10 Movies That Are Popular For All The Wrong Reasons

Not unlike Fight Club, Joel Schumacher's Falling Down is a film which, through its superb filmmaking craft and sheer entertainment value, allowed many to rather miss the point.

Falling Down follows William Foster (Michael Douglas), a downtrodden white collar worker who violently lashes out at the world around him on a hot and stressful day in Los Angeles.

On a superficial level many of Foster's more trivial frustrations are entirely relatable - especially the fast food restaurant serving up food that looks nothing like the picture - yet it becomes increasingly difficult to identify with the man as his rampage progresses.

But Falling Down is often glorified in certain circles online as a rallying cry for the "marginalised" angry white man, who just can't catch a break despite working so damn hard.

Yet any inference that Bill is a good man beaten down by the stressors of everyday life goes up in smoke entirely by the third act, given that Bill is shown to be a psychologically abusive husband and father, who in his final moments comes to realise that, yes, he's the "bad guy."

In many respects the nimble genius of Schumacher's film is that it manages to be both a gloriously entertaining black comedy and genuinely fascinating study of a man's implosion over the course of a single day.

But for many who champion the film, Foster is a troublingly sympathetic figure all the way to the end.