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My favorite genre is Denis Villenueve.
Favorite movie is The Princess Bride, second is Life Is Beautiful.
Favorite genre is "space western".
I'd like to propose a micro-genre: Bromance films
Definition: Two or three characters (who need not actually be men) just getting up to mad shit and being great friends either before or as a result of the journey. Not entirely unlike a buddy cop movie but no need for cops.
Examples: Princess Bride, Road to El Dorado, Emperor's New Groove, Three Musketeers
This micro-genre is absolutely predicated on the quality of it's dialogue but it's some of the best out there.
I think those are called "buddy comedies", if you'd include things like Wedding Crashers.
Knights tale
Slow, boring spy films like βTinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spyβ
Favourite genre: psychological thriller
Favourite movie: Freddy Got Fingered
You and I can never be friends. Freddy Got Fingered fucked me up, and not in a good way.
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Big fan of long-form science fiction. Bladerunner 2049 is fantastic, as is Stalker by Tarkovsky.
Tarkovsky in particular has brilliant works.
Sci Fi top 6 β focusing a bit on the soft sci-fi
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2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) dir: Stanley Kubrick
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Arrival (2016) dir: Denis Villeneuve
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Her (2013) dir: Spike Jonze
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BladeRunner (1982) dir: Ridley Scott
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Children of Men (2006) dir: Alfonso CuarΓ³n
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GATTACA (1997) dir: Andrew Niccol
Little known fact: all mattes are shot on first generation film. Kubrick would shoot the matte, put the film in storage, put it back in camera, then shoot the inside of the matte. It looks pristine to this day because there was no generation loss since there was only one generation even in the most effects heavy shots.
If you haven't seen it, Ex Machina (2014) fits the vibe of your list. It's one of my favorites.
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Depending on the day, my favorite movie is either The Big Lebowski, Hot Fuzz, or Knives Out.
Favourite movie: The Lord of the Rings
Favourite genre: fantasy/sci-fi/historical movies of epic proportions with immersive worlds
I like a variety of genres, I guess two of my easy favourites are Jurassic Park and The Lion King. I'm interested in good stories, with a preference for action and/or animation/ and/or special FX.
My least preferred genres are rom coms as they tend to be cheesy and lack both action and vfx. Also not a fan of gore horror.
If the plot and characters are lame I'll still watch it for the visuals or for the action. But nothing beats a good story.
I've been building my all time favorite 100 list but my number 1 has been constantly Casino Royale. The list: https://boxd.it/jQWau
I usually don't have a specific genre of choice but I love to dig into micro genres for a stretch. Lately my favorite micro genre is "people in a room talking". The obvious ones here are 12 Angry Men, Rear Window and My Dinner with Andre. Long Days Journey into Night, Buried, Locke, Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolfe, Rope , Tape. "Before" series works well here too. A really good one I saw recently was Big Kahuna.
This also pairs well with tiny budget Sci-Fi. Like Man from Earth, Coherence, Another Earth, Moon, Vast of Night.
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I like psychologically interesting movies, though my favorites aren't necessarily all like that. Some big ones for me:
Spirited Away - Miyazaki film about a girl who stops off at an abandoned amusement park while driving to a new house with her parents, who eat food meant for spirits and become pigs. She is unable to escape and ends up in the spirit world, enslaved by a witch who controls a spirit bathhouse as the protagonist attempts to rescue her parents and escape
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind - a man and woman break up in a very lightly sci fi world where it's possible to erase people's memories, and they choose to erase each other and inevitably the man regrets it as it's happening in his mind
Perfect Blue - animated Japanese film about an Idol who tries to escape Idol life by becoming an actress, which is an incredibly difficult and stressful process as she deals with a stalker and the film/TV industry at the same time. As the movie continues she becomes so stressed and tired that the lines between reality and the films she's in begin to blur together and she starts to lose grip on reality.
21 and 22 Jump Street - FUCK they're just well written and well executed comedy.
My favorite movie is Kingpin
I just re-watched that movie and was kinda worried that it wouldn't hold up. I haven't seen that movie in like 20 years. It was way better than i remember.
Psychological thrillers, especially those from the late twentieth century. Think Suspiria and Possession.
My favorite movie is the Matrix (the first one). Gutted by what they did in the sequels.
Favorite genre is definitely Fantasy, love the world building in these movies.
Ghostbusters.
I'm a 50/50 toss up between two reasonably different genres.
The first is coming of age films, particularly queer ones. My go to film to call my favourite is Call me By Your Name, I also love Stand By Me, Aftersun and have a huge soft spot for Kiki's delivery service.
The other 'genre' is dramas / thrillers that get pretty fixated on madness, particularly from the protagonist. There will be Blood is my go to second film to say, and I love Apocalypse Now, Perfect Blue, The Witch and The lighthouse.
I'm not as much fan of when the genres overlap however, although that may be because of how small the sample size is. There are quite a few films that have a young protagonist who is finding themselves, who may end up idolising another to the point that the film falls into being a thriller. We had Saltburn last year, which people often compare to The Talented Mr Ripley, and I do enjoy these films but I never get that milestone feeling that I've just experienced a piece of media that has profoundly impacted me. The only thing that exists in this shared space is one of my favourite novels; The Picture of Dorian Gray.
Favorite: Alien Close second: Jaws Close third: GalaxyQuest
Favorite genre: sci-fi horror
Baraka and Samsara are definitely at the top for me. I also hold a special love for herzog movies.
My favourite film has gotta be 1986 "Aliens"
Some tension, some horror, some action.
And Ripley was both pretty and a good asskicker of xenos.
Horror, suspense and thriller. Documentaries too.
My favorite genre is hardcore character studies.
I just wanna see some dude living life as some dude... Idk why but it just hits. There can be an external plot but all of my favorite movies are just people surviving.
it's such a beautiful day is definitely #1
I also loved In Bruges and its discussions of morals.
Mary and Max has a lovely take on what friendship is and a lot of talk about mental health.
Other random movies I love:
Kubo and the Two Strings
The Girl with All the Gifts
The Princess Bride
Sorry To Bother You
The Florida Project
Hoodwinked
You might enjoy the series Rectify. It's slow and character-driven.
Dumb and Dumber
My mom used to say I had the taste of a teenage boy because I like sci fi and fantasy and comics so much.
LOTR trilogy is my favorite.
Pride and Prejudice with Keira Knightly is one we can watch over and over, as are Hot Fuzz and Into the Spiderverse. Those 3 are so good too but my favorite still is the Lord of the Rings trilogy.
Favourite film: The Magic Sword (1962). It's on YouTube and it's very good.
Strictly Ballroom. Baz's first film
All right, I'll have a go. My favourite film (tho not the one I've seen the most number of times (that's lotr)) is supposedly le fantΓ΄me de la libertΓ©, 1974, Luis BuΓ±uel. As for my favourite genre, I doubt I have one - there're too many excellent films in too many genres!
I like that real dark and twisted shit. Examples like swallow, run, the lodge etc I always need good psychological horror films I've never seen before
Favorite movie is Dead Alive(but that is mostly my autism canned response)
Favorite genre is horror(the good and the bad, just all of it)
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