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** The misaimed fandom for Sarah Connor seems to have forgotten the scene in which she goes to Miles Dyson's house to murder him. Rewatch that scene, and marvel (or rather, shudder) at [[He Who Fights Monsters|how good a Terminator she would make]].
* ''[[Leaving Las Vegas]]'' was criticized for glamorizing alcoholism. Apparently, these people missed the bit where the protagonist decides he's going to drink himself to death ''and does.'' Then again, that summary can translate easily to "alcohol is worth dying for".
* Many, many mobster movies, such as ''[[The Godfather]]'', ''[[Goodfellas]]'', ''[[Casino]]'' and ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20090901190556/http://chud.com/articles/articles/14228/1/YOU-GOT-IT-ALL-WRONG-DAY-FOUR/Page1.html Scarface]''. Far too many people see the big houses, beautiful women, expensive cars, and fancy suits and think of the protagonists as "men of honor". They completely forget that the characters are thieves, murderers, and drug dealers who lose everything and everybody close to them by the end. Worse still in that some of these movies are based on real events. The horrible things that the lead does in ''[[Goodfellas]]'' have [[Real Life]] analogues: ''[[Goodfellas]]'' was [[The Movie of the Book|The Movie]] of a nonfiction book. Henry Hill is a real person.
** ''[[Casino]]'' is also [[The Movie of the Book|The Movie]] of another nonfiction book by the same author, Nicholas Pileggi. Ace Rothstein was based on an actual guy, though the name was changed and Ace is comparatively less of a thuggish bastard, if only by virtue of certain incidents not making it into the film.
* ''[[Taxi Driver]]'' has Robert DeNiro trying to kill a politician. [[wikipedia:John Hinckley Jr|Some guy]] watched the movie many times, got obsessed with [[Jodie Foster]] and, after many attempts to contact her, decided to impress her by shooting [[Ronald Reagan]]...
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* The 1970 film ''Joe'' starred Peter Boyle as a working-class reactionary who fantasizes about murdering hippies (and does so in the film's climax). Boyle was horrified to find audiences cheering the character at screenings, and reportedly turned down the role of Popeye Dole in ''[[The French Connection]]'' at least partly out of fear of inspiring a similar reaction.
* Many viewers applauded ''[[Hard Candy]]'' as a [[Take That]] toward pedophiles. While Jeff is obviously beyond redemption for what he's done, many viewers don't take into account the fact that Hayley's methods are obviously supposed to demonstrate that she too is an incredibly sick individual. [[Word of God]] is that {{spoiler|Hayley is a fledgling serial killer, who preys on ephebophiles like Jeff because they can be considered [[Acceptable Target|acceptable targets]]. Both Hayley and Jeff are intended to be equally repugnant.}}
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* ''[[August Rush]]'' managed to accomplish the inverse of this - it missed its intended demographic. It was supposed to play particularly well to musicians and music lovers, but those were the people most likely to spot the film's numerous problems.
* ''[[A Clockwork Orange (film)|A Clockwork Orange]]'' - see [[Misaimed Fandom/Literature|entry under Literature.]]
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