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.
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.
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?
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
Same. Full Moon Productions, Asylum, Troma…I love them all.
Found footage horror. Creep 1 and 2 are my favorites of the genre.
I heavily agree. Found footage is a phenomal genre! Creep is one of my all time favorite spooky movies.
Ridiculously soapy period drama with a huge amount of money thrown at it for costumes and locations. See Sissi and Les Liaisons Dangereuses.
apocalyptic movies.
recently watched 2012 just to see what a good president is like.
independence day. same thing.
deep impact. same thing.
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
HumansPeople. I loved it.Yeaaaaaaa thats it
Was trying to figure out how to answer the question and you nailed it. Even had 2012 in mind. Armageddon is a favorite.
just watched that with my wife not long ago.
I completely forgot about the plot driven gravity on the asteroid and was rolling when they dukes of hazard’ed across the surface.
Gotta be found family movies, particularly if the parental figure didn’t want the responsibility in the first place or if they’re clueless, gruff, and/or emotionally not prepared for a child.
So movies like Logan, Ice Age, Wild Robot, Up, or Despicable Me and shows like The Last of Us, The Mandalorian, Game of Thrones (Arya and the Hound), and The Witcher.
I was trying to think of more found family mother shows and movies and honestly couldn’t think of more. Most of the ones involving women that I could find are of friend groups or there was no hesitation to pretty much adopt the child.
Found family, never somethjng I really considered to be a genre. You’re absolutely right though and I do love that kind of story.
I guess it’s more of a trope than a genre but it was what I first thought about. Most of the genres I enjoy aren’t guilty pleasures since I don’t have any guilt in liking them.
Found family movies and shows, however, make me feel a little guilty since my parents weren’t necessarily but more emotionally distant. So it’s like a tinge of sadness when watching them.
Try a French classic from the 80s, Three Men and a Cradle (3 hommes et un couffin). Maybe not exactly the same, but similar enough that you might find it fun.
Yeah that looks like right up my alley. Thanks!
Ah, that’s great to hear!
Just realized this is likely the original version of that 80s movie, Three Men and a Baby, which I also need to see
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
Some movies are genuinely more fun in the dub. Not better tho
Chopsocky and similar martial arts movies from the 1960’s and 70’s
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.
Mine is a bit niche. Male anti hero protagonist revenge movies.
Have you seen the strait to DVD Dwain Johnson film Faster? It’s exactly your niche. I’ve never been able to recommend it to anyone before, but its great!
I don’t really believe in Guilty Pleasures. I think if you like something, let your freak flag fly. If you’re embarassed to say that you like something, you don’t actually like it honestly.
With that being said, I get strange looks when I tell my friends about random terrible B-Movies I enjoy, the more obscure the better.
Mine is Nic Cage. It doesn’t matter how bad it is, if he’s in it, I have to watch it.
I like him alot too. “The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent” was his best in awhile.
Used to do Nic Cage movie nights with friends where we’d do a double feature and get wine drunk. Absolutely beautiful way to spend a night.
You can hate nic cage as much as you want, but he never phones in a role.
Bright happy wholesome comedies
If you haven’t seen it already: Dead Man’s Shoes, should tickle your pickle.
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.
Unfortunately cant find an easy way to watch it in the US.
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The 1940 one or the 2004 one?
2004 - Shane Meadows starring Paddy Considine
Sweet, thank you! Imma give it a run!
80s comedies, complete with totally inappropriate references, ableism, racism, sexism, homophobia, unnecessary nudity and macho bullshit. Idk.
Three O’Clock High
Porkie’s likely hits all those buttons! LOL, or Nerds.
