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 La machine à démonter 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)

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 Insaisissables 3 (2025)

Josh Brolin, Michael Cera, Colman Domingo, Jayme Lawson, Lee Pace, Glen Powell, and Karl Glusman in Running Man (2025)

Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi in Predator: Badlands (2025)

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

Colin Farrell and Margot Robbie in A Big Bold Beautiful Journey (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 Conjuring: L'heure du jugement (2025)

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

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

Gekijô-ban Kimetsu no Yaiba Mugen Jô-hen

Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba La Forteresse Infinie Film 1 (2025)

Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba La Forteresse Infinie Film 1

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 Évanouis (2025)

Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan in Freaky Friday 2: Encore dans la peau de ma mère (2025)

Freaky Friday 2: Encore dans la peau de ma mère

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 - Caught Stealing (2025)

Alison Brie and Dave Franco in Together (2025)

Chris Evans, Aubrey Plaza, and Margaret Qualley in Honey Don't! (2025)

Pedro Pascal, Chris Evans, and Dakota Johnson in Materialists (2025)

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

Jonah Wren Phillips in Substitution - Bring Her Back (2025)

Matthew Wood, Pedro Pascal, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Vanessa Kirby, and Joseph Quinn in Les 4 Fantastiques: Premiers pas (2025)

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Try harder

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