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 don’t like horror movies in general but I like horror movies based on turning innocent pre-existing characters into monsters
Winnie The Pooh: Blood and Honey
Winnie The Pooh: Blood and Honey 2
The Blood and Honey universe also has Peter Pan and Bambi movies out. Sadly I haven’t gotten to watch them yet cause they didn’t come to my local theatre
I also like Brightburn (based on Superman)
Recently watched The Mean One (based on the Grinch). It’s pretty good
Plan to watch Alice in Terrorland and those Mickey Mouse based horror films
turning innocent pre-existing characters into monsters
Vaguely-relevant: !imsorryjon@lemmy.world
Bright happy wholesome comedies
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.
Great answer! Kaiju movies are awesome.
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
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?
I meant in general, but yeah, would be helpful.
Bull is on amazon prime, avengment is on Netflix and villain is on amazon prime. All three are england based movies with some crossover cast.
Period dramas set in France. On one hand there’s the glitter and social schemes, on the other, justice and revolution.
I’ve always loved The Scarlet Pimpernel starring Ian McKellen as the bad guy (Chauvelin? I can’t spell French worth a shit). It has all of the above. He was so good in that movie.
That’s definitely niche! Great answer.
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.
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.
Porco Rosso
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.
Mine is Nic Cage. It doesn’t matter how bad it is, if he’s in it, I have to watch it.
You can hate nic cage as much as you want, but he never phones in a role.
I like him alot too. “The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent” was his best in awhile.
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.
Marvel movies.
Those are definitely guilty ones.
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.
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.
They are so much better when you get together with friends to watch bad movies every so often. It helps to have someone to verbalize the ridiculous shit to or feed into the humor with you.
It’s become a new years tradition to just play a bunch of random asylum movies just to have something on while we’re hanging out and so we have something to occasionally point to the TV and comment on.
We usually try to pick a known movie that we can start at a specific time so that something cool happens at midnight. A favorite is Hitler getting punched in the balls in Kung Fury
Same. Full Moon Productions, Asylum, Troma…I love them all.
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.
Try a French classic from the 80s, Three Men and a Cradle (3 hommes et un couffin). Maybe not exactly the same, but similar enough that you might find it fun.
Yeah that looks like right up my alley. Thanks!
Ah, that’s great to hear!
Just realized this is likely the original version of that 80s movie, Three Men and a Baby, which I also need to see
Found family, never somethjng I really considered to be a genre. You’re absolutely right though and I do love that kind of story.
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.
Found footage horror. Creep 1 and 2 are my favorites of the genre.
