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Favorite genre of film?

[fingalsanteater]

I dunno. Tell me your favorite film genre and why and what's your fave movie in that genre. It's been a shite week and I wanna talk about things I like.

I've been rekindling my love of spaghetti westerns this week. Lee Van Cleef's name suits his face. He looks like a hawk and an ax mated and the resulting human male shot his way out of the egg already covered in grit and sporting a wry smile. I love him. I watched "The Big Gun Down" the other day and it was the best. There was part with this woman and her harem of violent men (with several scenes if her licking her lips and obviously getting off on the fighting and gunslinging). It was great. Everyone should watch it.

But, spaghetti westerns are only, like, my fifth favorite genre of film.

My first favorite genre a film is what I loving call "Crappy Family Films Starring Animals," my favorite of which is 'A Talking Cat!?!'. Though, 'A Christmas Puppy,' is a close second, if not a tie. I love these movies because they are so charming, usually stupidly and incompetently so. Plus, they make me laugh.

Tell me yours.

Re: Favorite genre of film?

[sarillia]

Probably doesn't really count as a genre but I love animation. My favorites are probably How to Train Your Dragon and The Triplets of Belleville. In addition to adoring dragons, I love HTTYD from a disability angle. It means a lot to me even though that probably sounds silly to most people. And Belleville is just such a strange and lovely film.

I also love old suspense movies. There's a reason Hitchcock is so well known. I especially love Strangers on a Train and Notorious. I also love Wait Until Dark. I always have to take a few deep breaths after that one is over because the ending makes me forget to breath properly.

Re: Favorite genre of film?

[fingalsanteater]

I keep wanting to watch The Triplets of Belleville but haven't yet. It looks cool.

Re: Favorite genre of film?

[dethtoll]

I guess I tend to prefer psychological thrillers? Stuff that's fairly low on action, high on drama and tension with characters falling apart. A Scanner Darkly, The Trial, Memento, Jacob's Ladder, that sort of thing. I especially enjoy older films, or period films.

Re: Favorite genre of film?

[sarillia]

I love those too! I haven't gotten around to watching The Trial with Anthony Perkins though. I adore the book. It's my favorite work of Kafka's.

Re: Favorite genre of film?

[fingalsanteater]

Jacob's Ladder is great. Love that movie.

Re: Favorite genre of film?

[making_excuses]

Comedy, actiony films (especially with some kind of "historic", magical settings) with a shaky plot: Hansel and Gretel and The Sorcerer's Apprentice is two of my faves in that genre. I count. The Pirates of the Caribbean and the Mission Impossible films and films like them in that genre too I guess.

Basically what I require from a film is: Pretty people, explosions and funny moments the rest isn't a necessity. Which reminds me, I need to rewatch the Sorcerer's Apprentice...

For a film student I really do have awful taste in movies... And I get mocked because of it in class quite a lot, tho basically everyone agrees that they are entertaining.

Re: Favorite genre of film?

[fingalsanteater]

My favorite part of The Sorcerer's Apprentice was when Alfred Molina had his staff all up in Jay Baruchel's face in the bathroom.

post apocalyptic or outright apocalyptic

[caerbannog]

Post-apocalyptic sci-fis! I'm...having a pretty decent time of it right now ;)

I just really like survival type stories, I love random hodge-podge science like cobbled together guns, I like...the utter destruction of humanities building blocks and people getting together to adapt and survive with all the new dangers. So mostly post apocalyptic things fall into that kind of movie (still got to have a good story though, Elysium was so goddamn boring).

Don't mind the outright apocalyptic movies either, especially if it's not prevented and you got people just trying to survive afterwards.

That said 'Life After People' was equally cool! When all the human stuff and major human presence is gone (or a scattering of humans) things are going to change a bit!

Re: Favorite genre of film?

[(Anonymous)]

I can't really think of a "genre" but I like quirky, weird stuff that is kind of off the beaten path.

Re: Favorite genre of film?

[(Anonymous)]

Yay! Western love! <3

That Lee Van Cleef description was hilarious, and so spot on. I love the story of Sergio Leone going to cast him in 'For A Few Dollars More'. When he got off the plane to meet Lee Van Cleef he watched him walk down the road towards him, and decided to hire him before he'd even met him just based off his bad-ass walk.

In case you haven't guessed, Westerns are my favourite genre, haha. I love them because they are a real genre-genre, if you get what i'm saying. You say "Western" and everyone has the same image in their heads, it's not thriller-with-a-bit-of-horror-but-then-it's-also-a-comedy-too. Not that there's anything wrong with that of course.

'The Big Gun Down' sounds interesting and awesome, I shall have to watch that soon. As for my favourite Western...anything with Clint Eastwood in it /cheating

I do have a laundry list of Westerns I need to watch though, so yeah, I don't have an answer really.

I shall stop my rambling now. Western-anon, awaaaayy! *rides into the sunset*

Re: Favorite genre of film?

[comradesmiler]

Animation/science fiction

Re: Favorite genre of film?

[cbrachyrhynchos]

Animation, with Spirited Away as the favorite.

Re: Favorite genre of film?

[starphotographs]

Weird, cerebral, slow-paced sci-fi. The kind of movie that sometimes gets badmouthed because sci-fi = ACTION!!1! in so many people's minds.

(Stuff like 2001, Moon, Beyond the Black Rainbow, eXistenZ, etc.)

Re: Favorite genre of film?

[(Anonymous)]

I like urban fantasy. Labyrinth will always be my favorite movie ever.

ADVENTURE!

[(Anonymous)]

What I really like is adventure films. Bravery and virtue and cunning, curiosity and the unknown and the mysterious, fantastic and beautiful settings, derring-do and exciting plots. That's what I really like. Adventure.

go figure

[dreemyweird]

My three absolute favourites are Hedgehog in the Fog, Leningrad Cowboys Go America, and Judgement at Nuremberg. Also, the BTTF trilogy. I don't even know wtf kind of genre this is.

Re: Favorite genre of film?

[tabaqui]

Sci-fi. I dunno if that's a 'genre' or not, but anything and everything sci-fi. I'll watch some pretty bad stuff to see an alien or a cool spaceship.

Re: Favorite genre of film?

[(Anonymous)]

This is so hard. It really, really depends on my mood... but I can always watch a musical. Does that count?

My favorite is probably Singing in the Rain. I do love Enchanted, though.

Re: Favorite genre of film?

[sporkly]

I really like surreal somewhat nonsensical stuff. Stuff that focuses more on showing weird things happening and getting a response of the viewer than realism. I also really like use of colors and changes in the visual style, so animation lends itself well to it, but doesn't necessarily have to be. I like them because they're fun.

Cat Soup's probably the best example of what I'm talking about, but I usually go for less sad things.

Re: Favorite genre of film?

[leikomgwtfbbq]

Horror movies! I love horror and most of its subgenres (except I hate Eli Roth-type movies that are heavy on gore and low on atmosphere; while I appreciate practical effects deeply, I really have to be drawn into it and now just staring at a screen full of organs).

I'm not sure I can even pick a favorite, but I'd say John Carpenter's The Thing is way up there. My favorite horror-comedy is Tucker and Dale vs Evil.

Re: Favorite genre of film?

[nightscale]

Monster movies because I enjoy watching a giant creature stomping around going RAWR and wrecking things. My needs are simple.

Re: Favorite genre of film?

[(Anonymous)]

1: Action/Sci-Fi: Like Pacific Rim, ideally! Although I like most things that lean more Sci-Fi (like Star Wars or, lol, Galaxy Quest) or more Action (I don't mind switching my brain off for the boom-fest of the week) ideally I'd like both. Cool shinies and technology and aliens, and excitement and opportunities to cheer for the good guy and boo the bad guy. Red and its sequel are so much fun omg.

2: Found Families. Secret Garden, Cheaper by the Dozen, w/e; anything that deals with people becoming families for each other. (recs maybe? :D)

Re: Favorite genre of film?

[segnung]

Yesssss to Lee Van Cleef.

Idk, I just love film. I am more discerning when it comes to theatrical releases, but generally, I just love film. Foreign films and obscure stuff tickles my fancy more than anything, though. I collect out of print vhs of films that will never see the light of dvd and I love films that carry particular aesthetics like Michael Mann and William Friedkin's works do. Italian schlock of the '70s and '80s makes me feel warm inside and any film that utilizes long silences and equally long monologues wins my heart.

Just gimme all of it.

Re: Favorite genre of film?

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

High Fantasy movies and disaster movies, especially the end-of-the-world flavour.

While the latter are not too uncommon, the former is one of the genres that is done really badly.

My favourite High Fantasy type is LotR and The Hobbit.

Favourite disaster type: Dante's Peak, Twister, Volcano(the one starring Tommy Lee Jones where a volcano pops up in the middle of LA), The Day After Tomorrow, 2012, Supervolcano (a BBC miniseries), and for so-scientifically-inaccurate-it's-a-guilty-pleasure flavour, The Core.