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What kind of movies do you refuse to watch?
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Now that's very difficult to answer as I have watched films that I would never ever watch again, like Jaws, diabolically poor special effects but usually if I watch an advert, it either looks good or not, that's when I make a choice, however unless my friend treats me, I don't go to the cinema and wait until its on tv. And there is no way I could name and shame any.
I suppose there is a genre of films I wouldn't watch like war films, foreign films but like I said, if I see an advert for a film and it looks good, the genre is irrelevent |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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any film where i have read the book first.
never matches what you see in your minds eye whilst reading the book.
funnily enough "Jaws" for me is a classic example, thought the book was good but the film was shite |
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By *emmefatale OP Woman
over a year ago
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"any film where i have read the book first.
never matches what you see in your minds eye whilst reading the book.
funnily enough "Jaws" for me is a classic example, thought the book was good but the film was shite"
Given the fact that they struggled for funding and how we are so used to CGI effects now it has to remain a classic...Robert Shaw was fab and they wrote the script as they went, it changed filming techniques as well...it just hasnt aged well  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Usually comedies because I never find them funny.
Miserable old sod me you dont find ANY comedy funny?  
Im struggling to name one....told ya miserable old bugger "
surely u found Planes,Trains and Automobiles a little bit funny |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"anything with Jean Claude van Damme, Steven Seagull or Sylvester Stallone... and just cos!!! x"
Won't be seeing you in the Expendables 2 queue then with both JCVD and Sly in it?!!! |
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By *ezebelWoman
over a year ago
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"Usually comedies because I never find them funny.
Miserable old sod me you dont find ANY comedy funny?
Im struggling to name one....told ya miserable old bugger surely u found Planes,Trains and Automobiles a little bit funny "
Nope  |
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By *mumaWoman
over a year ago
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"anything with Jean Claude van Damme, Steven Seagull or Sylvester Stallone... and just cos!!! x
Won't be seeing you in the Expendables 2 queue then with both JCVD and Sly in it?!!! "
errrrr..... NAW!!!  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Splatter horror. Gross-out "comedies". And any depressing stuff - if I want misery, I'll switch on the BBC News for free. I go to the movies to be entertained, not traumatised. |
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romantic tripe
cos im a cold mercenary bitch.
And to prove it, its my anniversary today....2 years since i jibbed my ex off
(12 and half years and 4 kids later)
sent him a "happy anniversary" text today  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"chick flicks,harry potter and anything with either steve martin or jim carey in them although i confess to liking plains, trains and automobiles"
oh yeah.... jim carey... cant stand the feckin idiot.. just not funny
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By *eavenNhellCouple
over a year ago
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"chick flicks,harry potter and anything with either steve martin or jim carey in them although i confess to liking plains, trains and automobiles
oh yeah.... jim carey... cant stand the feckin idiot.. just not funny
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the same film and script crap oh well mr carey can always gurn at the camera as usual |
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Obviously chick flicks. I love comedies but stay away from utter toilet humour. And I love horror movies that truly scare but not the torture porn type that is simply graphic gory violence for graphic gory violence's sake. It's not scary, its just sick. |
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"Kate loves Sci-fi and fantasy but I hate it. She made me take her to the flicks, three fookin' times, to see the "Rings" trilogy.
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I was off sick for three months. My daughter, to " cheer me up" decided to spend her time entertaining me. She didn't go to uni on Tuesdays so it was movie day.
I was a captive audience...the Ring Trilogy, Harry Potter...then she read to me Terry Pratchet...I was ready for Dr Kervorkian.  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Can't stand romantic comedies or chick flicks they are just so dull and manupulative.
Won't watch anything by James Cameron, overblown, overlong, insulting shite.
Won't watch any film by Richard Curtis... do I really have to explain that one? 
Avoid most American comedy because it's just so... urgh... purile.
Not into anything overly-macho unless it's either tongue in cheek, or has some really good fighting choreography (I like a good punch up in a film  )
Avoid chinese comedies, they are usually very childish and slapstick.
Avoid french comedy - don't like farce it's irritates me!
Old fashioned Westerns and War films are horribly dull... so are most modern ones wih the odd exception.
Avoid Russian film mostly... soooooo depressing lol!
Avoid 'most' of the Hollywwod big budget stuff..most of the time it's all 'style over substance' and any message they feel the need to convey ... and boy do they feel the need, is usually what most of new by the time we were 5
...If I think of anything else I'll pop back |
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"any film where i have read the book first.
never matches what you see in your minds eye whilst reading the book.
funnily enough "Jaws" for me is a classic example, thought the book was good but the film was shite"
Ooh someone else I agree with.
Read Silence of the Lambs and couldn't wait to see the film...oh...dear. |
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Im not very good with films. They have to be pretty easy for me to watch. I like the good films like inn of the sixth happiness, the pianist, the boy in the striped pjamas, ect. I do like chick flicks(some)
Did watch a really good one last week called the history of violence |
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"anything with Jean Claude van Damme, Steven Seagull or Sylvester Stallone... and just cos!!! x"
OMG!!! Add Vin Diesel and you've got my favourite combination.  I've seen all their films so many times I'm in them. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Did watch a really good one last week called the history of violence"
I was a teeny bit disappointed in that one, but it got so hyped up I was probably expecting way too much. Can't fault Viggo though ...yum |
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Did watch a really good one last week called the history of violence
I was a teeny bit disappointed in that one, but it got so hyped up I was probably expecting way too much. Can't fault Viggo though ...yum "
Think i enjoyed it as i didnt know anything about it, only what id read on the cover and was pleasantly surprised |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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" Hugh Grant in makes me puke. "
Agreed, the only film I ever saw him play against type was 'An awfully Big Adventure' ... and he called a cunt in it lol!  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Once watched a film called "the butterfly and the diving bell" it was a true story about an unfortunate french chap. It was all in sub-titles and I thought it was going to be shit. I only watched it after reading an article about the guy in question and how he wrote it. It was a shit but amazing film in one go if that makes sense. Worth a look if you like inspiring true stories. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Not keen on horror films and extreme violence.
Fluffy mindless chick flicks bother me sometimes.
Those teeny bopper films with pretty boys and girls.
Etc. etc...
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By *emmefatale OP Woman
over a year ago
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I just dislike" airy fairy you dont need a brain to watch this" kinda movies, the type that every twist n turn of the plot if there is one is thrown in ya face cause the director thinks that the audience is too bloody stooopid to get it |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Subtitled movies!
Cos i get about halfway thru a sentence and someone else speaks! Plus im that busy reading i miss the feckin film! "
oh no? Really? That's a shame because you're actually missing out on some cracking films! I recently watched "Headhunters", a danish film that is a real joy to watch, an intelligent, smart and classy thriller  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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refuse to watch war films- anything about ww1 or ww2 cos its just proper miserable and negative. There is enough war going on in real life why watch movie about it. Also avoid shite movies and woman-flics (eg mama mia etc). |
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By *emmefatale OP Woman
over a year ago
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"refuse to watch war films- anything about ww1 or ww2 cos its just proper miserable and negative. There is enough war going on in real life why watch movie about it. Also avoid shite movies and woman-flics (eg mama mia etc)."
so what constitutes a shite movie then?
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"refuse to watch war films- anything about ww1 or ww2 cos its just proper miserable and negative. There is enough war going on in real life why watch movie about it. Also avoid shite movies and woman-flics (eg mama mia etc).so what constitutes a shite movie then?"
Not many people, including myself, are into scat....  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Subtitled movies!
Cos i get about halfway thru a sentence and someone else speaks! Plus im that busy reading i miss the feckin film! oh no? Really? That's a shame because you're actually missing out on some cracking films! I recently watched "Headhunters", a danish film that is a real joy to watch, an intelligent, smart and classy thriller I concur!! The Danes have done some crackers! As have Brazil, Japan , Argentina etc....i feel they lack something when they are remade by Hollywood, well for me anyway very true, especially in the case of stuff like REC and i fear for the "Oldboy" remake but i thought the girl with the dragon tattoo remake was superior because it didn't omit as much as the originalI havent seen the latter yet, but i did find that the remakes of the Japanese Horrors lack the subtlety that makes then great when Hollywood mauls them...im not anti Hollywood at all but some stuff they just murder "
Agreed, i attended a lecture by Mark Cousins recently which coincided with the release of his 15hr documentary about the history of film.It's such an incredible feeling to learn about films not only from different countries but from diffrent times as well, all poigniant, all worth watching |
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Sci-fi and horror...both bore me the tears
Anything that features loads of poorly done digital effects (see above)
Anything overly violent purely for the sake of it
Anything sloppy
Anything with a complicated plot..
Anything I know will leave me in tears at the end...the wife thinks its hilarious when I start with the water works..
My choice of reading matches my choice of films actually plus anything real life that involves a tragedy...especially when people have lost kids or loved ones in horrible circumstances...sorry to say, but I am one for burying my head in the sand in those situations....feelings sometimes need to be protected.
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Iron lady" was a let down.
I thought it was going to be about an entrepreneurial female offering ironing services to idle middle class wannabes.
To be fair after watching it I think my idea would have been a better film. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Period dramas
Based on true storys like Iron lady, kings speech, most british films.
Dance films, I'll accept dirty dancing but step up, streetdance etc.
Fast n furious
Singing/musical films
Gore porn/stupid exorcism/weird jap ghosts/paranormal shit.
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By *ove2-shareCouple
over a year ago
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Horror can be an ok genre but torture porn movies, hotel, saw etc are just a gratuitous excuse for getting excited by extreme violence and i find the idea sick and degrading.
to be honest i do think there is far too much violence in movies, that said some of the greatest movies ever have been very violent take the godfather trilogy, but a film that relies on violence alone is usually a peice of shit |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Musicals (The exception being Rocky Horror!)
Period Drama - and generally anything with Colin Firth/Hugh Grant in.
Anything with Steve Martin in it (post Planes, Trains & Automobiles)
Anything with Robin Williams in it (post Good Morning Vietnam)
Anything with Jennifer Aniston (the exception being Horriblr Bosses)
Xmas movies (the exception being Scrooged)
Tbh - these days I'd much rather watch an entire series of 24, Fringe, True Blood, The Walking Dead or The Wire back to back with pizza and beer than go sit in a cinema where i can't slouch, smoke or go for a pee without missing 'the important bit' and not be able to rewind. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I will watch most genres of films, but there are some actors I cannot watch. Jennifer Aniston, Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Clive Owen... to name but a few |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I made a "film" with an ex which I can't bare to watch now. Not because feelings for her have taken a turn for the worse....more because it's shite. The story line was loosely based on ghostbusters, but was piss poor at best. The cinematography is well...amateur to say the least and the acting was....hmmm....'all over the place'. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I made a "film" with an ex which I can't bare to watch now. Not because feelings for her have taken a turn for the worse....more because it's shite. The story line was loosely based on ghostbusters, but was piss poor at best. The cinematography is well...amateur to say the least and the acting was....hmmm....'all over the place'. "
Let me guess - ectoplasm everywhere? |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I hat e anything with jim carey or jack black just not funny"
A lot of people are the same, but Jim Carrey has done some really good films, The Truman show, Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind is my fav.
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By *ove2-shareCouple
over a year ago
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"Musicals (The exception being Rocky Horror!)
Period Drama - and generally anything with Colin Firth/Hugh Grant in.
Anything with Steve Martin in it (post Planes, Trains & Automobiles)
Anything with Robin Williams in it (post Good Morning Vietnam)
Anything with Jennifer Aniston (the exception being Horriblr Bosses)
Xmas movies (the exception being Scrooged)
Tbh - these days I'd much rather watch an entire series of 24, Fringe, True Blood, The Walking Dead or The Wire back to back with pizza and beer than go sit in a cinema where i can't slouch, smoke or go for a pee without missing 'the important bit' and not be able to rewind. "
agree with most of what you say tho scrooged was a piece of shit, and as for jeniffer Aniston she was ok in the Iron Giant-looked better too |
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