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.
apocalyptic movies.
recently watched 2012 just to see what a good president is like.
independence day. same thing.
deep impact. same thing.
Was trying to figure out how to answer the question and you nailed it. Even had 2012 in mind. Armageddon is a favorite.
I love apocalyptic movies. Ironically, not really the ones you listed. I more prefer bleak post apocalypse movies like “the road”, “light of my life” or “the book of eli”. Not that I dont like the ones you listed. I’d just more categorize them as blockbuster disaster movies. Like “the day after tomorrow”.
oh I like those too.
my favorite scene in day after tomorrow is when they fall through the glass ceiling into the mall. I always imagine how wild it would be to visit such a place decades after the event and everything is exactly where it was, perfectly frozen.
Yeah, there was a cool show on some channel when I was a kid. Called something like “after people” it went area by area and discussed what it would look like if all humans disappeared X year to Y year.
Life After Humans. I loved it.
Yeaaaaaaa thats it
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.
If you haven’t seen it already: Dead Man’s Shoes, should tickle your pickle.
The 1940 one or the 2004 one?
2004 - Shane Meadows starring Paddy Considine
Unfortunately cant find an easy way to watch it in the US.
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Oooooohhhhhhh reallllyyyyy now. After reading a breakdown, it does indeed, tickle my pickle.
One of my favourite films of all time.
I’m currently finishing a movie called “furioza” but once its over I plan on finding and watching it. I’m staying up all night watching movies with my buddy.
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?
Porco Rosso
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.
Period dramas set in France. On one hand there’s the glitter and social schemes, on the other, justice and revolution.
That’s definitely niche! Great answer.
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.
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.
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.
Bright happy wholesome comedies
Ridiculously soapy period drama with a huge amount of money thrown at it for costumes and locations. See Sissi and Les Liaisons Dangereuses.
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
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.
Chopsocky and similar martial arts movies from the 1960’s and 70’s
Sounds like you’d love a lot of Charles Bronson movies, OP. Death Wish is a good one.
The Mechanic
Marvel movies.
Those are definitely guilty ones.
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?
Same. Full Moon Productions, Asylum, Troma…I love them all.
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
