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I hate the movie Rubber (2010). I saw it years ago because I thought "oh a horror comedy about a murderous tyre, yeah sure!" And it turned out to be the most boring, pretentious slop I've ever seen; I should have known as it is a French film, but sometimes the French have good horror so I gave it a chance - MISTAKE! I watched it all the way through and just couldn't stop loathing it. I made the mistake of telling my mate at the time, so when I went to see him, guess what he had on 🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️ so I've seen it twice and it sucked arse both times.
What's a film or piece of media that gets you irrationally angry?
Coincidentally, I watched a French horror film last night called Martyrs (2008).
There was a comment review on this thread recently about 28 Years Later and how it had no redeeming value (which is a preposterous notion by the way)
and so…
Martyrs (2008) is a movie that actually has no redeeming value. It’s a purely violent and brutal torture porn type film with no real discernible message.
It didn’t make me irrationally angry, just confused. Who was this movie made for? and why? What does this piece of art bring to the world?
EDIT: rage inducing media includes:
“Reality TV”
“Morning shows”
Anything with Tracy Grimshaw and that rubbish
Morning shows. Don't talk to me about morning shows
decades ago I used to stay up to watch Today, an American syndicated morning show. I was like 😧. The journalism/interviews were better than anything I had seen on ABC or SBS. And then I was 😖The journalism of "trash" American morning shows is better than our best journos.
I'm not saying US morning shows are good now or that I agree with their views.