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
- 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 +