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[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Every fucking one from a series of unfortunate events series even the kids who are potrayed as genius are stupid fucks who are irritating beyond human comprehension like everyone and i mean everyone . I know you said movie but i hated this series so much i stopped without even completing a season.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

All of them right now. There is nothing I want to see because it's not quality stuff or interesting to me. It would be nice to have something new to watch that is actually good.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Atomic blonde in atomic blonde.

She's "totally badass" without ever having a reason to do anything. No strong convictions or stakes, just action.

I really hoped the film would switch perspective midway and follow the Berlin dude. It would be special, having such an elaborate introduction and then forgetting the character atomic blonde completely, but it would have made a better film imo.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Not a movie, but Q from Star Trek Next Generation.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

This confuses me because Q episodes are my favorites

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

The old guy from game of thrones who has them all killed at the red wedding.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

Thomas Shelby from Peaky Blinders. He treats everyone around him like shit, he never communicates, and he alwayw feels like he is the victim. He is a full-blown narcissist.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

Whatever the dudes name is who took the lead in Speed 2. Such a punchable face.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Shiv, from Succession. (Series, not Movie)

Look, I fully understand the character and why she is the way she is and reacts the way she does, but understanding does not make her any less toxic. Kendall put it most succinctly. "Cunt is as cunt does", and her doings were foul.

EDIT: From movies...any character portrayed by Will Smith (opinion well predates "the slap" ).

[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago (2 children)

People who come into a home, or leave it and never close the door. WTF?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

Moms everywhere after slaving hours in the kitchen preparing a banquet breakfast feast for her family of three, watching her son grab a bagel because they’re late for school: “ … Have a good day sweetie! Guess I’ll throw this in the trash.”

Dad looking up from the newspaper with stock quotes: “Oops, I’m late for the business factory. Bye, honey!”

Moms: “I hate my life, it’s like I’m living in a TV trope!”

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

That happens a lot in The Sopranos. I like to think of it as a power move and find it hilarious.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

That pink cunt from Harry Potter. You know who I mean.

Also there's nurse Ratchet from One Flew Over the Cookoos Nest. Same vibe.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Nurse Ratchet then went on to play a Bible thumping Bajoran in Deep Space Nine, and brought that vibe with her.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (2 children)

My child, you are ignorant and know not what you say but only because you have not opened your heart to the Prophets. I thumped the orbs not this book you speak of.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

My whole body tensed up and I had to wrestle my rages at the sight of "my child."

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

"Thumped the orbs" sounds like a very specific fetish, but you do you, Eminence...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)
[–] [email protected] 34 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Characters who don't communicate. And not in a "bad relationship bad communication", I mean all of the cliches and tropes of "Oh my god if you said 2 words we could wrap this craptastic movie up right now" but they just have to drag out one more conflict.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

A masterclass in this is the TV show FROM. Jesus Christ, it's so bad in this aspect.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

The Jigsaw Killer family, grade A llama feed but Jesus fucking christ are they all just the WORST people imaginable.

Even the supposed purist Kramer himself regularly set up traps that were just completely unfair like setting a timer on the razer maze or leaving Adam's key where he'd have had no chance to realize where it was before he "failed" the test.

Like seriously, for all his waxing philosophical, he has NO concept of how a human mind functions when panicking, including how a solid 3rd of the adrenaline response is FREEZE, the saw traps Kramer designs are guaranteed to kill at least a 3rd of all participants assuming it's an even split which way you go when you start freaking out because a serial killer kidnapped you and strapped you into a death game where you have to literally maim yourself to survive.

To say nothing of Amanda, who's just a lunatic vigilante projecting her own worthlessness onto everyone that ends up in Kramer's crosshairs, Hoffman who thinks any trap where a woman dies for no reason is an astounding success story, and Jill who is just so blisteringly stupid that she honestly deserved to die like an idiot for how little she did to even try and establish a line of communication with Gordon, the guy in charge of shutting Hoffman down if he ever became a threat to her, who himself is a moron for never using his supposed influence as the secret true heir and medical expertise to advise Kramer what the victims would physically be able to actually win at.

And then there's the super DUPER secret apprentice Logan who fucks everything up so spectacularly he can't even get the catchphrase right!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Every scene with a person who eats loudly

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

There are far better reasons to hate Denethor.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

If you aren't already aware, you may have misophonia. You aren't alone or crazy.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Is there something you can actually do about this or do I have to just grit my teeth and try to disassociate every time I have a meal with another human being?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Tim from Jurassic Park (film).

The raptor is trying to get through the door and eat everyone, your sister is busy trying to hack the system, and the two adults are trying like hell to keep the door closed while also trying to reach the shotgun.

What does he do? Hand them the gun? Use his, until this very moment useless, dead weight to help hold the door? Nope, just hops up and down.

You're dead weight, Timmy.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Just wait till you read the book and find out how much of a dead weight some of those people are.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Oh I have. But the post was about movie characters so I stuck to that lol. Don't get me started on Ed Regis.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

I’ll tell you who pisses me off from Jurassic Park - Michael fucking Crichton.

So, I know the guy Ian Malcolm was based on. He’s a complexity theorist I worked with a bit. Jeff Goldblum famously (in our tiny science community) called him but rather than asking about things like chaos theory he just asked about the guys family and stuff. In retrospect it makes sense, but the guy was really thrown by someone not wanting to talk about chaos theory.

Anyway - Michael Crichton was a fucking asshole. I want you to hear that in the voice of your favorite character from What We Do in the Shadows. He turned into a conspiracy theorist, wrote that weird grey goo book about nanotechnology, and was generally just an unpleasant person who thought his intelligence was significantly higher than it actually was, as demonstrated when people actually tried to talk to him about complexity theory.

I was actually a fan of his work until I started working there and his brain headed south like a monarch butterfly on crack.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

I was a fan of his work until now. Damn it. lol

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Dumble-freaking-dore! The things they let Dumbledore shrug his shoulders at for the sake of the plot turns me off story-wise, and at times the story forces aspects about him to matter.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

They killed the troll, 100 points for Gryffindor

Yeah okay, but WHY did the troll get out. How are we going to stop this from happening in the future? How can we ensure the kids never wind up petrified, entered into some sort of competition against their will despite being under age, drowned, or killed by three headed dogs, giant bird horse things or basilisks?

Doesn't matter, Gryffindor wins!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

Thats cause Rowling is a Terrible author

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Popeye Doyle in The French Connection. Sure he's the protagonist, but he's also a huge piece of shit.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

I cannot watch that movie because of how much I don’t give a fuck about the characters

[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Forced romantic interest that were clearly the idea of some dipshit exec who wants to play it safe with generic audiences by inserting every cliche they can think of.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Obvious exposition dumbass who needs breathing explained to him coming in a close second.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

My favorite non-example of this was in Mr Robot. The main character starts explaining something and the other character just says something like "we know what a raspberry pi is jackass" and it was fantastic.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

But, what if they just stayed good friends?

Insert guy getting defenestrated.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

They do that sometimes to good effect.

Theres a lot of "will they, wont they" and then, nope they dont.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago

One of my favorite things from 30 Rock - they didn't force any of the main characters together. They even had Kim Jong Il talk directly to the camera at the end of an episode telling the writers not to overthink it and have Jack and Liz get together.

That is one of my favorite jokes as they’re mocking fans who wanted them to get together.

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