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Just finished watch the 2014 movie The Signal and realized I'm a sucker for a very specific kind of movie: You know the guys who watch action movies, and in the middle of a gunfight they're like, "ah see I woulda gone around and flanked him!" when a mook gets shot, ignoring the levels of training between a mook and John Cena; the 'always-know-betters'? Or the people who whine about how easy to beat a SAW trap is, ignoring the stress and terror that the victim may be feeling? I'm that way about antagonistic interview movies. You know the ones, where a person is taken to a place and imprisoned and sits down across from some bureaucrat who "only wants to help," and asks questions. They tend to have a sci-fi twist to them, and I will devour these like a grandmother in Iowa inhales Hallmark Christmas Movies. But for the life of me, I can't quite name that style of film. There's been some good ones that are mostly this: Oxygen, Infinity Chamber, The Gift, sort of, even Joy Ride, after a fashion. Interview Films? Interrogatory Films? Which leads me to the question for the thread that takes it beyond "you should have just posted in the movie megathread": how finely do you slice genres? One of the things I find maddening about horror subgenres is that the classifications are both "what the movie's about" (zombie film, slasher, torture porn) and "how the film's about it" (Giallo, Found Footage, SOV), so it's tough to recommend someone a "zombie film" without knowing if they will vibe with Fulci's City of the Living Dead or prefer Romero's Diary of the Dead. Both are zombie movies, but couldn't be more different. And when you are describing genres, are you talking about "what the movie's about" or "how it goes about it"? What are some microgenres you're attached to or rate higher? Shrecknet fucked around with this message at 06:06 on Feb 15, 2024 |
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