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| Marilyn |
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Location: Skokie (not a bad movie, btw)
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| I've gone off crime movies a bit, too. Also, I'm really not fond of drug movies. I forgot about that. I pretty much stay away from those. |
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| gromit |
| Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2005 10:23 am |
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Location: Shanghai
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I avoid:
slasher flicks, shoot-em-up/explosion-oriented action films, kung-fu films, Hollywood blockbusters, and juvenile humor films.
To make up for all that I avoid, I do like: documentaries, silent films, int'l films, indies, experimental films, classics, and anything else that seems well-made or original.
Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes going on as soon as I entertain the cat for a few minutes (demanding little fur-face, she is). |
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| LSDwolf |
| Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2005 10:33 am |
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Location: Taos, NM
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| only thing i can't stand is mushy chick flicks. i'll watch anything else with glee. |
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| tirebiter |
| Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2005 10:35 am |
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Location: not far away
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| "Romantic Comedy" used to mean Ninotchka, Trouble in Paradise, Holiday, or Two For The Road. Now it means something starring Kate Hudson or J-Lo or Renee Zellweger or Diane Lane that I don't watch. Ever. |
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| mo_flixx |
| Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2005 10:39 am |
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I avoid bloated blockbusters, many sequels, a lot of science fiction, student films, weapy chick flicks, and most of the categories others have already mentioned. Films that "showcase" an actor past his prime, chewing the screnery. Also anything that's supposed to be long on the quaint, wry and charming such as "Ned Devine," "Calendar Girls," etc. Films where there are old people who are supposed to be cute or eccentric.
I do like anything by certain favorite directors; foreign films and cult films. |
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| Marilyn |
| Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2005 10:40 am |
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Location: Skokie (not a bad movie, btw)
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| Romance has become so juvenile. I don't know whether to blame the delayed adolescence of the baby boomers and the slackers that followed them or the openness about sex that doesn't require writers of romantic comedies to sublimate it into clever dialogue and ingenious staging anymore. |
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| mo_flixx |
| Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2005 10:40 am |
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tirebiter wrote: "Romantic Comedy" used to mean Ninotchka, Trouble in Paradise, Holiday, or Two For The Road. Now it means something starring Kate Hudson or J-Lo or Renee Zellweger or Diane Lane that I don't watch. Ever.
And Meg Ryan and possibly Sandra Bullock. |
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| mo_flixx |
| Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2005 10:43 am |
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| Guily pleasures - movies about Tuscany (even with Diane Lane) and Merchant-Ivory type films. |
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| dlhavard |
| Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2005 10:46 am |
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Location: Detroit (where the slow are run over)
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| Personal favorite of "chickflic/romantic comedy" ' Roman Holiday. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2005 10:57 am |
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| Anything with Paltrow or Streisand or Vanessa Redgrave or the guy from PoTC and Thin Red Line. Teen gross out sexcapades comedies? Psycho chasing women. Paulie Shore of course. |
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| lady wakasa |
| Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2005 11:59 am |
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Location: Beyond the Blue Horizon
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The teen flicks, and maybe anything labelled "must-see." To me that translates to "must not see." Most other things are case-by-case basis.
Won't do Adam Sandler without a gun to the temple. |
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| Ghulam |
| Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2005 11:59 am |
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Location: Upstate NY
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| A little bit too long, at times over the top, and yet I must say that Aristocrats was quite funny. |
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| lady wakasa |
| Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2005 12:03 pm |
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| Isn't that nuts, though? It's almost like you're being manipulated into laughing... but it truly IS funny. |
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| Ghulam |
| Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2005 12:21 pm |
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| I kept asking myself, "Why am I liking this?" |
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| censored-03 |
| Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2005 12:22 pm |
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Location: Gotham, Big Apple, The Naked City
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gromit wrote: I avoid:
slasher flicks, shoot-em-up/explosion-oriented action films, kung-fu films, Hollywood blockbusters, and juvenile humor films.
To make up for all that I avoid, I do like: documentaries, silent films, int'l films, indies, experimental films, classics, and anything else that seems well-made or original.
Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes going on as soon as I entertain the cat for a few minutes (demanding little fur-face, she is). |
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