In cinema, dramatic movies curate symbolism and construct character development to achieve an emotion-evoking outcome.

However, the worst dramas fail to do any or all of this.

Some of these infamous films earned a spot onhis Most-Hated Listdespite being fan favorites or cult classics.

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The community forces her to wear a red A upon her chest to signal her as an adulteress.

Her secret lover turns out to be none other than the local Rev.

Arthur Dimmesdale (Gary Oldman), who leads the persecution efforts against Hester.

Faye Dunaway as Joan Crawford and Diana Scarwid as Christina Crawford in Mommie Dearest

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“Everybody in ‘Staying Alive’ is Identikit.

The characters are cliches, their lives are cliches and God knows their dialogue is cliches.”

“Not since Romeo and Juliet has the old They-Both-Think-the-Other-One’s-Dead ploy been milked so shamelessly.”

A puritan woman with a red A embroidered to her clothes walks through a crowded street with a baby in her arms in ‘The Scarlet Letter’ (1995)

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As people, they are no doubt much smarter and funnier than the cretins in this film."

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a shirtless man dancing with a woman in a red jumpsuit in Staying Alive

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Ebert calledThe Green Berets"propaganda" and “a heavy-handed, remarkably old-fashioned film.”

“We certainly do not need is a movie depicting Vietnam in terms of cowboys and Indians.

That is cruel and dishonest and unworthy of the thousands who have died there.”

A blonde woman wearing military green looks off in the distance in Purple Hearts (1984)

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This happens over and over.

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A blonde woman stands on a dirt field holding a pink bullfighter’s muleta in Bolero

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A beautiful woman is lying down dressed in ancient Roman red garb in Caligula (1979)

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