is hot, we get it, why does a RC robot need to hump her leg?
2012: Stupid Russian kids
Day After Tomorrow: nuff said
the Scary Movie franchise: Not funny, at all.
(not a movie but deserves the absolute worse nuking ever) Here comes Honey booboo and Toddlers in Tierra's: Ok what the fucking hell has happened to society? I get that this is a free country and all but those people who place there children in those situations need to receive full Persian and North Korean labor camp situations. Just wrong.

Side note for the Marvel fans: I thought of a theory for the trio Marvel movies. 1st one is good, 2nd one is better 3rd one is a complete dump in the crapper.
Examples:

Iron Man
X-men
Avengers
Thor
Hulk
Spiderman
Blade

Yeah I am done for now

 

[Dalisclock]

The Doom movie offends me, being the worst example of source material mistreatment that I can think of.

When I saw that movie, all I kept thinking is "I liked this movie a lot better when it was called ALIENS". The saddest part is the most entertaining part of the entire movie were the 7 minutes where it became an FPS. Maybe they should have made the entire movie like that. It still would have been dumb but maybe more of a "good dumb" rather then "crappy, plageristic dumb"

 

[Dalisclock]

U-571.

What's really annoying is that the actual capture of a german uboat was quite interesting in it's own right. Too bad they didn't make a movie about that.

 

[pearcinator]

Prometheus.

Yes, for the first half of the movie I got really angry at how stupid these 'scientists' were. I didn't mind the movie as a whole though; the second half of the movie I liked quite a lot (maybe it's cos all these dumb scientists got killed?) and I thought it ended with a lot of potential.

Prometheus had an interesting story, if you can look past the stupidity of the first half of the movie and some of the completely unnecessary 'twists' it is a decent sci-fi movie. I think it gets too much hate but I can understand why. If they make a sequel to it I hope they do the 'Alien origins' justice. It has the potential to be good, just needs someone smart to write the script.

My choice would be (from movies I have seen) is 'Spawn' (1997)

The movie aggravated me with it's stupid plot, insultingly bad special effects and an evil clown that instantly gave me a headache when he was on screen. One of the worst movies I have ever seen.

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[ecoho]

Any religious based movies ruin it for me. I get it, your on a mission/crusade/struggle to find a path in life. BAH. The real culprits are:

Starwars episode 1 and 2: Fuck Aniken and JarJar. ( I liked the third one because he killed children like a true dark knight)
Druids: Shoot me now.
Transformers 2: WTF, Megan Fox is hot, we get it, why does a RC robot need to hump her leg?
2012: Stupid Russian kids
Day After Tomorrow: nuff said
the Scary Movie franchise: Not funny, at all.
(not a movie but deserves the absolute worse nuking ever) Here comes Honey booboo and Toddlers in Tierra's: Ok what the fucking hell has happened to society? I get that this is a free country and all but those people who place there children in those situations need to receive full Persian and North Korean labor camp situations. Just wrong.

Side note for the Marvel fans: I thought of a theory for the trio Marvel movies. 1st one is good, 2nd one is better 3rd one is a complete dump in the crapper.
Examples:

Iron Man
X-men
Avengers
Thor
Hulk
Spiderman
Blade

Yeah I am done for now

ok got to fix this, Iron Man is the only marvel film on here that has had three movies.(still loved the third but you know different tastes) All the other ether don't have a third movie or were made without marvel.(just their license)

OT:
the last fucking air bender: only movie in recent memory that pissed me off enough to demand a refund of my money.

Eragon: or as I like to call it how to fuck up a great franchise.

Elysium: stupid movie with a stupid premise. A shame too cause I hear it was made by the same guy who did District 9.

 

[Story]

I found SuckerPunch insulting interesting enough. It would be one thing if it were about poorly dressed women doing bizarre fantasy stuff with no shame but the movie actually wants "tell us something" too bad it was just plain stupid.

Aside from that though I suppose The Happening would be another intellectually insulting film for obvious reasons. I would mention Lady in the Water too, but that was just a dull movie.

Edit:

The Lorax, my God, this is a terrible film. It completely ruined the message of the book in that while you shouldn't destroy the environment, going from one extreme to the other also isn't the answer, it was about trying to find that middle ground that would satisfy most. Not only that, generic and clichéd characters, the Onceler, going from a mysterious character whose face we don't see in order to symbolise that greed can corrupt anyone to a whiny, hipster douchebag and it messed up the ambiguity of the book ending in favour of a clichéd happy ending just to make the kids happy, instead of challenging and preparing them that sometimes there are no answers and you'll have to look for answers yourself if you want them. There's also the hypocrisy of its anti-corporate message, but I think everyone is aware of that.

Oh my God yes!
That movie made me so angry, and I rarely get angry. I'm so happy I didn't take any young family members to see that garbage. :/

 

[Imperioratorex Caprae]

Basically any movie thats released in the "Oscar Bait" timeslot in the calendar year. Why? Because its obvious they're trolling for an award and not making the movie just to make it. Its intellectually insulting because of how political these awards shows really are and how useless that makes them...

 

[barbzilla]

Inception.

The movie puffs itself up as this big, deep, intellectual thing (though that may just be it's rabid fanboys) but when you sit down to watch it it's just a stock-standard action-flick with some neat slow-motion. The 'Dream' layers are poorly explored and incredibly dull, acting solely as different settings for 'shooty-shooty bang-bang', the characters 'existential crisis' is painfully obvious right from the start and makes the last quarter of the movie inane and the final 'brilliant' scene of the spinning top is... well, an annoying thing film-makers do on occasion to make it look deeper than it is.

Christ, I have a dislike for this movie that is stronger than normal. Probably because I had to watch it in film studies and listen to 30 undergraduate students praise it's 'brilliance'. Fucking Zoolander was smarter then this.

I'm glad that I'm not the only human on this planet who loathes this odious turd of a film so much.

A: When you are considering dream states, why are you failing to use some stronger imaginative leaps. So many chances to go outside of itself as a movie, but instead it wants to keep you near the action.

B: The build up and pacing were very off to me. It doesn't do a whole lot to draw you into its world in the first quarter, so you spend the next quarter trying to figure out why you should care.

 

[Gronk]

Braveheart.

Oh my god what a stupid travesty. Yes, make a film about a historical person and screw up almost every piece of historical fact you present. Not only that, the move fails on even a basic dramaturgical level, undermining the feeling of "rooting for the underdog" and sympathy for it's protagonist. Then insult your viewers even more by introducing cheap methods of identifying who is "good" and who is "evil".

The movie is a failure on almost every level. I would have walked out of the theater hadn't it been because i were there with friends.

 

[bartholen_v1legacy]

I found SuckerPunch insulting interesting enough. It would be one thing if it were about poorly dressed women doing bizarre fantasy stuff with no shame but the movie actually wants "tell us something" too bad it was just plain stupid.

I would say I feel the same had I gotten any vibes that Sucker Punch was trying to say anything in the first place. Oh, MovieBob and Snyder himself may have said there was something underneath the surface, but trust the tale, not the teller. As Jeremy Jahns pointed out, none of the dream sequences actually have anything to do with what is happening in the real world simultaneously. Like how does copying a map turn into fighting nazi zombies with mechs and katanas in WWI? When I saw it I rented it as a drunk movie, something that would be fun when I'm hammered. It was so much worse than that. One of the worst movies I've ever seen.

 

[Padwolf]

would it be bad to say "the other woman?" even though I havent seen it?

or what about "the women"? I mean...yeah

I hate to say it, but I'm gonna come out and defend "The Other Woman" I thought it was pretty good. The only thing I hated, and found insulting, about it is sadly something I will put in a spoiler. It isn't really a plot twist or anything like that, it's something very obvious with the themes of the film. But just in case!

Spoiler

The fact that the main protagonist, "the other woman", sits and wonders why her husbands ex wife hates her. Maybe because you were in an affair with her husband and she believed herself happily married and you came along and ruined it? That daft woman!

 

[Tanis]

Expelled - No Intelligence Allowed:
Anti-science film by an evolution denier, who LIED to those he interview AND edited said interviews to push his bullshit.
THEN has the audacity to claim's a documentary.

God Is Not Dead & Heaven Is Real:
Or, as I like to call them 'Waah I'm A Victim For Being Dick, Give Me Money: Bigoted Christian Right Edition'.
It's not only that the movies are bigoted.
It's not only that the movies are anti-education.
It's not only that the movies are unaware of how colleges really work.
It's not only that the movies are full of crappy acting.
It's not only that the movies are written like a blog.
It's not only that the movies are poorly shot.

It's that they actually try to pass themselves off as 'fair and balanced' and 'based on a real story'.
When, in reality, they're full of so much crap even Noah's arc wouldn't have been able to handle them.