Chick Flicks.
Really stupid action movies.
Lately any movie with Ben Stiller starring(I used to like them before I realize they are all the same movie).
Most Sports movies.
Movies that are either made by MTV or based off a Reality show.
Hal, I’m sorry but I have to agree that “Rocky Horror” in no way lives up to its reputation. Much like “American Grafitti.”
“Rocky” I think is a matter of tastes, though. I will give it that, mostly because my wife is a fan. You have to be into stupid songs, no plot, idiotic diologue, and a cross-dressing mob to like it, but some people do.
Let me go and enjoy good music at a live rock show and leave Tim Currey to the awsomeness that is “Clue” and such.
The chick flick genre isn’t an AUTOMATIC disqualification in my book, but that “Ya-Ya Sisterhood” movie … that looked nightmarishly awful even without the presence of Ashley “If I Am In This Movie, It Probably Sucks” Judd.
Garfield.
“Let’s make a movie about a comic strip that hasn’t been funny in ten years–sorry, that’s never been funny–and to make it even more unbearable, we’ll have Bill Murray do the voice!”
. . . I’ll take Deviled Ham, thanks.
Hijack–
Okay so there’s "Passion of the Christ"
**“Pirates of the Carribean” ** and
"Prince of the City"
Are there any other PotC film titles?
Okay, that’s my inner Old Fart speaking. I heard sumpin’ recently, possibly on the Today show (::shudders:
that most widely released and publicized movies are aimed at early-to-slightly-post teens. And make no mistake, I adore some purely awful, puerile movies, so it isn’t just a taste thing.
Caveat emptor, it isn’t like I’ve seen the vast majority of films in the categories I’m about to dish. It’s like books, only much more expensive: so many, so little time. If the premise can’t lure me in, oh well.
- The vast majority based on cartoons. Some media just don’t cross-translate, and splashier production values can’t replace the magic. Honorable exceptions: films that actually try to recreate the mystique in new ways. Camp has a very limited, stale shelf life. (The Flintstones, Popeye, ScoobyDoo, etc. barf.)
- Spinoffs from old TV shows. They ran for their course, a half hour at a time, for a reason. Hyping them up with big hype, big-star bloat doesn’t change the substance. Mostly it just destroys the ephemeral charm.
- Anything based on a computer game. All the excess without the minimal interaction.
- Anything that relys on BIG EFFECTS. Purportedly SF movies are really dire for this. “We don’t just blow up cars and cities! We destroy worlds!” Yawn. After entire universes have been destroyed and space-time continum perveted, who the hell cares?
I’m not even gonna get into the “I’m winsome, adore me” genre.
Crankily,
Veb
Mr Blue Sky, Can I get another site for that other than the IMDB?
oh, plural possessives… My 2nd Grade Teacher did not teach me that. :smack:
You haven’t seen My Dinner with Andre, apparently. Personally, I love these movies. MDWA is a great film, and GGR is also a favorite. Anything by David Mamet is dialogue driven, really. GGR might be the best of them, that or House of Games.
My contribution to the thread, sure to be greeted with derision, is anything based on a comic book. Spiderman, X-Men, Superman, extrapowerfulsecretweaponman, I don’t care. I have zero interest. I saw Dick Tracy way back when, swore off the genre, then was talked into the first Batman. Never again.
It’s called “The Man Who Loved Women”.
My selection has already been named: Films based on old TV programs.
Anything where an animal is the “hero”.
From Justin to Kelly
“From Justin to Kelly” starring “American Idol” stars Justin and Kelly…Never ever would be caught going into a theatre to watch it or in video store to rent it.
Talking animals.
Eddie Murphy.
Jim Carrey.
Remakes of movies they really didn’t need to make, particularly if they involve Jim Carrey or Eddie Murphy.
Anything by Adam Sandler.
Talking babies.
“Period” pieces that don’t have a lot of fighting and guns and swords and explosions and stuff. So, for example, Hidalgo was okay, since the horse didn’t talk. If it had, no way.
Thats funny, I remember Ralph Macchio and Jamie Gertz but not Britney 
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Prisoners of the Casbah (1953), with Gloria Grahame and Cesar Romero.
Anything about straight people. I know they’re made that way, but must they flaunt it? 
Seriously, though, since I’m not straight, I have to be able to see what the attraction is or the movie doesn’t make any sense to me–I can’t suspend my disbelief well enough (cf Pretty Woman, horny teens, Adam Sandler, above).
And movies with a lot of farting. Other than South Park, which was a masterpiece.