Movie Morals that Annoy You

[monsterzero]

That reminds me of another movie moral: the acceptance of childhood reversion when disappointment happens. Yeah, you're upset over your hubby's cheating, but why the hell does it make it alright to set a gasoline-filled vehicle aflame? Think of all the money that was wasted by sending out the firefighters and the police and for what? For someone who can't be bothered to confront her husband directly? And what if the car had exploded while she cried her bitch eyes out in her OWN DAMN MANSION? If anything it shows a contempt for anybody but herself. As a viewer my sympathy for her would have shrank to nil. Yeah, she's heartbroken, but that doesn't give you the right to put everybody's life in danger.

[chiqui]

Something like that actually happened in real life. A female forest ranger burned the letters of her ex and didn't bother to see the embers were properly put out, and sparked a fire that caused millions of dollars in damage and killed several people.

[spinsterliz]

Also, some woman went to jail when she copied the scene and set her boyfriend's car and some of his stuff on fire. (She outright admitted to police she'd gotten the idea from "Waiting to Exhale.") I don't think she hurt anybody, though.

[brinksteria]

Crash is still in theaters, right? So I'll spoiler.

If a woman is sexually molested/harassed >>like Thandie Newton's character by Matt Dillon's cop<<, then that sexual harasser >>ultimately will be your knight in shining armor, who risks his own life to pull you from a car that's about to go up in flames<<. Thank you, Hollywood, for reminding me to keep an open mind. ::deep eyeroll:: I almost forgot about the >>courage and nobility buried within every lowlife.

[treyother]

If you are a tomboy, and your best friend is male, it's totally okay for you to suppress your love for him to help him win the love of another.

Never mind that you've always been there for him, play drums in his band, and are overall a better person than the woman he loves.

She is popular, marginally prettier than you and rich, therefore she should get him because she is ever more deserving of him than you are.

In the end, if you keep quiet and stay true, he'll realise it was you he loved all along and you'll live Happily Ever After.

Or you know, until the next popular, rich marginally prettier girl comes along.

Some Kind of Wonderful wasn't.

[monsterzero]

The Perfect Storm is extremely annoying. The audience is supposed to invest their sympathy in this group of characters who throw away their lives to...save the world? Nope. Protect the life of a child? Uh-uh. Dispense justice? No siree.

To get some fish to market before they go bad. This is why they die.

I know this is a true story but...was there really a need to make a movie about them?

I don't know, but it comes off as being really goofy. That and titling it THEY DIED FOR THE GORTON'S FISHERMAN makes me laugh.

[aims]

And wasn't the whole reason they went out that far in the first place because they fished the water closer to shore dry? They went out to score big, so.... greed? Wasn't it? Makes the whole movie somewhat tainted. Or maybe it's just me.

[tommytimp]

They were trying to save their boat, their jobs, their livelihoods, etc., but still. Dumb.
I refer back to my first post in this thread about real-life events not being movie-worthy just because they really happened.

[shriekingeel]

I remember watching open-mouthed the first time I saw the ending of You Got Served, where the winners of the dance competition--the protagonists of the movie, the people we're supposed to identify with-- viciously taunt the losers to the wild applause of the crowd.

It was one of the most vile, mean-spirited moments I've ever seen in a movie.

[monsterzero]

And wasn't the whole reason they went out that far in the first place because they fished the water closer to shore dry? They went out to score big, so.... greed? Wasn't it? Makes the whole movie somewhat tainted. Or maybe it's just me.

What makes this funnier is that the movie tries to make this big deal about the victims of this utterly stupid incident look like capitalism failed them as the 'boss' gets the guilt trip about sending them out there...so it's okay for the 'little guy' to be greedy, but yet when it's for someone who got to such an exalted position it's not? How about greed is just wrong all around? No? Bueller??

I remember watching open-mouthed the first time I saw the ending of You Got Served, where the winners of the dance competition--the protagonists of the movie, the people we're supposed to identify with-- viciously taunt the losers to the wild applause of the crowd.

The moral? Never be a good winner, and always seek the acceptance of the crowd. Yeah, thanks Hollywood, why don't you just go and barf up more of your lunch, real people are talking here.

One of the morals that never fail to amuse is the whole of Smokey and the Bandit: it's okay and somehow against authority to help some hicks bootleg unsafe liquor to another state on a bet. Because most of the working class people who help the Bandit out surely want to pay higher prices on shittier beer....yeah, really working against the Man that way, yup.