10 Movies That Blatantly Troll The Audience

9. Stardust Memories

Woody Allen first made his name as a director with farcical comedies Take the Money and Run, Bananas, and Sleeper. In the late 1970s, his films Annie Hall and Manhattan balanced comedy and drama to great critical acclaim. However, between Annie Hall and Manhattan he made Interiors, a serious drama about three sisters that he didn'€™t appear in.

Fans of Allen's comedy films and even some critics were unhappy with his switch from comedic to dramatic filmmaking. In 1980, Woody released Stardust Memories, a movie in which he stars as a film director who is having a mental breakdown in part because fans and critics don't like his recent dramatic films and tell him that they prefer his "earlier, funnier movies."

The film portrays fans as overbearing, critics as clueless pseudo-intellectuals, and studio executives as ignorant meddlers. In short: everyone who doesn't like the director's recent dramatic movies are idiots. Though it seems pretty obvious that Stardust Memories is Allen's way of telling his fans who preferred his zany comedies to lighten up and get over it, he has always denied that Stardust Memories is autobiographical. Regardless if it was intentional or not, his fans can sense the underlying insults.