10 Things I Hate About You (and your taste in film).

What are the things that you hate about your friends and family in regard to their taste in movies?

Do you have friends that you just can't go to the movies with?

I have a friend that tries his hardest to love every movie he sees... and he sees every movie made. That irks me. He always makes me feel like a real jerk for not liking movies that other people had the good sense not to spend money on.
He just glares at me after I've been ranting for 10 minutes and says "I liked it". Errrr! so annoying...

My mom confuses "artsy" with "deep" sometimes... which can be problematic when she's recommending something. I almost gave up on her opinions completely when I saw Adaptation under here recommendation.

Another friend, I had to stop seeing movies with altogether - he is just really into cheese... one of his favorite movies is Hellbent... and he's convinced that we like the same movies so he keeps calling me on Friday nights and I just don't pick up the phone. For some reason "hated it" translates to "OMG - that was the best movie ever" in his mind. But it's always some really grainy, counter-culture, film school rejected, unfunny waste of celluloid and never something that improves my weekend.

Or do you find that your friends and family like the same stuff as you?

If so, ur lucky because I have to use "Instant Viewing" to see some stuff by myself because I waste too much time seeing all the crap my friends want to see...

I always get 3 invites to see the crap-movie-of-the-week but when I mention the Oscar winner, the "thinking person's movie" or the sociopolitical documentary as possibilities, everybody shrugs and says they are busy.

What's up with that?

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Permalink Reply by Microwaved on July 22, 2008 at 7:02am: It wasn't until I found this community that I have ever met anybody with the same taste as me.

Everybody in my family hates my taste in movies and I hate theirs. My wife and I are pretty compatiable though. She doesn't like everything I watch but at least she'll watch it with me sometimes.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Signfire on July 22, 2008 at 10:57pm: My wife and I are pretty compatiable though.

Your avatar-icon thingy confused me... I thought u were female... which made your taste in movies even more interesting to me.

LOL.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by mercurio3 on July 22, 2008 at 11:54am: My immediate family members all love action and "comedy" movies. i don't care for neither one. So they all go without me. which is fine.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by MrCarbohydrate on July 22, 2008 at 1:33pm: I pretty much hate everyone's opinions on movies. They're usually wrong. That's what makes it so fun to talk about; basically, if you can't have a sense of humour and/or willing to let someone have a different opinion than yourself, I probably won't want to talk movies with you. Cheers!; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Tommy on July 22, 2008 at 3:44pm: my mom hates watching films in widescreen (despite my attempts to explain to her that you are in fact seeing the entire frame in a letterbox format.) my dad is apathetic toward movies in general. i've taken a few film courses in college and he talks about how i "go to school to watch movies" all the time. he's joking, but it gets annoying.

and don't even get me started on trying to watch a film like suspiria or videodrome with them.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by fleetusa on July 22, 2008 at 4:19pm: I never had a film course in college. Please explain something to me about it. Is the home work watching films and reading reviews/books on the director, etc.? Or do you actually watch whole films in class and then just discuss? Does the prof actually work and teach like a prof or (excuse the put down) is the prof just like one of the class and wasting time but still earning a salary.?

Sorry to have questions maybe like your dad, but since I never took the course and don't know any one who has, I just had to ask.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Tommy on July 22, 2008 at 7:33pm: i've had film classes from two different professors. one will watch a film in class, discuss it, usually write a page describing what we thought about it. in the middle and at the end of the semester we'd have a paper about a certain film or topic. lots of foreign films in this class, stuff by fellini, truffaut, etc.

i had another class that was classic american film. it was more analytical. we'd watch, say, the philadelphia story or mr. deeds goes to town either after class or on sunday afternoon. we'd spend the next day in class discussing the film, and we also had to write brief responses and three different papers about some aspect of the films.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Signfire on July 22, 2008 at 11:04pm: "Or do you actually watch whole films in class and then just discuss? Does the prof actually work and teach like a prof or (excuse the put down) is the prof just like one of the class and wasting time but still earning a salary.?"

I've taken a Film class (as an elective) and what the instructor did was she would introduce a type of plot or style or effect and discuss its usefulness etc... then she would play a film that (in her opinion) made good use of whatever was being discussed.

Then our homework for that week was to write a page about how the film implemented the subject at hand and why we thought it was successful at that... or un-successful...

I remember we watched Run Lola Run when we were discussing Plot development styles like "the ticking clock".; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by mercurio3 on July 23, 2008 at 10:13pm: it used to be that Hollywood had the techniques and new ideas..but it seems now that Hollywood is looking up to Japan, Germany and France for new innovative ways of telling stories..such as Run Lola Run. if the idea works, then Hollywood adopts it or even cynically tries to remake the whole thing with its bubble gum actors.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Signfire on July 24, 2008 at 12:59am: That's so true... Like the way they turned La Femme Nikita into "an ok movie" called Point of No Return...

But wait - they also had to make it into a really bad TV show to boot...; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by mercurio3 on July 23, 2008 at 10:08pm: Every professor teaches differently. Some teach you filming techniques and History. Others do just show you movies and have you discuss the topic of that week such as camera movement, the importance of certains things like props, anbiance and custome to tell a story and so on.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Wretched on July 22, 2008 at 4:12pm: My mom has always had interesting taste in films. She's an artist, and she never went for mainstream films (aside from big, dumb fun from time to time), so growing up she was a great influence. My wife likes bad sci-fi. I do not. We both share a love of indy and foreign films, but whereas I can watch a great movie over and over, she never wants to see a movie again, unless it's The Big Lebowski (which is good, since I watch that often). A lot of my friends have interesting taste in movies, but haven't sought out obscure titles ... obscure to them, not to the bulk of people here. My brother-in-law and I are 93% similar with each of us rating over 4000 movies.; ▶ Reply to This