# Film Genres You Hate And Won't Watch (With Few Or Any Exceptions) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 15, 2010, 9:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/film-genres-you-hate-and-wont-watch-with-few-or-any-exceptions/529055 "2010-02-15T09:58:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2010, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/film-genres-you-hate-and-wont-watch-with-few-or-any-exceptions/529055/21 "2010-02-15T14:38:53Z")
> [@An\_Arky](#): > > All of them. I hate movies and actors. I hate gaffers, key grips and best boys. Especially best boys. ---
**Author:** ![Caffeine.addict](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f475e1/32.png) [@Caffeine.addict](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caffeine.addict)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2010, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/film-genres-you-hate-and-wont-watch-with-few-or-any-exceptions/529055/22 "2010-02-15T14:41:01Z")
> [@RikWriter](#): > > Prison movies. I’ve never even watched The Shawshank Redemption. > Slasher movies. > Torture porn. This sums it up fairly well for me. I did watch the Shawshank Redemption and didn’t actively loathe it, but I actively avoid these genres. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2010, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/film-genres-you-hate-and-wont-watch-with-few-or-any-exceptions/529055/23 "2010-02-15T14:42:19Z")
Musicals. Slasher flicks. Talking animals. Anime. Anything with Richard Gere or Hugh Grant. ---
**Author:** ![badbadrubberpiggy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/57b2e6/32.png) [@badbadrubberpiggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/badbadrubberpiggy)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2010, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/film-genres-you-hate-and-wont-watch-with-few-or-any-exceptions/529055/24 "2010-02-15T14:43:16Z")
Generally, romantic comedies, especially those where the plot hinges on one of the main characters being currently dating/engaged/married to a total jerk, so you’re not supposed to care if they cheat on them. Especially if there’s no real reason they’re still with the jerk in the first place. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2010, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/film-genres-you-hate-and-wont-watch-with-few-or-any-exceptions/529055/25 "2010-02-15T15:02:37Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > Mafia/gangster movies. They may be really high quality, seminal works, but I have no interest in seeing the _Godfather_ movies, _Goodfellas_, _The Sopranos_, etc. The whole world of organized crime, which some people seem to find so fascinating, I just find repellant. ME, TOO! I can’t watch mafiosos, no matter how cute, colorful, or what great cooks they are. I read someplace these ignorant goombahs take their behavioral cues FROM mafia movies and start acting, dressing, and talking like the goons in the Godfather. They are indeed repellant scum and movies playing up all their little ways are gross. Not EVERY single one, but I also don’t care for: Sports. Westerns. Romantic comedies (fairy tales full of shit for the ever-hopeful, who hope to meet cute and get a big buncha flowers and a teddy bear for Valentines Day forever after.) Do Lifetime Movies for Distressed Women count? ---
**Author:** ![An\_Arky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/87869e/32.png) [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2010, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/film-genres-you-hate-and-wont-watch-with-few-or-any-exceptions/529055/26 "2010-02-15T15:04:14Z")
> [@ShibbOleth](#): > > I hate gaffers, key grips and best boys. Especially best boys. Yeah; don’t get me started on _them. 😃_ ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2010, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/film-genres-you-hate-and-wont-watch-with-few-or-any-exceptions/529055/27 "2010-02-15T15:23:46Z")
Oh and buddy movies, especially if one of the buddies is an animal, and even more so if the animal can talk (even if only to the audience). ---
**Author:** ![GreatStuffMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f04885/32.png) [@GreatStuffMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreatStuffMan)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2010, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/film-genres-you-hate-and-wont-watch-with-few-or-any-exceptions/529055/28 "2010-02-15T15:36:11Z")
Horror movies is a definite no-go for me. I freaking hate getting scared and I don’t know how anyone can view it as entertainment. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2010, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/film-genres-you-hate-and-wont-watch-with-few-or-any-exceptions/529055/29 "2010-02-15T15:57:14Z")
Any kind of romance. Romantic comedies are bad enough – they’re as formulaic as Scooby Doo, they have no relationship to how anybody acts in real life and the “comedy” is usually witless and inane. Even worse than rom-coms, though is ponderous, melodramatic, overwrought bilge like _The Notebook_, or _The Time Traveller’s Wife._ Simplistic, B-level actioners of the Steven Segall, JCVD variety – i.e. kickboxer or obese martial artist goes around beating up cardboard bad guys in an endless serious of badly choreographed set pieces until he kills the head terrorist/drug dealer/white supremacist and rescues the girl. They’re like watching extended WWE angles, with about the same level of production values. I’m not a fan of children’s movies in general, but I have to watch a lot of them with my kids. Pixar is occasionally tolerable, but even then I’d still rather watch a documentary on salt or the latest slasher remake. I’ve never been able to get into old “classic” movies from the 40’s and 50’s, or really much of anything before the late 60’s. For one thing, I loathe the Hayes Code straightjacket those films were made under. I want profanity and graphic violence and nudity. I don’t like watching a movi knowing it can’t really take any chances, or be really dark or even realistic, and that there’s no chance an actress is going to take her top off. Aside from that, I also find the acting really cornball and unrealistic. It’s like they all had this rapid fire deliver that sounded ridiculous, and the actresses, for some reason, all talked with this weird, affected, semi-British accent that no one has ever talked with in real life. I also hate musicals. Nobody picks up out of the blue and starts dancing and singing in real life. Musicals are ludicrous. ---
**Author:** ![Illuminatiprimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/illuminatiprimus/32/11520_2.png) [@Illuminatiprimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Illuminatiprimus)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2010, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/film-genres-you-hate-and-wont-watch-with-few-or-any-exceptions/529055/30 "2010-02-15T16:07:21Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > I also hate musicals. Nobody picks up out of the blue and starts dancing and singing in real life. Musicals are ludicrous. I hear you on that, although I’m afraid to say it out loud in case the gay-stocracy get wind of it and revoke my gay lisence. ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2010, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/film-genres-you-hate-and-wont-watch-with-few-or-any-exceptions/529055/31 "2010-02-15T16:22:58Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > Is “stereotypic chick flick” a recognized genre? If so, put me down for that. Absolutely this. I can’t stand romance movies of any type. ---
**Author:** ![It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/it_s_not_rocket_surgery/32/312_2.png) [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2010, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/film-genres-you-hate-and-wont-watch-with-few-or-any-exceptions/529055/32 "2010-02-15T16:23:03Z")
Torture porn/violent horror movies - unless they have a sense of humor, like in Sam Raimi movies or “Re-Animator”. Fratboy movies, other than “Animal House”. On a related note, Will Ferrell movies. The man is a vortex of unfunny. Chick flicks. I’m not gonna see “How Stella Got Her Notebook From The Time Traveler”. ETA: I hadn’t read Diogenes’ comments, and yet I picked on 2 of the same chick flicks. ---
**Author:** ![Linty\_Fresh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Linty\_Fresh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Linty_Fresh)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2010, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/film-genres-you-hate-and-wont-watch-with-few-or-any-exceptions/529055/33 "2010-02-15T16:23:21Z")
I’ll third (fourth? fifth?) torture porn and go on to say that in my so-humble opinion, there is something kind of wrong with people who really get into them. I hate chick flicks in general with the exception of **Under the Tuscan Sun**. Frances’s experiences in that film very loosely mirror my own wayyy back in the day, and I can identify with what she feels and says. It’s the only chick flick I own on DVD. I don’t like Georgian or Victorian costume things either. With my low-level hatred of chick flicks and costume things, it kind of sucks that I’m married to a Jane Austen/PBS fan, but there you have it. ---
**Author:** ![Dogzilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@Dogzilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dogzilla)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2010, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/film-genres-you-hate-and-wont-watch-with-few-or-any-exceptions/529055/34 "2010-02-15T16:27:43Z")
I don’t watch Westerns. I despise mob/mafia/gangster movies. I have seen 30 minutes of The Godfather and got so bored, I changed the channel. Just now saw Scarface, which is really more like a drug dealer movie. (Not bad.) Oh yeah, and I hate anime and musicals. I love, however, bio pics about musicians and movies with really great soundtracks. I find, when there’s a serious topic being discussed and suddenly the characters break out into song, it’s jolting and takes me right out of the movie. I’m not a big fan of Kung Fu/Martial arts movies, but I will tolerate them if they’re well written, well done, or look good (art direction). Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon? Loved it. I’m not a big fan of lots of shooting up of people in movies. But I don’t want to say I don’t like violence and gore because Tarantino’s movies are some of my favorites and they happen to be very violent. Let’s just say I take my violent-action-shoot-em-up movies in small doses. Oh, and there really is only one sports movie plot. It’s Rocky and all the other movies involving sports generally involve the exact same plot: Loser/underdog wins in the end. There really is no reason to watch another sports movie once you’ve seen one. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2010, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/film-genres-you-hate-and-wont-watch-with-few-or-any-exceptions/529055/35 "2010-02-15T16:30:52Z")
Rocky lost in the end (at least in the first movie). ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2010, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/film-genres-you-hate-and-wont-watch-with-few-or-any-exceptions/529055/36 "2010-02-15T16:34:02Z")
Torture Porn Romantic dramas Romantic comedies unless there are b00bies Musicals Anything with Martin Lawrence Westerns Sports ---
**Author:** ![StoutHearted](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2bfe46/32.png) [@StoutHearted](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StoutHearted)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2010, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/film-genres-you-hate-and-wont-watch-with-few-or-any-exceptions/529055/37 "2010-02-15T16:41:33Z")
Westerns, with the exception of _The Quick and the Dead_, which I discovered while stuck on the treadmill at the gym. I also put _3:10 to Yuma_ on Netflix. And on that note, John Wayne films, with the exception of _The Quiet Man_, which I’ll watch a million times. Movies about plane disasters. I’m a nervous flier as it is. Exception: _Airplane!_ (They bought their tickets. They knew what they were getting into…) Anything film about 9/11: No exceptions. Too soon for me. I’m not ready to see it propagandized in a blockbuster film. ---
**Author:** ![Made\_in\_Macau](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eada6e/32.png) [@Made\_in\_Macau](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Made_in_Macau)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2010, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/film-genres-you-hate-and-wont-watch-with-few-or-any-exceptions/529055/38 "2010-02-15T17:10:06Z")
> [@An\_Arky](#): > > All of them. I hate movies and actors. Ha! Thank you - made my day. MiM ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2010, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/film-genres-you-hate-and-wont-watch-with-few-or-any-exceptions/529055/39 "2010-02-15T17:14:45Z")
Anything with Rap music or street dancing. Ugh!!! I don’t enjoy watching people spinning on their head. ---
**Author:** ![suranyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@suranyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suranyi)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2010, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/film-genres-you-hate-and-wont-watch-with-few-or-any-exceptions/529055/40 "2010-02-15T17:22:45Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > I also hate musicals. Nobody picks up out of the blue and starts dancing and singing in real life. Musicals are ludicrous. There’s nothing wrong with disliking musicals if it isn’t your taste, but I hear this reasoning often and it doesn’t make sense to me. Many types of movies are not realistic. Nobody picks up a phaser out of the blue and starts blasting people either. Does that mean that science fiction films are ludicrous? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/film-genres-you-hate-and-wont-watch-with-few-or-any-exceptions/529055.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/film-genres-you-hate-and-wont-watch-with-few-or-any-exceptions/529055.md?page=3)