Favorite genres and subgenres of film

[Os Cangaceiros]

List 'em!

For my own tastes, I really like dark comedies, bleak dramas, horror films, films with social or political content (although I prefer the messaging to be under the surface and not super overt...I don't like messages being explicitly rammed down my throat), exploitation films from the 1970's, documentaries about strange people or strange subcultures, low-budget action films, absurdist films and/or "art films", etc

[Lily Briscoe]

Pretentious art house films and nature documentaries lol. Embarrassing but true. :closedeyes:

[TheBigREDOne]

Film Noir and Western(mostly revisionist)

[tallguy]

Films I've watched recently and enjoyed:

Animated: The Bellville Rendnevous - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0286244/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

Western: Duck you sucker - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067140/?ref_=nv_sr_1

Sci Fi: Moon - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1182345/?ref_=nv_sr_3

Non English: Jean de Floret and Manon des Sources - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091288/?ref_=nv_sr_1 - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091480/?ref_=nv_sr_1

Thriller: Runaway train - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089941/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2

Historical: Rob Roy - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114287/

Contemporary: Dead Man's Shoes - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0419677/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

Classic British: The Ladykillers - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048281/?ref_=nv_sr_2

Comedy: Anything with Lee Evans in it. That bugger makes me laugh my tits off - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcjUg3uLOFg

[GiantMonkeyMan]

I find the above post interesting as it describes everything I find flawed about the concept of assigning a film genre (sorry tallguy).

'Non English'? What does that even mean? That could describe anything as varied as a wuxia produced in China to a documentary produced in Honduras. Assigning genre to films based on nation such as 'Classic British' is also flawed as it only describes film in contrast to Hollywood. 'Animated' could describe anything from Akira to Toy Story and would have very different audiences and 'Historical'/'Contemporary' could describe such a broad group of film that it becomes a useless category. Categorising film in genres is so painfully obviously just a marketing tool.

Having said all that bollocks.... I enjoy watching Hollywood action films such as The Losers, Commando, Die Hard etc. I feel they make easy watching but they also reveal all the insecurities of US domestic and foreign policy. I've got a soft spot for 'High School' films along the lines of Dazed and Confused, The Faculty, Brick and Animal House as I feel that simplistic anti-authoritarianism is as close to an honest revolutionary movie, and not just capitalists capitalising on anti-capitalism like Elysium, as you're going to get in the Hollywood production machine (but I'll probably be on my own in that analysis). I'm also a huge fan of dystopian science fiction such as They Live, Escape from New York, Soylent Green etc.

[tallguy]

....'Non English'? What does that even mean?...

It means a film whose language is not English.

[GiantMonkeyMan]

It means a film whose language is not English.
The point being, that it's a terrible way to describe a film in my opinion. The French film Amélie and the Indonesian film The Raid can both be described as 'non English' films but such a category is arbitrary and doesn't serve to do anything but allow amazon to stick them both in a section on their website.