do folks with generic movie tastes bother you?

I'm a bit afraid to say anything. I may come off as "generic"

My tastes are all over the place. I love classics:
Come Back Little Sheba
All About Eve
The Grapes Of Wrath
Of Mice And Men
And many more.
Nior, like Double Indemnity and Casablanca....

Hitchcock:
Notorious
Rope
Rear Window
Shadow of a Doubt
Dial M For Murder
The Man who Knew Too Much
And MORE!

I also love crap horror films. The cheesier the better. I enjoy old screwball comedies...
So much more. Like I said, I'm all over the place.
Am I "generic"?

Not at all...
Takes all types

We have a pretty mixed group with all sorts of tastes here and that keeps the conversations interesting

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I am a huge fan of The Breakfast Club but I remember seeing it in the theatre as a kid and have good memories associated with it. I also like a lot of movies that I know are crap. I love cheesy horror movies. I really love disaster movies, especially ones made in the 70's. That doesn't mean that I don't appreciate other movies, but sometimes I think it's okay just to want to be entertained.

I do find your choices for generic movies a little odd. I think all four of those movies have something about them that made them good. What made you pick those? Is it just because they are popular? Do you consider Citizen Kane or The Godfather to be generic as well?

The only thing that bothers me is when people say their favorite movies are superhero movies (Animated movies also fall into this). THAT is what I consider generic these days. Recently someone told me they were excited to see Infinity Wars because the first one was AWESOME. Oh? What was awesome about it? They simply shrugged and said well I only saw most of it but it was entertaining.

..If you don't have the willpower to sit through a two hour movie WITHOUT touching your phone every 4 seconds then I'm annoyed.

Other than that, I don't care what anyones preferences are, you like what you like. :)

Interesting

Not really. Even people with really obscure taste in film usually say their favourite film is something very mainstream like ET or Cape Fear or The Wizard of Oz because at heart we generally all like simple, well told and well shot stories.

However, I do understand what you're saying about film students and even up and coming film makers. Especially the ones who all happen to love, for example, The Godfather films, who all list Martin Scorsese as their favourite director of all time and whose own work is very watered down inflections of their favourite filmmaker's works. This is not specific to Scorsese fans. As another example, there are plenty of Spielberg and Cameron fans who are hoping to write the next Jurassic Park and Titanic. You know the ones I'm talking about. Once you see their taste, then you look at their work, you start to get a very unpleasant image of what the future of their film making looks like. And generic fits that future.

not really. people are entitled to their preferences, & i've always tried to take a laissez faire approach to such things.

there's a quote from steve albini that i've always thought captured exactly how i think such things should be approached. he was speaking about music, of course, but i think it's a good way of looking at life in general. might seem a little trite or obvious, but it really rings true to me:

Question: How is it not difficult though to listen to - let's be honest, to listen to lousy bands? Having to work with them day after day after day and not want to make suggestions? Other than recording suggestions.

Answer: Well, I think I've been in enough situations to realize that every band has an aesthetic. It may not be an aesthetic that I find particularly laudable or whatever, but it might just be that I don't get it. Before he died, John Peel said something that I thought was really profound. He said when he gets a record from somebody and he doesn't like it, he assumes that it's his problem and that the band would not have made that record if there wasn't something valuable about it. And I kinda feel like that's an appropriate perspective. Like this band wants to make this record - for some reason, they really want to do this - and they can get a lot of satisfaction out of it. And I get to witness their satisfaction, and how fucking cool is that? It's like being there on Christmas morning watching kids open their presents. It's like you get to see somebody having the time of his life, satisfying some deep ambition of his, and bringing something into existence from his own creative impulse. Seeing the satisfaction in other people and getting to be a part of it and helping that happen - regardless of what it is, it could be a fucking nursery rhyme, you know? But that it happens at all is immensely rewarding.