[NT] NTs and pop culture

[Kangirl]

Do you (other NTs) have any specific genre tastes in TV, movies, books etc.? I've always loved post apocalyptic scenarios, and I think this is because the part of me that is deeply pleased by organizing! and planning! loves to wonder what I would do and how I would do it etc.

Anyone else?

I've also always hated sitcoms. Some were good but most were torture.

 

[EffEmDoubleyou]

I'm an INTJ and I hate science fiction, which I think is unusual. For movies I like comedy best and mystery/thrillers next, and I even like some romantic comedies if they're good. For TV I like sitcoms (again, if they're good) and the hour long shows that kind of straddle comedy and drama. Books I read nonfiction almost exclusively.

 

[booyalab]

I'm an INTJ and I hate science fiction, which I think is unusual.

Actually, I think science fiction is usually more of an INTP thing.

I've also always hated sitcoms. Some were good but most were torture.

Yeah. Laugh tracks are the worst.

I don't think I can say I prefer specific genres. I would probably consider most examples of each to be crappy. But I do like some specific directors and writers.

 

[Works]

I tend to read a lot of young adult fiction, but that mainly has to do with the fact that I'm an English teacher.

I mostly watch educational shows on TV. I.E. history channel and the discovery channel. House M.D. is my one guilty pleasure.

 

[Orangey]

TV: I don't have one, so I don't watch much. That being said, if I go to my parent's house over holiday or something, I'll watch some Family Matters reruns just to make fun of them (you should see the episode about guns with the Freddy Prince Junior cameo, it's hilarious *and not for the punchlines*). I also kind of like myth busters, House (yes, I'm guilty), and Daria reruns if I'm bored.

Movies: I'm a bit of a movie snob. I generally like independent films and documentaries. The latest one I saw was Zizek!

Although, similar to my Family Matters undertaking, I do like to watch bad Hollywood movies to make fun of them. The latest (and best) film to fall under this category is The Happening. They seriously should have billed that one as a comedy.

Books: I read almost 99% non-fiction these days, but before that, I did enjoy some fantasy and science fiction. Oh, and also classic literature, but not really so much for enjoyment as as much as to just be able to say that I'd read them.

 

[Tallulah]

I'm an INTJ and I hate science fiction, which I think is unusual. For movies I like comedy best and mystery/thrillers next, and I even like some romantic comedies if they're good. For TV I like sitcoms (again, if they're good) and the hour long shows that kind of straddle comedy and drama. Books I read nonfiction almost exclusively.

Ditto for me.

 

[Kangirl]

Sci Fi has never done it for me, either. Not as a genre anyway.

 

[Simplexity]

TV: I pretty much stick to a lot of sports (I know not an option), but other than that maybe some documentaries, occasional drama, used to watch a little Anime. Science, technology and videogame stuff is always great.

Movies: I pretty much watch action and drama movies. Good comic type movies and if a popular movie looks interesting and it passes some general reviews on rotten tomatoes. I have some movie buff friends so I might steal some favorites from them.

Books: Whatever is my current fascination, these days it's pretty much all non-fiction. I used to be a big harry potter, vampire, and general fantasy nerd. A lot of animal related books too but with an adventure twist. Where the red fern grows, Sunwing, and books written in that vein. I used to have a fascination with animal ecology and how they hunted, thought, and survived. I have a decent amount of trivia stored in that domain.

Nowadays I pretty much have a cycle going on business books, pop neuroscience books, psychology, economics and technology. Anything with higher level analysis on even general things will catch my interests. I've run across a number of sports books written that way and I loved them. Feeding the Monster was a good sort of "biography" that helped me see baseball in a different light than I'd seen it before.

 

[Venom]

Oddly enough, the maturity of my movie/book choices are inversely correlated to how immature my TV watching has become (if i keep this up I might be watching Disney by the time i'm 30 )



TV: By my choice of TV...people would probably think I was ENTP or something: I love WEIRD TV. Family guy makes 'MXC' look like Shakespeare, and yet Family Guy is almost sane and intelligible when compared to what I choose to watch on TV...and no... its not porn I pretty much stick to watching "adult swim" (oh the irony, when compared to the porn comment haha) on cartoon network with weirdness such Robot Chicken, Super Jail, Venture Bros... the more 'conservative' shows i like: Scrubs and Futurama.

When im home from school on break i tend to get into a routine of watching the daily show and colbert report every night.


Movies: Fantasia was by far my favorite movie as a little kid ...i watched a bajizilions milliajillian times. Now I tend to stick to poignant and 'powerful' movies (donnie darko, gladiator, darknight/batman begins...) Austin Powers still holds a special place in my funny bone

As a rule: comedy works better for ongoing series (TV), and drama/serious works better for movies.

Books: As a little kid I read just about every "classic" known to man: from robin hood to king arthur, charles dickens to mark twain, HG Wells to J.R. Tolkien... Now I just read non-fiction on topics like naturalism or theoretical physics or pop-economist books

 

[dga]

I lvoe documentaries, parodies, indie films, and have a soft spot for cult classics (however i have zero interest in watching rocky horror picture show). I dont watch tv, but used to enjoy the simpsons and have ogtten my hands on the latest south parks, weeds, entourage, and aqua teen hunger force was kinda funny the first time through.

 

[Risen]

Horror sucks because it's never horrifying.

 

[Totenkindly]

Do you (other NTs) have any specific genre tastes in TV, movies, books etc.? I've always loved post apocalyptic scenarios, and I think this is because the part of me that is deeply pleased by organizing! and planning! loves to wonder what I would do and how I would do it etc.

I was a Trek nut throughout the 90's and loved to read fantasy (and a bit of scifi) growing up in the 70's and 80's. I also liked some horror stuff.

I've shifted away from TV and most of the genre-laden stuff now in the last ten years; Trek seems formulaic; if I had more time, I'd watch more TV since the shows seem better (I stuck with Lost for a few seasons).

I also like witty humor that still has some depth, like The Simpsons.

I've also always hated sitcoms. Some were good but most were torture.

Most sitcoms were horrible, but there have been ones over the years that I enjoyed immensely (e.g., MASH, Taxi, Cheers, Seinfeld).

Horror sucks because it's never horrifying.

Good horror is psychological in origin, not based on gimmick (although I'm seen some things that have creeped me out). Those who just try to raise the bar on shock value usually bore me.

 

[ceecee]

I don't care for sitcoms usually unless they are good (although I do like series such as The Sopranos, Californication and In Therapy). Arrested Development, The Simpsons, South Park are/were exceptions. Si-Fi I usually don't care for but I will watch some. I love most all movie genres with the exception of horror. Most of it is bad. So. Bad. Psychological thrillers are much different and if they are good I like them. Channels such as Discovery, History and Nat. Geographic as well as sports are what I watch the majority of the time.

As far as books, I do read some non-fiction but usually prefer non-fiction.

 

[miss fortune]

I get some sort of joy out of watching Law and Order for some odd reason... I think that it comes from the whole justice aspect of seeing someone actually get in trouble for thier crimes I also love Futurama, Family Guy, Robot Chicken and Psych. My pop culture whore streak drives me to watch and love things like What Not to Wear and Flavas of Love and the Pickup Artist as well *hangs head in shame*

As for movies, I either like indie films, movies that make you think (i.e. Traffic) or really dumb movies that make me happy

Books? I pretty much read anything because I am a compulsive reader

 

[ceecee]

I get some sort of joy out of watching Law and Order for some odd reason... I think that it comes from the whole justice aspect of seeing someone actually get in trouble for thier crimes I also love Futurama, Family Guy, Robot Chicken and Psych. My pop culture whore streak drives me to watch and love things like What Not to Wear and Flavas of Love and the Pickup Artist as well *hangs head in shame*

As for movies, I either like indie films, movies that make you think (i.e. Traffic) or really dumb movies that make me happy

Books? I pretty much read anything because I am a compulsive reader

In Burges. I watched it a few nights ago. I really loved it. But I'll watch Blades of Glory every time it's on too because it's stupid and funny.

 

[Totenkindly]

... Channels such as Discovery, History and Nat. Geographic ...

That + Tru is what I usually watch, if anything, now on TV.

I prefer reading psychology, philosophy, sociology, cultural studies, anthropology, spirituality/religion, etc., if anything nowadays.

I think when I was young I used books to give me a sense of options in the world and stretch. Now since I am implementing my own projects and acting on the world (rather than just taking it in), i need hard data to prime the creative pump.

 

[Darjur]

TV: Mythbusters, Braniac and sometimes House used to watch Star trek, Simpsons and futurama, still watch them if it happens to be on, but I don't go out of my way to look at the anymore. Tend to like comedians a lot, I love Rowan Atkinson as Mr.Bean.

I like the Mezzo channel for some awkward reason, I also to "watch" it a lot as well as the explorer, history, discovery, national geographic but usually it's mostly for the purpose of "background noise".

Movies: Can't stand the comedies, dramas, romance shit and the like. I like good detectives, Sci-fi ones, thought It's rare for me to watch them anyways.

Books: I'm a fan of Sci-fi to a point. I love space operas as well as detectives.

 

[Samurai Drifter]

TV/Movies: A huge amount of anime, of all sorts. My favorites are Death Note, Ghost in the Shell, Cowboy Bebop, and Tenchi Muyo. I also watch a lot of documentaries on the History channel about everything from military history to UFO investigations. And then of course there's the occasional miscellaneous show such as Futurama, Family Guy, The Twilight Zone, The Office, or Battlestar Galactica

Books: When I was a kid I read as many classics as I could find but was especially interested in the Legend of King Arthur (to the point where I read Le Morte D'Arthur). My favorite books were, and still are, sci-fi/fantasy. Nowadays I spend a lot of time reading manga, books on quantum physics, and have started reading some philosophy.

 

[Kangirl]

Fantasia was by far my favorite movie as a little kid

Ooh, me too! Still, by far, my favourite Disney movie evah.

I don't have a TV (not out of puritanism - it broke a few years ago, I never replaced it, and now if I want to watch something I can find it online) but I find cheap, manipulative TV shows fun and relaxing. Survivor? Bring it on. Watching shows like that are like giving my brain a nice rest.

I agree on the horror movie comments, too. Why DO all horror movies seem to suck rocks these days? Can anyone recommend a genuinely scary movie - and yes, psychological scares are much more effective than straight up gore.

 

[EffEmDoubleyou]

I agree on the horror movie comments, too. Why DO all horror movies seem to suck rocks these days? Can anyone recommend a genuinely scary movie - and yes, psychological scares are much more effective than straight up gore.

99% of horror movies DO suck. It's by far the genre that has the lowest hit-to-miss ratio. It's cheaper to make a gorefest with no name actors and a bad story than to write a good script that's actually scary and hire good actors to be in it. And the gorefests NEVER lose money...so that's the real reason. Horror movies suck because there is little incentive for them to be good.

Here's a few genuinely scary movies I like, only some of which are strictly "horror movies": Alien, 28 Days Later, 28 Weeks Later, Nosferatu (the 1922 one), Jaws, Misery, The Exorcist (surprisingly, I prefer the "updated" Exorcist. They added some good but subtle effects.)