Genres of film and television that you hate

[Englishboy]

I’ll start the ball rolling.

I loathe with a passion all film and tv period dramas

I also detest western / cowboy films (with the exception of Carry On Cowboy which I love )

 

[Willie Oleson]

I loathe with a passion all film and tv period dramas

All of history?
And how about films and tv series that are so old that they've become period dramas?

I can't hate what I haven't seen but there are a few types of films/series that I'd rather avoid (based on bad experiences, of course).


1. the buddy cop action/comedy films (Arnold Schwarzenegger & Danny De Vito, that kind of stuff).

2. Angelina Jolie films. She's on my very dark blacklist and that won't change unless she apologises for the Maleficent films. To me, in my living room.
After that, all copies must be destroyed (and better destroyed than the spinning wheels).

3. most mainstream films from the 1980s although I've kinda changed my mind and now I try to watch more of it. But I'm always very aware of the risk.
(obviously this does not apply to tv series from the 1980s).

4. war movies that focus on battle scenes or concentration camps. The horror and tragedy are too self-explanatory and all I can do is to sit and watch helplessly. I don't have to see it to believe it.

5. vigilante action movies. Most of them have that cheap straight-to-video quality about them.

6. Martial art movies. ALL of them. I didn't even like the kung fu trend of the 1970s and I've never liked the Carl Douglas hit.

7. "hurray-for-the-underdog" sports movies. Barf.

8. I'm sick and tired of the vampire genre and I never want to watch it again. However, since I started a vampire thread here on tellytalk I feel somewhat obliged to watch Luc Besson's upcoming Dracula: A Love Tale. But I'll do it under loud protest.

9. Animal stories e.g. Lassie, Skippy, Black Beauty, Daktari and even All Creatures Great And Small. To me it always felt like these series were shown at the expense of people's dramas.

10. Come to think of it, I've never been a fan of hospital dramas (people enter the hospital for only one purpose) with the exception of The Flying Doctors.

11. Parodies. It works fine for a short sketch but it's too exhausting for full-length films. Having said that, the first Scary Movie movie actually made me laugh.

But apart from this list I love everything.

 

[bmasters9]

I also detest western / cowboy films (with the exception of Carry On Cowboy which I love )

I also don't like Western movies, but I do love several old television Westerns, all of the half-hour variety (two CBS ones [Have Gun Will Travel and Wanted Dead or Alive], and one that was on ABC [The Rebel]).

4. war movies that focus on battle scenes or concentration camps. The horror and tragedy are too self-explanatory and all I can do is to sit and watch helplessly. I don't have to see it to believe it.

I have never enjoyed war pictures whatsoever (not that I don't acknowledge America's involvement in those wars, but the pictures about them are so bloody and gruesome, they are instant turnoffs to me).

10. Come to think of it, I've never been a fan of hospital dramas (people enter the hospital for only one purpose) with the exception of The Flying Doctors.

I'm with you on that one-- Emergency! (that 70s NBC medical/action hit where hospital action was combined with firefighting and rescue) is the only hospital drama/medical series I have truly enjoyed, as well as the only firefighting/rescue show I have truly enjoyed.

 

[Jimmy Todd]

Any kind of horror movie with excessive goreoe sadism, as well as any "exploitation" movie. Feeling sick to my stomach and disturbed is not my idea of entertainment. I do like horror movies in which there's more emphasis on plot and suspense than grossing out the viewer. The ones I do like are The Exorcist (in terms of grossness,this is as much as I can handle; I likethe emphasis on the struggle with believing in a God that permists evil) The Shining, Rosemary's Baby, Halloween, Tne Changeling w/George C. Scott, The Omen, Carrie, The Birds, Halloween, and Jacob's Ladder.
Those movies do have their share of gore/disturbing scenes but that's my limit. Plus, they're so well made and acted.

 

[Snarky Oracle!]

I'm not sure there are any genre that I hate, but most of the above-mentioned points ring true. Obviously, the quality of the individual film or TV series determines whether it works or not.

GUNSMOKE's James Arness once conceded that the western was "the most overdone genre" for both the big and small screen. But there's always been so much pandering and/or repetitive dreck out there, regardless of the genre, that's it's a wonder it's all been made.

I suppose somebody somewhere made some money off of it, even though 90% of films used to bomb at the box office. Today, however, ~100% of movies make a profit because there are now so many ways to monetize them even when they crash at the theatres (if they even get to those theatres).

 

[bmasters9]

Obviously, the quality of the individual film or TV series determines whether it works or not.

How do you mean by that?

 

[Snarky Oracle!]

How do you mean by that?

I don't care much about basketball, but a good movie about basketball makes me care about basketball for at least two hours.

 

[Daniel Avery]

On TV, I cannot stand "talent shows" (such as American Idol, The Voice, etc.) They aren't "creating stars" and all those treacly, annoying "back stories" just makes me want Monty Python's 16-ton weight to fall on them mid-song.

 

[lbf522]

I’ll start the ball rolling.

I loathe with a passion all film and tv period dramas

I also detest western / cowboy films (with the exception of Carry On Cowboy which I love )

What gets me about westerns and movies and shows that are around that period, the main character is always a former Confederate officer and the Union soldiers are always depicted as evil. That bugs me. Clearly the executive producers, producers, and writers, and head writers in Hollywood have this affinity for the Confederacy.

 

[Payton Cross]

I cant stand most comedy movies because most movie are not even funny at all, and i can't stand most reality show because most of them are all fake and isn't real played most are all being script with those stupid fights over nothing, and i hate also dating shows like the Dutch tv-show B&B Vol Liefde (means B&B Full Love)

 

[Snarky Oracle!]

I cant stand most comedy movies because most movie are not even funny at all,

You know, that is really true. Even if the material is good, it almost never comes off in a film. Comedy really needs a live audience, if only to guide and correct it (as in a good sitcom, sketch comedy show, or a stage play).

 

[bmasters9]

Comedy really needs a live audience, if only to guide and correct it (as in a good sitcom, sketch comedy show, or a stage play).

That's true, but yet some comedies have been winners with me even without the audience (the best ones with me have included The Addams Family, The Bob Newhart Show and Barney Miller [Miller had audiences for its first three seasons or so at ABC Television Center in Hollywood, but then dispensed with them, while staying there]).

 

[Snarky Oracle!]

That's true, but yet some comedies have been winners with me even without the audience (the best ones with me have included The Addams Family, The Bob Newhart Show and Barney Miller [Miller had audiences for its first three seasons or so at ABC Television Center in Hollywood, but then dispensed with them, while staying there]).

THE BOB NEWHART SHOW was filmed in front of a live audience -- Newhart demanded it. And as soon as BARNEY MILLER dropped the live audience, you could tell it right away and, I'd argue, it no longer worked.

 

[Rove]

Anything to do with the mafia - think The Godfather/The Sopranos or reality type series. It's the reality nonsense which has turned me off commercial television for good.

 

[Daniel Avery]

Cooking shows that are "competitive" or feature some element of "whose food is best". We're sitting at home watching them cook things and being assured that Competitor A's casserole smells/ tastes better than Competitor B's. How the heck would we know? What irks me most is all the manufactured hype/excitement surrounding something that, at its core is a dull process whether done well or totally botched.

 

[9unfold]

I loathe programs that celebrate cars. Top Gear, Car SOS, Custom Rides and the countless others.

All the programs that purport to show the police going about their normal routine from the vantage point of a neutral observer.
Brit Cops: War On Crime. Cops. Night Cops and the others. Apocryphal nonsense.

World War 2 documentaries that distorte the facts or completely ignore the contributions and sacrifices made by soldiers of the 'British Empire'. While celebrating Churchill as a deity.