I spotted the ladies on this list when they were child actresses, and I was sure they would be wonderful adult actresses. Most have already proved me right: some are still making the journey.

There is a modern trend to centre comedies around deeply unpleasant characters. I don't get it - I don't find unpleasantness funny, and I don't like to spend time in the company of unpleasant characters during a so-called comedy. These films - in no particular order - stood no chance, because the central character turned me off from the start.

I have tried to leave out films where a central character simply isn't funny (nearly every Jack Black film, for instance).

John Cusack, Chevy Chase, Clark Duke, Craig Robinson, Rob Corddry, Brook Bennett, Aliu Oyofo, and Jake Rose in Le spa à remonter dans le temps (2010)

I have nothing against bad language. I am a keen exponent of same in appropriate circumstances. But I deplore its use in films where it serves no discernible useful purpose, And, unfortunately, there is a trend towards plonking a single F-bomb into a film "Just because we can." By so doing, the film makers add nothing, but alienate part of the audience, being idiotic and offensive at the same. 

How effing stupid.

This list features films with one, maybe two, F-bombs which add nothing to the film except causing offence.  This is not to say that the films are kids' films - they're not - but they are mostly targetted towards an audience on the young side and/or with an expectation of family viewing (albeit not young children)

This list is not for directors of the Ed Wood variety - I'm not concerned with directors whose negligible competence is outpaced by their enthusiasm.  Rather, it is for directors who are undoubtedly very able, but who leave me completely mystified as to their appeal even though I may - and I emphasise "may" - have enjoyed parts of their body of work.  Their films have comments from people who praise them to the heights while I am left thinking "Emperor's New Clothes."  I simply don't get them.

Darren Aronofsky at an event for 2009 Golden Globe Awards (2009)

Wesley Snipes in Chasseur de Démons (2012)

Jason Robert Stephens in Popeye the Slayer Man (2025)

Morgan Freeman, Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg, Isla Fisher, Rosamund Pike, Dominic Sessa, Dave Franco, Justice Smith, and Ariana Greenblatt in Insaisissable 3 (2025)

Josh Brolin, Michael Cera, Colman Domingo, Jayme Lawson, Lee Pace, Glen Powell, and Karl Glusman in Le jeu du défi (2025)

Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi and Elle Fanning in Prédateur: Badlands (2025)

Keanu Reeves, Sandra Oh, Seth Rogen, Keke Palmer, and Aziz Ansari in Bonne fortune (2025)

Colin Farrell and Margot Robbie in Un Beau Grand Voyage Audacieux (2025)

Matt Damon in La mort dans la peau (2004)

Paul Newman, Robert Redford, and Katharine Ross in Butch Cassidy et le Kid (1969)

Vera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson in La Conjuration: Derniers rites (2025)

Allison Janney, Kate McKinnon, Benedict Cumberbatch, Olivia Colman, Andy Samberg, Zoë Chao, Sunita Mani, Jamie Demetriou, and Ncuti Gatwa in Les Rose (2025)

Joshua Odjick, Cooper Hoffman, Ben Wang, Charlie Plummer, and David Jonsson in Marche ou crève (2025)

Gekijô-ban Kimetsu no Yaiba Mugen Jô-hen

Akira Ishida, Takahiro Sakurai, and Natsuki Hanae in Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba Infinity Castle (2025)

Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba Infinity Castle

Pierce Brosnan, Helen Mirren, Ben Kingsley, and Celia Imrie in Le Murder Club du jeudi (2025)

Khalani Simon-Barrow, Luke Speakman, and Jackson A Park in Heure de disparition (2025)

Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan in Un vendredi encore plus dingue (2025)

Vincent D'Onofrio, Liev Schreiber, Regina King, Yuri Kolokolnikov, Tonic, Matt Smith, Zoë Kravitz, Austin Butler, Nikita Kukushkin, and Bad Bunny in Pris au Piège (2025)

Alison Brie and Dave Franco in Inséparable (2025)

Chris Evans, Aubrey Plaza, and Margaret Qualley in Honey Non! (2025)

Catherine O'Hara, Eugene Levy, Annie Murphy, and Dan Levy in Bienvenue à Schitt's Creek (2015)

Jonah Wren Phillips in Reviens-moi (2025)

Matthew Wood, Pedro Pascal, Ralph Ineson, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Julia Garner, Vanessa Kirby, and Joseph Quinn in Les Quatre Fantastiques: Premiers pas (2025)

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Chasseur de Démons

Good looking but incoherent

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Try harder

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