#film (media genre)

[commsroom]

doug eiffel is relatively offline, his choice of... constant, unyielding background noise so he never has to be left alone in the company of his own thoughts... is the radio and/or tv, but he is also always watching youtube videos like "Can We Drive 1,200 MILES in an ABANDONED Van With NO TITLE? - First Start in 17 Years" and "Monster Jam - INSANE AIR Compilation." zero doubt.

[fallensapphires]

Genres: Comedy

Comedy can be a cathartic way to deal with personal trauma.

[jonathanrogersartist]

Brandon Sanderson mentioned in one of his videos, reviewing "The Lost City", a phenomenon that I have noticed as well, regarding how critics judge media in contrast to audiences. Which he called the 'reviewer problem.'

Critics are people who's job is to watch an ungodly amount of movies every year, and when you watch 'that' much media, all the time, and are exposed to every conceivable premise/concept/genre/etc. on a constant basis, you will become desensitized to movies that are not seeking to reinvent the wheel and are content to do something that may be 'unchallenging' but still does it competently. They become starved for any novelty factor, to the point they will excessively praise movies that just feel 'different' above all other concerns.

Which is how you get genre films still being looked down on by critics, unless if it has some kind of hugely audacious shake-up in structure or theme or filmmaking style. You can't just have a very well crafted cheeseburger. For critics, if a movie has some kind of lofty and ponderous meta-commentary about itself, that immediately makes it more 'valid' a work of art than its more straightforward brethren.

This is something that personally bugs me, and I think it's how we keep falling into this cycle of critics' opinions being so massively different from causal audiences' opinions. Because audiences don't watch a million movies a year, they get to pick and choose what to watch that caters to their tastes, so it tends to be things that they 'know' they will probably like. So these audiences are paying for their favorite cheeseburger, 9 times out of 10. And a cheeseburger CAN be done with skill and passion and intelligence.... while still being a freakin' cheeseburger.

It's okay for movies to play tropes straight, its okay for them to make a simple promise and deliver on it, without any sneaky subversion in mind. It's okay for movies to be proud of their genre conventions and embrace them without shame.

[tqila-sunset]

whenever someone makes a good horror movie people try to recategorise it as a "thriller" or call it "elevated" but i think we can just accept that sometimes horror is genre-defining and highly innovative and sometimes it's a useless cash grab that will be forgotten immediately and lost to history.

tl;dr: i don't think being a good example of your genre should get you elevated to a different genre.

[k-wame]

dudes still pressed after 8 months bc critics wouldnt give superhero films the same wide berth😂😂

[dragonomatopoeia]

while i love learning new things and reading about the formation of genres it does mean i end up having to look up even more things for context. neverending. anyway the first widely-read Gothic Novel was apparently printed as marketing material for the author to sell tickets to the cool house he remodeled to be a scary haunted mansion

[nerdby]

People pushing for censorship who can't bear the thought of their children seeing a girl in a bikini or someone getting punched missed the point of Finding Nemo, Tangled, and Carrie:

Forcing your children to live in some sort of sheltered bubble will not to keep them safe and the harder you try to keep them in that bubble the more they will resent you and push you away.

[celluloidrainbow]

LA CONFUSION DES GENRES (2000) dir. Ilan Duran Cohen Bisexual Attorney Alain has a problem on his hands. He's in his 40s and bedding his female boss, his guilty of murder client, the client's hairdresser girlfriend and a free-spirited young man who knows what he wants and tries to convince Alain that "he can have it all". (link in title)

[junkyarddemento]

THE INFLUENCER

Ever wonder what the girls from THE CRAFT would do and be like in the age of social media? Filmmaker Lael Rogers' answers that question, with the look of a young group of women tied to their phones and social media, and the dark corners they will turn to achieve viewers and likes! Moral of the story: be careful who you follow online... which you certainly should already be doing!

[rebornrosess]

currently writing a report on the pilot episode of the bear for my screenwriting class which has been so much fun and i’ve made some fun new discoveries!!! i feel dumb for only just now realizing this but god the way this show uses music is even more effective than i initially even though because “new noise” by refused is immediately associated with carmy (and note that it never builds to the to the lyrical breakdown, there is no resolution or catharsis to the chaos) but then “old engine oil” by the budos band becomes associated with the beef/chicago as carmy lights up the stoves and then we get launched into a montage of chicago, baby pictures, and photos of chicago...literally NEW vs OLD...and the sound supervisors remix these two together TWICE during the pilot to signal carmy’s re-integration into the history of the beef/chicago (1. carmy beginning the morning prep 2. carmy telling everyone to try the new sandwiches) like!!! they used popular music as leitmotifs!!!

[jonny-b-meowborn]

I finished reading The Slob by Aron Beauregard today! Honestly I think I enjoyed it more than Cows. I couldn't tell you which book I generally like more though. Cows had more to say about lack of control and the choices someone might make when they finally get control, and about, well, the meat industry, and The Slob only had to say that. There can be really gross people sometimes. Also the ending, and I mean specifically the twist in the third- and second-to-last chapters, that sucked ass. I'd toss the chapters away, and focus on Vera and her recovery. Because what happened to her in the ending, that I did like. The way she found strength because of a mixtape, and managed to escape and come back to Daniel, very cheesy, not realistic, but very satisfying. Generally it was a good book and honestly I'd recommend it to anyone interested in extreme horror

[fallensapphires]

Genres: Horror

Horror is like a serpent; always shedding its skin, always changing. And it will always come back.

[junotter]

its definitely been said and talked about in an academic sense, but I think part of what makes bladerunner stand out from similar stories in the genre is the fact that the replicants are not machines, minus the manufactured part, replicants are humans, they are flesh and blood and their organs work to keep them alive just like any other humans.

[an-onyx-void]

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[harrowharkwife]

i am SO fucking exhausted by mainstream media opinions lately and i don't understand why they're frequently SO different from my own? like i genuinely don't think i am approaching anything from that unique of a perspective as a viewer? maybe it's just that i'm too easy to please when it comes to stories or something but like. how is the mainstream, widely accepted consensus on yellowjackets season 2 is that it's "bad" and "doesn't work as a season" and is "riddled with problems." literally what the fuck are you talking about. this is the most fun i have had watching television uhhhhh literally Ever? you're telling me people hated Burial? how? why? like i don't...i just don't GET it. and i'm not playing dumb for kicks here im like genuinely honest to god confused. that was the single best episode of television I've ever watched in my life. like i get that people have different opinions about things and that's fine but HOW am i in the minority here what am i missing

[bidean-byedean]

watched Saltburn and the rumours are true, the gays and the gothic girlies will be unshooketh