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No, they won’t. The sized 13 boot-sole of Real Life will find its way to your windpipe in short order. Fuck You, Walt Disney.
Tragedies, tear jerkers.
Prison movies featuring rape.
Depiction of mental illness or intellectual disability as ennobling.
Serial killers in lead roles, as a regular bad guy, but especially if they’re the good guy.
Well, humiliation is a wide and varied field. Personally, what I really can’t stand, specifically, is humor generated by the tricking and subsequent embarrassment of unwitting victims. In other words, Candid Camera stuff. There is nothing less funny. I always feel for the poor people being fooled, and I just want to punch the “comedians” behind the set-ups. If you ever pull a Candid Camera stunt on me, I’m coming after your ass.
Soap operas.
Never could understand the appeal, and they were never realistic, but nowadays they seem painfully out-of-date; basically ignoring the social effect of the internet and smart phones.
(If you’re wondering about how I know about soap operas while claiming to hate them: if I visit my parents I’m forced to endure them (the soap operas I mean ;))
Leaving aside the really depressing plots, this is probably what gets me the most. Especially when the character is clearly headed for a huge humiliation or embarrassment and only the audience realizes it. Every single thing they do for half the movie just makes the situation worse and they remain blissfully unaware of it until the shit hits the fan.
It makes me cringe so much I just can’t watch that sort of movies (and there are plenty of them).
Unconventional cops.
Also, supposedly hard hitting dramas that are nothing more tham modern versions of good guys versus bad guys. I couldn’t watch more than a few episodes of Peaky Blinders for this reason. The good guys being the criminals the bad guys being the police. The show seemed headed in the direction of good versus bad - though I don’t know if it ended up being such a show. The Ulster police being transported into Birmingham for added police villainy.
I hate prison movies. Can’t stand them, no matter how well made. I find the idea of prison very claustrophobic and don’t wish to identify with any character put in such a place.
Those teen movies that start off with the “ugly” spazo’ nerdy girl and then by the end of the movie she’s given a makeover and as if by magic, she looks super hot and everyone wants to be her friend. Including the super handsome asshole jock guy.
sitcoms, especially “family” sitcoms. Mind-numbingly vapid.
Any graphic showing of suicide. Can’t take it. (Especially egregious when, unexpectedly and suddenly a scene of: gun to head and Blam!) Same goes for graphic torture or rape. No can do.
Police dramas that show police thuggery, violence, threatening of perps, as successful crime solving.
Any shows revolving around getting ‘into the head’ of some twisted killer, rapist, etc. (If your kid wanted to haunt such crime scenes you’d think it unhealthy, but on tv, it’s all okay?) Not for me.
Reality shows, for the same reason as the OP. Had too much dysfunction in my life, growing up, to find it entertaining as an adult.
Injured animals, especially from abuse. Nature shows, like an alligator catching a wildebeest, are fine though.
Coming of age films, in which the kids do dangerous crap they’re not supposed to do and probably get killed. Maybe it’s because I was a child of the 80s, when this crap was rife, but any time I see a movie or TV show with (1) a cast of child characters, (2) anything about cutting school, or (3) kids walking on train tracks, it’s about as much fun for me as a sheet lightning enema.
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Mob fiction where the mobsters are portrayed sympathetically. Godfather, Goodfellas, Scarface etc.
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Any story where a married protagonist has an affair and it’s treated sympathetically.
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Sci-fi where the plot is a heavy-handed allegory for some current cause celebre, but approaches it in a way so convoluted that it stops raising an applicable point about the topic at hand. The latest trend in this vein has been for filmmakers to try and make allegories about how drone warfare is evil (Captain America Winter Soldier, Robocop, Star Trek Into Darkness, Chappie, etc.) in ways that are in no way whatsoever analogous to how drones actually work in the real world.
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Movies about sports.
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Any movie where prison rape is either treated as comedy, or as something the inmate deserves.
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Count me in with showing infedelity in a comic light (What was that movie with Ryan Reynolds and Abigail Breslin?)
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Body/Gross-out Humor (LCD and not funny)
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Humor at the expense of others (Tosh.0 I’m lookin at you…I had a personal-ish experience with this and know how damaging it can me)
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Count me in on family dysfunction too. I remember being in writing classes where every character hates their family and is miserable because “That’s real life maaaaaaan” Uh, no…no it isn’t
Number 1 though is movies that have a sad ending for no goddamn reason. Yeah I’m lookin’ at you Up in the Air. You had a perfect character arc that was destroyed for no reason other than to stir up “drama”. This movie forever soured me on Oscar movies.
Most of us have had to worry, on a daily basis, about maintaining a steady income all our adult lives. Groceries, rent/mortgage, employer-dependent healthcare and pension. I have no sympathy for characters who are somehow able to dispense with those concerns while overwhelmed with other problems.
I was told in a college mass media class that we the audience want to escape from our daily worries with stories where money doesn’t matter. Money effects everything, goddammit. For all their other faults, Dickens, Dreiser and Sinclair Lewis never forgot this.
I’m another one that doesn’t like humiliation humor. I’m thinking stuff like Meet the Fockers. That was an awful movie full of awful people doing awful things.
I get downright mad when adultery is portrayed in a sympathetic manner. Not that I don’t think it happens in real life, maybe even for sympathetic reasons, but it’s always women that are portrayed sympathetically, and I feel sorry for their dope husbands. 
I don’t mind family dysfunction, despite living it, but I don’t like the happy endings always tacked on. Real life is way more bitter - my mom didn’t talk to my SO until the day she died (at least she did then!)
I am also there with sad endings for no reasons. I like sad endings OK if they fit the plot but I don’t want a sad ending just for the sake of “art”. I rarely watch Oscar winners because I think they are all just bait for this. I want a satisfying conclusion.
It’s getting harder and harder for me to stomach even casual racism and misogyny in movies. I wonder how I ever found them funny. It really makes me lose respect for everyone involved.
I always think of the movies they made during the depression, with Carole Lombard and Fred and Ginger. Screwball comedies, where they lived in a fantasy land of white Art Deco mansions with enormous flower arrangements in every room (sometimes more), cool cars, the women dressed in chiffon and slinky gowns, sitting at little tables in nightclubs watching Busby Berkely numbers. I am told people scraped together a few pennies every week to go sit in a movie theater, ‘forgetting their troubles’, and enjoying the shennanigans of their Betters. I would have been eaten away with resentment, leaving the theater to go back to my cold humble flat and make toast and tea.