Most intellectually insulting movies you can think of

[Ihateregistering1]

Some years ago there was a movie called "I am Sam", with Sean Penn and Michelle Pfieffer, and the whole movie was basically about how this mentally retarded guy (Penn) had a daughter, and the Government was saying that since he had the developmental level of a 7 year old, he couldn't take care of her anymore.

What was so obnoxious is that the movie was very clearly rooting for Sam (Penn's character) to win the legal battle, but it never once presented a single reason as to WHY a mentally disabled person is fit to raise a child, we're just supposed to root for him because he has a heart of gold and the Government lawyers are big meanies who use big mean legal terms.

It sort of reminded me of "Losing Isaiah", except that movie was smart enough to present the idea and then let us choose who to root for, this movie thought we were too dumb to make that decision ourselves.

 

[Vault101]

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.

erm...are you sure its the movie or you?

its just an action film with a neat gimmick and (IMO) good execution, while I wouldn't call it deep I'd say its pretty damn good

 

[Vault101]

Some years ago there was a movie called "I am Sam", with Sean Penn and Michelle Pfieffer, and the whole movie was basically about how this mentally retarded guy (Penn) had a daughter, and the Government was saying that since he had the developmental level of a 7 year old, he couldn't take care of her anymore.

What was so obnoxious is that the movie was very clearly rooting for Sam (Penn's character) to win the legal battle, but it never once presented a single reason as to WHY a mentally disabled person is fit to raise a child, we're just supposed to root for him because he has a heart of gold and the Government lawyers are big meanies who use big mean legal terms.

[i/]N**** you just went full retard....[/i] [footnote/]direct quote from Tropic Thunder not calling anyone a retard or the N word[/footnote]

the ending makes it kind of vauge like they came up with a joint custody thing...I think (and hope) he had visitation rights regardless

I think what makes it so obvious, and again the source of that quote is Penns portrayal of a disabled person is as far as I know quite realistic, as opposed to just quirky, mabye thats why, theyre showing what it really is to be mentally disabled yet fitting it into framing (yay! inspirational!) that doesn't work...if I am to be cynical these kinds of movies just feel made to make the audience feel good about themselves and go on ignoring "retards" in real life...

as I said I got the same thing with Patch Addams...

 

[FPLOON]

I think the only movie where I ever felt that way was while watching Project X... and the fact that the only thing that didn't make me just stop watching all of the asshole-like bullshit that was going on throughout the movie was its choice of an overall soundtrack just made me tolerate it for those two hours I will never get back...

Yeah... I have a tendency of watching movies that, on the outside, look like they're "having mindless fun" in some way, shape, or form... but man was Project X definitely not one of those movies on the inside... (not even on a comedic level of "mindless fun"...)

 

[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.

 

[Avalanche91]

Still no mention of Twilight? I am disappoint.

Transformers is also a contender.

 

[Andy of Comix Inc]

Probably Man of Steel. That movie was one of the most juvenile, immature products I've had the displeasure to watch.

 

[Loonyyy]

A man is calling someone on a phone. There is text that says "Rome". In the next shot someone else is answering a phone. There is text that says "New York". There is also text underneath that which says "At the same time".

I remember first laughing my arse off when I saw that, then I felt pretty insulted. I mean seriously, did they think I was so fucking stupid that I could not make the connection that what I was watching;

A) was taking place at the same time?
B) they are talking to each other?

I'm pretty sure that if you show people a shot of a person dialing on a phone then cut to a shot of another person answering a phone, most people will know that they are watching a phone conversation happening in real time. They will not think that they are watching two halves of two different phone conversations happening at two different times.

Maybe they wanted to annoy physicists with relativistic physics? That'd be a laugh. Yeah, that sounds completely ridiculous hahaha

 

[TheSYLOH]

I'm going to have to go with an obscure Syfy channel original movie called Earth's Final Hours.

This is probably the first and last time anyone will say this, but... Futurama portrayed this subject matter much more realistically. The premise is that something hit the earth so hard it stopped spinning and our "heroes" must get it spinning again while the evil CIA trys to make a green zone where the best and brightest will now live.
The episode "That Darn Katz"on Futurama had a similar premise. Except... having cats stealing the earth's rotational energy make a heck of a lot more sense. It neatly explains where all the earth's rotational energy is going. It acknowledges that a planet abruptly stopping will have catastrophic effects on the things on said planet. Likewise it also explains where the energy to get a planet spinning again comes from. That's even ignoring the fact the earth probably wouldn't have survived the impact in the first place (another problem Futurama side steps).

Every time a character opens his mouth he/she speaks just enough to inform everyone in the audience "Hi! I don't actually know a single thing about what I'm talking about"

I just don't know what was going through the writers heads!

And then these convenient Deus Ex Machina energy ripples start appearing and vaporizing anything that threatens the main characters. WHY? How does the earth stopping cause those? Why are their tendrils attracted to bit part characters and vehicles? Why do they appear only when there are characters about? No one really attempts to explain these things.

And the sad thing is that a lot of this could have been easily avoided. Just say "The meteor is some kind of beacon for an alien invasion" and just jettison the whole earth stop spinning thing. Solves 50% of the plot holes, explains those energy ribbon things, also explains how a couple of satellites can stop it. You can solve another 25% of the plot hole by introducing the concept of alien possession, with the aliens unaccustomed to our existence. Which explains FBI agents acting like utter morons, for example, attempting to stop a transmission by whacking the satellite dish on the side and base of the dish part... rather than.. i don't know, whacking the vulnerable bit on the tip. Still leaves 25% of the plot hole generated by outright character stupidity.

This would have made this movie a below average alien invasion flick, rather than an abysmal disaster flick. In all, pay attention to the writers of this flick, so you know what movies to avoid.

 

[YuberNeclord]

A man is calling someone on a phone. There is text that says "Rome". In the next shot someone else is answering a phone. There is text that says "New York". There is also text underneath that which says "At the same time".

I remember first laughing my arse off when I saw that, then I felt pretty insulted. I mean seriously, did they think I was so fucking stupid that I could not make the connection that what I was watching;

A) was taking place at the same time?
B) they are talking to each other?

I'm pretty sure that if you show people a shot of a person dialing on a phone then cut to a shot of another person answering a phone, most people will know that they are watching a phone conversation happening in real time. They will not think that they are watching two halves of two different phone conversations happening at two different times.

Maybe they wanted to annoy physicists with relativistic physics? That'd be a laugh. Yeah, that sounds completely ridiculous hahaha

After posting this I was curious if I was remembering the scene right so I quickly found a copy of Inferno and had a look. It's not quite how I described it, but it's still pretty bad.

So you've got a guy talking on a phone to a women. The shot is of him so you just hear her voice over the phone. Anyway the phone line has a bad connection and during the conversation the line drops out. The guy starts hammering on the phone trying to get her back. The next shot is of a woman also hammering on her phone trying to get him back. So at this point it's pretty obvious that they are having the same phone conversation. And that's when the text pops up. And what the text actually says is:

"New York. The Same Night In April"

So I don't know what the film makers were thinking, but the end result is hilarious(and pretty insulting).

 

[Snotnarok]

Avatar, for all the people recommending me it I expected it to be at least decent. I like a decent range of Sci-fi from Star Trek to Star Wars and the Mass Effect series. Friends and my uncle were throwing roses at it, I heard people were suffering from depression because they'd never get to visit such an amazing world. So again I was expecting decent, I rarely get my hopes up for anything and this wasn't going to be anything different.

Avatar was just dumb, antagonists who are evil for the sake of it, alien victims with big eyes who are in tune with the nature and love it. What it boiled down to was TECHNOLOGY IS BAD AND NATURE IS GEWD! Ferngully was a more compelling tale.

It was so crap I walked out .......of my living room, but that's besides the point. It was dumb, nothing caught me, it wasn't a good plot, characters were dull, some of the things that happened were just freaking stupid. I felt like I was watching Who Framed Roger Rabbit with a shit story, 3D instead of 2D art, nice CG that stood out with real people.

I don't know why it gets the praise it does, it's not a good movie, it's not a good story, it wasn't smart or even competent. It was shit, I've had people try and explain why it was so great and nothing sells me on it.

 

[Sean Hollyman]

Dragon Ball Evolution


It's just... so...can't explain..!

 

[Sigmund Av Volsung]

This:


Please, just watch the trailer.

Even without taking religious views into consideration this movie is just bad.

It's application of the message is what makes it insulting.

 

[mjharper]

Forrest Gump.

The film is quite literally an insult to the intellect. Everyone in the film - besides Forrest - has problems stemming from their intelligence. Forrest doesn't have these problems because he's an idiot, and what's more, he's able to show everyone how their problems are due to their intelligence and so change them for the better.

The film is a romantic glorification of stupidity over intelligence. I despise it with every fibre of my being.

 

[Lieju]

Obvious answer, 'God is not dead' and the kind of stuff that only exists to tell a certain group (usually to a religious sect) that they are right. No need to tell a story or intellectually challenge anyone, just tell your target audience 'you are right'.

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.

erm...are you sure its the movie or you?

its just an action film with a neat gimmick and (IMO) good execution, while I wouldn't call it deep I'd say its pretty damn good

I've seen it lorded as this amazing intellectual movie that questions existentialism and reality pretty much everywhere I've gone - Tumblr, Facebook, University, even on the Escapist. Granted, it could just be me and the people I run into, but...

It's a good action flick and it is well made, but jesus does it get far more praise than it deserves. I am also SUPER hostile towards it due to having to sit through an entire semester of people hailing it as this amazingly deep, intellectual film and practically sucking Christopher Nolan's dick.

Yes, those are my thoughts about the film exactly.
It was an okay film, but I have no idea why people thought it was deep or intellectual or difficult to follow.

I suspect it just came across very well compared to most schlock Hollywood puts out.
That's why so many people thought Bioshock was so brilliant.
Not much competition.

 

[snappydog]

This:


Please, just watch the trailer.

Even without taking religious views into consideration this movie is just bad.

It's application of the message is what makes it insulting.

Oh, gee. Yeah, this doesn't look like it would stand up as a good film even amongst those who agree with its message.

OT: I'd probably say Knowing, a Nick Cage movie from a few years ago which shapes up to be a fairly decent supernatural disaster suspense type thing but descends in the last act into aliens or some shit. I don't remember in too much detail, all I remember is that I was enjoying it until the aliens showed up, at which point I regretted spending time and money on watching that film.