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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
I'm going to carry that weight.
See also: Trigun, Firefly, The Mandalorean
Slow, boring spy films like βTinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spyβ
Big fan of long-form science fiction. Bladerunner 2049 is fantastic, as is Stalker by Tarkovsky.
Tarkovsky in particular has brilliant works.
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.
Oh shut up you still laughed at backwards man.
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.
Favourite movie: The Lord of the Rings
Favourite genre: fantasy/sci-fi/historical movies of epic proportions with immersive worlds
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.
Favorite: Alien Close second: Jaws Close third: GalaxyQuest
Favorite genre: sci-fi horror
Genre: dark comedies Movie: Death to Smoochy
Baraka and Samsara are definitely at the top for me. I also hold a special love for herzog movies.
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
Strictly Ballroom. Baz's first film
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.
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!
Horror, suspense and thriller. Documentaries too.
Psychological thrillers, especially those from the late twentieth century. Think Suspiria and Possession.