Name your least-favourite movie sub-sub-genre.

[Lautremont]

Mine? High school football movies. Can't stand 'em. There are a few others I hate too, like torture movies. (That would include Hostel, Saw, and many imitators of same - I'm a horror movie lover, but those just seem kind of mean and pointless.) Hillary Duff movies. Christian end-times movies. Movies that begin with the main character hung over and waking up very groggily, with much groaning and blinking, to the telephone or the alarm clock. Movies in which Eddie Murphy or Martin Lawrence wear a fat suit or play a woman, or both. Movies with more than three production companies or eight producers listed in the credits. Movies that try to be uplifting.

[idgiehkt]

1. movies starring Julia Roberts

she annoys me more and more as time goes on. Probably because she plays herself in every role and gets away with it.

[Zookeeper]

2. You've already covered most of mine, Lautremont....

I'll add: most romantic comedies and dying of (fill-in the blank) movies.

[AlCzervik]

3. Meg Ryan movies.

[Little Wing]

4. Bootcamp movies where the instructor ends up in the field wiith his/her

former students and dies, while the students go on.

[Dean Martin]

5. sports movies and horror movies

Sports in general are a waste of time and I don't see any entertainment value to blood and guts horror films.

[Lautremont]

8. Of course, you starred in Bandolero, Cannonball Run II

and all those Matt Helm movies. Glass houses and all that...

[XemaSab]

6. Dull, plotless period pictures.

Like Titanic. :D

Or revisionist period pictures.

Like Titanic. :D

[ncrainbowgrrl]

12. I knew what you were going to say before I clicked on this!

:rofl:

Titanic is up there on my "Can I have my hours of my life back?" list!

[AmandaRuth]

7. not a sub genre, more of a genre

big overblown major studio movies with the budget equal to the gross national output of any small nation, and enough special effects to choke 100 horses, that just totally blow. You know, like 90% of the movies released. Any movie where the female character is successful in her career and has to give it all up to have babies and get married, to like, become fulfilled

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

9. Romantic comedies.

Especially the painfully predictable ones where the man and the woman hate each other at first and you know they will fall in love in some contrived fashion by the end. I really hate cute romantic shit.

But then, I'm a cynical old bat.

[jpgray]

10. Yes yes and yes. Give me Who's Afraid of Virgina Woolf? or Lion in Winter

Now -those- are real relationships! :rofl:

[ncrainbowgrrl]

11. Now let's play "get the guests"

:rofl:

[jpgray]

15. My brother and his girlfriend are considering moving in together

So I lent them that film. :evilgrin:

[ncrainbowgrrl]

20. Hah! That's one way to keep couples from cohabitating!

The intimacy and knowledge of each other's faults and strengths are scary...

[ghostsofgiants]

13. "Christian end-times movies."

Dude, fuck you, those are hilarious. If you disagree, go watch "Tribulation" and tell me Gary Busey isn't the funniest motherfucker on the planet.

[Kutjara]

16. He has some stiff competition from Michael York...

...in that one about him taking over the world via the European Union and then turning out to be the Antichrist (complete with horns and leathery wings) and causing Armageddon. That one had me in stitches.

[ghostsofgiants]

21. I'm sorry, but no one can fuck with Gary Busey.

The dude's too batshit insane to not be the funniest guy on earth.

[philosophie_en_rose]

24. Kirk Cameron would fuck with Gary Busey.

Left Behind is a masterpiece!


:crazy:

[philosophie_en_rose]

25. * self-delete *

wrong spot! :blush:

[Starbucks Anarchist]

29. A friend of mine said he hit on her when he was in town.

I can't imagine those radioactive-sized teeth that close to somebody. :scared:

[Lautremont]

22. I'll check it out!

I already think Busey's pretty funny.

[Kutjara]

14. Cynical, world-weary guy/girl becomes teacher and takes on...

...tough class of underachievers, turning their lives around and learning something about life at the same time.

It seems like every actor, at some point in their career, has to make one of these turkeys. I can't decide which one was the absolute worst, but that recent one with Matthew Perry must be a contender.

This trope can be varied endlessly so the cynical lead ends up in charge of almost any group of no-hopers: sports-teams, convicts, gangbangers...you name it.

[jpgray]

19. Blackboard Jungle still kicks ass, though!

[Kutjara]

23. That was a great film, which is probably why...

...every talentless schmuck since has tried to "remake" it in some form of other.

[Lautremont]

32. I absolutely agree with you on that,

'Inspirational Teacher Movies' - blah. Though I don't mind The Blackboard Jungle (somebody should remake it as "The Blackberry Jungle"). Don't like To Sir, With Love much, though - one of Poitier's syrupier roles.

[barb162]

17. Movies that begin with the main character hung over

Check out "Where's Poppa"
You will die laughing

[barb162]

18. mafia or prostitute movies

There are so many movies about these two groups you'd think half the population of the earth were mafia or prostitutes

[philosophie_en_rose]

26. Subhuman Torture Films

I don't need to see any gratuitous amputations, thanks. :)

[fujiyama]

27. Zombie movies

I want to eat your br...zzzzzz!

I don't mind old time Hitchcock horror films...but never been a fan of horror films in general, at least the slasher kind.

I'm also bored of Bond films. Each of them is the same thing every time. Even this one, which better than than the last few truly dreadful ones, was nothing new.

[momophile]

28. movies where adults swap bodies with children

'Trading Places' was okay and maybe it's because it was two adults. but the adult male getting to be a child again pisses me off.

[Initech]

30. Horror-snuff films (Saw, The Hitcher), High School Football movies, Musicals, true-life inspirados

Also - romantic comedies and CGI celebrity voiced computer animated films (I'll make an exception for Pixar on that one, however).

[HuffleClaw]

31. movies in which babies/animals talk

movies whose subject is primarily the care of a lot of children or animals. this includes saint bernards, in fact it especially includes saint bernards. movies whose 'humour' includes a prominant scene featuring the bodily functions. when in real life is vomiting and faeces ever funny?