More I won’t watch:
Caper movies - where the group of crooks has the resident computer hacker who can within minutes hack into the building plans of the place they’re trying to rob, or hack their way into the entire security system, and someone else can replicate the exact security guard uniform and slip in unnoticed. And there’s always the beautiful woman team member.
Any Meg Ryan movie - pre- or post-plastic facial surgical disaster (INCLUDING When Harry Met Sally)
I won’t watch the movies where a woman moves to some amazing European countryside and lives a perfect life, as portrayed by a beautiful rich actress. Too jealous.
Again, zombies in these movies would be a big improvement.
Or black people painted white, or white people painted black.
I get more irritated by the ones where the guy feels he has to pretend not to be what he actually is. Man meets woman, they hit it off, they’re totally suited to each other, then she abruptly tells him that she can’t stand rich people/firefighters/people from New York. Usually because she recently got burned by a rich guy/firefighter/guy from New York.
Of course, male lead had been one breath away from casually informing her that he’s rich/a firefighter/from New York, and now he panics. Has to spend an hour of screen time pretending to be poor/an accountant/from New…uh…Hampshire (“I thought you were from Boston!” “Uh, well, I spent a lot of summers in Concord.”). Then she finds out, loudly breaks up with him, but in the end, forgives him because he’s made her realize that not ALL rich guys/firefighters/guys from New York are scum.
I can almost overlook her forgiving him for lying and deception, although it bothers me somewhat that they both take it for granted that she’s so awesome she’s worth any subterfuge. But what about the converse issue of her unreasonable bias? I find it a lot easier to bear on the rare occasions where he doesn’t lie, and she gradually gets conditioned out of her prejudice*. But then we wouldn’t get the Big Awkward Moment mentioned earlier, along with the chase-down-big-speech scene.
(I once saw a movie where the guy chased the girl to the airport, but when he caught up to her in the boarding area, she shrugged him off rather than miss her flight. They made it up later, of course, and it was actually more realistic: they’d both had time to cool off, and they were able to talk privately. That’s the other thing I don’t dig or believe: bystanders watching raptly and then applauding.)
*Actually, knowing what the other person is and learning to first live with, then accept, and finally appreciate it happens a lot more often in buddy movies. Hmmmmm…