Movie genres you've lost interest in

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Movie genres you've lost interest in
Topic Started: Oct 15 2009, 06:49 AM (166 Views)
JazzGuyy	Oct 15 2009, 06:49 AM Post #1
Balcony Gang, Foist Class Posts: 2,173 Group: Members Member #110 Joined: June 1, 2006	I wonder if others of you have found that you have lost interest in certain film genres over the years. For instance, in my youth I watched a lot of horror and monster pictures. Now, except for revisiting a few classics occasionally, I have no interest in this genre. I don't know if I just got saturated with these, my tastes changed with time or whatever. Same thing mostly with sci-fi films, though not quite to the same extent. And same thing with most slap-stick comedy. Used to love the Stooges as a kid, now I have zero interest in seeing any of their stuff. What about you folks?



Stony Brooke da Mesquiteer	Oct 15 2009, 08:17 AM Post #2
Balconeer Creeper Posts: 14,166 Group: Members Member #244 Joined: July 6, 2007	I've posted this before, but WTH. I'm just the opposite, I like older, war, and western films now, and I never did before a few years ago. The Three Stooges I don't care for that much, but I can take them in small doses. Like once a week, minimum.
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panzer the great & terrible	Oct 15 2009, 10:08 AM Post #3
Mouth Breather Posts: 10,325 Group: Members Member #13 Joined: September 3, 2005	I'm with you, jazzy, sci-fi and horror just don't do it for me any more, I don't know why. I like war pictures a lot more than I used to, and I like the B series pictures now -- couldn't stand 'em when I was young.
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Chandu	Oct 15 2009, 03:26 PM Post #4
Knowledge Seeker and rascal at large Posts: 10,266 Group: Members Member #297 Joined: October 19, 2007	I too find that sci-fi and slapstick don't do it for me like they used to. Also, anything Turner labels as "Drama" or "Romance" requires close scrutiny before hitting the record button on the DVR.
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Zodiac	Oct 15 2009, 03:34 PM Post #5
Balcony Gang, Foist Class Posts: 174 Group: Members Member #334 Joined: January 17, 2008	I believe our tastes change over time- sometimes it is because memories are sweeter than reality- Like when watched First Men in the Moon a few weeks ago- I could not believe how dry the first half of the picture was.- sometimes we have reached a saturation point- a mental ShamWOw as it were- I get that way with serials- how many fights can they do? Plot not punches. I have never been a fan of the noir genre from the 50s- suit and fedora scene- just could not get into it-tried again recently and it is somewhat better- but I still favor the 30s and 40s films - they seem to have a different "attitude" I agree - to a degree- with Jazzy and Panzer- but qualify that by saying, the modern horror and sci fi pale compared to the classics - and can't hold my interest. My enjoyment of the classics has increased because I have a better understanding an appreciation of the total film - cinematography, sets, supporting cast, script Actually I regret that the there is only a finite number of these films to enjoy



Vornoff	Oct 16 2009, 09:21 AM Post #6
Charter Member Posts: 483 Group: Members Member #54 Joined: September 16, 2005	I've pretty much lost interest in all films from around 1975 on. Oh, they're always exceptions but by and large, most of my viewing is 30's thru 50's, with a smattering of 60's and early 70's. I still watch the new sci-fi movies as they come out, & the new superhero movies but that's about it for new movies. If a new western ever comes out, I'll see it, too. As for tv shows, I watch a few like Smallville, NCIS, Mentalist, and I've just started the new Stargate but that's pretty much it.
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Frank Hale	Oct 16 2009, 04:03 PM Post #7
Balcony Gang, Foist Class Posts: 828 Group: Members Member #59 Joined: October 6, 2005	I agree, although as I�ve remarked before, my cut-off tends more to the late 60�s. I think I could build a case that the early to mid 70�s was a genre all its own. No more production code; independent directors hoping to be �auteurs�; excessive reliance on bare skin; unnecessary on-screen violence, zoom shots, freeze frames, and jump cuts. Not a genre that I�ve lost interest in, since I never liked it in the first place. There are always more current one-shots of interest. I�m presently intrigued by the up-coming �The Fantastic Mr. Fox� based on a shot I saw in the NYT of the titular character wearing a double-breasted suit and a carnation. �Bout time style returned to movies!



Vornoff	Oct 17 2009, 11:09 PM Post #8
Charter Member Posts: 483 Group: Members Member #54 Joined: September 16, 2005	I did a quick check on my early 70's movies and they are mostly Amicus/Hammer horror stuff, some westerns, the Ape movies, some Vincent Price, Doc Savage: Man of Bronze, and a few real potboilers - would you believe Trog ? So it looks like it was kind of the dying of the 60's for me. For the period 1976 thru 1979, only 18 movies.
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panzer the great & terrible	Oct 18 2009, 06:00 PM Post #9
Mouth Breather Posts: 10,325 Group: Members Member #13 Joined: September 3, 2005	Rock music fell apart at the end of the decade too. It was like everything had been said. After the Dixie Dregs, where could you go? Noplace that would have an audience, and the Dregs didn't have a huge audience themselves. The answer was to go back to the beginning, and that's what Punk and Disco were all about.
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Rogmeister	Oct 19 2009, 08:00 PM Post #10
Charter Member Posts: 3,743 Group: Members Member #12 Joined: September 3, 2005	I also am not into horror anymore. I have a Franenstein set and the original Dracula film but am not really interested in getting any others. I think this was due to hanging out with friends back in the 80s and 90s and having movie parties and they always rented horror movies...and it seemed each party the horror movies got worse and worse. I don't miss those days.



Sgt King	Oct 19 2009, 08:55 PM Post #11
Charter Member Posts: 371 Group: Members Member #29 Joined: September 5, 2005	I pretty much agree with all of youse, especially Vornoff. Don't enjoy many horror or romantic movies anymore unless they are from the 30's or 40's. Science-fiction - mostly just 50's and 60's ones. I still love serials and westerns but easily my favorites now are 30's, 40's and 50's crime and adventure. Also I do not enjoy silent or foreign films like I used to.


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