10 Movies Which Insult Your Intelligence

2013's American Hustle, directed by allegedly-not-very-nice-man David O. Russell, is famous for receiving ten nominations at the Oscars and not leaving the ceremony with a single award. 

It was sold as a dramatisation of the FBI’s ABSCAM operation in the 1970s, which resulted in the downfall of several corrupt politicians. Not a bad premise for a movie, but sadly, viewers spent most of the runtime waiting for that historical nugget to actually become relevant.

Most of the picture feels like one big distraction. If it’s not the flamboyant costumes, many of which seem solely designed to show off either Amy Adams’ or Jennifer Lawrence’s cleavage, it’s the ridiculous accents or the blaring soundtrack or Christian Bale’s combover-to-end-all-combovers. 

It almost feels like Russell didn’t think his audience would care about the actual facts, so tried to blind them with bright colours instead. Somehow, this play worked, and American Hustle was lauded by critics upon its release, but with the power of hindsight, opinions on it have faltered.

Some have even called it the worst Best Picture nominee of all time, which is really saying something.