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.
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?
Same. Full Moon Productions, Asylum, Troma…I love them all.
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
Ridiculously soapy period drama with a huge amount of money thrown at it for costumes and locations. See Sissi and Les Liaisons Dangereuses.
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
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.
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
Sounds like you’d love a lot of Charles Bronson movies, OP. Death Wish is a good one.
The Mechanic
Not guilty at all, but dance competition movies. It’s a subgenre of sports team movies where a diverse group has to learn to work together to win a competition, but the competition is dance. Movies like Stomp the Yard, Bring It On, and the Step Up series. You may be inclined to think Dirty Dancing as well, but that one is too individual and with too much drama, though it does include the all-important training montage.
apocalyptic movies.
recently watched 2012 just to see what a good president is like.
independence day. same thing.
deep impact. same thing.
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.
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
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.
Bright happy wholesome comedies
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!
Mine is Nic Cage. It doesn’t matter how bad it is, if he’s in it, I have to watch it.
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.
I like him alot too. “The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent” was his best in awhile.
You can hate nic cage as much as you want, but he never phones in a role.
Always been a fan of raunchy comedies. Superbad is probably my favorite as it reminds me of my high school days, but others like 40-Year-Old Virgin, Euro Trip, and Step Brothers are also high up on the list.
Solid answer.
Marvel movies.
Those are definitely guilty ones.
That guilt is real. I readily admit to romcoms and kaiju movies, but knowing that every time I buy a ticket, I help feed the billion dollar slop machine, that stings.
