Inspired by Catbookss's confession that she's never seen Terminator I was wondering what is a turn off for you.
I can watch Sci-fi, horror, fantasy, animated/cgi kids films, comedy, chick flick, comic book and historical drama but the thought of sitting through anything like James Bond, Mission Impossible, Bourne Identity or similar is really unappealing.
Not even sure what those would be described as, action maybe?
Superhero/comic book movies, animated kid stuff (the emoji movie, i mean COME ON) and I'm not that fond of westerns either.
A few years ago I would have added horror and action as well but my tastes have changed. I can get down with a good action or horror movie. Its all about the story for me. Have a good story and I'll give it a shot :)
I haven't seen the Emoji movie, not sure I ever will!
I sat and watched Disney with my kids so I'll always have a soft spot for those movies. Do you and your girl have a few movies that you enjoy together?
Funny how our tastes change isn't it, a good story is a must and not too much ambiguity!
Same, I grew up watching those movies with my brother and cousins. My mom used to take us to the video store every Friday afternoon to pick out a couple of movies for the weekend. Sometimes my brother would choose games instead.
That sweetheart of mine loves to watch a movie with mom. We've watched several over the last few months. She has a love for sci-fi and horror. I think the Matrix was one of her favorites so far. We are currently paused on Willow, well before her time and I never saw it when I was young but its heartwarming and adorable.
I forgot to mention the most important movie to my daughter. Harry Potter. I haven't seen it. I suppose I will at some point but she GEEKS out about it sometimes. Its cute!
Right? My tastes have changed so much but I'm totally okay with that :)
I'm a huge fan of the HP movies and more so of the books. I started reading The Philosophers Stone with him when my son was little and it's interesting that as your child gets older Harry gets older too and the books become more mature and dark even.
It's great that she enjoys The Matrix, it took me a couple of goes and I'm not entirely sure I get it yet! Wow, I haven't seen Willow for years.
I'm about 1/4 through Moana with my granddaughter, she gives me a running commentary of the whole thing. I need to teach her about spoilers!
She begs me to watch HP all the time but like your granddaughter, she would spoil everything. I would have to watch it without her. Maybe I'll wait a few more years until she settles down :P
Moana is a movie that several parents tell me to watch. Let me know what you think when you are finished :)
charliekelly grew up on Willow and he showed it to me, otherwise I wouldn't have known about it.
Hey! We're talking about movies!
I'd call those spy movies, and I have zero interest in them too. I've never seen a Bond film, and I don't plan on seeing one anytime soon. But the whole "genre" is unappealing to me, even if the film is not action heavy.
I don't have interest in Westerns.
I don't like "women" movies either. Not chick flicks per se, but movies about a bunch of well off women with careers and such who yell at eachother for two hours, but they also support eachother because female bonds are magic, and talk about men, or shoes.
Those might be TV movies, but German romantic dramas I can't stand. They are dull and somehow always on TV, probably because they are cheap to buy.
Murder mysteries. I literally can't engage that part of my brain that'll be interested in trying to figure out who-done-did-it.
Bleak movies about Socialist times where everyone is miserable the whole time.
And torture-porn, because I don't need that kind of unpleasantness in my life.
There are exceptions, and a well crafted film is a well crafted film, so I can focus my attention on something that interests me in the film and ignore the stuff that doesn't. In general though I won't go out of my way to see many of the types of movies I mentioned. Except for the German dramas, those have zero redeeming qualities.
Are even many of those genres? lol
Yes! Spy movies! That's a good definition.
I have not seen a German drama in my life, have I missed out?
I'm with you on socialist angst.
Torture porn? I mean who does like it? There a market obviously.
Do you get a lot of German stuff in Bulgaria?
You dont secretly watch Bridget Jones?
I've asked a lot of questions!
Hate:
1.Chick Flicks
2.Found Footage films
3.Asian films (Animation)
4.Quentin Tarantino films
5.Musical films
Love:
1.Gangsters films (Classics, Mafia, Mob)
2.Horror films (Universal, Slashers)
3.Sci-Fi films (Space, 50's, aliens)
4.Comedies (Sex humor, horror & mob comedies)
5.Westerns (Classics, urban cowboys)
Slasher movies, animal eats man movies (or is it vice versa? never quite sure), profanity laced movies (script writers have it easier now...just add the f-bomb for every other word), Stephen King movies taken from his books (IMO He has to be a little warped)
I enjoy Superhero movies such as the Avengers, Superman; sci-fi: Terminator, Star Trek; CGI movies: âIce Ageâ (love that prehistoric squirrel chasing his acorn) âOver the Hedgeâ; I definitely enjoy action movies: Mission Impossible, James Bond, Bourne Identity; I enjoyed Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings the epic fantasy genre
Harry Potter is one of my favourites!
So weird how differently the same we all are.
I don't like gore. It just grosses me out.
And superhero and comic book movies tend to bore me, though I like a few of them (Batman Begins is one that I've always enjoyed).
Oh, and stupid comedies. I love smart comedies, but all the comedies from recent years are stupid. They just don't do it for me.
Additionally, I hate certain military/war movies and spy movies that glorify imperialism and militarism and serve as propaganda celebrating the US military, CIA, British spies, and so on, and the role they play in the world.
So do you have an answer to where would be without âthe US military, CIA, British spies, and so on, and the role they play in the world.â I thank God for everyone of them. I also thank any I meet who have served. Maybe if you havenât done so, try walking in their boots for awhile. If it hadnât been for
âthe US military, CIA, British spies, and so on,â and the allies, Europe would have been taken over by Hitler and his gang.
Well for one thing I know there would be about a million more Iraqis than there currently are, Libya wouldn't be a ruined country overrun by warlords and death squads and slave markets, Syria would have been at peace this past decade, Yugoslavia might still exist and there wouldn't have been the fratricidal wars there in the 1990s. Oh, and as for Hitler and his boys? Lol. As soon as Nazi Germany fell, the US and Britain appropriated the Nazis for their new war on communism. As soon as Japanese fascism fell, the US invaded southern Korea and imposed the same people who had enforced Japanese rule to create the new fascist south Korean state. They backed fascist coups in Vietnam, Greece, Spain, Portugal, Brazil, Argentina, El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Chile, Iran, Indonesia, the Congo and elsewhere. In 2014 the US and EU backed a coup in Ukraine that put Nazis in power. Just the other day, the speaker of the Ukrainian parliament, Andriy Parubiy, called Hitler the greatest democrat in history. Parubiy was the founder of the neo-Nazi Social National Party of Ukraine, and he was a good pal of John McCain, that much-venerated "war hero" who has been being glorified this past few weeks.
Rather than being a bulwark against fascism, the US and Britain have been the primary supporters and beneficiaries of fascism in the world. Hitler was defeated by the Soviets, not by the US and Britain. The role that the US military, British military, US and British spies and so on, play in the world is to enforce an unjust economic and class system upon the world and massacre anyone who stands in the way of it. That's why I fucking hate those movies, celebrating those people and glorifying them.
As for walking in their boots? No thanks. Just as I don't need to join the Ku Klux Klan to know that they're oppressive monsters, I don't need to join the US military and invade some Arab country that had the temerity to think it could control its own resources to know that the US military is bad.
All of the above may be true. I do agree we have stuck our noses into too many other countries affairs. But, I donât blame the military or itâs members...I blame the sneaky, crooked politicians. I recently watched the The Vietnam War series by Ken Burns. I lived during that time. There are names on The Wall of people I know. We had no business being involved, but I donât blame those that went, served, died, etc. I blame the lies told in order to put boots on the ground. I donât blame my cousin who came home in pieces or those that were maimed either physically or mentally.
As I watched the series I became incensed! What our politicians did to those poor people is an outrage! The hippies of the late 60âs & early 70âs whom we called riffraff saw the truth. But, our service members should not have been shunned and spit on. We left that country in a mess, only to have it fall to the communists. We built a black wall here with over 58,000 names as a result.
I recently watched â12 Strongâ which told the story (Hollywood style) about the 12 Horse Soldiers who went to Afghanistan (secret mission) right after 9/11. They were heroes. There was a line in the movie spoken by the warlord the 12 worked with to rid the enemy. To paraphrase: âIf you leave...you have abandoned us, but if you stay...you become our enemy.â It resonated with me whether the line was true or not. I thought of Vietnam; we abandoned those people after we became their enemy. As the series advanced I was shouting at the TV âWhy didnât we leave? We made it worse!â
Alas, Mina, politics has invaded the movie discussion. It was good while it lasted.
Has The Donald ever been in a movie, other than one with a Porn star?
I've noticed lately that The Donald's face is appearing less and less on Trending đ Thank god.
shareI wish that were true, and maybe you see Trending more often than I do, but have you considered the possibility that you have a good-taste-induced form of blindness psychosis?
Regardless of the reality, Iâm sure that you and I both favor any discussion that derails a thread trend in the direction of political tirade.
"have you considered the possibility that you have a good-taste-induced form of blindness psychosis?"
I hadn't đ
I look at Trending fairly often. For a while there it was like The Donald's face was permanently stuck there. Lately the board's cooled down a lot. Yes, I *do* favour a paucity of political tirades, thankyouverymuch.
Wasn't The Donald in Home Alone 2?
shareI love gory Asian movies! Now I now why youâre not a fan of Mike.
shaređ I'm guessing it's pretty weird I've never seen Terminator, and yes, DF, *you* broke the story! đ
Imma have to think about this for a bit.
First genre that comes to mind is action flicks. Doesn't rhyme, but they should be called boy flicks or similar, since chick flicks are considered a genre. They bore me senseless.
Not straight across the board though, because I liked Face/Off quite a lot, and I'm sure it's considered an action flick. But I liked its stylishness, the nice mix of drama and tongue-in-cheek, and the acting.
Yup action flicks! Plzzzt (that's a raspberry by the way!)
shareI'm with you on spy/espionage movies, too. Big snoozefests for me.
While westerns aren't my favourite genre, one is on my top 10 list, and I've seen a few others I've liked a lot.
Slasher movies I refuse to watch, period. Most horror because I don't feeling tense, or horrified. Anything to do with zombies. Most comic book movies, although I did like Superman and Spiderman. (Never could locate any Manman movies đ˘)
Laughing is one of the *best* things life has to offer, so you'd think I'd love comedies as a genre. I would, but 98% of them aren't my kind of humour, so I find most of them are đ. But it's GREAT when I find one that really makes me laugh!
Anything too bleak or angst-ridden. But, there are exceptions if they're very well done and there's some kind of payoff for sitting through all the bleak and angst.
Have you ever watched anything by Edgar Wright, Shaun of the Dead or Hot Fuzz that kind of thing? That's the kind of humour I like.
I think something like The Grand Budapest Hotel or Moonrise Kingdom has the right mix of humour and sadness.
Glad someone shares my dislike for Spy films!
Never heard of any of them. Are they British? Generally, British humour appeals to me the most. I'll have to look them up on YT and watch some clips. *crosses fingers*
Spy films, đ
I misread you. No they involved (except films) đ
Hot Fuzz looks promising! I'll see if I can find it and give it a watch.
Actually, Catđş, Iâve an old girlfriend who came up with the perfect name for my testosterone faves: boy movies. Her name is Galla, and thatâs her full name. The first time she visited my home, she looked through my movie collection in my library, turned to me and said, âBoy movies.â
I think it's gotta be boy flicks, R_K. It's more fitting :)
shareOne of the pleasures of Face/Off was watching Travolta and Cage, who were in their movie-star prime back then, play each other, as well as play themselves. Look. They are not really actors. They are movie stars, which is a fine thing. I will take John Wayne over Laurence Olivier any day. Seeing these two guys, in their salad days, get into the spirit of the project and stretch to try to BE each other is a delight Iâve not encountered before or since. Did they convince me? Not completely. Did they entertain me with their zeal and effort? Absolutely. They were having fun. I learned long ago that, if the people who are making the entertainment are having fun, the audience will have fun. It doesnât matter if the entertainment is recorded, or live. But live entertainment is THE BEST entertainment, because the love between the audience and the performers is instantaneous.
PS For what itâs worth, Face/Off is in my video library. Gina Gershonâs performance is, as usual, under-appreciated and quite remarkable. The lady can fucking rock.
You said it! And that scene when Cage (Travolta's part in the film) first saw *his* face in the mirror, as the murderer of his son? Brilliant! I know a lot of people slag Nic Cage, and the truth is he's done a lot of crap films, but he -- and Travolta -- were amazing in Face/Off.
Plus, for me, the beautiful stylism, and perfected combination of pulled-back comedy and action/drama made that film a real winner.
To be honest with you, R_K, I've never seen a single John Wayne film I thought was worth anything. Granted, I haven't seen a lot because I was so put off by his woodenness and lack of any range in those I have.
Olivier, the only thing I've ever seen him in is Wuthering Heights. He was all right as Heathcliff, but nothing brilliant in my estimation. I've seen better interpretations since.
It did seem like Cage and Travolta had a very jolly good time switching parts and playing off one another, and for me it was a big WIN. This is from someone who doesn't even like action flicks, and yet it won me over anyway.
Several of my friends, knowing my taste, were shocked that I loved Face/Off. But hey, the exception proofs the rule.
I think that you know that I love you, đşbooks. I use the phrase âJohn Wayneâ as a rubric for âthe great American movie star.â I canât name a film of his that Iâve seen; but I know for a fact that Clint Eastwood, most of whose movies I have seen, is the only All-American actor who thus far can be mentioned in the same sentence with John Wayne. Wooden? Yes. Limited range? Totally. Surpassed by Clint Eastwood in every conceivable way? Absolutely. But he was an icon, nonetheless. A
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