Bollywood stories are kind of like this - full of romantic love and exotic scenery, neither of which the peasants get much of. It’s gotten to the point that there are two kinds of stories: movies designed to appeal to the masses, who need some escapism, and stories about India designed to appeal to NRIs (non resident Indians) who are feeling nostalgia.
You do get a bit of a flavour for this just by watching TV today. I often note that the folks in TV shows appear to live lives of unrealistic wealth - for example, living in huge and richly-furnished houses and appartments in major cities, while apparently not having occupations that would actually generate that kind of cash.
Whatever you do, don’t watch early James Bond movies. 
We saw one recently, late-night with nothing better to do, and the outright misogyny made my jaw drop. My wife’s reaction: “that guy is an asshole and I hope the bad guys get him”.
anything with a happy ending.
[LG]i hate happy endings[/LG].
exception is made for if the happy ending is due to lots of gunfire, fights, explosions and chase scenes. then the action factor overcomes the happy ending factor, e.g. Die Hard.
I wonder if producers have to get such people to sign a waiver afterwards in order to avoid getting sued.
the dufus who gains a skill or quality in accelerated movie/tv time frame.
like that of kung fu movies where the guy is unable to chew gum and walk at the same time and ends up killing a dozen people in a fight where that person is on the verge of death a few times and springs back.
Brace up. Brace up.
exception is made for kung fu and samurai movies, especially asian, because (you know) fights, killing and stuff. you just ignore/laugh at/skip the early stuff.
No, I don’t watch them. 
I also HATE-HATE-HATE the whole shtick where the white guy comes in and saves the fucking day and everybody loves him. Atlantis was a cool movie except the natives literally do nothing as their princess is being kidnapped, just stand around and stare, while the white guy rushes in to save the day.
Just once I want to see the movie where the white guy tries to get the beautiful princess and instead she kicks his stupid ass and goes with the guy she’s known since childhood who is after all a perfectly decent guy, or even better, pulls a Brave decides she needs something more than just a husband.
Weren’t the Atlantians shown to be sort of suffering from mental effects from the immortality? I mean they had forgotten how to read their own language script, some sort of dementia or something.
To make clear they aren’t like descendants who forgot, they are the exact same people.
Kidnapping and cringe worthy Larry David material.
Oh, I missed the dementia angle, which would make it slightly better but not that much because the Princess was still pretty sharp (although fairly useless too). I thought they just forgot to read their stuff because it was so long ago.
It was kind of a confusing movie. They didn’t really clarify much. I just liked Ivanova (Claudia Christian) as Helga. I adore her.
Band name.
There’s no reason that (perhaps) zombies and (especially) superheroes can’t deal with all of that stuff. The best stories are all about that sort of thing. Do you want some recommendations?
You’re right in that it was badly written or edited, I remember several moments where I was like huh how did that happen?
I might be remembering wrong but I remember them establishing the princess was alive when Atlantis sank and saw it, so for her to forget her native language is bizarre unless something was going on.
I’ve lost my tolerance for gun movies. Judging by the promos on the tube, that’s just about every action/adventure movie made. They have very limited time in commercials to sell the story, but if there’s someone in the movie shooting a gun, by god it’s in the commercial. The strange thing is, viewers are so inured to shootings in movies that no one bats an eye when people get shot.
Humiliation humor. Anything that’s like Fawlty Towers where a combination of offensive/awkward on purpose carries the humor, too. I just want to hide my face and cringe until it’s over.
Movies where a person is involuntarily committed through a mistaken belief that they are insane/incapable. Bonus points for electroshock therapy or force feeding.
In general, superhero movies have lost their charm for me and I find most a slog to get through these days.
Grim, violent dystopian or post-apocolypic movies (and books). Just don’t want to go there.
In a grim, distopian future, an evil government forces dorky Asian contestants to battle against each other in an arena where they humiliate each other with racist and sexist humour.
All appears lost … until a plucky White guy appears to save the day!
Me too. Essentially, humor where we’re given the choice of laughing in contempt at some clueless ridiculous specimen or else cringing and wincing in empathy as the trainwreck progresses. e.g., The Office (Michael Scott). Can’t stay in the same room.
Zillions of sitcoms, watching Darren Stevens or Granny Clampett or Lucy embrace some spectacularly bad idea or stumble through awkward lies and pretenses in lieu of just being honest or whatever, making an incredible mess of things while we, I suppose, are expected to watch, smugly superior, as they dig themselves in deeper. No thanks. But by far the worst ones are the ones where the character seems to exist only for this purpose.
Frankly, it makes me a poor audience for a significant percent of British comedy, as well as much of the kind of skits that Saturday Night Live is famous for. One or more people doing a deadpan portrayal of someone acting awkwardly, socially cluelessly, pathetically, in a way that invites ridicule and would make identification with the character painful.
I had enough of being made fun of and feeling socially awkward & clueless; I’m not inclined to make fun of others for their dorkiness. Positioning them as people who hold repellent political beliefs or who do horrid things to people doesn’t make it “OK” or more comfortable, by the way. You can ridicule people for what they believe without ridiculing their personality and behavioral nuances and vulnerabilities.
And yes, I suppose it makes me ponderously serious and a complete lack of fun at parties.
I would so watch that movie, and laugh my ass off throughout.
Great now my coworkers are wondering why I am snorting and chuckling with laugher.
I’m in complete agreement here, and thought about posting the same thing, but I decided not to because I didn’t think it was personal reason. That is, I’ve never had any personal relationship or dealing with gangsters. I just have enough common sense to know that people who commit murder and sell drugs wholesale, etc., are not people worthy of sympathy. The notion that they are is ridiculous to me, not for personal reasons but is just a matter of reason and common sense. Idolizing thugs is idiocy. So I didn’t post it.
I feel that several other entries in this thread fail the “personal” test as well.