# Can't watch these kinds of films anymore. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 6, 2016, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-watch-these-kinds-of-films-anymore/754107 "2016-05-06T22:04:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Les\_Espaces\_Du\_Sommeil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/les_espaces_du_sommeil/32/308_2.png) [@Les\_Espaces\_Du\_Sommeil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Les_Espaces_Du_Sommeil)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2016, 10:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-watch-these-kinds-of-films-anymore/754107/41 "2016-05-11T10:54:50Z")
I’ve realized that there is one type of plot that I hate: something is happening that one of the main protagonists is not aware of and we see him/her getting deeper and deeper into problems without even realizing it. It’s often played for laughs in comedies and romcoms: look, he’s making a fool of himself and he doesn’t even know it. So funny. Except NOT. It just makes me cringe to the point where I want to leave the room. But you find something similar in some horror movies, a genre that I love. The worst for me was _The Last House on the Left_ in which… things happen to two teenagers while the parents of one of them are busy preparing a surprise birthday party for her. Just typing this makes me squirm. That’s the only horror movie that I stopped watching and turned off the TV. And I didn’t even have kids at the time. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Angel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d26b3c/32.png) [@Johnny\_Angel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Angel)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2016, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-watch-these-kinds-of-films-anymore/754107/42 "2016-05-11T11:48:33Z")
My wife also can’t stand to watch anything where kids are put in harm’s way since we’ve had a child of our own. I does change the emotional valence for me, but don’t shun it. There really aren’t genres that I used to like but can’t stand anymore. However, the type of movie called Torture Porn was never of interest to me. The perfectly innocent movie review website where I first read about Human Centipede I have never returned to from the moment I realized what the movie was about, and I wish the culture would stop making references to the film. ---
**Author:** ![epbrown01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ba0ec/32.png) [@epbrown01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/epbrown01)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2016, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-watch-these-kinds-of-films-anymore/754107/43 "2016-05-12T00:32:05Z")
I don’t think I’ve seen a horror movie in about a decade. It really just gets annoying how they’re driven by people being stupid. That and I’m pretty done with zombie movies (though I guess that’s a subgenre). ---
**Author:** ![Esturionette](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9d8465/32.png) [@Esturionette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esturionette)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2016, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-watch-these-kinds-of-films-anymore/754107/44 "2016-05-21T12:43:50Z")
Although I’ve never enjoyed gore, it is not the blood but the character’s distress that does it for me. You can cut off someone’s leg, but if you focus the camera on their face and the screaming, I’ll turn it off immediately. I only lasted through the first 30 minutes or so of “District 9” - the guy was in too much pain. I make an exception for “The Human Centipede”; it’s so over the top, it crossed the line into hilarious right at the beginning and just kept on going. Additionally, I’ve noticed my tolerance for bathroom humour wane as I get older. Every fart or vomit scene, especially used for the purpose of comedy, immediately lowers my internal rating of the film by about 20%. I get it, the character needs to puke; there are so many ways to suggest it without showing their mouth. ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2016, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-watch-these-kinds-of-films-anymore/754107/45 "2016-05-21T12:55:33Z")
> [@TBG](#): > > Gore’s never bothered me (well, other than Al :dubious:). > > But pets dying in movies pretty much ruin me from watching something a second time. And I always get really nervous when a dog or cat shows up in a movie with a high body count. I’m with you there. I can’t stand it when an animal dies, even off-screen. There’s probably something wrong with me, because it bothers me way more than when humans die. I kinda like over-the-top gory films, because I find them silly, and I don’t really “see” the violence, I see the special effect. For me, it’s like watching a magic trick, and trying to figure out how it’s done. These movies are a lot less fun now that the answer is “CGI” 90% of the time. ---
**Author:** ![JustinC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justinc/32/8083_2.png) [@JustinC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JustinC)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2016, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-watch-these-kinds-of-films-anymore/754107/46 "2016-05-21T12:58:11Z")
I never liked really horrifically gory films, I think I’ve seen about 1/3 of a Saw film and that is more than enough. It definitely takes more skill to make a disturbing film without the gore, something like 1408 is pretty terrifying but there’s very little blood spilt. I never really enjoyed toilet humour either, although as I’ve aged I’ve become more appreciative of irreverent comedies. ---
**Author:** ![Lakai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de0a6/32.png) [@Lakai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lakai)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2016, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-watch-these-kinds-of-films-anymore/754107/47 "2016-05-21T15:16:48Z")
I have nothing against gore, but gore alone doesn’t do it for me anymore. As a young lad, a movie with sex and violence was enough to keep me entertained. Now I need character development and a unique story. An example of a movie with fascinating use of gore would be any film in [The Vengeance Trilogy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Vengeance_Trilogy) by Park Chan-wook, or [Thirst](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0762073/?ref_=nm_flmg_wr_4), by the same director. ---
**Author:** ![phantom\_lamb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5f9b8f/32.png) [@phantom\_lamb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phantom_lamb)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2016, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-watch-these-kinds-of-films-anymore/754107/48 "2016-05-21T18:10:02Z")
I’ve long lost my tolerance for long fight scenes and car chase scenes. They have a reverse-effect on me actually. The more explosions - the more bored I feel and the more I can’t wait for it to be over. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2016, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-watch-these-kinds-of-films-anymore/754107/49 "2016-05-27T01:17:00Z")
> [@koeeoaddi](#): > > [Now you can take the guess-work out](https://www.doesthedogdie.com/). > > I never really liked them, but now I just don’t watch movies with explicit gore or casual violence. According to that site, a pet dies in The Lion The Witch and The Wardrobe. Are they seriously calling Aslan a pet? ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2016, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-watch-these-kinds-of-films-anymore/754107/50 "2016-05-27T01:23:03Z")
> [@Les\_Espaces\_Du\_Sommeil](#): > > I’ve realized that there is one type of plot that I hate: something is happening that one of the main protagonists is not aware of and we see him/her getting deeper and deeper into problems without even realizing it. > > It’s often played for laughs in comedies and romcoms: look, he’s making a fool of himself and he doesn’t even know it. So funny. Except NOT. It just makes me cringe to the point where I want to leave the room. > > But you find something similar in some horror movies, a genre that I love. The worst for me was _The Last House on the Left_ in which… things happen to two teenagers while the parents of one of them are busy preparing a surprise birthday party for her. Just typing this makes me squirm. That’s the only horror movie that I stopped watching and turned off the TV. And I didn’t even have kids at the time. The original was one of the few movies to make me feel a little sick. I still find I have been able to watch it again, though not very often. The remake, bleh, just another terrible mistake where the people making it didn’t understand the original at all and just turned out a piece of garbage, like Godzilla 1998 or Ghostbusters 2016. ---
**Author:** ![drad\_dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@drad\_dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drad_dog)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2016, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-watch-these-kinds-of-films-anymore/754107/51 "2016-05-27T01:30:28Z")
Films about Flubber ---
**Author:** ![Les\_Espaces\_Du\_Sommeil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/les_espaces_du_sommeil/32/308_2.png) [@Les\_Espaces\_Du\_Sommeil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Les_Espaces_Du_Sommeil)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2016, 7:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-watch-these-kinds-of-films-anymore/754107/52 "2016-05-27T07:54:23Z")
> [@JustinC](#): > > … It definitely takes more skill to make a disturbing film without the gore, something like 1408 is pretty terrifying but there’s very little blood spilt… Same here. Interesting that you should mention _1408_: it’s the only recentish horror movie that I’ve found really scary. It reminded me of the sort of movies that would give me nightmares when I was kid (main character faced with increasingly creepy happenings in a place he unexplainably can’t get out of). That’s the way you do it IMHO. > [@TBG](#): > > The original was one of the few movies to make me feel a little sick. I still find I have been able to watch it again, though not very often. > > The remake, bleh, just another terrible mistake where the people making it didn’t understand the original at all and just turned out a piece of garbage, like Godzilla 1998 or Ghostbusters 2016. I was talking about the original. I’ve never seen the remake. ---
**Author:** ![GunnarFranz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/da6949/32.png) [@GunnarFranz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GunnarFranz)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2016, 10:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-watch-these-kinds-of-films-anymore/754107/53 "2016-05-27T10:58:03Z")
> [@Dante\_G](#): > > Was just wondering if any other members tend to have their taste in movies change as they get older. This is more referring to violence and gore in films, but it can go for any type really. > > I myself have noticed that I don’t care to see overly gory films anymore. A perfect example is the _ **Saw** _ franchise. I remember when the first one came out about 10 years ago, I was fine with it … enjoyed it actually. I never saw any of the sequels but I have seen parts of them in the past year or so and I can barely watch. I just can’t seem to watch the carnage anymore. It just bothers me. > > I can still watch a scary film, no problem, but if it has lots of blood and gore, well, I have to turn my head away. > > Any one else experience this? I’m kind of the exact opposite, a jump scare horror movie does nothing for me if it isn’t _actually_ scary. For example if Green Room weren’t gratuitous it wouldn’t have been half as good. Most people think you stop enjoying violent media when you have kids because you envision them in perilous situations so often (I’ve heard.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-watch-these-kinds-of-films-anymore/754107.md?page=2)