What is your favorite movie in a genre you usually hate with a passion?
Now, I really hate Westerns. A bunch of people head out west and deal with bad weather, desease and Native Americans. With their own hands they build up a town and start up businesses and the like. Suddenly, the bad guy ambles into town and the whole town does its best impression of Don Knotts in a haunted house, leaving the hero to fend for himself.
And yet, I love the movie “My Name Is Nobody”, with Henry Fonda as the retiring master gunfighter Jack Beauregard and Terence Hill as just a Nobody that feels that a legend such as Jack should go out in a blaze of glory. This movie is a sendup of Sergio Leone’s speghetti westerns, directed my Sergio Leone himself, and is one of my favorites.
Any other western I wouldn’t watch if you gave me the dvd for free and paid for my popcorn and a extra large Mr. Pibb.
Can’t say I have one, since I generally try to avoid movies in genres I hate.
Disney movies are like Kryptonite to MineFujiko. Helpless princesses, kapok musical numbers, Komedy, fairy tale romance… Blah. But I enjoyed The Emperor’s New Groove because it lacked the aforementioned yucky stuff. It was a simple buddy picture with great, funny performances by Eartha Kitt and Patrick Warburton, and the lesson that nobody likes a jerk is way more applicable to real life than “Someday my prince will come.”
I don’t like westerns, either. But The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance is just a great movie all around. Sure, it helps that Lee Marvin and John Wayne spend the whole thing calling each other “dude,” but the movie stands even non-ironically.
And I respect The Wild Bunch, but I don’t like it. So I don’t know if that counts.
I’m not a fan of Westerns either, but I absolutely love The Magnifecent Seven.
I don’t particularly like war movies and the genre lately seems to be continuously pounded into staleness. However, you’ll find Full Metal Jacket in my favourite movies list.
I loathe musicals, just the most annoying movie genre I can imagine personally. Chop my arms and legs off to make me watch one, and I’ll still try to roll away.
But I love All That Jazz. So dark, so raw, so sad and funny at the same time, so overblown and self-indulgent. Fosse feasting on the details of his own life, it took ego and balls to make that movie.
I can’t stand war movies, but Schindler’s List was just a great film.
Two of my least favorite genres, Westerns and War, have already been mentioned.
Czarcasm, you might like Terrence Hill’s other western send-ups, They Call Me Trinity and Trinity is Still My Name.
There are actually a couple other westerns I like: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, and Unforgiven. The first, I think, defines the genre and the second breaks the formula. Ironically, they both star Clint Eastwood.
For War movies, I also like Full Metal Jacket. I made the mistake of going to Silver Taps at A&M one night after watching that movie. I was crying like a baby. Silver Taps is one of the most moving traditions at A&M.
I’m not a big mystery fan but The 39 Steps is a great movie.
I basically never watch horror but I loved Vampire Hunter D (I guess I can handle anime horror better).
I never bother with what they call “chick flicks” (hate that term) but I cracked up at Bridget Jones Diary.
I hate (with such a passion) romantic comedies. I loved (it’s in my list of my top five fave movies, I think) High Fidelity.
I just tell myself it’s not a romantic comedy, though.
Yeah, another one who’s really not into Westerns, but Tomestone is one of the best movies out there.
Also not a big fan of super sappy romance movies, but I gotta admit, Love Story is a pretty good flick.
I don’t generally like war movies, but “Von Ryan’s Express” is one of my all-time favorites.
Westerns: Tombstone & Unforgiven
War: The Great Escape
I usually avoid Disney cartoons, but I love The Lion King and The Emperor’s New Groove (which was mentioned already).