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Any crime thing where the hero or heroine is "a cop who breaks the rules ... but delivers results". Any cop flaunting procedure in real life would get fired pretty quickly, and would never secure any convictions as they'd have contaminated or prejudiced the introduction of any evidence. Dirty Harry only got away with it because he wasn't the slightest bit interested in securing a conviction, he just wanted to blow the perp's head off.
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- Jan 2015
- 9700
- Wrexham... ish
- R. + R. McReynold's Travelling Circus, The Jurgen Klopp Farewell Tour XI, Page's Boys
- Ginger Nut
I'm with EIM.
Also, anything that could be construed or even misconstrued as glamourising criminal activity.
And fantasy films. Elves, wizards, orcs can all fuck off.
Period dramas.
Anything set in a dystopian future.
Romcoms. Even the name sets my teeth on edge.
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Originally posted by 3 Colours Red View PostAnd fantasy films. Elves, wizards, orcs can all fuck off.
Period dramas.
Romcoms. Even the name sets my teeth on edge.
Also broad comedies. Or any film that is sold primarily as a comedy, to be honest. I'm a right miserable bastard.
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Period dramas, particularly those prestige ones, I can't engage with at all. I think this is as much to do with marketing as genre, really. Most of them feel very conceptually narrow and blinkered, and I have no problem in general with historical drama per se. Also, almost all music biopics are rubbish and take you further away rather than Closer (so to speak) to the music.
There's several film genres I thought I didn't like but then watched some good ones and now do: Westerns and musical in particular. I find it hard to understand how people can't get at least some appreciation of either of those, as they're so thematically rich and formally inventive.
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Modern musicals.
'Hilarious' comedies that think relentless, unoriginal scat/anatomical jokes automatically make for a good script.
Biographical movies that f*ck around relentlessly with the facts to try and 'improve' the story.
And, yeah, romcoms.
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Horror. Proper suspense stuff like old Hitchcock, or Alien, or whatever, is great. But schlocky horror with obvious scare moments is not for me.
Any superhero stuff.
And fantasy.
I consider the two to be two sides of the same coin. Anything where people have magical powers annoys the crap out of me. It screams of lazy writing. How do I get my hero out of this predicament - give him magical powers. Oh, he's got too many magical powers, how can we make this exciting? Take away his magical powers temporarily. Bah. It's rubbish.
Mike Leigh and Ken Loach style dour seriousness.
Any of those ensemble pieces where lots of self-serious actors get into and out of relationships but not a lot of actual stuff happens.
Films about films, film-makers, Hollywood, making it in Hollywood. Either self-indulgent crap, or a sign of desperate laziness of writers and directors who can't imagine anything outside their own personal current experience.
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Originally posted by 3 Colours Red View PostBloody hell, you wouldn't even watch Dumbo.
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- Mar 2008
- 20822
- Black Country Green Belt
- Crusaders FC, Norn Iron, not forgetting Serendib
- Blueberry vodka Jaffa cake on marzipan base
All horror, most car chases, art-house set on up-country Swedish turnip farms etc.
And obviously biopics of bombastic 70s pop singers
(only joking on the last one)
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