What types of movies will you not watch given a choice at all?

Started by merithyn, March 28, 2022, 09:03:23 PM

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Quote from: Oexmelin on March 29, 2022, 05:18:23 AMAdam Sandler movies. And other comedies.

I'm with you on his comedies, but Adam Sandler is a superb actor on his serious drama films.  :sleep:
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Quote from: Malthus on March 29, 2022, 06:53:16 AMSo I guess the Languish least-favoured movie would be *The Human Centipede* - but it's a romantic comedy? 😉


The Human Centipede gave us this work of art, so I'm fine with it:

The medievals were only too right in taking nolo episcopari as the best reason a man could give to others for making him a bishop. Give me a king whose chief interest in life is stamps, railways, or race-horses; and who has the power to sack his Vizier (or whatever you care to call him) if he does not like the cut of his trousers.

Government is an abstract noun meaning the art and process of governing and it should be an offence to write it with a capital G or so as to refer to people.

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merithyn

Okay, add cringe comedies in with stupid comedies.

I hate comedies - or any movie - where there's a butt of jokes that's a major story line. Like BB, it just makes me uncomfortable and isn't funny at all.
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Quote from: Habbaku on March 29, 2022, 03:47:21 PM
Quote from: Malthus on March 29, 2022, 06:53:16 AMSo I guess the Languish least-favoured movie would be *The Human Centipede* - but it's a romantic comedy? 😉


The Human Centipede gave us this work of art, so I'm fine with it:


You might say that this clip *is* a romantic comedy based on Human Centipede ...

 :D 
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I don't watch movies based on books I likke unless I see reviews stating that the movie follows the book.

I don't watch movies based on book series (and don't read book series for the most part).

Don't care for shock horror or gore horror, but slow-building horror is good.  The best horror movie ever done, IMO, was The Haunting and you never actually saw anything scary (but it was scary as shit).

I agree that comedy that is just mockery is usually unfunny, except in special circumstances like the first Borat movie.  ROMCOMs can be good, but there, again, I will wait for the review.

I'll watch pretty much any movie directed by Clint Eastwood or Ron Howard.
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Quote from: The Larch on March 29, 2022, 01:12:42 PM
Quote from: Barrister on March 29, 2022, 12:51:16 PMAnd though it's more a tv genre than movies - but cringe comedies, ala The Office and the like.  Just makes me feel uncomfortable, not humorous.

I also can't handle cringe humour, the reason why I've never been able to get into The Office. Even if it might be more common in TV than in the cinema, you still have almost anything by Sacha Baron Cohen, that I can't watch either else I die of sheer cringe.

Yeah Sacha Baron Cohen stuff.....can't stand it.

and speaking of The Office...really anything with Ricky Gervais. I can't stand him.
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Centipede means a unit of 50 Roman soldiers. Ignorant swine.
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I usually won't watch horror movies... not because I find them scary, but because they are almost always total trash these days.  I love a lot of the classic horror films, like The Exorcist, The Shining, The Thing, The Fly (not sure why they all have 'The' in the title  :hmm: )
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Period dramas that really wish they were Game of Thrones. Now that is some cringey shit.
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Quote from: Valmy on March 30, 2022, 09:57:24 PMPeriod dramas that really wish they were Game of Thrones. Now that is some cringey shit.


It depends how they want to be got I'd say. Gritty and plotty could work. I've got a few of those on my list to watch someday. Quite a lot of foreign stuff on Netflix that seem interesting.
On the other hand the tudors style "look, the King is having sex whilst he talks about his plan!" then no thanks.
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Malthus

Quote from: The Brain on March 30, 2022, 06:18:49 AMCentipede means a unit of 50 Roman soldiers. Ignorant swine.

The hard part is getting 50 fully armed Romans to agree to be sewn mouth to ass ...  :ph34r:
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Quote from: Josephus on March 30, 2022, 06:12:13 AM
Quote from: The Larch on March 29, 2022, 01:12:42 PM
Quote from: Barrister on March 29, 2022, 12:51:16 PMAnd though it's more a tv genre than movies - but cringe comedies, ala The Office and the like.  Just makes me feel uncomfortable, not humorous.

I also can't handle cringe humour, the reason why I've never been able to get into The Office. Even if it might be more common in TV than in the cinema, you still have almost anything by Sacha Baron Cohen, that I can't watch either else I die of sheer cringe.

Yeah Sacha Baron Cohen stuff.....can't stand it.

and speaking of The Office...really anything with Ricky Gervais. I can't stand him.

I know I started off the 'no cringe humour' thing, but I thought Borat was really damn funny.  The naked wrestling scene had me laughing uncontrollably.
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