Mine is a bit niche. Male anti hero protagonist revenge movies. Usually takes place in england. Always has a heavy criminal element, a good bit of violence and the lead usually dies in the end. Recent favorites include “Bull” “Avengment” and “Villan”. Not sure if this specific type of movie is a genre or not but there’s plenty of them.
I only take my kids to the theater when I want to see a cartoon kids movie and not look like a creep.
Great answer.
Japanese monster fighting movies. Godzillas especially but it needs to be guys in rubber suits doing stunts shot in slow motion. If you have that, I’m there. No matter how bad the acting no matter how bad the story, no matter how horrendous the dub. Give me big rubber monsters fighting and I’m there.
no matter how horrendous the dub
You willingly watch dubbed movies!? Now that’s the first answer here for which I really understand the guilt.
I like both. But a ridiculous dub can add a lot of fun to an already ridculous movie.IE All Monsters Attack
Great answer! Kaiju movies are awesome.
Shitty b movies. Anything by the asylum, anything that may have once appeared on an episode of MST3K, any weird VHS your parent brought home for you one day back in the 90s by some obscure polish director that you half-remember and now that you think about it where the hell did your parents even find that movie?
I get the vibe, I’ve never been able to get into that type of thing though.
Those with ridiculous/silly movie plots:
Olympus has Fallen
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North Korea attacks the US… a whole ass plane managed to sneak into a country’s airspace undetected by the air force… lmao what?
London Has Fallen
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World leaders all getting killed in one massive attack, royal guard infiltrated by terrorists? somehow America’s got the america-centric plot armor and US president survives? what lolol
Moonfall
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The Moon is actually an Artificial Construct with an AI program lolol.
So silly I can’t seriously recommend them to anyone, but the plot is so stupid that its hillarious to watch, comedy heaven.
Dumb action movies are always a great time killer.
Mine is Nic Cage. It doesn’t matter how bad it is, if he’s in it, I have to watch it.
Used to do Nic Cage movie nights with friends where we’d do a double feature and get wine drunk. Absolutely beautiful way to spend a night.
I like him alot too. “The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent” was his best in awhile.
apocalyptic movies.
recently watched 2012 just to see what a good president is like.
independence day. same thing.
deep impact. same thing.
I love apocalyptic movies. Ironically, not really the ones you listed. I more prefer bleak post apocalypse movies like “the road”, “light of my life” or “the book of eli”. Not that I dont like the ones you listed. I’d just more categorize them as blockbuster disaster movies. Like “the day after tomorrow”.
oh I like those too.
my favorite scene in day after tomorrow is when they fall through the glass ceiling into the mall. I always imagine how wild it would be to visit such a place decades after the event and everything is exactly where it was, perfectly frozen.
Yeah, there was a cool show on some channel when I was a kid. Called something like “after people” it went area by area and discussed what it would look like if all humans disappeared X year to Y year.
Life After
HumansPeople. I loved it.Yeaaaaaaa thats it
I don’t consider anything I watch a guilty pleasure, since I’m pretty open about watching B and bad movies.
I enjoy movies where a director has made a surprisingly successful cult movie and on the back of that got creative freedom and a big budget from a studio, which they then used to create something beautiful and terrifying. My exemplar movie for this is Southland Tales, which I absolutely love on all possible levels.
I really like movies that commit to a sharp genre turn. The Guest (2014) is a great example.
Lastly, spaghetti westerns. This seems like a maybe more mainstream choice, but had a conversation in real life not too long ago with somebody who had no interest in any kind of western and didn’t know about the distinction between classic and spaghetti. When I was articulating the difference I was able to boil it down to classic westerns being nostalgia and romanticization of the American west, while spaghetti westerns were made by people with no nostalgia for it. It creates a subgenre which is grittier and more morally grey than the John Wayne era movies. My favorite is Once Upon A Time In The West, though I’d recommend people work up to that by watching other genre movies first.
Nice thorough answer. I agree about westerns and the subgenres.
Period dramas set in France. On one hand there’s the glitter and social schemes, on the other, justice and revolution.
That’s definitely niche! Great answer.
Always been a fan of raunchy comedies. Superbad is probably my favorite as it reminds me of my high school days, but others like 40-Year-Old Virgin, Euro Trip, and Step Brothers are also high up on the list.
Solid answer.
Miyazaki movies and animations. Love Lupin III
the watercolor background art is great
I’ve been sick this week and have watched a few
today I watched The Boy and the Heron and really enjoyed it
oh yeah, I’m 50+ without kids so I don’t have any influence from little ones. But I do show them to my nieces and nephews, so they can be cool kids when they know about these things and their peers discover it
I’ve heard the name but couldnt place a movie or specific genre associated. I watch animated stuff rarely but there are some good ones out there.
he is the greatest animator of our lifetime. The Japanese Walt Disney
Have any recommendations that might pull me in?
It’s hard for me to not just list his entire filmography. Princess Mononoke and Spirited Away are his two most popular films, so I guess start there.
Okay yeah, I have seen spirited away when I was a young lad. Anime in general is tough for me to get into. I’ve liked a few but they are always gritty and violent. “Vinland saga” “cyberpunk” “ghost in the shell” “parasite”. I know there’s a name for the type of anime I like but I dont remember it.
If you haven’t seen it already: Dead Man’s Shoes, should tickle your pickle.
The 1940 one or the 2004 one?
2004 - Shane Meadows starring Paddy Considine
Oooooohhhhhhh reallllyyyyy now. After reading a breakdown, it does indeed, tickle my pickle.
One of my favourite films of all time.
I’m currently finishing a movie called “furioza” but once its over I plan on finding and watching it. I’m staying up all night watching movies with my buddy.
Found footage horror. Creep 1 and 2 are my favorites of the genre.
I heavily agree. Found footage is a phenomal genre! Creep is one of my all time favorite spooky movies.
Gotta be found family movies, particularly if the parental figure didn’t want the responsibility in the first place or if they’re clueless, gruff, and/or emotionally not prepared for a child.
So movies like Logan, Ice Age, Wild Robot, Up, or Despicable Me and shows like The Last of Us, The Mandalorian, Game of Thrones (Arya and the Hound), and The Witcher.
I was trying to think of more found family mother shows and movies and honestly couldn’t think of more. Most of the ones involving women that I could find are of friend groups or there was no hesitation to pretty much adopt the child.
Found family, never somethjng I really considered to be a genre. You’re absolutely right though and I do love that kind of story.
Marvel movies.
Those are definitely guilty ones.
That guilt is real. I readily admit to romcoms and kaiju movies, but knowing that every time I buy a ticket, I help feed the billion dollar slop machine, that stings.
Is it too much to ask to put links with the titles (IMDb or other film sites)? Or at least the year of release…?
To the three movies I referenced?
