Types of film we enjoy

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After just having a blazing row with a friend about if a film was good or bad, I was wondering if there were certain films or film types that would/would not appeal to someone with Aspergers?

I remember at school (girls school) people loving romantic films and things like friends, which I didn't understand. I was more into x files and niche shows.

You sound like me. I also love those shows and hate mushy stuff.

The shows that I watch right now are:

Fringe
The X-files
Eureka
Grimm
Doctor Who
Castle
Bones
Criminal Minds
Warehouse 13
Law and Order SVU

that's about it.

I like action movies, cult films, documentaries, and some fantasy and sci-fi as well. I also enjoy the occasional cheesy R-rated comedy, though they do tend to get kinda old fast.

What I do not enjoy are live-action films aimed at children, and really stupid toilet humor oriented comedies (such as 99% of Adam Sandler's backcatalogue). Other than those two things, I'm up for almost anything.

Slow-moving dramas are usually not quite my thing, but they can be amazing if done well. One example of this would be one of my favorite all-time films, Gran Torino.

Being that computers are a special interest of mine, I'm a huge sucker for movies involving computer hacking, especially those of the 80s/90s variety. Yes, I even enjoyed Hackers, despite a lot of people panning it for its technical innacuracies. It's a Hollywood movie, what can you expect?

I severely disliked Michael Bay's Transformers movie from 2007 because I thought it was loud and chaotic, and it adversely affected my senses.

But there are posters on this forum who loved it to bits, so go figure.

I never bothered with the sequels, because the trailers make them look like more of the same.

If you know where I got my signature from, you'll understand that I don't hate the Transformers franchise. I just dislike the live-action movie adaptation.

Curiously, I did not have any sensory problems with other effects-heavy action movies like Iron Man or Winter Soldier.

I find it very hard to find things I want to watch on TV, things like Grimm, warehouse 13, torchwood are the sort of things I would watch out of choice.

No I don't know your signature quote as I missed out on transformers due to my age, but I guessed the reasoning for your name before looking at your avatar

i like the slow-moving dramas mr bigmouth doesn't like. there is no aspie consensus on movie type. give me a shawshank redemption, dead poets' society, or schindler's list.

Documentaries that don't beat the viewer over the head with political messaging, histories, some fantasies and (intelligent) action films like Bourne anything.