Movies with unlikeable hero(ines)

[Deezus]

Originally Posted by LauraC

How about the movie "Falling Down" with Michael Douglas?

That movie is interesting despite many of it's flaws, because the main character is sort of portrayed almost as an anti-hero at times although at other points it's clear that he's a very sick individual who's just gone over the edge. He's not very likeable, yet there's a part of the audience who probably watches that film and cheers at points where he's fighting off gangbangers or a neo-nazi, though there's other parts where while people might relate to having trouble with the service at a fast food restaurant or with rich people or whatever--his character just goes to far into violence and anti-social behavior.

The counterpoint is that the character of Robert Duvall who's tracking him down to arrest him, isn't the villain, as he's the one character who's pretty likeable and down to earth as decent cop(even with the ultimate cop cliche of him being about ready to retire). At the end, it's the Michael Douglas character who has to realize that he's been the bad guy all along.

[steampunkzombie]

187 with Samuel L Jackson I thought was a real good movie

Like another person said in this thread House Of Sand and fog was a good movie and yeah I liked it

The punisher as a character I thought was really good and while you may not agree with how he did things you can still sort of cheer him on.

Suicide Kings with Christopher walker was cool

[ischyros]

To me, the movie The Break-Up fits this description. I did not like either Vince Vaughn or Jennifer Aniston's character one single bit in that movie. They had absolutely no redeeming qualities and thus I hated the movie.