Women Characters I Don't Feel Sorry For!
Movies/TV shows I've watched with women characters who don't deserve my sympathy! However, not feeling sorry for the character does not interfere with my ability to enjoy an actress's performance, or the writing, or the director's style, etc.
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- DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsRay MillandGrace KellyRobert CummingsA former tennis star arranges the murder of his adulterous wife.Am I really supposed to feel sorry for Margot Wendice (Grace Kelly) when she's the one who cheated on her husband and didn't tell him?
Nope, I don't feel sorry for her; nor do I feel sorry for her husband.
Maybe if she had told her husband the truth, he wouldn't have tried to have her killed; but then there'd be no movie. - DirectorBrian De PalmaStarsMichael CaineAngie DickinsonNancy AllenA mysterious blonde woman kills one of a psychiatrist's patients, and then goes after the high-class call girl who witnessed the murder.Meet Kate Miller, an unhappy housewife who can't tell her husband she's unhappy, so she cheats on him and ends up dead due to being in the wrong place at the wrong time. I don't feel sorry for her at all.
I actually feel sorry for her husband because had his wife told him about her problems, maybe he would have addressed it or at least he would have known there was a problem; so, maybe he's better off in the end that she's dead. - DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsAnthony PerkinsJanet LeighVera MilesA Phoenix secretary embezzles $40,000 from her employer's client, goes on the run and checks into a remote motel run by a young man under the domination of his mother.Marion Crane runs off with $40k in cash, stolen from her employer, but as soon as she realizes the error of her ways Norman Bates kills her in the shower.
Sure, she knew what she did was wrong, and yet I don't feel sorry for her. - DirectorVictor FlemingGeorge CukorSam WoodStarsClark GableVivien LeighThomas MitchellA sheltered and manipulative Southern belle and a roguish profiteer face off in a turbulent romance as the society around them crumbles with the end of slavery and is rebuilt during the Civil War and Reconstruction periods.I love Scarlett O'Hara but that doesn't stop me from not giving a damn for her when Rhett leaves her.
Scarlett is manipulative, cunning, cruel, heartless, and no lady, yet I never get tired of this movie or Vivien Leigh's performance. - DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsRod TaylorTippi HedrenJessica TandyA wealthy San Francisco socialite pursues a potential boyfriend to a small Northern California town that slowly takes a turn for the bizarre when birds of all kinds suddenly begin to attack people.Melanie Daniels isn't poor or innocent; she has social standing and money; she also has problems with minding her own business.
She just can't let Mitch Brenner beat her at her own game; so, she makes it her business to go out of her way to Bodega Bay in pursuit of Mitch, and she ends up being attacked by birds.
No sympathy here for Melanie. - CreatorPhil RosenthalStarsRay RomanoPatricia HeatonBrad GarrettThe comical everyday life of sports columnist Ray Barone and his dysfunctional family.Marie and Debra Barone are the two women in Raymond's life, his mom and wife. Both characters make me laugh, yet both are awful representations of women.
Debra's favorite word for her husband is 'idiot', and Marie has no respect for her grown son's boundaries. Do I ever feel sorry for them when Raymond doesn't behave the way they want? Nope, not at all.
I do wish I could cook like Marie, but that's the only admirable quality between these two women. - CreatorDavid LittMichael J. WeithornStarsKevin JamesLeah ReminiJerry StillerDeliveryman Doug Heffernan has a good life: He has a pretty wife (Carrie), a big television, and friends with which to watch it. Then Carrie's goofy, annoying father Arthur moves in with them.Carrie Heffernan, wife of Doug Heffernan and daughter of Arthur Spooner who lives in their basement. While I can laugh at the show and the characters, I have no sympathy for Carrie.
Wives on television since the 1990s have become as crass and tacky as their male counterparts; the only difference is they dress like women and demand more respect than men are ever given; and that is Carrie Heffernan. - DirectorJohn CarpenterStarsAdrienne BarbeauJamie Lee CurtisJanet LeighAn unearthly fog rolls into a small coastal town exactly 100 years after a ship mysteriously sank in its waters.Poor Stevie Wayne, she has to stay at her radio station while Antonio Bay, and her home, is attacked by dead sailors seeking revenge.
Can't say I feel sorry for Stevie choosing her profession over her kid (welcome to being a career woman!), but I do feel sorry for Mrs. Kobritz who ends up dead while babysitting Stevie's kid Andy.
As well, Councilwoman Kathy Williams loses her husband in the fog; it's a good thing she has her civic events to keep her busy, but she doesn't get my sympathy.
Moral of the movie: career women may not be there for their kids, and they may lose their husbands, but they have their careers. - DirectorBilly WilderStarsFred MacMurrayBarbara StanwyckEdward G. RobinsonA Los Angeles insurance representative lets an alluring housewife seduce him into a scheme of insurance fraud and murder that arouses the suspicion of his colleague, an insurance investigator.Phyllis Dietrichson, another unhappy housewife I have no sympathy for.
A woman who would plot her husband's murder, especially for a payout, is a weak character no matter how tough she appears. Strong women make their husbands better, they don't have them killed.
A great movie, nonetheless, and Barbara Stanwyck does what she does best -- portraying a headstrong, manipulative, flawed woman who I don't feel sorry for in the least. - DirectorJ. Walter RubenStarsRicardo CortezKaren MorleyAnita LouiseJenny Wren is found dead after threatening to blackmail some prominent men, and it's up to a detective to find out what happened to Jenny.Meet Jenny Wren, a gold-digging blackmailer who ends up dead, and good riddance I say.
I have no sympathy for Jenny Wren; she's no better than the men she blackmails, and I only wish her death would have come sooner in the movie. - DirectorRobert WiseStarsClaire TrevorLawrence TierneyWalter SlezakA calculating divorcée risks her chances at wealth and security with a man she doesn't love by getting involved with the hotheaded murderer romancing her foster sister.Film-noir crime dramas are filled with women characters I have no sympathy for, and Helen, played by Claire Trevor, is one of them.
Helen is a cold-blooded divorcée who has no problem marrying for money or protecting a murderer she loves at any cost.
I appreciate that for this genre of film a woman character like this has to exist for the sake of the story; however, she's no role model, and I don't feel sorry for the character at all. - DirectorPeter A. D'AmatoStarsShawnee SmithDean WintersChris ElliottDiane Walters (Shawnee Smith), an over-burdened mother of two with a third child on the way, strives to create the perfect Christmas while her loving but dysfunctional family falls apart around her.Diane Walters, a mother of two with a third one on the way, wants the perfect holiday -- and yet she had at least 8 months to realize her baby would be due near Christmas and she waits until the last minute to get things done!
Diane has no idea how to rest and take it easy; all she does is pile on the stress while coping with a childhood trauma that she has obviously never taken the time to address with professional help.
She also has an incredible home that many people would probably dream of having -- I'd settle for a dishwasher let alone a house built in the 21st century.
It's impossible for me to feel sorry for the Diane character, but I do enjoy watching Shawnee Smith in the role. - DirectorRoxanne BenjaminStarsAlisha WainwrightAmanda CrewCarlos SantosA family takes a weekend trip with longtime friends and their two young children, but, they suspect something supernatural when the kids behave strangely after disappearing into the woods overnight.There's something wrong with these women: Ellie and Margaret.
Ellie has marital problems due to a swinging event with her husband, and Margaret doesn't believe her husband due to his manic issues.
I have no sympathy for these women because they're terrible examples of women, and I don't even think of them as characters because they have no character. - DirectorMichael RadfordStarsDemi MooreMichael CaineLambert WilsonIn 1960s London, an elderly janitor convinces a glass-ceiling constrained executive to help him steal a handful of diamonds from their employer, the London Diamond Corporation.
- DirectorAdrian GrunbergStarsOmar ChaparroBolivar SanchezCarlos SolórzanoStranded on a crumbling rig in Baja, a family faces off against a vengeful megalodon shark.
- DirectorFrancis Ford CoppolaStarsGary OldmanWinona RyderAnthony HopkinsThe centuries old vampire Count Dracula comes to England to seduce his barrister Jonathan Harker's fiancée Mina Murray and inflict havoc in the foreign land.