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.)
Ditto, only with Unforgiven.
Same here, except that it’s A Fistful of Dollars.
The one and only automobile tv commercial that I ever liked can be found here.
The one and only automobile printed advertisement that I ever liked can be found here. (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.
I can’t stand “jazz hand” musicals and dance, but Cabaret is damn good.
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.
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.
I hate Adam Sandler’s movies. But I loved “Punch Drunk Love”.
I hate most post-Seinfeld sitcoms, but I love “Community”
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.
You do realise that anime is not a genre right?
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.
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.
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 is amazing. Recognize the tune?
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.
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.
I have to know what it is about non-Saw horror films you dislike. Please.
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”, with Les Revenants listed.
Can’t stand Will Farrell, but I liked The Lego Movie, and his story arc in The Office.
I have what I suspect is a common one - I usually dislike country music, but I love Johnny Cash.
I don’t like romantic comedies, except Joe vs. the Volcano is one of my favorite movies of any genre.