5. Marc Schiller (Pain and Gain)
Michael Bay's Pain and Gain might just be the director's best movie yet, and with it, it brings a veritable maelstrom of controversy, given how keenly Bay attempts to make a dark comedy out of an extremely savage real-life tale of kidnapping and murder. Marc Schiller was one of the victims of the Sun Gym Gang, and is renamed as Victor Kershaw in Bay's movie (and played by Tony Shalhoub), yet is essentially the same person, of a man who is kidnapped by the gang, who then make multiple attempts to murder him. Schiller remarks that "Obviously at the end they tried to kill meand it wasn't that funny...they did run me over with a car twice after trying to blow me up in the car. I was in a coma and somehow I got out...The way they tell it made it look like a comedy. You also gotta remember that not only I went through this, but certain people were killed, so making these guys look like nice guys is atrocious." Though I can't possibly agree with Schiller's point that Bay makes Wahlberg and Johnson's characters look like nice guys - that makes it sound as though Schiller hasn't actually seen the damn movie - it's fair enough for the guy to be annoyed that his very painful plight has been made light of. Still, Bay makes it clear that Pain and Gain is only
based on true events, and has little grounding in reality.