Action films.
What can I say? Car chases waste time that could be spent on plot and when I see explosions all I can think about is that someone has to clean that shit up. However, funny action films are fine. Charlie’s Angels is a blast. Stuff like Bangkok Dangerous, gag me with a spoon.
Westerns. The ‘Spaghetti’ westerns were okay, but in general I find westerns a bit tedious and samey, as well as visually unappealing. Shadows, dust, leather and stubble isn’t a formula likely to keep me gripped for 90 minutes. Plus we also know these fantasies bear little or no relation to what real life was actually like.
Anything from the Jane Austen school of Costume Drama, with lace and bonnets well to the fore and set designers doing most of the work. Tedious prose rehashed as tedious film. I think time actually slows down when these things are shown.
Any film where the poster consists solely of a man with an excitable or startled impression holding a gun, as if this is de facto interesting or noteworthy. Okay, so this isn’t exactly a ‘genre’ as such, but we’re getting to the point where it could be considered one.
Looking at the ads for Shutter Island, I realised that I have never seen a Scorsese film. The conclusion I draw from that is his style doesn’t appeal to me.
Funny, being a musician and a huge music fan, I hate musicals.
I used to be a big martial arts fan but I find them so repetitive now I can’t watch.
I also can’t sit through those Jane Austen type films, I fall asleep and get hell from my wife.
I don’t watch horror.
I don’t go out of my way to watch “hey, lets win an Oscar making you feel like crap” dramas (The “Million Dollar Baby” genre) - although I appreciate them as Art, I don’t enjoy them as entertainment.
Unless the main character is a panda. 
Anime.
Anything that might be described as “heartwarming” or “life-affirming”.
Chickflix.
Martial arts movies.
Musicals.
The savagely unfunny comedies of Those Three Fucking Stooges in any combination.
Most modern, mainstream comedies.
Kid movies. And that includes the ones that claim to be “all-ages” entertainment for the whole damn family.
Nearly any flick that has a gay cult following.
Tormented teen angst-o-ramas.
Me (depending on how you’d define the term, I guess).
This.
I also hate cringe-comedies, where the main character has some manner of fish-out-of-water moment (for example, Jennifer Garner’s character in 13 Going on 30). Any humor based on a character being potentially humiliated is just awkward, not funny.
Another contender is sports movies where the underdog, Made Up of Economically Disadvantaged but Skilled and Decent Human Beings team has to win the big tournament against the Big Bad Well-Funded team. I don’t care how true a story it’s based on, it’s all the same and it’s BORING.
Romantic comedies are also not my thing. Some of the quirkier ones are good (like Benny and Joon), but most of the time they’re gag-worthy.
I suppose the comments here reflect why there are no notable period/costume/musical movies being made any more. I’m one of the dwindling few who LOVE being taken out of sordid everyday life into other worlds and other times. I thank God every single day for TCM!
Fart movies. That is, where farting, pooping, puking, nose picking is supposed to be funny. See Jim Carrey.
On reflection, you’d be right. Thanks.
When I was that age (I’m 48), I was pretty much into that stuff for the time. Not to mention long before…as early as the 4th-5th grade, I was drawing pictures of not only vampires, Frankenstein’s monster, but bullet-riddled bodies, skeletons, you name it. My mother labeled me “macabre,” so it’s no surprise.
It’s interesting to note the evolving (or de-volving) level of horror. When my father was young (born 1924), he was so terrified when, at around 10 years of age or so, he watched the original Karloff Frankenstein that he never watched it again. My daughter saw it and couldn’t decide whether to laugh or be bored.
I hate movies with lots of special effects, especially CGI. The type of movie where they show huge objects flying toward the camera. They all seem like Bugs Bunny cartoons with pretensions.
Also, I’d probably prefer not to watch any movie written or directed by someone under 35.
Not really. I’m 39, for example. I’ve always dug torture porn, though before the Saw franchise it was pretty slim pickins. The only titles that come to mind are Clockwork Orange and Henry, Portrait of a Serial Killer.
Musicals and anything with a ghost. My suspension of disbelief goes only so far.
I’ve never seen a mafia movie that didn’t bore me to tears, so I don’t watch those anymore either.
Lastly, any Star Wars, Independence Day, Transformers type of flick that’s long on special effects and short on character/plot.
Slasher “horror” films. Torture porn.
I can make up my own nightmares, I DON"T need any inspiration.
Chick flicks. Good god those are agonizing to try to sit through.
Torture porn movies
Lowbrow comedy (ie, Wayans movies, Adam Sandler, Jim Carrey, Ferrell, etc)
Any movies (mainly thrillers) with that herky jerky jump cut style of cinematography going on. Those will get me turning green faster than you can say, “Holy Broccoli, Batman!”
I hate movies about serial killers - real serial killers aren’t urbain cool masterminds, they’re ussually pretty pitiful - but “Summer Of Sam” is a great movie, mostly becasue it’s not mostly about the killer or his victims.
I see several mentions of anime. Are there really that many anime movies being released? I can’t remember any off hand.