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.
Lifetime all-men-are-scum movies.
Torture porn
Rob Schneider, Will Ferrell, and other men-who-never-grew-up movies.
Light romantic comedies of the Matthew Macaunghy / Hugh Grant / Sandra Bullock persuasions. Predictable annoying wastes of time.
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.
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).
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.
I came to say any Hallmark/Lifetime crap but now I need to second longhair75 on the splatter/gore flicks as well.
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.
This is what I was trying to be cute about, sorry.
I’ll go with zombie movies, though I did enjoy Shaun of the Dead.
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.
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.
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.
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? ).
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.
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.
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 (Gladiator) It’s all the fault of those damned Foley artists…bastards!
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.
That’s one dense boy, not to realize he is in her sights even after she’s gotten him.
Lesbian porn. No exceptions.