‘What celebrated movie actually has a terrible message?’ – 25 films that you’ll never think about in the same way again
13.
‘The American Pie movies and Superbad. Movies I’ve rewatched and laughed at many times in the past but have the same message of ‘I need to get laid before high school’s over no matter what’, and the use of alcohol to gain consent, not a good look.’
–Failedimagineers
14.
‘Bridget Jones. Perfectly average-shaped woman, if not thin, is labelled chubby during entire film, fucking up standards for a generation of young girls.’
–r1mette
15.
‘Fatal Attraction. Don’t worry guys, you can be as big of a piece of shit as you want to every woman in your life and YOU get to be the victim!’
–Creepshowx
16.
‘Harry Potter was basically abused and manipulated by every adult he encountered after his parents died.’
–itakealotofnapszz
17.
‘Fight Club. ‘Oh, Instead of finding a more fulfilling job, I’ma become a terrorist’. Also, too many men bought into that ‘manhood’ bullshit.’
–Chars_Ghost
18.
‘American Beauty, just because it jumps to extreme levels of rebelling against conventional roles and taboo things, tired of dinner with family and routine, don’t feel like you are being heard, hurl a dish of food across the dining room.
‘Ogle your high school daughter’s friend, give her a kiss. I know some of this was intended for dramatic effect, just thought it made the message a bit too unhinged.’
–Morose-MFer81
19.
‘Devil wears Prada, her boyfriend was soooo rude to her the whole movie and she has to give up a successful career for him . I know it’s a bit deeper than that but I felt like the message was weird at the end.’
–Tiny_Vegetable_4410
20.
‘School of Rock. Pretending to be a teacher to kidnap a class full of kids to exploit and make money off them ain’t such a sweet story.’
–timewastinbuttsmelly
21.
‘The Incredibles. Super people are super and you should accept your natural superiors and let them be heroes. As an ordinary person you are wrong to try to buck the system because it will ultimately be self-destructive.
‘At the same time, because supers are super, they have a duty to hide their abilities from ‘normal’ people, so they have to stay in the shadows instead of being their authentic selves.’
–Nangbaby
22.
‘Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer. Teaches that you’re only worthy of love and acceptance if you’re of use to someone else.’
–Diavolo_Rosso_
23.
‘The 40 Year Old Virgin. It would be different if Andy went to bed every night lonely, but he wasn’t. They showed him living his best life playing video games, during karaoke by himself and reading comic books.
‘It was the movie that made it a big deal when actually he was having the time of his life by himself.’
–Old_Marsupial_7080
24.
‘Cars romanticises industry decline.’
–TrueNinja101
25.
‘Breakfast Club. No one learns anything and they might all actually become worse versions of themselves in the end.’
–maovian
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