# One-offs that you love despite disliking the rest of the genre. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 31, 2013, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-offs-that-you-love-despite-disliking-the-rest-of-the-genre/677548 "2013-12-31T06:50:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2014, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-offs-that-you-love-despite-disliking-the-rest-of-the-genre/677548/61 "2014-04-24T17:34:55Z")
Don’t like Westerns, but loved _Tombstone_. Not quite in the same vein (since it’s outside his usual genre) but I loved _The Shawshank Redemption_ despite a general dislike of the rest of Stephen King’s work. I loved _Firefly_ but hate everything else _Joss Whedon_ has done. I don’t care for turn-based combat RPGs but adore the entire _Fallout_ series (of course, the latter games are only nominally turn-based.) ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2014, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-offs-that-you-love-despite-disliking-the-rest-of-the-genre/677548/62 "2014-04-24T17:36:28Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > Don’t like Westerns, but loved _Tombstone_. Ditto, only with _Unforgiven_. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_t\_Panic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/don_t_panic/32/398_2.png) [@Don\_t\_Panic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_Panic)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2014, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-offs-that-you-love-despite-disliking-the-rest-of-the-genre/677548/63 "2014-04-24T17:39:12Z")
> [@OneCentStamp](#): > > Ditto, only with _Unforgiven_. Same here, except that it’s _A Fistful of Dollars_. ---
**Author:** ![Keeve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f07891/32.png) [@Keeve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Keeve)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2014, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-offs-that-you-love-despite-disliking-the-rest-of-the-genre/677548/64 "2014-05-09T17:18:26Z")
The one and only automobile tv commercial that I ever liked can be found [here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWnVhgvAyWM). The one and only automobile printed advertisement that I ever liked can be found [here](http://designarchives.aiga.org/#/entries/%2Bid%3A13055/_/detail/relevance/asc/0/7/13055/its-ugly-but-it-gets-you-there/1). (Gotta remember that this was in 1969) I think it may help to know that I have absolutely no taste for cars. They are purely utilitarian devices, in my view. A commercial which shows you a guy who gets in his car to drive, for no reason other than that he enjoys driving, is something that I just don’t get, and I have no interest in getting. ---
**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:** [May 9, 2014, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-offs-that-you-love-despite-disliking-the-rest-of-the-genre/677548/65 "2014-05-09T18:21:57Z")
I can’t stand “jazz hand” musicals and dance, but **Cabaret** is damn good. ---
**Author:** ![CheshireKat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheshirekat/32/1207_2.png) [@CheshireKat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CheshireKat)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2014, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-offs-that-you-love-despite-disliking-the-rest-of-the-genre/677548/66 "2014-05-09T18:23:18Z")
I cannot stand gory movies, but I loved Fargo and Usual Suspects. As probably happened with many people, when Usual Suspects ended I immediately watched it again, gore and all. Westerns are my least favorite genre, but I loved Lonesome Dove and Quigley Down Under. eta - I offered two-offs because I couldn’t choose between them. ---
**Author:** ![Waymore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/919ad9/32.png) [@Waymore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waymore)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2014, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-offs-that-you-love-despite-disliking-the-rest-of-the-genre/677548/67 "2014-05-09T23:21:52Z")
Don’t care for romcoms in the least, but _ **Garden State** _ was very good. I like Braff, and Portman’s no chore to look at. Not into sitcoms as a general thing, but loved _ **Scrubs** _, except the early and late seasons, and the last 2.5 minutes of the good episodes where they tried to tie the various story lines together. ---
**Author:** ![Haldurson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/51bf81/32.png) [@Haldurson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Haldurson)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2014, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-offs-that-you-love-despite-disliking-the-rest-of-the-genre/677548/68 "2014-05-09T23:37:09Z")
I hate Adam Sandler’s movies. But I loved “Punch Drunk Love”. I hate most post-Seinfeld sitcoms, but I love “Community” ---
**Author:** ![Penfeather](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penfeather/32/384_2.png) [@Penfeather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Penfeather)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2014, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-offs-that-you-love-despite-disliking-the-rest-of-the-genre/677548/69 "2014-05-10T03:37:25Z")
I don’t like crime thrillers and I can’t stand _Silence of the Lambs_ style serial killer bullshit, but _Summer of Sam_, Spike Lee’s exploration of 1977 New York during the Son of Sam killings, was a wonderful movie. ---
**Author:** ![bldysabba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecccb3/32.png) [@bldysabba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bldysabba)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2014, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-offs-that-you-love-despite-disliking-the-rest-of-the-genre/677548/70 "2014-05-10T05:07:46Z")
> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > Most interesting. > > People have tried repeatedly to get me to like anime. “You’ll love this one!” they say. But if it’s not Miyazaki, they’re always wrong. > > I keep trying, because I figure there’s nothing wrong with the genre as such; surely there’s something else in the genre I’ll find appealing (especially given my geeky nature). But for some reason, the rest of the genre so far has left me cold. You do realise that anime is not a genre right? ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2014, 8:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-offs-that-you-love-despite-disliking-the-rest-of-the-genre/677548/71 "2014-05-10T08:04:58Z")
I normally have a strong distaste for mob/crime movies, but I noticed that \*On the Waterfront \*was playing on TCM. I knew that it had won a kazillion Oscars, so decided to watch it . . . on the condition that I could turn it off after half an hour. Well, not only didn’t I turn it off, but I watched it 2 or 3 times. Everything about it - the plot and screenplay, acting, directing, music - is just superb. And I still hate that genre. ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2014, 8:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-offs-that-you-love-despite-disliking-the-rest-of-the-genre/677548/72 "2014-05-10T08:48:30Z")
I generally can’t stand what I call “beige movies”. This category encompasses all movies where the scenery is beige and dusty, the clothing is beige and dusty, the men are all beige and dusty and talk mainly in monosyllables and the women are all saloon girls or prostitutes if they exist at all. Examples include Westerns and many war films (any films with significant female characters or decent scenery do not count). However, I do love _The Treasure of the Sierra Madre_ , which is one of the beige-ist of all. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2014, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-offs-that-you-love-despite-disliking-the-rest-of-the-genre/677548/73 "2014-05-10T15:25:10Z")
I’m no fan of the super hero genre, but Ron Perlman’s Hellboy blew me away. And while I will always consider Hugh Jackman a song and dance man, let’s just say that nobody else will ever play Wolverine again. And rap isn’t my thing, but Yannick’s [Ces Soirees-la](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAPzTFlVUN0) is amazing. Recognize the tune? ---
**Author:** ![Melbourne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5e925/32.png) [@Melbourne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melbourne)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2014, 8:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-offs-that-you-love-despite-disliking-the-rest-of-the-genre/677548/74 "2014-05-11T08:14:29Z")
> [@Martian Bigfoot](#): > > …[Jim Carrey’]…in _Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind._ Cheating a bit I think, because that’s not genre. That’s the movie in which Jim Carrey is an actor, rather than playing Jim Carrey. ---
**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2014, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-offs-that-you-love-despite-disliking-the-rest-of-the-genre/677548/75 "2014-05-11T12:48:01Z")
I saw One Direction on SNL or something a couple years ago, and I couldn’t believe that anybody would take them seriously. Crappy music, and they spent most of their time grabbing their junk. So I was very surprised to learn that they sing “The Story of My Life.” I like that song. ---
**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2014, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-offs-that-you-love-despite-disliking-the-rest-of-the-genre/677548/76 "2014-05-11T13:40:18Z")
> [@AlsoNamedBort](#): > > Same here. I don’t like horror movies (other than deconstructions like Cabin in the Woods), but I’m a total sucker for the _Saw_ series. I saw 2 through 5 in theaters on opening day. I have to know what it is about non-Saw horror films you dislike. Please. > [@Martian Bigfoot](#): > > Similarly, I usually don’t give a rat’s behind about zombie apocalypses, but I’ll make an exception for the French TV series _Les Revenants_, which is brilliant. No exceptions need be made, as the alive-again people do not fit any definition of “zombie”. Zombie does not refer to any and all persons who return to life from death. It refers to re-animated corpses that are probably dangerous and are not conscious of themselves as the people they had been in life. Hardly the people in Les Revenants. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_t\_Panic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/don_t_panic/32/398_2.png) [@Don\_t\_Panic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_Panic)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2014, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-offs-that-you-love-despite-disliking-the-rest-of-the-genre/677548/77 "2014-05-11T23:48:49Z")
> [@Stoid](#): > > No exceptions need be made, as the alive-again people do not fit any definition of “zombie”. Zombie does not refer to any and all persons who return to life from death. It refers to re-animated corpses that are probably dangerous and are not conscious of themselves as the people they had been in life. Hardly the people in Les Revenants. Yeah, well, we could argue all day about what counts as a movie/TV zombie. Or we could have another go about whether or not Pluto should be a planet. For what it’s worth, TV tropes has a category for “[revenant zombie](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RevenantZombie)”, with Les Revenants listed. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2014, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-offs-that-you-love-despite-disliking-the-rest-of-the-genre/677548/78 "2014-05-12T18:04:44Z")
Can’t stand Will Farrell, but I liked _The Lego Movie_, and his story arc in _The Office_. ---
**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2014, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-offs-that-you-love-despite-disliking-the-rest-of-the-genre/677548/79 "2014-05-12T19:27:10Z")
I have what I suspect is a common one - I usually dislike country music, but I love Johnny Cash. ---
**Author:** ![spywholoved](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spywholoved/32/10368_2.png) [@spywholoved](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spywholoved)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2014, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-offs-that-you-love-despite-disliking-the-rest-of-the-genre/677548/80 "2014-05-12T20:41:08Z")
I don’t like romantic comedies, except _Joe vs. the Volcano_ is one of my favorite movies of any genre. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-offs-that-you-love-despite-disliking-the-rest-of-the-genre/677548.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-offs-that-you-love-despite-disliking-the-rest-of-the-genre/677548.md?page=5)