Exceptions in your taste
What are some exceptions in your film taste? Meaning, you generally love a genre of film but dislike a particular subgenre, or you love a type of film, but abhor a particular subtype of it, or love a type of film but dislike it (or like it less) if a particular actor and/or director stars in it/made it etc.
Here are some of my exceptions:
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I love modern Scandi cinema but hated 'Another Round'.
I love French new wave but struggle a little with Goddard. I love Lee Chang Dong but didn't like 'Burning' much. I like Alex Garland output but struggled with 'Annihilation'. I love sports, but I hate sports films. I hate musicals but I loved 'Dancer in the Dark'., |
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I think "I normally hate X but I liked Y" is one of the most interesting things to ponder. I think those kinds of wrinkles are huge opportunities for broadening our tastes, or at least understanding something about ourselves and why we do or don't like things. And I think that's important. Taste should be a jumping off point, the start of a discussion rather than its end.
My version of this usually involves Magnolia but I would struggle to encapsulate the type of film it is fairly for the first half of the formula. I suppose it'd have to be something like "really long, ponderous, melodramas" or something but even that sounds kind of pat. |
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The idea for the thread is more like "I normally love X but I hated Y" instead of "I normally hate X but I liked Y". But the latter is acceptable to post here, too, of course.
Magnolia is probably my favorite Anderson film. The guy is pretty hit-or-miss for me. I hated Magnolia on my first watch but loved it on my second watch. I'm scared to watch it again, fearing I'd hate it again. LOL. |
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My taste was wrecked by long Covid, so I now love everything on Netflix and abhor the Criterion Collection. Have Mercy!
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Wow. Just when I thought I couldn't hate Covid even more.
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Off the top of my head, I love Godard, but I only thought Alphaville was ok.
I like Italian Giallo and horror films, but I struggle with Fulci. I like watching Spaghetti Westerns but find I don’t enjoy many of them. |
Originally Posted by Wyldesyde19 (Post 2381989)
Off the top of my head, I love Godard, but I only thought Alphaville was ok.
Originally Posted by Wyldesyde19 (Post 2381989)
I like Italian Giallo and horror films, but I struggle with Fulci.
Originally Posted by Wyldesyde19 (Post 2381989)
I like watching Spaghetti Westerns but find I don’t enjoy many of them.
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Originally Posted by Mr Minio (Post 2381991)
Alphaville is my top 3 Godard. What are your top 3 of his?
I've seen The Beyond twice and still don't like it (the soundtrack is masterful, though), but there are multiple Fulcis I do like, including but not limited to Don't Torture a Duckling, Four of the Apocalypse, City of the Living Dead, and The New York Ripper. I loved Spaghetti Westerns right away. It did take me some time to start enjoying American Westerns, though. As for Fulci, of those listed by you, I haven’t seen Four of the Apocalypse yet, but the ones I have o thought were only ok or bad. |
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I dislike Covid but enjoy the number - 19
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I adore Godard but I don't adore Breathless.
It might be my least favorite of his prime 60s period (I've never seen Carabinieres or Petit Soldat) |
Here’s another from me:
I love the Coen Bros, but I don’t like Fargo, Raising Arizona or Barton Fink. |
Originally Posted by ScarletLion (Post 2381936)
I love modern Scandi cinema but hated 'Another Round'.
I love sports, but I hate sports films. I hate sports but I love sports films |
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I hate sports and hate sports films... Unless it's about a Japanese high-school girl sports team. Then I hate to love it. If it's American schoolgirls, I love to hate it. Did I cover all options?
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Originally Posted by Gideon58 (Post 2382394)
I hate sports but I love sports films
I've explored this a little and have come to the conclusion that sports films are usually fables of sorts - they have a lesson to teach and a perfect structure in which to teach it (since the competition of sports is often a microcosmic allegory to various aspects of life). Now compared to real professional sports these days, it's mostly about money & business & manipulating the masses - not that any of that can't also encompass allegories for life, but sports stories derived from those aspects come from a different direction (as opposed to the lesson of say, how good sportsmanship & fair play is more important than winning). |
Originally Posted by Captain Steel (Post 2382426)
Now compared to real professional sports these days, it's mostly about money & business & manipulating the masses - not that any of that can't also encompass allegories for life, but sports stories derived from those aspects come from a different direction (as opposed to the lesson of say, how good sportsmanship & fair play is more important than winning). I'm quite happy to sit through an entire weekend of Formula one racing or a San Francisco Giants baseball game. But I hated the film 'Rush' with a passion, even though it was a true story. The hammy acting and over the top fast paced scenes were too much for me. And I think I turned 'Trouble with the Curve off' it was so bad. |
I liked most of 50s Kurosawa even though I normally can't stand japanese stuff. Especially Ikiru, I think that's as good as they're gonna get. The same goes for jewish directors and Evil Dead 2, Spidey 2 and Alexandr Nevskiy, as well as creatives from Zagreb and H-8 (1958).
Despite being a fan of Aleksei Balabanov, his film Cargo 200 left me rather cold. I'm not a fan of 90s hollywood, especially late 90s, but Dark City and The Truman Show were pretty awesome. Kaya, I Will Kill You and Come and See are rare examples of good ww2 films for me. |
Originally Posted by Tramuzgan (Post 2382654)
I liked most of 50s Kurosawa even though I normally can't stand japanese stuff. Especially Ikiru, I think that's as good as they're gonna get. The same goes for jewish directors
https://i.ibb.co/f1WKZdb/Screenshot-...-15-022556.jpg |
Originally Posted by StuSmallz (Post 2382760)
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100 Greatest Jewish directors
A lot of my favorites there...and I'm sure there's a whole bunch more that could be added to that list. |
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