What movie or book genres are you sick of?

Overly long books. I recently returned one to the library that gave an estimated Kindle read time of 13 hours. It was a Robert Galbraith (J. K. Rawlings pen name for her adult writings) and I've enjoyed some of them but don't seem to have the patience for a long read anymore.

I do enjoy C. J. Box and J. A. Jance especially if read in order. Both do great character development so after several, I feel as though they are family.
 
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MarciKS said:
Romance stuff. Good grief. Everything is so sexed up it's ridiculous. We're not dead but we're not all heathens either.
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I'm not interested in Romance either, never did like fantasy...ha. Also not found of espionage (especially corporate or big business espionage) or legal or political thrillers, yawn.
 
I'm tired of those 2 hour movies about teenagers gone missing, husbands cheating on wives and the reverse.
I think they use the same knife to kill off the victim in every movie and it all happens in the last teen minutes of the show.
I'm also sick of any of the series that show the actors all in masks and remarking about the virus. In other scenes they are closer than two peas in a pod.
I watch TV to escape reality for awhile. The last thing I want is to be reminded of the virus. I can get that on any news station.
Another reason I prefer to read.
 
I was never much into the Super Heroes. And vampires are not much to my liking. I may also be one of the few females who hates the Romantic comedies, or any sort of story heaving on romance and little else.
 
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Yep, I've never been into movies about super heroes or vampires, so I can't claim to be "sick" of them (I quoted myself). I just don't like them. Or movies about teenagers with supernatural powers unless it's in horror movies, then maybe, like Stephen King movies. Or romantic comedies.

The genres I mentioned in the OP, I used to like but have just gotten overly saturated with them. And with the wars in the Middle East, as well as Vietnam, they were the biggest blunders in U.S. history, so it's not at all enjoyable or entertaining, or even educational, to watch any more movies about them.
 
SetWave said:
Gimme a good (and I mean GOOD) mystery.
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I love mysteries. Especially British mysteries. Probably because they take place in a different country. But, I can't just watch mysteries. I like a good biography. Even if I don't care for the person it's about, it's interesting to see how they got to where they ended up.

Movies that tell a real story. Those 'you'll laugh-you'll cry' movies.
 
I like movies, etc., that are based upon actual historical and/or real life events. Some of these current movies....zombies, superheroes, etc., seem to be directed toward an audience of gullible teenagers.
 
Multiple-volume series that I don't realize are series until I get the book home from the library. I'm pretty good at looking at the cover and making sure it doesn't say something like "Volume 3 of the Best-Selling Home from the Hill Series" but sometimes they sneak it in.

You start reading and think, "wait a gosh-darned minute here.....who ARE these people?" Then you realize that it was all explained in the first volume and the author isn't going to waste his time explaining it again. So you go back to the library and, of course, Volume 1 is out and you're third in line to get it.

And then there are authors who have a great story that could be told beautifully in 350 pages but because they're apparently being paid by the word, the book is 700 pages long. Lots and lots of loooong flowery prose until you want to scream, "FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT'S HOLY, MAN, GET ON WITH IT!" Yes, Mr. King, I'm talking to YOU!
 
Ceege said:
I love mysteries. Especially British mysteries. Probably because they take place in a different country. But, I can't just watch mysteries. I like a good biography. Even if I don't care for the person it's about, it's interesting to see how they got to where they ended up.

Movies that tell a real story. Those 'you'll laugh-you'll cry' movies.
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I like biographies, too. It's interesting to learn how people became successful--especially when they started off without much.
 
Murrmurr said:
I'm sick of stories that take place in a dystopian/post-apocalyptic world. It's been done to death at this point, and they've become the same as normal-world stories except that life's challenges look different.
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I've noticed that when a new series is being advertised on TV, these shows seem so dark and violent. I don't want to watch them. How about a good story that is uplifting? Something we really need in these depressing times.
 

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