lune7000
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Post by lune7000 on Sept 15, 2021 20:08:30 GMT
I sometimes wonder if too many movies are made in one genre or subject and this causes burnout. The 50's and 60's were suffocated by Westerns. Movies about artists/writers are far more than the number of people doing those jobs (how many movies are about plumbers as the main character? We have lots of plumbers but only Cluny Brown and Moonstruck has them in movies). Do we really lack movies about upper class people having affairs?
Genres are like food items on a restaurant menu. People order what they know they like so they get a pizza (crime movie) or fries (spy thriller). Movies are a business and studios produce identifiable products in neat genres so the public can order safely. Taken to the extreme, we just get endless sequels- the ultimate in safe eating.
While watching every genre has been frustrating at times, it has really pushed me to look at the world as others do. When I watched the The Three Lives of Thomasina (1963- Disney family film) I tried to watch it from a young girl's view and enjoyed it. I watched Shane (1954) as an adult and didn't like it, then I realized that it was a family/western aimed at 6-14 year old boys. Upon re-watching it, I could appreciate all the elements they had to try to appeal to that market. I watch romance movies from a woman's perspective (impossible I know, but I try anyway).
I now rate films on how well they succeeded in achieving the goal for their target audience, whatever that was. I Saw What You Did (1965) is really dopey- but OK as a 60's teen girl film geared to what many saw as cheap thrills.
I am using film to jump into a different consciousness than the one I have- like using drugs. Going into movies of earlier times is like time travelling and and gives me a window on how people saw the world differently. The same for watching movies made outside the USA.
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Post by marshamae on Sept 15, 2021 21:52:21 GMT
I saw what you did is pre teen kids Fatal Attraction. The lead does something a little naughty that many people do, and it goes so horribly out of control that the target audience goes home shaken and terrified. I know men who would not be alone in a room with an unknown woman after Fatal attraction.
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Sept 16, 2021 5:08:09 GMT
Musical for the most part. Some I like. Fred Astaire musicals, love to watch him dance. Some where the song and dance numbers are in realistic context, like 42nd Street. But ones where people spontaneously burst into song, I dislike. Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, West Side Story, Oklahoma. Yuck. I recently tried to muddle through Singing in the Rain again and got a half hour before I quit. One exception is Fiddler on the Roof.
I also don’t care for slasher films, dumbass comedies , martial arts, anything without a plot basically
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Post by jeffersoncody on Sept 16, 2021 7:17:12 GMT
Handkerchief or crying movies I generally try to avoid.I love a good tearjerker tele, and I often weep rivers of tears. LOL, I would like to think it's because I am a sensitive, passionate man, but I am probably just an overly sentimental wimp. As It is in Heaven - At the end of the picture I was so wracked with tears I was embarrassed to leave the cinema; but then I turned around and saw that the rest of the folk in the cinema were red-face, and sobbing just as much as me. The Lives of Others. The ending always leave me in a puddle of tears. Old Yeller - I've seen it at least 10 times, and I cry my heart out every time. Hachiko: A Dog's Story - After seeing it the first time, I was so emotionally affected I sat in the parking lot sobbing for about two hours before I could drive home. In subsequent re-watches I have never made it to end without bursting into sustained tears. Then there are Million Dollar Baby, The Lacemaker, Lassie, Dead Poet's Society, Comanche Station, The English Patient and so many more. The first time I ever cried in a movie was when I was a teenager and my dad took me to see Waterloo Bridge (1940) - it was a re-release; I wasn't even born in 1940).
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Post by london777 on Sept 16, 2021 14:02:07 GMT
I know men who would not be alone in a room with an unknown woman after Fatal Attraction. Too right! And I am not too confident with most of the women I do know, either. Anyone who is unstable enough to change their favorite movie five times a week needs careful watching.
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Post by bravomailer on Sept 16, 2021 15:28:41 GMT
I almost never watch horror films yet I think highly of The Exorcist and The Shining.
This looks interesting:
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