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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What genre are superhero films? Fantasy? Sci-fi? E.g. what is Superman or X-Men?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Both. Maybe leaning a little bit more on sci-fi since they try to explain many things with science like kryptonite. But definitely also fantasy for X-Men, mutants have superpowers because the DNA does ... things.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This graph sucks, the y axis differs between the genres

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

It says so in the text there. This feels like the only way anyway, since the boundaries between genres are fuzzy and it's not possible to decisively compare genre tags on IMDB.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Bring back westerns and musicals!

Give us Blazing Saddles: The Musical!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm so glad musicals are dying out.

Also the fact that Thrillers and Horrors are steadily becoming more popular is kind of concerning. There seems to be a growing latent appetite for murder in the general population. lol

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Alternatively, people's appetite is unchanged, but the way they express it is changing towards consumption of visual media.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You lament the growing appetite for murder yet readily praise the death of musicals.

If I had 3 of my friends and a piano, we'd dance and sing our frustrations at you!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

musicals make me want to murder

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (4 children)

So that's why my western war musical failed so hard.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

Just make a documentary about it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I heard about that western war musical. I was excited to see "Alamo!" but they didn't advertise it out here so I forgot.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Great, now I have Texans singing about the Alamo in my head.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

You can also try to recoup your money by releasing a behind the scenes documentary about the horrifying financial crimes that went on during production of the first film.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Comedy looks popular but I feel lucky if I watch even one decent one in a given year.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A lot of films are categorised as Comedy “something” these days, most notably Comedy Drama. I imagine this counts towards the stats.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

I fucking hate modern categories.

If I see Lord of the Rings listed in my science fiction category again I'm gonna reach through the internet to back hand whoever decided that through their computer screen.

No, The Expanse does not count as Fantasy.

Is it fantastical? I guess.

Does it fit the movie genre of Fantasy?

Fuck no. It's 'Hard science fiction" as in science fiction based on real world science. Star trek is more soft science fiction. Possible, but basically magic to us. Star WARS on the other hand, I'd say fits into both.

Most of my gripes come from science fiction categories and how their movies are labeled. I swear I once saw Bridget Jones listed in science fiction.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It really is a shame, even though the actual west was nothing like most if not all westerns, it’s so unique and I think has a lot of untapped potential

Edit: I think the best we’ll ever get is westerns made in a different genre, this is my opinion but I think Inglourious Basterds is a western set in WWII. I could see more things like that from different directors, although in fairness you could make that comparison to a lot of Tarantinos work

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think of westerns as a fantasy historical period genre. That period was chosen because it represented a jingoistic mythical American origin story. But we could build myths about a different period instead. There’s lots of untapped historical and cultural potential out there.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

I agree, it effectively already is that, it’s just that at least half of those myths are fucking horrific. But the genre, in my very white opinion, doesn’t have to be problematic. And while I know it’s not a film but Red Dead 2 is a good example

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Cool but awful design, why is every graph in a different scale

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

It actually tells you right below the title why they've chosen to do that

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

So that you can compare the relative changes over the years without having a tiny line for less popular genres.