I’m trying to get a gauge of what people here are interested in.
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.
I’ve been building my all time favorite 100 list but my number 1 has been constantly Casino Royale. The list: https://boxd.it/jQWau
I usually don’t have a specific genre of choice but I love to dig into micro genres for a stretch. Lately my favorite micro genre is “people in a room talking”. The obvious ones here are 12 Angry Men, Rear Window and My Dinner with Andre. Long Days Journey into Night, Buried, Locke, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolfe, Rope , Tape. “Before” series works well here too. A really good one I saw recently was Big Kahuna.
This also pairs well with tiny budget Sci-Fi. Like Man from Earth, Coherence, Another Earth, Moon, Vast of Night.
If you like tiny budged wild and short sci-fi, may i suggest blood machines? https://youtu.be/jLHhr8Xc4AM?si=S7M28c6pfUqRb2WW
Ah cool haven’t seen this one, thanks!
If you haven’t seen it yet, try Death and the Maiden (1994)
Added to the watchlist!
If you like people in a room talking, have you seen Coffee and Cigarettes?
Yes! I loved it
Awesome!
Ghostbusters.
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.
Depending on the day, my favorite movie is either The Big Lebowski, Hot Fuzz, or Knives Out.
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.
Favorite movie is Dead Alive(but that is mostly my autism canned response)
Favorite genre is horror(the good and the bad, just all of it)
Baraka and Samsara are definitely at the top for me. I also hold a special love for herzog movies.
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 fantôme de la liberté, 1974, Luis Buñuel. As for my favourite genre, I doubt I have one - there’re too many excellent films in too many genres!
Fave Movie: The Darjeeling Limited
I just like it, that’s all.
My mom used to say I had the taste of a teenage boy because I like sci fi and fantasy and comics so much.
LOTR trilogy is my favorite.
Pride and Prejudice with Keira Knightly is one we can watch over and over, as are Hot Fuzz and Into the Spiderverse. Those 3 are so good too but my favorite still is the Lord of the Rings trilogy.
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. :)
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.
My favorite genre is Denis Villenueve.
My favorite movie is Kingpin
I just re-watched that movie and was kinda worried that it wouldn’t hold up. I haven’t seen that movie in like 20 years. It was way better than i remember.