Do you ever not watch something because you don't like the look of it?

liah

I keep avoiding films, tv shows, etc. because I either don't like the way it's filmed or the actor in it or even just an actor's face. No matter how well reviewed they are, I keep avoiding it until I finally cave in and watch.

Like Schindler's List-- I kept putting off watching it because I didn't want to sit through hours and hours of uncontrasting black and white. Fortuantely the inclusion of Liam Neeson and Ralph Fiennes (dear god the things I would do..) finally won me over into watching it.

I didn't want to watch the show "Dead Like Me" because there was just something that bugged me about the lead actresses face as well as the way the credits were done (right down to the font used!), but I finally got around to watching it and now I'm addicted.

I tend to avoid old classic films because they don't visually appeal to me. It's a huge shame because I love quality films and I'm missing out on a lot of them because of it, but I just can't bring myself to watch.

If I don't like a book cover or a CD cover, I won't buy it, or in the case of books I'll generally look for another version of the same, since sometimes paperbacks and hardcovers have different cover art.

I'm a ridiculously visual person, and I'm curious as to whether or not anyone else does this. I have a feeling the answer is going to be a resounding "no," and I'm just being stupidly superficial.. but I'm not at all like that when it comes to actual people.

Thoughts?

Jet Black

liah wrote: »

I keep avoiding films, tv shows, etc. because I either don't like the way it's filmed or the actor in it or even just an actor's face. No matter how well reviewed they are, I keep avoiding it until I finally cave in and watch.

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dlofnep

You're missing out on alot of good films.

Start getting stuck into IMDB's top 250.

galwayrush

I tried to avoid Forest Gump, but when i was finally forced to watch it, what a wonderful film it turned out to be.:cool:

GiftofGab

I tend to know weather id like a film or not by watching the first 5 mins. I dont really like old films too. They just look cheap, old and even the actors seem worse.

As for books that a a different ball game. The cover doesn't tell you a thing about the book.

Earthhorse

liah wrote: »

If I don't like a book cover or a CD cover, I won't buy it, or in the case of books I'll generally look for another version of the same, since sometimes paperbacks and hardcovers have different cover art.

When it comes to books, I do love a good cover, but it won't put me off buying something I really need to read. Usually, I'm not in any hurry to do so and will hold off buying a book until I see a cover on it that I really want to keep.

liah

dlofnep wrote: »

You're missing out on alot of good films.

Start getting stuck into IMDB's top 250.

I love film. I hate crap ones, I'm incredibly fussy about the ones I watch. I've seen the majority of the top 250 as well as a lot of other underrated ones, it's just it takes me an awful long time to get over the visuals.

Pighead

Anything that is presented with a Northern Ireland presenter. Pighead has absolutely nothing against our Northern brethern but as soon as he hears the accent it's time to switch over. Their news is rubbish, their final score is rubbish and most of all that Julian Simmons character on the U-T-V is rubbish.

P.C.

Lots of movies I have no desire to watch -

mostly because I just could not be bothered to make the effort to watch them .

I don't care how good some people think they are, I have better things to do with my time, than watch a movie that does not interest me.

Ginny

Anything with Tom Cruise or Will Smith, can't stand them, I don't think I'm missing much though..

phasers

Nicholas Cage movies


:mad:

Burgo

Ginny wrote: »

Anything with Tom Cruise or Will Smith, can't stand them, I don't think I'm missing much though..

You're missing out on Topgun !

Dartz

Susan Boyle. **** ugly. I don't wanna see that pan-face on my TV again.

Stench Blossoms

If Adam Sandler is in it I won't watch it.

GirlInterrupted

liah wrote: »

If I don't like a book cover or a CD cover, I won't buy it, or in the case of books I'll generally look for another version of the same, since sometimes paperbacks and hardcovers have different cover art.

I'm a ridiculously visual person, and I'm curious as to whether or not anyone else does this. I have a feeling the answer is going to be a resounding "no," and I'm just being stupidly superficial.. but I'm not at all like that when it comes to actual people.

Thoughts?

I'm the same with books, or if I do buy it because someone has talked it up to me, I'll go to stupid lengths to avoid looking at the cover.

I only avoid movies if they star Tom Cruise. Nobody gives me the creeps quite like he does.
I'd watch Hitler himself as the lead in a rom-com in preference to Tom Cruise.

So I suppose it means that yes, I do judge a book by its cover.:o

Glowing

It annoys me to sit in a room that has been painted the 'wrong' colour.

shenanigans1982

Used to do it with comics when I was younger....I would never buy anything that didn't feature any main characters. Took me a while to get around to a lot of great stories because of this.

stepbar

liah wrote: »

I keep avoiding films, tv shows, etc. because I either don't like the way it's filmed or the actor in it or even just an actor's face. No matter how well reviewed they are, I keep avoiding it until I finally cave in and watch.

Like Schindler's List-- I kept putting off watching it because I didn't want to sit through hours and hours of uncontrasting black and white. Fortuantely the inclusion of Liam Neeson and Ralph Fiennes (dear god the things I would do..) finally won me over into watching it.

I didn't want to watch the show "Dead Like Me" because there was just something that bugged me about the lead actresses face as well as the way the credits were done (right down to the font used!), but I finally got around to watching it and now I'm addicted.

I tend to avoid old classic films because they don't visually appeal to me. It's a huge shame because I love quality films and I'm missing out on a lot of them because of it, but I just can't bring myself to watch.

If I don't like a book cover or a CD cover, I won't buy it, or in the case of books I'll generally look for another version of the same, since sometimes paperbacks and hardcovers have different cover art.

I'm a ridiculously visual person, and I'm curious as to whether or not anyone else does this. I have a feeling the answer is going to be a resounding "no," and I'm just being stupidly superficial.. but I'm not at all like that when it comes to actual people.

Thoughts?

Is it because you are hotz?

Terry

This thread.
Ahhhhh ha ha ha ha ha ha.
I'm a gas fecker altogether.

Terry

liah wrote: »

I keep avoiding films, tv shows, etc. because I either don't like the way it's filmed or the actor in it or even just an actor's face. No matter how well reviewed they are, I keep avoiding it until I finally cave in and watch.

Like Schindler's List-- I kept putting off watching it because I didn't want to sit through hours and hours of uncontrasting black and white. Fortuantely the inclusion of Liam Neeson and Ralph Fiennes (dear god the things I would do..) finally won me over into watching it.

Why would you want to watch a depressing film where you know the outcome?
It's like saying you watched Titanic but didn't expect the ship to sink.

I didn't want to watch the show "Dead Like Me" because there was just something that bugged me about the lead actresses face as well as the way the credits were done (right down to the font used!), but I finally got around to watching it and now I'm addicted.

The only sad part about that is that the show was cancelled and then they made a lame film.

I tend to avoid old classic films because they don't visually appeal to me. It's a huge shame because I love quality films and I'm missing out on a lot of them because of it, but I just can't bring myself to watch.

Citizen cane is a classic.
The bear did it.

Pighead wrote: »

Anything that is presented with a Northern Ireland presenter. Pighead has absolutely nothing against our Northern brethern but as soon as he hears the accent it's time to switch over. Their news is rubbish, their final score is rubbish and most of all that Julian Simmons character on the U-T-V is rubbish.

Northern part of the island, you say?

Ginny wrote: »

Anything with Tom Cruise or Will Smith, can't stand them, I don't think I'm missing much though..

Will Smith is the most over-rated actor in history.

orla wrote: »

If Adam Sandler is in it I won't watch it.

You're obviously not a seagull.

P.C.

P.C. wrote: »

Lots of movies I have no desire to watch -

mostly because I just could not be bothered to make the effort to watch them .

I don't care how good some people think they are, I have better things to do with my time, than watch a movie that does not interest me.

To add to this, I rarely ever watch films that others recommend because it seems that a lot of films these days are hugely overhyped. People always tell me about "the best film ever", and it always turns out to be average, at best.


Look at the fuss around The Dark Knight for example. A good film? Yes. an amazingly, super, fantastic film? Afraid not.


I tend to favour films from the late 80s and early 90s for some reason. When they were original and funny, and not remakes of films before them (Poor Terminator has been ruined, and I dread to see what the do to Robocop).

tommyboy2222

Amelie

neoB

phasers wrote: »

Nicholas Cage movies


:mad:

Have to agree with that one. Jebus whats with him anyways? I don't even want to watch previews with sad old Nic. I have to change the channel.
All those funny haha movies that look really ridiculous. ex: observe and report, pinapple express. Sooner or later though, I'll breakdown and watch just like I did with strange wilderness. Haha, good stuff.

RonMexico

Anything with Helena Bonham Carter pisses me off. Stupid name, stupid head and annoying as ****. It also annoys me that she appears in films that are otherwise usually good. The whore.

Senna

If Nicole Kidman is in it, i wont watch it. Hate her, not sure why.

Biggins

Superficial horror fims, Tom 'nutcase' Cruise, Brain-deading Soaps, ANYTHING with Paris Hilton, Lohan or Britney!

Aidric

Anything with Gerry Ryan in it. What a horrible prick.

Snowie

I wouldn't watch something because of the cover.. I think it depends on whos directed and produced it and at that it can be hit and miss, what i will say is if it say rob cohen I've no interest...

But to be fair it depends weather I'm flaking, or in the moood to watch some thing that ocupys my mind....

as for music, I bought Unkle, never never land which is a wicked album On a wim because I liked the cover...

KnifeWRENCH

I could never watch Grey's Anatomy because Ellen Pompeo bugs the hell out of me. Just looking at her makes me wanna slap her in the face with a fish.

I could never listen to the Manic Street Preachers becuase Nicky Wire is one of the most loathsome people to have ever existed. I don't care how critically acclaimed they are or how catchy their pretence-loaded songs are: that man is unbearable.

Lord Nikon

Meh, to avoid a film because someone is in it, I think is silly. Watch it for the film, you know, the story being told. You could love planes and have an interest in them, and a film that has planes is in it comes out with Tom Cruise in it, and "ewe, Tom Cruise is in it, bah humbug". FAIL.

Enjoy the story being told. If you spend the whole film nitpicking out actors, you miss the story/film, and wasted your time watching it in the first place.

Some say Ben Affleck or Matt Damon is a twat, and you don't like them. But a good film is not just the actor in the film. Good Will Hunting comes to mind.

phasers

Oh yeah Ben Affleck is a twat

Gummy Panda

liah wrote: »

Like Schindler's List-- I kept putting off watching it because I didn't want to sit through hours and hours of uncontrasting black and white. Fortuantely the inclusion of Liam Neeson and Ralph Fiennes (dear god the things I would do..) finally won me over into watching it.

You flicked yourself off during Schindler's List?

Soul Cake Duck

If Andie MacDowell or Sandra Bullock are in a film I simply must avoid it...even the hair ad that MacDowell one does..nnnneeh

liah

Gummy Panda wrote: »

You flicked yourself off during Schindler's List?

I'm not even going to ask how on earth you came to that conclusion..

HJ Simpson

Anything with "Reality" or "Celebrity" in the title big brother etc. Cant watch them without wishing I was dead!

Lord Nikon

HJ Simpson wrote: »

Anything with "Reality" or "Celebrity" in the title big brother etc. Cant watch them without wishing I was dead!

I concur, unless the title was "Slow Celebrity, Fast Animal".