Try to be specific if possible. Like horror could mean many things, a fan of classic Dracula films may not like Green Room. An action fan who loves Rocky and Raging Bull may not like The Raid or Inglorious Basterds. That being said, which genres/sub-genres of movies are generally your favorites? I’ve always been a fan of gross-out humor and dumb humor like Jackass and Stepbrothers. I also really love a few movies that are political like Wag The Dog (which Benjamin Norton recommended in a Multipolarista episode) and Мать (1926) I highly recommend that one, it was made in the USSR about the 1905 Revolution

  • knfrmity@lemmygrad.ml
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    1 year ago

    I enjoy campy action films the most. I’ll watch Underworld, Resident Evil, various Jean Claude van Damme films regularly. I like and regularly enjoy a bunch of other stuff too, but these ones are my “feel good” movies.

  • commiespammer@lemmygrad.ml
    3·
    1 year ago

    I like action movies, preferably where the entire movie is just people shooting each other up. Nothing too complicated. I also like sci-fi movies with space guns and big fleet battles (star wars)

    • ButtigiegMineralMap@lemmygrad.mlOP
      2·
      1 year ago

      You can never go wrong with comedy, my favorites are usually movies I grew up with (ones I wasn’t allowed to watch which made me want to watch them more🤣) like Tropic Thunder, The Other Guys, Stepbrothers and a bunch of shitty Adam Sandler movies, I wish I could talk shit about Adam Sandler but my humor is seriously stuck at like 2nd grade and I still find Billy Madison and Happy Gilmore funny smh

  • 小莱卡@lemmygrad.ml
    2·
    1 year ago

    Mystery movies are my favorite. Shutter island, usual suspects, gone girl, glass onion (+other one) for example.

    • ButtigiegMineralMap@lemmygrad.mlOP
      1·
      1 year ago

      I’m slapping myself right now, I should’ve added Mystery, I liked Knives Out and Shutter Island a lot, definitely one of my favorite genres when done right

  • Rojo113@lemmy.ml
    31·
    1 year ago

    Horror, but in 2 very separate categories.

    1. legitimate horror and suspense, generally supernatural. Love demon/witch/creature scares and storylines. Think hereditary, exorcist, pitch black.

    2. Horror porn. Basically B horror movies that have nudity in it for seemingly no reason. Great to just put on in the background. These got me through the long nights holding my kids.

    • ButtigiegMineralMap@lemmygrad.mlOP
      1·
      1 year ago

      I always got Hereditary and Barbarian confused for some reason, but I hear nothing but good things about Hereditary, I should check it sometime

  • cfgaussian@lemmygrad.ml
    2·
    1 year ago

    I don’t really like movies, i think the length of a movie is insufficient for building fleshed out characters and relationships. I’m also not a fan of the classic three part story arc structure. For this reason i prefer TV series (and i tend to prefer the serialized ones over the ones with a single big overarching story), games, and most of all books; books are still the best storytelling medium by far in my opinion.

    But if i had to choose one genre of movies to watch it would be horror comedies, since it’s the genre that more than any other doesn’t take itself too seriously. (Oh, and i also think nature documentaries are pretty cool and wholesome.)

    • ButtigiegMineralMap@lemmygrad.mlOP
      1·
      1 year ago

      I can most certainly agree with that. Shows like Breaking Bad or Sopranos, hell even It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia are shows that prove having a longer runtime delivers. I love movies but I can definitely see the appeal of TV and their more immediate return on investment in an attention-span sense