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

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

Kor

 

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.

 

i can totally see Bruce Campbell trying that.

As an actual Broadway show.

 

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

 

What about "Little Shop of Horrors?"

 

Sweeny Todd replaced that one.

 

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.

 

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

 

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.

 

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