# 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:** 3
**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, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/film-genres-you-hate-and-wont-watch-with-few-or-any-exceptions/529055/41 "2010-02-15T17:36:10Z")
Yes, quite often, science fiction is ludicrous, but at least they don’t pick up and start singing and dancing. It can sustain some sort of narrative. Musicals keep stopping the narrative to have some boring song. ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2010, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/film-genres-you-hate-and-wont-watch-with-few-or-any-exceptions/529055/42 "2010-02-15T18:03:03Z")
Lifetime all-men-are-scum movies. Torture porn Rob Schneider, Will Ferrell, and other men-who-never-grew-up movies. ---
**Author:** ![GargoyleWB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gargoylewb/32/199_2.png) [@GargoyleWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GargoyleWB)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2010, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/film-genres-you-hate-and-wont-watch-with-few-or-any-exceptions/529055/43 "2010-02-15T19:55:21Z")
Light romantic comedies of the Matthew Macaunghy / Hugh Grant / Sandra Bullock persuasions. Predictable annoying wastes of time. ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2010, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/film-genres-you-hate-and-wont-watch-with-few-or-any-exceptions/529055/44 "2010-02-15T20:06:36Z")
Chick flicks, where everybody spends half the movie discussing their feelings and the other half chasing after one or more guys. Torture porn (things like Saw and Hostel) Frat-boy fart-vomit-and-drink comedies (I don’t care for much physical comedy at all, actually, but particuarly not this type). British period movies. My work group went to one and I nearly slept through it. I don’t even remember which one it was anymore. I’ve mercifully blocked it. I think it was one of those Merchant-Ivory ‘upstairs downstairs’ type things. Pretty much anything with any of the following people in it: - Adam Sandler - Will Ferrell - Jim Carrey (though I loved “The Truman Show”) Particularly depressing downer movies. Last night after watching the Olympic pairs skating, I fell in love with “Lux Aeterna,” which apparently comes from the movie “Requiem for a Dream.” I looked up the movie on Wikipedia and even the _plot summary_ depressed me. I can’t even imagine myself ever seeing it. I don’t mind sad movies, but relentless downers–no thanks. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2010, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/film-genres-you-hate-and-wont-watch-with-few-or-any-exceptions/529055/45 "2010-02-15T20:09:35Z")
Torture porn. Movies where a major event is the catastrophic failure of an aircraft (TV shows, too. Which is why I decided to take a pass on _Lost_). Oh, and movies whose central premise seems to be “Let’s see how good this blows up. Hey, it blows up _re-e-e-a-al_ good.” For some reason, I was able, just barely, to sit through _Cast Away_, which counts as both aircraft failure and torture porn (Tom Hanks banging himself up trying to light a fire, open a coconut, and cure his toothache). ---
**Author:** ![LH75](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lh75/32/4438_2.png) [@LH75](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LH75)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2010, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/film-genres-you-hate-and-wont-watch-with-few-or-any-exceptions/529055/46 "2010-02-15T20:14:43Z")
I do not watch movies about sports. I am not interested in splash and splatter horror movies. I had plenty of angst when I was a teenager and do not need to see it replayed on film. ---
**Author:** ![maladroit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f475e1/32.png) [@maladroit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/maladroit)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2010, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/film-genres-you-hate-and-wont-watch-with-few-or-any-exceptions/529055/47 "2010-02-15T20:26:29Z")
I came to say any Hallmark/Lifetime crap but now I need to second longhair75 on the splatter/gore flicks as well. ---
**Author:** ![maladroit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f475e1/32.png) [@maladroit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/maladroit)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2010, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/film-genres-you-hate-and-wont-watch-with-few-or-any-exceptions/529055/48 "2010-02-15T20:29:07Z")
> [@Illuminatiprimus](#): > > 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. I do, but just in my house when I’m either drunk or cleaning house or both. Not at work or the grocery store or anything. ---
**Author:** ![maladroit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f475e1/32.png) [@maladroit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/maladroit)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2010, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/film-genres-you-hate-and-wont-watch-with-few-or-any-exceptions/529055/49 "2010-02-15T20:30:57Z")
> [@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. This is what I was trying to be cute about, sorry. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2010, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/film-genres-you-hate-and-wont-watch-with-few-or-any-exceptions/529055/50 "2010-02-15T20:34:51Z")
I’ll go with zombie movies, though I did enjoy Shaun of the Dead. ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2010, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/film-genres-you-hate-and-wont-watch-with-few-or-any-exceptions/529055/51 "2010-02-15T20:38:34Z")
Girl gets boy . Boy does not have clue he is in girls gun sights. But slowly and surely he winds up with the heroine. Sleepless in Seattle types. ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2010, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/film-genres-you-hate-and-wont-watch-with-few-or-any-exceptions/529055/52 "2010-02-15T20:42:45Z")
The apocalyptic genre is one of the least interesting (2012, the Day After Tomorrow) Interestingly, post-apocalyptic is one of my favorite genres (Mad Max etc.) Also, most mundane horror like serial killer or random psycho films. ---
**Author:** ![suranyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@suranyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suranyi)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2010, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/film-genres-you-hate-and-wont-watch-with-few-or-any-exceptions/529055/53 "2010-02-16T00:02:57Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > Yes, quite often, science fiction is ludicrous, but at least they don’t pick up and start singing and dancing. It can sustain some sort of narrative. Musicals keep stopping the narrative to have some boring song. Ok, that’s fine. I like both science fiction and musicals. I was brought up on them – the first movies I ever saw were all musicals, so to me they don’t seem unnatural at all. What I won’t watch is horror. ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2010, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/film-genres-you-hate-and-wont-watch-with-few-or-any-exceptions/529055/54 "2010-02-16T00:22:57Z")
Another one on the torture porn. I opened this thread expecting to just browse a bit, because I couldn’t think of an entire genre that I totally avoid. But the example of torture porn is a good one. I saw the original **Saw**. That was enough for me. **Hostel** and its ilk interest me not even a tiny bit. Conversely, while I’m not a huge fan of slasher flicks, I have seen a number in my youth and they usually didn’t come off as quite as vile. I even liked a couple of the **Halloween** movies. And I like a lot of films in the horror super-genre ( or are all of the above just subgenres? ). ---
**Author:** ![TV\_time](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f17d59/32.png) [@TV\_time](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TV_time)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2010, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/film-genres-you-hate-and-wont-watch-with-few-or-any-exceptions/529055/55 "2010-02-16T00:27:38Z")
Any movie that has twins. (the twins can be clones, fraternal, or especially identical and if they are separated at birth, it is the worst— this all being said, I did like the original of the entire genre, Shakespeare’s _Comedy of Errors_. ---
**Author:** ![Troubles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Troubles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troubles)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2010, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/film-genres-you-hate-and-wont-watch-with-few-or-any-exceptions/529055/56 "2010-02-16T00:35:27Z")
Horror films. I enjoyed _Alien_ and loved _The Silence of the Lambs_, but the genre, for the most part, doesn’t interest me. It isn’t hate so much as it is disinterest. I truly dislike the romance genre, and romantic comedies in particular. I can’t stand the overwrought melodrama, fluffy sentimentality, and/or incredibly predictable plots that invariably show up in every romance movie. ---
**Author:** ![Prelude\_to\_Fascination](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a183cd/32.png) [@Prelude\_to\_Fascination](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prelude_to_Fascination)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2010, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/film-genres-you-hate-and-wont-watch-with-few-or-any-exceptions/529055/57 "2010-02-16T00:44:53Z")
I can’t stand older Westerns (ex. John Wayne), but like Clint Eastwood’s (esp. Josey Wales). Neither can I stand Romantic Comedies (but I like When Harry Met Sally, which is really just a remake of Woody Allen’s Annie Hall, officially or unofficially – I know Reiner’s said it’s autobiographical, but they’re sooooo close) or so-called torture porn (such a dislike the genre isn’t even capitalized), but I don’t mind some gore (I recently watched H.G. Lewis’ “The Wizard of Gore” on youtube, and damn near laughed my head off). Older horror is great, particularly the classics from Hammer Studios going back to the Universal monsters. I like the original Halloween, but as a rule, horror to me has become the monstrosity. I don’t like musicals (with the exceptions of Oliver! and Scrooge (Albert Finney). I despise anime and will not watch any of it. On a side note, I watched the latest Star Trek, and decided I’m now too old for today’s movies. I’m old enough to be the father of a lot of the actors, and the jump cuts give me a freakin’ headache. I grew up on action/suspense/black comedies and satires of the 70s. Stuff like the French Connection, Klute, the Hospital, Network, as well as Woody Allen’s early films (Take the Money and Run, Bananas, etc.) Someone mentioned best boys. I’m with you there. But you know who doesn’t get the love they deserve? Catapult crew coordinator/crowd production assistants like Paul Sacks. [Paul Sacks - IMDb](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0755314/) (Gladiator) It’s all the fault of those damned Foley artists…bastards! ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2010, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/film-genres-you-hate-and-wont-watch-with-few-or-any-exceptions/529055/58 "2010-02-16T00:50:44Z")
> [@winterhawk11](#): > > (snipped)…British period movies…those Merchant-Ivory ‘upstairs downstairs’ type things. Yes, exactly, was trying to think how to describe them but you nailed it. Also: Torture/Slasher Sports Most rom-coms Woody Allen movies. Tried several, didn’t care for any. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2010, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/film-genres-you-hate-and-wont-watch-with-few-or-any-exceptions/529055/59 "2010-02-16T01:10:52Z")
> [@gonzomax](#): > > Girl gets boy . Boy does not have clue he is in girls gun sights. That’s one dense boy, not to realize he is in her sights even after she’s gotten him. ---
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