The three movie genres Ian McKellen hates with a passion: “Bore the pants off me”Despite being 86 years old and a veteran of stage and screen since the early 1960s, you certainly can’t accuse Ian McKellen of not moving with the times: his latest role involves appearing ‘virtually’ in a New York play during which the audience all wear special mixed-reality glasses. While he’s perfectly at home in drama or there are, however, certain types of films that McKellen won’t touch, as he revealed to The Telegraph, writing: “There are various film genres that I dislike. McKellen continued: “Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday suits my sense of humour. It’s virtually silent, and the jokes are so visual and tell you so much about people’s characters. Doomsday will bring together the Avengers, the Thunderbolts, the Fantastic Four and the X-Men in an all bets are off mash-up the likes of which moviegoers have never witnessed before.