20 Movies That Are Pretty Messed-Up When You Think About It
In this age of media illiteracy, movies are often misinterpreted, but more and more, studios and audiences work as a team in this endeavor. Like, sure, Tyler Durden was clearly the villain of Fight Club, but to be fair, they made him look really, really cool. Yeah, there’s an in-text reason he had to look like Brad Pitt, but did they also have to dress him in red leather and $1,000 sunglasses? Was his soap business doing that well? And he bought shades before a properly weatherproofed home?
Sometimes, though, a movie unabashedly tries to pass off a truly deranged moral code as normal and good. For example, “Pretty Woman is one of the most repellent and dangerous American films I’ve ever seen,” user LeTervuren told r/AskReddit. “It's two hours of sexist, classist, racist, social Darwinist masturbation that embodies everything wrong with the oeuvre of its jackbooted crypto-fascist scumbag of a leading actress.” Their, uh, issues with Julia Roberts aside, they make a fair point.
They then asked, “What is a film with a genuinely evil moral center?” and their fellow Redditors provided nothing but pure evil in return.
Passengers
Loving the Bad Man
Into the Wild
Christmas With the Kranks
40 Days and 40 Nights
Wicked
Mallrats
Father of the Bride
The Fast and the Furious
Hit Man
Sixteen Candles
Pearl Harbor
Revenge of the Nerds
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
Beauty and the Beast
Idiocracy
365 Days
Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Reagan
Trap
