# A Love-Hate Relationship **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 26, 2003, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-love-hate-relationship/184462 "2003-06-26T04:57:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2003, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-love-hate-relationship/184462/1 "2003-06-26T04:57:41Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Vanyel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@Vanyel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vanyel)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2003, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-love-hate-relationship/184462/2 "2003-06-26T06:21:57Z")
Can’t say I have one, since I generally try to avoid movies in genres I hate. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2003, 7:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-love-hate-relationship/184462/3 "2003-06-26T07:49:11Z")
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.” ---
**Author:** ![SolGrundy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@SolGrundy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SolGrundy)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2003, 9:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-love-hate-relationship/184462/4 "2003-06-26T09:36:09Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![torben](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5daacb/32.png) [@torben](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/torben)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2003, 9:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-love-hate-relationship/184462/5 "2003-06-26T09:45:28Z")
I’m not a fan of Westerns either, but I absolutely love **The Magnifecent Seven**. ---
**Author:** ![green\_bladder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/73ab20/32.png) [@green\_bladder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/green_bladder)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2003, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-love-hate-relationship/184462/6 "2003-06-26T11:40:16Z")
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**](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0093058) in my favourite movies list. ---
**Author:** ![widdershins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f0a364/32.png) [@widdershins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/widdershins)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2003, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-love-hate-relationship/184462/7 "2003-06-26T12:11:16Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Morgainelf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Morgainelf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgainelf)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2003, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-love-hate-relationship/184462/8 "2003-06-26T12:24:40Z")
I can’t stand war movies, but **Schindler’s List** was just a great film. ---
**Author:** ![Homebrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Homebrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homebrew)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2003, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-love-hate-relationship/184462/9 "2003-06-26T14:17:15Z")
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**](http://www.aggiecorps.org/home/about/traditions/silvertaps) 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. ---
**Author:** ![TeaRoses](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c37758/32.png) [@TeaRoses](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TeaRoses)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2003, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-love-hate-relationship/184462/10 "2003-06-26T15:09:11Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![UrbanChic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9dc877/32.png) [@UrbanChic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UrbanChic)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2003, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-love-hate-relationship/184462/11 "2003-06-26T15:21:24Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Elvis\_Rojo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@El\_Elvis\_Rojo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Elvis_Rojo)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2003, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-love-hate-relationship/184462/12 "2003-06-26T15:24:56Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![fishbicycle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aeb1de/32.png) [@fishbicycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishbicycle)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2003, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-love-hate-relationship/184462/13 "2003-06-28T01:14:52Z")
I don’t generally like war movies, but “Von Ryan’s Express” is one of my all-time favorites. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2003, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-love-hate-relationship/184462/14 "2003-06-28T01:22:42Z")
Westerns: _Tombstone_ & _Unforgiven_ War: _The Great Escape_ ---
**Author:** ![Agrippina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8797f3/32.png) [@Agrippina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agrippina)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2003, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-love-hate-relationship/184462/15 "2003-06-28T01:30:12Z")
I usually avoid Disney cartoons, but I love **The Lion King** and **The Emperor’s New Groove** (which was mentioned already).