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

[Kor]

I would say low-budget Sci-Fi (SyFy) Channel movies. And I can't think of any exceptions.

Kor

 

[TolkienOtaku]

Parody movies that do not have Mel Brooks involved just aren't worth it. Horror parody peaked with Young Frankenstein, Western parody with Blazing Saddles, etc.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

EVIL DEAD: The Musical. (Not an actual film yet.)

i can totally see Bruce Campbell trying that.

As an actual Broadway show.

 

[shapeshifter]

Romantic Musicals, except Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.

 

[auntiehill]

Romantic Musicals, except Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.

What about "Little Shop of Horrors?"

 

[shapeshifter]

Sweeny Todd replaced that one.

 

[JirinPanthosa]

I get that and stories/movies should provoke emotions but with horror movies i just don't see the payoff for a negative emotion. You mentioned Schindler's List which i consider one of the most important movie ever made and the sadness it creates is important to the theme of it.

We do empathize with the characters and what happens on the screen, with horror movies i just feel differently - it is shock for shock's sake and nothing more which leaves these movies empty for me with only the negative emotion left. With comedies on the other hand i at least got a positive emotion out of it and am perhaps in a better mood than before.

That’s why I can enjoy the kind of horror movie like Get Out and can’t stand most slashers. Movies that treat their entire cast like fodder.

When they treat their characters like human beings with value and tell emotional stories about people making difficult choices that explore human nature, they work much better. Then even if they all die in the end it actually feels relevant and earned.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I love westerns but the western is in a very strange place right now.Either it’s a “misery-lit” movie where there is nothing allowed but hardship,misogyny,racism and extreme violence(perhaps how the west really was-but who wants to watch that?)
Or these bizarre no-budget westerns that smack of scripted cosplay.

And anything that has this Trace Adkins guy in it...what the actual fuck??

Westerns are hard to do these days. You can't have fun westerns like the old ones on TV, because they're not "woke" enough.

And trying to make a woke Western is just...silly. Not quite as silly as, for example, John Legend's version of "Baby It's Cold Outside" (which is so woke it has insomnia) but close!

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

Musicals aren't really my thing either, except for URINETOWN (which I've seen three times) and of course COME FROM AWAY (six).

 

[flandry84]

I don’t know about the “woke” criticism.
Perhaps westerns are just considered slow and uninteresting.
Things don’t generally explode every five minutes and there are no car chases.
Modern movies are made for the generation of the 30 second attention span and are more akin to fairground rides than storytelling.

 

[JirinPanthosa]

CABIN IN THE WOODS.

(Sniff sniff)
“No, let’s split up. We’ll cover more ground that way.”