Subject matter which makes you skip a film or show

[Kegg]

There are like nine billion terrible comedies released by the United States every year. I see the trailers for these movies all the time - romantic comedies, frat comedies, some stupid stuff with some SNL alumnus or something that looks about as fun as having my innards eaten by buzzards. As I rule I don't watch these movies, though I typically am ambushed by their trailers. There's some movie coming out with Steve Carrell and Tina Fey, right? Judging from the trailer whoever put together that screenplay probably should do prison time.

Most romantic films in general also. Bores me - if your romance isn't twisted in some way it is not likely to hold my interest.

On TV, everything. I watch one or two shows, typically sitcoms (your four-camera deal and/or a Simpsons-esque cartoon, like the Simpsons), sci-fi, maybe something smart people rave about, but that's basically it. No reality shows, no cop shows, no Joss Whedon, whatever (alright I was forced to watch Firefly it wasn't bad.)

2. mafia or crime/police drama

So I suppose you've never watched Godfather films, The Sopranos, Homicide: LOTS, Prime Suspect, Cracker, The Wire,or The Shield, to name just a few?

I've never even heard of Prime Suspect or Cracker and aside from those movies what with Al Pacino in them I haven't seen a thing on that list (I mean to get around to The Wire, but that's it)... and I'm not even against mafia or crime dramas; while cop shows tend to bore me* but I like mafia stories. Go figure.

*Dexter is the glorious exception, of course.

 

[The Sneeze Police]

I am usually willing to go see anything that my husband is anxious to see.

The hardest genre sells:

Mafia/gangster movies. I have no plan to watch The Godfather movies apart the bits I have already seen on TV.

Slasher movies. I like a well made horror movie, though.

I personally prefer sci-fi & rom-coms...but even so I usually wait for DVD. Other than Star Trek, I am not sure I saw anything else in a movie theater this year.

 

[Harvey]

It's hard to sell a poorly reviewed romantic comedy with a painfully formulaic advertising campaign on me. There's much better ways to spend my time.

But, other than that, I try to keep an open-mind.

 

[The Borgified Corpse]

"Torture porn." Saw, Hostel, etc.

Zombies. They have no personality and usually the other characters in them don't have any either. I've seen a few decent ones, like Army of Darkness, Shaun of the Dead, & the Dawn of the Dead remake. But on the whole, I think they're boring as hell. Night of the Living Dead was only made bearable by a Mike Nelson commentary track.

Horror movies that don't also overlap with another genre, like horror-action (Aliens) or horror-comedy (Army of Darkness, Scream).

Eye gouging. This restriction even sadly eliminates some classics, like King Lear & Oedipus Rex. Still, I just can't stand it.

Comedies where the ONLY goal is to get drunk & get laid. They're both very worthy goals but a character loses all my sympathy when there seems to be absolutely NOTHING more to his personality. (I'm looking at you, Superbad & I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell.)

 

[Nathan_Heller]

Angst-driven, crybaby vampires. I never believed those types could ever survive for centuries.

 

[zakkrusz]

My turn offs are:

1. Live action horror movies and slasher flicks (unless it's a multi-genre piece)
2. Movies filmed with the "hand-held cameras" look EX Blair Witch Project
3. Things on Lifetime or other similar spinoff networks for women
4. Any of that "Reality" TV garbage
5. Raunchy comedies and stoner comedy
6. Live action childrens' programing
7. Animated childrens' programing
8. Sitcoms
9. Game shows
10. Movies about sports
11. End of the world disaster films
12. Lolicon (most will probably not know what this is and are better off)
13. Christmas movies
14. Religious programming
15. Disney (Unless it's one of the companies they ate like Dreamworks and Marvel or an exception like the Pirates of the Caribbean flicks.)

 

[MeanJoePhaser]

Juliette Lewis - though, she is proof that a woman make it Hollywood without being remotely attractive.

Eddie Murphy - I bailed on him with Dr. Doolittle or was it Bowfinger, no...it was I, Spy.

Dog movies - Marley and Me, K9, Turner and Hooch, Beethoven, any movie with Juliette Lewis

Rosie O'Donnell

Oprah

Anything Chevy Chase made after 1990

Tom Green

 

[barnaclelapse]

Anything involving that horrible Star Trek bullshit.

I mean, spaceships? What the fuck?