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  • 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 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 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.

  • Psychological thrillers, especially those from the late twentieth century. Think Suspiria and Possession.

  • 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.

  • Genre: dark comedies Movie: Death to Smoochy

    • Seen the following?

      Very Bad Things (1999)

      Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005)

      the Nice Guys (2016)

      Miller's Crossing (1990) — I love this film.

      Grosse Pointe Blank (1994)

      Happiness (1998)

      • Haven't seen a few of those. Thanks for the suggestion. Will add them to my to my list. :)

  • 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.

  • 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

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