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

[scotpens]

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.).

De gustibus non est disputandum, as they say.

I happen to think S.O.B. is one of the funniest movies ever made. Maybe it helps that I've lived in L.A. all my life, and just about everyone here is connected to "the industry" in one way or another.

Back on topic: I've also never been a fan of Italian neorealist cinema or British kitchen-sink drama. I watch movies to be entertained. Why would I want to see a film about people whose lives are even more miserable than my own?

 

[suarezguy]

Also very much not a fan of or enjoy musicals but I like a lot Grease, West Side Story and The Sound of Music.

 

[Vanyel]

Despite your aversion to Wayne films, I'd say RED RIVER and THE SEARCHERS hold up as Wayne's characters there can and do skirt the edge of villainy.

That being said, LIBERTY VALANCE's ''pilgrim'' count in the dialogue was at least 16 so it glazed me over somewhat.

Rio Bravo is my favorite John Wayne Western. I have mixed feelings on The Searchers. Artistically it accomplishes a lot the genre usually doesn’t go for. But the representation of Native Americans ages incredibly poorly.

My Dad was a big fan of Westerns. When I was a kid, we only had one TV with cable. Dad would watch a Western. I'd try to watch but would fall asleep during all of them.

 

[JirinPanthosa]

My Dad was a big fan of Westerns. When I was a kid, we only had one TV with cable. Dad would watch a Western. I'd try to watch but would fall asleep during all of them.

Now, Sergio Leone westerns I'm a huge fan of. I like the stylistic approach filled with personality and trickery more than the 'Legend of Americana' male bravado style favored by John Ford.

 

[scotpens]

I love Chaplin's physical antics. I like the Marx Brothers in DUCK SOUP at least. But I hate THE THREE STOOGES altogether because the Nazi-like Moe character predictably spoils it all for me.

I could never stand The Three Stooges. Never, never thought they were funny. When I was a kid of 6 or 7, one of those weekday afternoon local kiddie TV hosts -- I think it was Sheriff John -- had Three Stooges shorts as part of his show. The minute the Columbia torch lady came on the screen accompanied by that "Three Blind Mice" theme music, I couldn't change the channel fast enough. I'd watch something else for the next 15 minutes or so. I effing hated The Three Stooges.

The real-life history of their lives and careers is ten times more entertaining than any of the nearly 200 shorts and handful of feature films they made.

 

[auntiehill]

I could never stand The Three Stooges. Never, never thought they were funny. When I was a kid of 6 or 7, one of those weekday afternoon local kiddie TV hosts -- I think it was Sheriff John -- had Three Stooges shorts as part of his show. The minute the Columbia torch lady came on the screen accompanied by that "Three Blind Mice" theme music, I couldn't change the channel fast enough. I'd watch something else for the next 15 minutes or so. I effing hated The Three Stooges.

The real-life history of their lives and careers is ten times more entertaining than any of the nearly 200 shorts and handful of feature films they made.

I never liked The Stooges , either. When I was a kid, weekend TV featured the Three Stooges on one channel or Abbott and Costello on another. I always gravitated toward Abbott & Costello, or The Marx Brothers. The wordplay and timing was far more appealing to me than mere "slapstick" humor.

 

[flandry84]

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??

 

[Vger23]

I know this is an EXTREMELY unpopular opinion, but my #1 Is superhero/comic book movies. I have absolutely no use for 95% of them.

Exception: Christopher Nolan Batman movies

#2 is gangster movies (yes, even The Godfather series)

Exception: The Departed

 

[flandry84]

I wish they still made private eye movies.And not the high-tech surveillance type but the good old fashioned gumshoe.

 

[Vger23]

Faire enough. Genres can overdose on tropes. But do you have one or more preferred genres?

Definitely anything sci-fi or supernatural.

I'm a sucker for war movies, spy/action/thriller movies as well.

 

[maneth]

I generally don't like either romantic comedies or drama where the focus is on the romance, but that doesn't stop me enjoying Pretty Woman or Dirty Dancing.

I don't generally like horror much, but that doesn't stop me from enjoying Alien or The Thing (1982), and I'm a fan of Peter Jackson's early movies like Bad Taste, although Braindead was a bit much for me, I must admit.

 

[Mojochi]

Agreed. Romantic Comedies and romance movies in general. Sitting on my ass for two hours just to watch Mister Perfect and Miss Perfect agonize over loving each other leaves me annoyed and bored.

The greatest romance movie of all time imho is The Fisher King, which is probably not even widely regarded AS a romance movie. However, it's not only got 2 loves stories, but a bromance, & bloody Oscar worthy performances everywhere you can focus your eyes.

As for a genre I could nearly do away with entirely, I'd say horror of any kind. It just does nothing for me. I almost have adverse reactions to everything they do, than what's intended, & usually end up just laughing in all the wrong places... with the notable exception of, for the purely genius filmmaking aspect, The Shining

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Normally I hate horror movies, but my one exception would probably be the original Hellraiser simply because 1) Pinhead is cool, and 2) the Cenobites generally don't harm innocent people, i.e. they don't mess with anyone who hasn't explicitly summoned them (except for the bar room massacre in Hellraiser III but that was Pinhead going off script, as it were).

I also hate zombie movies. I have NO exception to that rule. Although I am quite fond of the book - THE BOOK, I SAID - World War Z.

 

[Mojochi]

This is probably able to be lumped in with my disdain for horror too, but particularly... I can barely stomach anything with vampires. I think as a fun movie I could probably exempt Buffy. I mean it's got Paul Rubens, Donald Sutherland & Rutger Hauer. That alone is enough to forgive just about anything.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Daybreakers was the only vampire movie I ever really cared for, and that was because it dared to actually do something different with vampire lore (takes place in a world where pretty much everyone is a vampire - turns out it's not such a different world from our own).

 

[Mojochi]

Daybreakers was the only vampire movie I ever really cared for, and that was because it dared to actually do something different with vampire lore (takes place in a world where pretty much everyone is a vampire - turns out it's not such a different world from our own).

I'll give it credit for being an original take, basically treating it like it was a pandemic instead of some mythical what-have-you, but I'm not much fond of Ethan Hawke, & it wasn't enough to win me over

 

[FPAlpha]

Horror movies, especially the slasher genre

Why would i intentionally provoke a negative emotional reaction within myself? Exception are horror comedies such as Shaun of the Dead, Zombieland and the like which i find hilarious.

 

[Mojochi]

Why would i intentionally provoke a negative emotional reaction within myself?

If you think about it, cinema is a medium designed to engage audiences in the full spectrum of emotion. Whole movies have been made & well received, for which the purpose is to make the audience experience unpleasant emotions in a safe, controlled environment, not just fear or fright, but heart wrenching sadness like Schindler's List, high stakes tension like The Fugitive, vitriolic anger like American History X, etc...

At this point, it's fair to say that whatever emotion the human animal is capable of, there's likely been a successful movie that explores it, gets the viewer to identify with it, & even genuinely experience it.
the whole point of movies is it's the rollercoaster you can do from your couch. My problem with horror is that for me, they mostly do a shitty job of it, where I never get there. In my lifetime, I'd say Misery got me there & was maybe the only one that ever did, & much of that is solely due to an outstanding acting performance

 

[FPAlpha]

If you think about it, cinema is a medium designed to engage audiences in the full spectrum of emotion. Whole movies have been made & well received, for which the purpose is to make the audience experience unpleasant emotions in a safe, controlled environment, not just fear or fright, but heart wrenching sadness like Schindler's List, high stakes tension like The Fugitive, vitriolic anger like American History X, etc...

At this point, it's fair to say that whatever emotion the human animal is capable of, there's likely been a successful movie that explores it, gets the viewer to identify with it, & even genuinely experience it.
the whole point of movies is it's the rollercoaster you can do from your couch. My problem with horror is that for me, they mostly do a shitty job of it, where I never get there. In my lifetime, I'd say Misery got me there & was maybe the only one that ever did, & much of that is solely due to an outstanding acting performance

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.

 

[WarpTenLizard]

I find most "Romantic Comedies" to be neither. But "Annie Hall" was a pretty interesting movie. (If you can get past Woody Allen's real life issues.)