Any movie wth Jane Fonda because she’s a pinko. (My Dad.)
Hell, I still hate televised football—not that I was ever a fan to begin with—because they preempted the second part of a Sonic the Hedgehog cliffhanger in 1994.
It was the good Sonic series, too, not the crappy slapstick one. TV.com gives the episode airdate as Saturday, October 8th—anyone remember who was playing that day that the San Francisco ABC affiliate would’ve broadcast? I promise [del]my minions will unleash Earthly perdition undreamed[/del] I’m all over it, now, and I’m just curious.
I have to agree about Sci Fi channel movies. All the ones I’ve seen seem to be heavy on the horror or monster genre, and light on the scifi. Still, I did sort of like the Langoliers. (Yes, it was still light on the Scifi, but it pulled off horror without making me too squicky.)
These are the two I agree with the most. I grew up on Star Trek and comicbooks. I can still enjoy movies based on both if they are enjoyable, even if they don’t closely follow the source. Who cares, it’s a separate work that should be judged on its own merits (if it has any).
I am aware of the personal lives of stars. I do read the internets. But when I am sitting down to watch a movie I don’t care about that.
Feel free to watch the NFL. October 8th was a saturday. If it was football it had to be college. San Francisco played Detroit on the 9th.
Exactly my point, and better phrased than me.
Maybe I misunderstood, but I got the feeling that he was implying that pretentious isn’t a valid assessment of a movie and that anyone who asserts that is too stupid to have understood it. I think that yes, some movies are “pretentious” and that is a perfectly valid reason to dislike it if a person doesn’t go in for that sort of thing. And no, I can’t really think of an example of something* I* find pretentious but a lot of people thought **Crash **was . I can absolutely see why someone would think that, even if it didn’t strike me that way. It wouldn’t occur to me to think they’re some numpty who simply didn’t “get” it. Hell, it aint that complex.
Cisco also gave a good example with Doubt. I enjoyed the movie quite a bit, despite the fact that I was always very aware that Mr. Hoffman and Ms. Streep are great ACTors! practising their CRAFT! I can see how some would not enjoy that kind of thing and indeed find it a little high falutin’.
I’m one of those who has said in the past that I don’t watch black and white movies. To me, I would be happy if every movie was Color by Technicolor (watches all of the movie buffs recoil in horror)
However, as in the case of romantic comedies and SciFi movies, that doesn’t mean I never watch a black and white…I just select them much more carefully. I freakin love the Seven Samurai, it’s one of my all-time favorite movies, hands-down. I really loved Roman Holiday. There’s one I had wished sooooo much it was in color it hurt. I wanted to see her beautiful dresses in color, plus Audrey was just so sweet. And of course Young Frankenstein.
Currently I am watching Nosferatu, which is even more than b&w - it’s silent! My first silent film ever, barring the little shorts we used to get in Bugs Bunny - anybody remember those? So while I certainly make exceptions, it’s not frequent.
Same goes for romantic comedies, barring a select few. They are even worse than black and white. Blah.
Fight Club - “I was expecting it to be a stupid action movie”.
This is someone I was discussing what Cronenbergs Naked Lunch was about. And yet, he can’t accept that not all films are literal versions of their title…
Not to be contrary again (sorry all; not trying to dis anyone’s opinions, I just enjoy discussing this topic) but why would anyone see something of a genre they know they don’t like? If your granny says she doesn’t care for horror you’re not going to expect her to see Saw V because it’s different from the first four 
Because absolutes are rare. To use myself as an example, I hate musicals and Westerns, and don’t really like horror either, but Once More With Feeling was a wonderful musical written by a writer I love so I enjoyed it; Tombstone, while not great, wasn’t bad either; and May was delightfully creepy.
May I ask what moved you to give these a try? I mean, did someone else pick them and you reluctantly went along and then enjoyed them? While you can be pleasantly surprised by something of a genre you don’t typically like, I don’t think it’s illogical to stay away from what you have a history of disliking if it’s *your *choice.
I won’t pay to watch films that star Scientologists, Mormons, or Jehovah’s Witnesses. I also will not purchase music made by cult members either. Maybe it’s stupid, maybe not. But I will not have my money go to the stars who will then turn around and give their money to support a damaging cult. In regard to the stars’ personal behavior, I don’t care one whit. I just don’t want my money going to Scientology indirectly.
That said, if a Beck song comes on the radio and I don’t have to spend money to hear it, I will sit and listen to it. Or if War of the Worlds happens to pop up on my free-TV viewing radar, fine. I just won’t allow my money to support cults, having spent the last 20 years recovering from one. They got enough of me, dig?
Once More With Feeling was written by a favorite writer, Tombstone was well received both popularly and critically so I was curious, and I watched May with a friend at her apartment.
In general, I just try to be open-minded. I also try foods I dislike every couple years and now love many foods I used to despise. An unwillingness to experience new things or try something you didn’t care for but are in no danger by retrying annoys me.
Usually someone recommends it to you, someone you trust, or someone makes you sit down and watch.
I don’t begrudge people not trying a whole show because they don’t like the genre, though. It’s one thing to sit through a two hour movie and get payback right away at least. If you’re not even sure you like it…then you have to sit through umpteen episodes…yuck. One of the (many, many) reasons I have been thus far avoiding Buffy is people keep telling me “It doesn’t get good till the second second season.” Then why would I want to sit through the whole first season?
Well, of course it was. I had the opportunity to edit. 
An ex-girlfriend of mine refused to see “Batman” because it beat out “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade” in box office revenues. She might have seen the movie otherwise, but since she was so moist in the pants for Harrison Ford she resented seeing a non-Harrison Ford movie out-perform it. She was even going to go so far as to get a Batman T-shirt (remember 1989 when everyone was wearing a Batman shirt?) and add a red blood spot to it as if to suggest a gunshot wound. She then realized that if she bought a Batman shirt she’d be contributing to its revenue stream. :rolleyes:
I knew someone who was bothered by “Brokeback Mountain” for the same reason. She didn’t care at all that the guys were gay, just that they were cheating on their wives.
Adultery does bother me in movies. It didn’t bother me in Brokeback, because I didn’t really see they had much of a choice. I only read the Horse Whisperer, never watched it, but the adultery in that book thoroughly disgusted me, especially considering the woman was well-rewarded for her choices while the poor man was just strung along.