8 Inherently Annoying Movies That Everyone You Know Seems To Love

2. Amelie

Amelie is essentially "that accessible arthouse film that everybody likes," and whilst that's an annoying feature in its own right, there are bigger fish to fry. Like, the fact that Amelie is so endlessly self-conscious from start to finish that it practically begs you to call it "pretentious." It almost exists as a parody of what people might perceive a "French film" to be like, having never seen one. Aside from the jarring visual style and the fact that it actually gets boring after about half an hour (that's what you get with a plot that's all style and no substance, don't you know?), Amelie's protagonist, Amelie, is an inherently irksome character. As she dedicates the sum of her pixie-like existence to stalking a stranger, the only truly honest reaction to her antics is to thank God that she isn't meddling in your own private affairs. It's not clear whether people pretend to like Amelie because they think they should, or because they've been tricked into loving it by way of its floaty, whimsical nature, which just screams out: "Look at how weird and arty this movie is!" In reality, Amelie is just as annoying as the character of its title; a pretty but ultimately vapid exercise in cinematic trickery.