A pet peeve of mine is a movie that attempts shamelessly to provoke a certain emotion in the audience. The all-time champ, for me, is Regarding Henry, that Harrison Ford "brain damage" movie that bashed its message against the viewer's head with a sledgehammer approach.

A more recent example, for me, is Paul Haggis' Crash, which I found to be utterly insulting. Another is The Passion of the Christ, a sadistic movie that was so heavy-handed, its audience was practically splashed with blood.

So, which movies do you feel are totally manipulative and insulting to your intelligence?

Well, Crash has already been said, so you won the thread. I grew up on Bible store Jesus movies that were less didactic.

Triumph of the will?

Bob Roberts comes to mind.

Pay It Forward

Grand Canyon

Inconvient Truth (people killing world)
Ferenheit 9/11 ( Bush sucks)
...
Anything by George Romero starring Zombies

RACISM:
Remember the Titans
Crash
The Legend Of Bagger Vance

JESUS AND PALS:
The Passion of the Christ
The Nativity Story
The Chronicles of Narnia
What Dream May Come (i kinda like this one though even if it's kinda gay.)

AMERICA SUCKS:
Death of A Presdent
Confederate States of America

BOO F@%!ING HOO FOR THE POOR SOLDIERS / FREEDOM ISN'T FREE:
Home of the Brave
Stop-Loss

E.T. [/thread]

Platoon

Really? Is this a common perception? Maybe this movie made an impression on me when I was a naive early teen, but I still think E.T. has genuine emotion to it. I think it earns any tears or lumps in throats that it gets.

Breakfast Club

I'll see your E.T., and raise you a Forrest Gump and a Platoon. As a side note, can we please stop with the "/thread" postings? They rank right up there with "fail" and "pwned" as most obnoxious and played-out web-geek exclamations.

Zack and Miri make a porno.

After we saw it, we went home and did.

+1

Epic Fail

QFT.

Anyway....Happy Feet sticks in my mind. Up till the ending 10 minutes or so, the environmentalism and Eeeeevil Mankind bit was mostly in the background. Then WHAM in your face. Even my five year old commented on it.

Recent candidates...

V For Vendetta
Wall-E

It's A Wonderful Life

This.

Expelled

We Were Soldiers

Crash, of course.

What an absolute piece of shit that film is.

Damn you!!!

Damn you to heck!!!

That may be the most accurate war movie ever made. Directly from the book, with the man who wrote the book and vets from the actual fight on the set to insure accuracy.

When can we see it?