10 Movies That Hated You For Watching
These movies have absolute contempt for their audience.
Generally speaking, most movies are made to entertain, or in the very least leave the viewer nourished emotionally or intellectually.
Almost all movies, by their design, are amenable to the idea that you took the time, money, and effort to watch them, but evidently there are peculiar exceptions to this rule. And that's absolutely the case with these 10 films, each of which failed to veil their contempt for the fact that you actually bothered to see them at all.
It seems antithetical to the very idea of anyone bothering to make a movie, and really it is, but in some cases the filmmakers clearly wanted audiences to reflect on precisely why they wanted to watch their film. From perfunctory sequels the directors clearly hated you for even requesting, to biopics of detestable figures you shouldn't idolise, and a certain ultraviolent social satire that turns your cinematic bloodlust in on itself, the following movies all resented the very idea that there was demand for them to exist.
And yet, some of them are still quite brilliant in their own way. As for the others? Quite the opposite...
10. The Matrix Resurrections
The Matrix Resurrections is a film that exists in spite of itself.
Director Lana Wachowski made no qualms about voicing her disdain for the fact that Warner Bros. decided to dust off her long-dormant sci-fi IP, even straight-up having characters vocalise the studio's desperation within the movie itself.
Warner Bros. were going to make a new Matrix movie with or without the Wachowskis' involvement, and so Lana hatched an unhinged plan to make a scorched Earth sequel that's basically the furthest thing from what the bean counters - or indeed most fans - actually wanted.
This sledgehammer-subtle meta sequel feels like a quasi-parody of most Legacy Sequels, fully aware of its own redundancy and the creative bankruptcy which motivates its existence. Is it any good? Most fans seem to think not, many feeling that the film is more of a cinematic "s**tpost" protest against Warner Bros. than an earnest attempt to make a fourth Matrix, which would be absolutely right.
That audiences responded by rejecting the sequel outright, resulting in a massive box office flop, probably put a perverse smile on Wachowski's face.