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

[mongers]

For me, any really high quality film should be able to transend the limits my bias against the various genres I don't like.

[Sheilbh]

One of the good things about horror is that the movies are often 80-90 minutes.

Yes. I love horror personally.

I'm not sure there's a genre I dislike enough to avoid. I don't rush to go and see Marvel or get super-excited by them, they're very much films I'll watch on a plane or when they pop up on a streamer especially with the later films (I also wonder if Ukraine might reduce the appetite for films that routinely level urban environments at the climax).

I tend to be pretty picky with comedies. Because there's nothing worse than sitting for two hours watching a comedy you don't find funny

[Oexmelin]

Adam Sandler movies. And other comedies.

I usually avoid sports movies. I often like horror but not the overtly gory type, which I try to avoid.

[The Larch]

I'm fine with horror movies based on atmosphere and tension, your classic gothic kind of stories with haunted houses ghosts and monsters and the like. I'm not fine with horror movies of the slasher kind, based more on mass murders, gore and violence.

I also have a very low tolerance for cringe or gross-out humour.

[Josephus]

I've never watched a Marvel Comic movie. Never will.

But also, Roma. Remember that academy award winner from a few years back?

[Sheilbh]

I usually avoid sports movies. I often like horror but not the overtly gory type, which I try to avoid.

Yes - I agree. I love horror as a genre and that can include gore to a level. Texas Chainsaw Massacre is a film I like a lot (and Men, Women and Chainsaws was probably the first book of criticism/theory I ever read). But I have no interest in torture porn films like the Saw or Eli Roth franchises.

[garbon]

I usually avoid sports movies. I often like horror but not the overtly gory type, which I try to avoid.

Yes - I agree. I love horror as a genre and that can include gore to a level. Texas Chainsaw Massacre is a film I like a lot (and Men, Women and Chainsaws was probably the first book of criticism/theory I ever read). But I have no interest in torture porn films like the Saw or Eli Roth franchises.

Yeah with the torture type I'm like I can just look at the news if I want to despair about humanity. I don't really need fictional takes.

[Malthus]

So I guess the Languish least-favoured movie would be *The Human Centipede* - but it's a romantic comedy? 😉

[Sheilbh]

Oh now I'm interested. Would 100% watch Nora Ephron's Human Centipede.

[Duque de Bragança]

So I guess the Languish least-favoured movie would be *The Human Centipede* - but it's a romantic comedy? 😉

Nah, The Human Centipede sequels. 

[Oexmelin]

Men, Women and Chainsaws was probably the first book of criticism/theory I ever read

  I love Carol Clover. Read her first in grad school as a specialist of medieval Scandinavia. Discovered only later that she also wrote about horror movies.

[Barrister]

I won't say never to any specific genre of movie.

But yeah - horror.  Not really my bag, generally speaking.  Not something I'll seek out.

And 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.

[Eddie Teach]

I'm at a loss for sitcoms that don't get the bulk of their humor at a character's expense.

[The Larch]

And 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.

[celedhring]

Cringe humor I can watch (heck, I love the first Borat), but not in a theater. I need to be able to stop it and resume later to recover from cringe overload.