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What Types of Movies Do You Avoid? Why?
I avoid movies with 'doomed' protagonists. You know they're going to die and that it's going to be devastating. I remember avoiding movies about gangs or wars because they always had that one really painful death, usually someone really young, someone who didn't deserve it, or someone who was trying to get out of a dangerous life or situation (such as Carlito's Way).
A few days ago I watched two movies with sort of 'doomed' characters and I loved one (In Bruges) and really liked the other (Pride and Glory). I'm catching up with Colin Farrell movies. Speaking of which, Cassandra's Dream was such a roller-coaster in this regard. I also avoid sexually graphic movies unless I'm super interested in the story. |
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Hmmm, I guess my genre of film that I avoid would be Fantasy. They've never interested me--except maybe the Harry Potter series but that is more from the love of the books.
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I very dislike movies that have to do with war, gangs, drugs, partying, mythical creatures, talking animals, and romance.
Also spoof movies. |
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Yes, the movies I avoid is anything dealing with a rape and murder of a child. I can't stand watching those!!!! However, considering how Peter Jackson was so sensitive how he handled that in "The Lovely Bones" I will at least see that.
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i try and avoid romance...and romantic comedies...but some of them are okay
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Superhero movies. I did enjoy the first two Christopher Reeve "Superman's" and the first "Batman" with Michael Keaton back in the 80's, but now there are way too many of these types of movies being made.
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Zombie horror movies, they freak me out and take me back to being a little girl hiding from the movie. Any other horror movie doesn't bother me, but zombie just send a shiver up my spine.
I try to stay away from series that go past three movies. They are usually stale, badly put together, and start to ruin the original talent that was there in the first place. It's just another series ruin because Hollywood had to suck the cow dry. Movies that change or completely rewrite history like Pearl Harbor. They made that movie too long, and used the characters in a mission (where everyone got home alive and those men were never at Pearl Harbor) so they could wrap their love triangle up in a little bow. To me the end of that movie is when FDR gives his speech and everything is up in the air and unknown like it was back then. I hate movies where they force endings into these neat little packages. __________________
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Pearl Harbor only works as a fantasy movie.
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Ditto RS: I have this inner debate on if I should see it or not.....
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Gore movies. I like classic horror. Hitchcock and the actual scary movies, as well as some spoof horror, but I don't like the torture and gore flicks like Saw and Hostel and most of the new horror movies. There's nothing really scary about them, just buckets of blood and body parts without a story line. I won't watch them.
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I love the scary movies that you saw the killing happen off screen and you only saw the shadows. Or when there was the buildup and then pop out at you unexpected. Blood and gore isn't scary it mainly disgusting, I haven't seen a truly scary movie in a while. __________________
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Also, I don't really like Bollywood films.. or war/army movies (but it depends on who's in it). |
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I don´t like scary movies
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I usually don't watch movies that are too big hits in the cinemas (like Avatar, LOTR,...). I'm strange, I know.
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