Big Blue Huddle

I don't want to watch any of these types of movies.

1) The main character has amnesia. Amnesia is rare. The idea is overused.

2) Man and woman don't like each other but they are forced to work together or travel together. You know they are going to fall in love by the end of the movie so why bother.

3) Mother and daughter or father and son switch bodies by some magical reason. Kind of funny to see the parent act like a kid in front of adults but one movie about this was enough for me.

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 One movie storyline that I NEVER watch is where one of the main characters is dying, has some t terminal disease, and then be forced to watch 2 hours of weepiness.

Also, any movie with Adam Sandler, Jim Carey, and a couple of others, I will never watch. I have seen a few and that is why I will never again watch their movies. Sorry, but that's just me.

Quote from: LennG on June 12, 2024, 11:27:13 AMOne movie storyline that I NEVER watch is where one of the main characters is dying, has some t terminal disease, and then be forced to watch 2 hours of weepiness.

I'm with you 100% on this one, Lenn.

Quote from: LennG on June 12, 2024, 11:27:13 AMOne movie storyline that I NEVER watch is where one of the main characters is dying, has some t terminal disease, and then be forced to watch 2 hours of weepiness.

Also, any movie with Adam Sandler, Jim Carey, and a couple of others, I will never watch. I have seen a few and that is why I will never again watch their movies. Sorry, but that's just me.

Yeah...when you know one of the characters you really like is going to die...I omit from my "to watch list"

Not crazy about Sandler movies, but some are okay IMO. I dislike Carey as a person, but he's friggin hilarious in some movies. I still like "Pet Detective" and "The Mask"...oh, and "Dumb and Dumber" is a classic. He is over-the-top as an actor and his personal life is a disastor

I will avoid movies that have main characters who have gotten into politics. If they decide to "speak" for the rest of us (I don't care which side we're on), I'm done with them. Speaking from a mansion...or a yacht...or in some exotic location, while spewing political opinion is a huge turn-off. Multi-millionaires living in opulence we can barely even fathom, do not speak for me and know what it's like to work one's ass off for years to live a moderate lifestyle, in a house that cost less than a million dollars (and may or may not have a garage), or drive around in a standard brand car that's a few years old and isn't a Bentley or a Bugatti. I don't appreciate an actor who most likely didn't go to college or if he or she did, couldn't even recite the quadratic formula, but somehow think they are among the intelligentsia of the human race with deep understanding of national and/or international politics they received from a eureka moment while dining at the Mélisse or the Chi Spacca after their fifth martini

I also avoid all horror movies (unless there's a comical side to them, such as "Tucker and Dale vs. Evil", "Totally Killer", or "The Babysitter")...they're great, as Tony the Tiger would say. Movies where the small girl takes a walk in the woods, stumbles upon an old shack, decides to investigate, something behind a door is making a lot of noise...so she checks it out and opens it...duhhhh. I avoid

Not a huge fan of "slapstick", and humor based on exagerated speech and sarcasm

Truth is, I avoid hundreds of movies for no other reason than I don't know any of the cast...unless someone has pointed it out that it's a good movie

Not a fan of movies just about explosions and special effects.  Movies have to have first and foremost a great story.

Quote from: Philosophers on June 12, 2024, 12:24:19 PMNot a fan of movies just about explosions and special effects.  Movies have to have first and foremost a great story.

Phil

Pretty hard to find a movie 'these days' without something being blown up, or any special effects.
That's why I still prefer a good movie from the 30's, 40s, or even the 50's. Once they found out that blowing things up attracts all those kiddies and special effects attract most everyone else, it has become the basis of too many movies.

If I can add, I do not watch all these superhero movies either. I have watched and enjoyed some of the older Batman, Superman and Spiderman movies, but all the Marvel heroes that flood the movies these days, sorry, I haven't seen one.

Quote from: LennG on June 12, 2024, 01:49:17 PMPhil

Pretty hard to find a movie 'these days' without something being blown up, or any special effects.
That's why I still prefer a good movie from the 30's, 40s, or even the 50's. Once they found out that blowing things up attracts all those kiddies and special effects attract most everyone else, it has become the basis of too many movies.

If I can add, I do not watch all these superhero movies either. I have watched and enjoyed some of the older Batman, Superman and Spiderman movies, but all the Marvel heroes that flood the movies these days, sorry, I haven't seen one.

Add to that, "car chases", the ultimate "filler" piece to today's movies. Gotta have a car chase...duhhh

It's like Jurassic Park, possibly the best book I ever read and the most disappointing movie I ever watched, because they changed it to "chase scenes" to fill out the time slot. The book spent very little time about someone running and hiding from raptors...yet the movie was filled with it...and of course, it was little kids for greater effect 

Quote from: LennG on June 12, 2024, 11:27:13 AMOne movie storyline that I NEVER watch is where one of the main characters is dying, has some t terminal disease, and then be forced to watch 2 hours of weepiness.

Also, any movie with Adam Sandler, Jim Carey, and a couple of others, I will never watch. I have seen a few and that is why I will never again watch their movies. Sorry, but that's just me.

I know you're a big movie afficionado. Did you see both Dune movies directed by Denis Villeneuve? What did you think? Did you read the books? Did you see or like David Lynch's Dune?

Any storylines that set off my BS alarm. So, almost all of them these days.

I could deal with movies being bad as long as they were still entertaining in some way. Now that entertainment value has fallen by the wayside in favor of performative virtue signaling, I've checked out completely.

Quote from: TONKA56 on June 12, 2024, 03:41:22 PMI know you're a big movie afficionado. Did you see both Dune movies directed by Denis Villeneuve? What did you think? Did you read the books? Did you see or like David Lynch's Dune?

I saw about 1/2 an hour of the original Dune  ( the David Lynch version) and that was all I could tolerate. Just wasn't my style and not to offend anyone here who loves David Lynch and his movies, I don't. I think the only movie I cared about that he directed was Mulholland Drive, and even that was a bit weird for me.
I did also try the newer version of Dune and once again, never made it past the 1/2 way mark. I know people love the Dune movies, but again, just not my style.

Quote from: LennG on June 12, 2024, 11:27:13 AMOne movie storyline that I NEVER watch is where one of the main characters is dying, has some t terminal disease, and then be forced to watch 2 hours of weepiness.

Also, any movie with Adam Sandler, Jim Carey, and a couple of others, I will never watch. I have seen a few and that is why I will never again watch their movies. Sorry, but that's just me.

I can take sad movies if they're well executed. I can totally understand why someone would shun them completely though.

I could not agree more about Sandler. The guy has been wildly successful, and I'll give him total props for that, but I have never understood why people like him so much. I never thought he was that funny at all. Just not my cup of tea personally.

I thought Carey was somewhat funny in his early stuff like Ace Ventura but I was never a massive fan.

As for the OP, I don't really have a single type of storyline I won't even consider. If a movie is good, I'm open to pretty much anything. For me it's really about whether it's good or not good, not so much what particular type of story it is. These days, I find I have enough ways of "vetting" a movie before I watch it that I usually have a rough idea of how good it might be. Once in a while I end up watching a bomb that I thought would be a lot better than it was, but that happens way less today than it did 20-30 years ago when there were far fewer ways to research a movie before watching it.

Squib:

2) Man and woman don't like each other but they are forced to work together or travel together. You know they are going to fall in love by the end of the movie so why bother.

Don't bother ever tuning in to the Hallmark Channel.      Bob

Quote from: Bob In PA on June 13, 2024, 09:41:53 AMSquib:

2) Man and woman don't like each other but they are forced to work together or travel together. You know they are going to fall in love by the end of the movie so why bother.

Don't bother ever tuning in to the Hallmark Channel.    Bob

There are some excellent Rom-Coms worth watching IMHO (maybe I'm a bit of a sap because I like them). A great one with a different twist is "Return to Me" (free on Prime). 5-stars. Not your old, "man hates woman who hates him back, then falls in love theme". One of the nice things about the movie is it is the last film in which Carroll O'Connor plays a role (and he's not Archie Bunker this time, LOL)

Quote from: Bob In PA on June 13, 2024, 09:41:53 AMSquib:

2) Man and woman don't like each other but they are forced to work together or travel together. You know they are going to fall in love by the end of the movie so why bother.

Don't bother ever tuning in to the Hallmark Channel.      Bob

 Or most any movie from the 1030s that wasn't a gangster movie. That was the basic theme of Hollywood
Boy meets girl (or vice versa),
boy and girl fall in love
Boy and girl have a fight and separate
Boy and girl make up, get married and live happily ever after.