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    Types Of Film You Find Unbearable

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    Last edited by Johnny Velvet; 05-11-2021, 12:17.

    #2
    Torture porn
    90% of biopics

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      #3
      Horror.

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        #4
        Horror for me, too. I utterly hate being startled, so almost the whole genre is unwatchable.

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          #5
          Musicals and comic book stuff

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            #6
            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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              #7
              If lack of realism is a deal breaker you're not going to have much left to watch, Rogin.

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                #8
                I don't like overly sadistic horror films, musicals, heartwarming dramas aimed at older people (anything with Bill Nighy in really), Studio Ghibli productions, Mike Leigh and car films.

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                  #9
                  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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                    #10
                    Crikey, that can't leave you with much to watch.

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                      #11
                      Anything longer than an hour.

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                        #12
                        Several Mike Leigh films have had me buffing my blunderbuss ("Mr. Parker! Has Mrs Parker not been taking the Anadin again?"), but not all of them. "Meantime" is fucking great.

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                          #13
                          Originally posted by 3 Colours Red View Post
                          I'm with EIM.
                          Well, as he hasn't yet posted on here, perhaps you could tell us what you agree with...

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                            #14
                            Originally posted by treibeis View Post
                            Several Mike Leigh films have had me buffing my blunderbuss...
                            Not in the sense that the inventory at "Waffen und Erotik" might do, I hope.

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                              #15
                              Originally posted by 3 Colours Red View Post
                              And fantasy films. Elves, wizards, orcs can all fuck off.
                              This.

                              Period dramas.
                              Also this, at least anything pre-WWI. Especially "prestige" productions.

                              Romcoms. Even the name sets my teeth on edge.
                              And this of course.

                              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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                                #16
                                Originally posted by Gangster Octopus View Post
                                Well, as he hasn't yet posted on here, perhaps you could tell us what you agree with...
                                The Mike Leigh/Ken Loach stuff Reg quoted in the OP.

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                                  #17
                                  Originally posted by Ginger Yellow View Post
                                  Crikey, that can't leave you with much to watch.
                                  I'm not a massive film buff to be fair.

                                  Originally posted by caja-dglh View Post
                                  Anything longer than an hour.
                                  Bloody hell, you wouldn't even watch Dumbo.

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                                    #18
                                    Originally posted by 3 Colours Red View Post
                                    The Mike Leigh/Ken Loach stuff Reg quoted in the OP.
                                    Crikey, I never even noticed that. My brain's getting worse...

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                                      #19
                                      Don't worry, you'll get used to it.

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                                        #20
                                        Used to what?

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                                          #21
                                          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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                                            #22
                                            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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                                              #23
                                              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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                                                #24
                                                Originally posted by 3 Colours Red View Post
                                                Bloody hell, you wouldn't even watch Dumbo.
                                                I really don't have any real interest for movies. I don't know exactly why - I suppose the same really applies to TV. As soon as it involves a season I am unlikely to be the driving force behind seeing it. 99% of viewing choices at home are made by Mrs dglh.

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                                                  #25
                                                  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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