Your least favorite film genre (with an exception to your rule)

[scotpens]

Generally I don't like Westerns. Never been a fan of horse operas. The exception is High Noon, which tackled political and social issues that transcend the genre.

Horror films. Watching teenagers get slaughtered, who cares?

You're describing a more recent subgenre of horror known as "slasher films." What about the classic Universal horror flicks of the 1930s and '40s, or the Hammer films of the 1960s and '70s?

I personally wouldn't class "A Fish Called Wanda" as a screwball comedy, for me the first film that comes to mind from that type of film would be "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.

When I hear "screwball comedy," the first picture that comes to mind is Howard Hawks' 1937 classic Bringing Up Baby. Second is Peter Bogdanovich's What's Up, Doc? (1972).

 

[JirinPanthosa]

You're describing a more recent subgenre of horror known as "slasher films." What about the classic Universal horror flicks of the 1930s and '40s, or the Hammer films of the 1960s and '70s?

Those ones play more like adventure films because they worked around their technical limitations with better creativity. I like them more than the slasher ones but they still had problems making the death scenes anything but the victim inexplicably standing still and screaming instead of taking evasive action.

 

[Turd Ferguson]

I'm usually not a big fan of westerns, but I really love Young Guns II and enjoy The Magnificent Seven with Denzel Washington and Django Unchained.

I really don't like romantic comedies, but I love The Invention of Lying

 

[gblews]

Those ones play more like adventure films because they worked around their technical limitations with better creativity. I like them more than the slasher ones but they still had problems making the death scenes anything but the victim inexplicably standing still and screaming instead of taking evasive action.

Well, it you compare the Universal movies to today’s horror movies, they might seem, like “adventure films,” but the Universal movies were definitely horror films. It may not seem that way to younger viewers, but The Wolfman, Dracula, , Frankenstein’s monster, the Mummy, were scary as hell in the 30’s, 40’s, 50’s, and beyond.

Tou have to consider those movies in the context of the times in which they were released.

 

[gblews]

Probably my least favorite genre is melograma’s with a romance as it’’s central theme. Movies like Gone With the Wind, Dr. Zhivago, are eye rollers, to me.

Hope this doesn’t offend anyone, but I seem to only like rom—coms when they are presented from a male character’s viewpoint. Not exactly sure why. Some of my favs are Swingers, When Harry Met Sally (of course), 40 Year Olf Virgin.

But I try to keep an open mind, I really liked Bridesmaids.

 

[somebuddyX]

Slasher films but I like Scream 1 and a lot of 2.
Musicals but I like Disney animated films from the 90s like Aladdin and even live action Aladdin.
Horror films like about zombies and vampires and all that stuff but I watched a lot of seasons of Buffy and Supernatural and Freaks of Nature is one of the best films I watched this year.
Fantasy that's not grounded like Lord of the Rings.

 

[Tosk]

I don't like dance movies. But I do like Footloose. Even the underrated remake.

I also don't like sports movies for the most part. But I love A League of Their Own. (I say for the most part because I also like The Karate Kid, Rocky, and a handful of others.)

 

[C.E. Evans]

I don't like comedies. They're either too low-brow and go too far, or too high-brow and don't go far enough for me. Others still fall somewhere in-between and don't go anywhere, IMO. I don't have a single comedy in my movie collection, and it's the category I quickly skip past on my streaming services.

That being said, I did like Time Bandits, a sci-fi adventure in which the humor flowed naturally from its intentionally off-the-wall characters and their situations.

 

[the G-man]

I could probably say either horror films or romantic comedies because so many of them are just terrible.

If I chose horror, the exception would be something like "the Exorcist" or "Silence of the Lambs" and for RomComs probably either "the Wedding Singer" or "Four Weddings and a Funeral."

 

[the G-man]

I don't like dance movies. But I do like Footloose. Even the underrated remake.

Musicals. Another genre I'm not fond of, though I really like Rocky Horror.

 

[Tosk]

I don't mind musicals, but usually only the slightly goofier stuff like Walk Hard, Blues Brothers, Josie and the Pussycats, Little Shop of Horrors, Labyrinth, Willy Wonka, and some of the Disney animated movies.

 

[Smellmet]

Musicals. I despise them. Exception to my rule however is Rocketman.

 

[Malicia]

I don't mind violence in films but not wanton violence and torture in films like Natural Born Killers and Saw. I can't watch films like that that. Not keen on horror films but can watch them if they have a good screenplay like Flatliners and The Sixth Sense. An exception would be Monster because of the performance by Charlize Theron and that it's based on a true story.

 

[dupersuper]

I don't mind violence in films but not wanton violence and torture in films like Natural Born Killers and Saw. I can't watch films like that that. Not keen on horror films but can watch them if they have a good screenplay like Flatliners and The Sixth Sense. An exception would be Monster because of the performance by Charlize Theron and that it's based on a true story.

Being "based on a true story" has always been a big strike against a horror movie for me. If it's a true crime type thriller I have no more interest than I would in voyeuristically wallowing in a true crime podcast, if it's a supernatural horror film saying it's based on a "real" haunting or exorcism or some such it just elicits an eye roll from me.

 

[Malicia]

Monster is more of a crime drama genre than horror but it's still a bit too violent for me and I only watched it because my ex liked it. Same with films like The Ring and Ginger Snaps that I would never watch given the choice.

 

[Timewalker]

The best romantic comedy I've ever seen is The Goodbye Girl. I stumbled across it on TV one afternoon and stuck with it because I was too lazy to change the channel anymore. I was surprisingly well entertained.

I saw The Goodbye Girl in the theatre. It was part of a double feature, following after Oh, God!

I remember being excited about the Oscars for the first time in 1978, because that was the first time I had actually seen most of the movies that were nominated.

Generally not real fond of spoofs, at least or especially when I like the movies being made fun of, Scary Movie and Spaceballs and (if it counts) Young Frankenstein are big exceptions.

Sometimes I'll watch reaction videos on YouTube, and I was utterly mindcroggled at the woman who decided to do a reaction video for The Ten Commandments. She'd never seen it, but had heard just enough to be confused as to whether "Charles Heston" had played Moses or Pharaoh.

Anyway, my own view of that movie is that I find it funnier every time I watch it, because as the movie progresses, Heston's scenery-chewing gets more and more over the top.

There's a movie that spoofs The Ten Commandments: Wholly Moses!, starring Dudley Moore.

 

[Mage]

Romantic comedies are the worst, and I don't like horror.

However, Four Weddings and a Funeral and Notting Hill are both brilliant. And I hate Hugh Grant as well.

Horror is something I despise because the over-use of gore as a gimmick is just dumb. Alien is a movie I consider a classic horror movie that I love. There is gore, but not as much as some movie, and the actual horror element comes from the movie itself, not guts and blood everywhere.

 

[Malicia]

I've never watched NBK but have seen snippets. The subject matter churns my stomach but I love Juliette (who doesn't?) and Woody (who doesn't?). National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation or Kingpin is my cup of tea.

 

[scotpens]

I don't like comedies. They're either too low-brow and go too far, or too high-brow and don't go far enough for me.

Really? You don't like Charlie Chaplin or the Marx Brothers? Or classic comedies like Bringing Up Baby or Some Like It Hot or A Hard Day's Night (which I've always regarded as a comedy first and a rock-'n'-roll movie second)? Or a biting satire like Blake Edwards' S.O.B.?

Musicals. I despise them. Exception to my rule however is Rocketman.

Musicals? Hell, I practically cut my baby teeth on them. Of course, I'm talking about old-school Broadway-to-Hollywood musicals like The Pajama Game, Damn Yankees, Daddy Long Legs, Bells Are Ringing, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, Sweet Charity, Fiddler on the Roof, Cabaret. I've never understood how anyone can categorically say they dislike musicals. How can you not appreciate the talent of someone like Bob Fosse?

 

[C.E. Evans]

Really? You don't like Charlie Chaplin or the Marx Brothers? Or classic comedies like Bringing Up Baby or Some Like It Hot or A Hard Day's Night (which I've always regarded as a comedy first and a rock-'n'-roll movie second)? Or a biting satire like Blake Edwards' S.O.B.?

No to all. Do they have their occasional moments for me? Sure. But overall, they bore me (I never once made it through S.O.B.). I actually find more stuff funny in action movies with stuff that wasn't meant to be funny.