cf tropes I don't like

  • setting
    • period films (esp 17th-19th centuries)
    • 1800s, especially late 1800s rustic (ships, wilderness, frontiers) (e.g. beginning of frankenstein 2025; the revenant)
    • films set in pretty or exotic places (e.g. the piano)
  • themes or whatever
    • steampunk
    • gothic
  • idk
    • anything relating to bees or beekeepers (e.g. hive, honeyland...)
    • multigenerational, epic, family drama
  • plot
    • escalating pranks (e.g. bride wars)
    • small thing escalating into big thing (e.g. the insult)
    • soldiers representing opposing sides of a war have to learn to like each other (e.g. tangerines)
    • travel through multiple lands(e.g. raya and the last dragon)
  • narrative devices
    • when a relationship-driven film keeps bookends with, or keeps flashing back to, the beginnings of a relationship (e.g. one day, blue valentine)
  • other (not tropes, but)
    • viola davis, robert pattinson,
    • foreign/foreign language films
apr 1 2021 ∞
jan 10 2026 +