Anyone have a favorite genre here?

Crime, dramas, and biopics/events based on a true story.

I guess the first and the last all fit into "drama".

Horror.

Night of the Living Dead
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
Carrie
Alien
Friday the 13th (1980)

I think Drama followed closely by Sci-Fi and Comedy. Horror is not on the top genre-list for me.

I do not like musicals, most sci-fi or many westerns. I do not like dramas dealing with mental or physical illnesses. Although many such are excellent movies, I am just a bit squeamish. Only when reading through a new thread here did I realize I do not like most whodunnits. I loathe religious films that are propaganda for established religions. I do not like horror or the supernatural.

I do like Film Noir, I like historical films, films based on literary classics, war movies if realistic, spy movies if realistic, political movies, social realist films, films about psychological or spiritual development, black comedy, films about scams and con-men, films where people turn their lives around unless saccharin or sanctimonious), films about artistic development or inspiration, films about moral choices (unless saccharin or simplistic) and films about revolution and resistance. 

I have a real problem with dramas I would otherwise like where characters are identified by name (often dramas about large families) because I am terrible with names and can never remember who is married to whom or who is whose brother or child. One or two Woody Allen films are like that, where characters gossip about others not present.

Sorry, OP. I guess many of the above categories are not strictly genres, or even sub-genres. And it gets more complicated when a movie falls into both a category I like and a category I do not like, as can happen.

Of course there are many exceptions to both sets of generalizations. I may come back later and list some.

Crime | Drama (and variations) ; that seems to be one of the safer bets for me in a more semi-broad sense.

but specific genres... Westerns can output top spec movies and it's the highest ranked genre for me based on what IMDb tells me even though there is only 64 titles rated.

but if you want me to list one thing going by what IMDb lists as genres... "Drama" seems like the safest choice.

Going purely by what IMDb tells me though with at least 150+ titles seen here is my Top 5 genres...

1.Crime
2.Action
3.Drama
4.Thriller
5.Adventure



i think for a more popular genre that Horror are largely a dime-a-dozen. but i do like some of these kinds of movies but there is very little worth mentioning in the genre basically. in fact, Horror is my lowest rated genre from what IMDb tells me (i.e. 4.80 average with 230 titles rated) but i consider it better than some genres overall simply because it has output some good movies even though not many unlike some genres that are consistently forgettable.

but purely THE worst overall genre... Musicals. i am confident that's one of the most disliked genres amongst us males as i would be surprised if i was wrong on that claim.

I think drama treats a conflict of ideologies, ambitions or moral convictions between two or more humans. That would satisfactorily rule out most "pure" crime films where the motivations are usually money, sex, or fear. But it would still include many westerns as dramas, which of course they are. Westerns could be reassigned into other genres as dramas, thrillers, historical movies, war films, social realist, psychological movies, etc, at core, with "western" as just the outward presentation. Just as Noir is not a genre but a way of presenting, dramas, thrillers, crime capers, etc.

This genre business soon gets complicated. Where are our cerebral contributors when you need them?

Horror and Westerns


    

I've always been a big fan of the Post Apocalyptic genre. Good ones and bad ones.

Horror