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Old 04-01-2017, 00:09
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Horror is the worst genre bar an excellent few.
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Old 04-01-2017, 01:07
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Horror, comdey, rom-com, and blockbuster, have all been ruined on hollywoods instance on sticking to a formula.

The superhero formula had ruined all franchise films. Richard curtis and bridget jones has ruined rome-coms, and 'bad' comedies (like bad santa) have ruined comedies....

Its not the orginal sucessful films that are bad, its they way sucessful flims spawn soulless copies until there is nothing else. That has ruined cinema...
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Old 04-01-2017, 01:19
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Is that near Harrow?



You and I both W.T., there are some names that make me switch off immediately, as well as the three above, they are Stallone, Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis, and Mickey Rourke.
Rourke has an IRA tattoo, and is on record as saying that he had donated to some causes in Ulster, and to Joe Doherty, an IRA member.
As I had younger family members serving in the British Army at that time, that made Rourke a complete cretin to me.
What baggage most actors or actresses have shouldn't be a deal breaker when it comes to good films, otherwise you'd be writing off most of Hollywood productions.

I forgot about them. They absolutely bore me to tears. I suppose some people would love them though.
The Good, The Bad And The Ugly is one of the best westerns ever made, but there again I wont be watching the Harry Potter or Hobbit films.
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Old 04-01-2017, 01:36
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I'd add Gangs of New York to that list, and The Usual Suspects. Good list though.

I rewatched Pulp Fiction the other night, for the first time since I saw it 20 or so years ago. I was astonished by how well it's stood the test of time, and I'd forgotten how funny it is. Still a great movie.
American Gangster is another one.

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Old 04-01-2017, 01:55
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Gangster films set in America - bar old Cagney ones.

Westerns - the vast majority - some I like eg. The Searchers.
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Old 04-01-2017, 01:58
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Musicals. Great to watch on the stage, awful on the screen.
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Old 04-01-2017, 02:04
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Horror, comdey, rom-com, and blockbuster, have all been ruined on hollywoods instance on sticking to a formula.

The superhero formula had ruined all franchise films. Richard curtis and bridget jones has ruined rome-coms, and 'bad' comedies (like bad santa) have ruined comedies....

Its not the orginal sucessful films that are bad, its they way sucessful flims spawn soulless copies until there is nothing else. That has ruined cinema...
I agree with you there. It's not any particular genre that I dislike, it's just the way they insist on flooding the market with a certain type of movie after a film has proved successful.
There's been great movies from every genre that I've enjoyed watching many times, it's the poor copies they spawn that I can't stand. I think it's more noticeable these days with Virgin and Sky Movies. You get to scroll through all the latest stuff and realise just how much crap is coming out every week.
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Old 04-01-2017, 03:20
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Action films. They tend to be overdone.

Rom-coms. Meh.

American comedies. There's some cracking American comedies out there, don't get me wrong, but the majority are just monotonous. Especially the ones that centre around (x) amount of people in their twenties, getting up to some zany antics, blah blah blah. Boring. They're just very generic.
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Old 04-01-2017, 03:48
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Westerns and Sci-Fi ("Alien" is the only sci-fi-ish film I've watched).
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Old 04-01-2017, 05:13
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Most chick flicks
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Old 04-01-2017, 05:42
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Fantasy, sci-fi or anything that relies on special effects to mask a poor plot and dodgy acting.
i only like ''2001'' because of the nice music. Best watched with your eyes closed.
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Old 04-01-2017, 08:18
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The superhero formula had ruined all franchise films.
I think the superhero craze has ruined cinema, personally.

You have really good actors out there moving over to fantastic drama on TV because there's little to be found at the cinema.

The cinema is all about raking in the dollars making mindless Marvel movies and endless horror and action franchises. It stuns me how many grown-ups go to see that drivel, the Iron Man, Spiderman, Superman, (insert)man on and on and on they go, wash, rinse and repeat.

I watch films online (that's another argument for another thread) and search out some of the great indie films being made today that rarely make it out of a specialist cinema in London, if there even.
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Old 04-01-2017, 10:04
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Westerns - yawn.
Not that keen on action thrillers either.
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Old 04-01-2017, 10:07
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Also agree with horror.
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Old 04-01-2017, 10:32
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Rom-coms have been ruined. Ruined by richard curtis and Bridget jones, and probably julia roberts too.

In the past there were many kinds of rom-com. From the screwball comadies or kathrine Hepburn and carry grant, the sweet romcoms of audrey heppburn, the looks at realtionships from woody allen or harry and sally. The high concept stuff from films like ghost or splash. Teen romance first from the films of molly ringwald, then clueiess on to mean girls. Rom coms with a stronger emphasis on the 'com' in films like theres something about mary, or adam sandler/ drew barrymore movies.

Lots of variation.... Something for everyone.

But julia roberts, Richard curtis, briget jones, and. The bloody hollywood formula has ruined it again.....
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Old 04-01-2017, 10:36
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I think the superhero craze has ruined cinema, personally.

You have really good actors out there moving over to fantastic drama on TV because there's little to be found at the cinema.

The cinema is all about raking in the dollars making mindless Marvel movies and endless horror and action franchises. It stuns me how many grown-ups go to see that drivel, the Iron Man, Spiderman, Superman, (insert)man on and on and on they go, wash, rinse and repeat.

I watch films online (that's another argument for another thread) and search out some of the great indie films being made today that rarely make it out of a specialist cinema in London, if there even.
Hey theirs nothing wrong the superhero genre in itself. It can be as deep or as mature as you let it be.

Anyone who claims 'its just for kids', without being broadminded enough to understand it are either a philistine or a snob......
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Old 04-01-2017, 10:45
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Horror is the worst genre bar an excellent few.
Yeah, most horror is garbage. I particularly don't like those films like Hostel, which are just sick. Not far off snuff films. I've no idea why anyone would want to watch them.

I do like some horror films though. A good supernatural one.
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Old 04-01-2017, 11:04
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I've never been interested in Gangster films. My brother loves them, but I've never been that bothered about watching them.
I can't think of any genre that I've never been interested in. Perhaps period dramas would be the closest I can think of, but if something is well made, I can't think of anything I wouldn't be interested in.
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Old 04-01-2017, 11:31
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Musicals and romance (I don't mind some rom-coms if they're very funny, but not actual serious romantic dramas).

I'm with you on gangster films for the most part, although I do tend to enjoy the Yakuza films produced in Japan. But then I'm a huge fan of world cinema anyway.

EDIT - Also add Superhero films to the list, with the exception of Batman and Watchmen.
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Old 04-01-2017, 13:27
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Albanian film noir, circa 1950. Unwatchable.
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Old 04-01-2017, 13:30
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chick flick/rom com, anything disney or cartoon.
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Old 04-01-2017, 13:49
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Albanian film noir, circa 1950. Unwatchable.
Can't believe I'm reading that;... those Norman Wisdom films were brilliant!
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Old 04-01-2017, 14:12
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Majority of musicals especially "sound of my arse", now that is a film that needs machine guns.

Any films based on the Royal family

Any films promoting religion with exception of "Penguins on the run" & "Raiders of the lost ark"
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Old 04-01-2017, 14:36
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Musicals and Horror.
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Old 04-01-2017, 14:41
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War films, musicals, horror and rom-com. I don't mind a bit of blood and gore or a bit of romance if they're a part of the story, but if they're the point of the story then I'm not interested.

Also low on my 'must watch' list (although I accept I'm not part of the intended audience) is anything involved in the recent 'tragic teens' trend. Sadly, my fourteeen year-old daughter has chosen 'The Fault In Our Stars' as the next book she'll be reading to me during our usual bed-time reading session. She needs enough encouragement already, so I'm not going to press for something else. It's going to be a very long few months, though...

I'm not big on watching films anyway, but like a good 'who dunnit?' (even an ancient Agatha Christie will do), westerns or a laugh-a-minute comedy like 'Naked Gun'. Humour being the subjective thing it is, a lot of the stuff pitched as comedy does nothing for me at all (usually featuring American adolescent males off on some skirt-chasing holiday). Among my fave films are The Full Monty (with Robert Carlyle), Tombstone (Kurt Russell), 'See No Evil, Hear No Evil' (Gene Wilder) and 'One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (Jack Nicholson).
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