What is your favorite kind of movie?

Foremost I'm a classic film noir fan, and I do like some neo-noir. I also like mysteries, thrillers and some SciFi. But my main avoidance is any movie with graphic sex, gratuitous gore, deviant behavior, and wokeness. So there are not many choices today in comparison to decades back. Good comedies are exceedingly rare. I also watch a lot of documentaries that don't have a social justice advocacy.
 

Irishdude said:
I would have to say my favorite kind of movie is "old." I would rather re-watch something like The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, High Noon, The Four Feathers, Notorious or many others than watch a badly acted, incoherently plotted, CGI-laden mess like they come up with today. And I love old British films like Hobson's Choice and Great Expectations.
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Ever watch Requiem for a Heavyweight starring Anthony Quin, Mickey Rooney, and Jackie Gleason?
 

OldFeller said:
I think the big reason for the lack of talent is the smaller pool they're pulling from.

Better talented people don't want to be micromanaged and therefore have no interest in being a part of such an uncreative enterprise such as Hollywood. Many actors have confirmed this.
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That's a good point. Better talent is also going to foreign and small, independent studios and producers to get their films made.
 
SyFy horror movies like the Alien or Terminator series are my personal faves. Superhero movies can be good, too, if I’m interested in the lead character. I like most “guy” movies, including westerns or action films. Crossover movies like Cowboys and Aliens show great potential. Presently I’m looking forward to seeing Beetlejuice Beetlejuice…

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Irishdude said:
I have not, but that is a great suggestion!
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You will definitely not be disappointed. I suggest not reading any reviews because it will spoil the drama. BTW Jackie Gleason had an argument with Anthony Quin because Gleason didn't like the quality of voice that Quinn chose to use. He was demanding that Quinn stop using it. LOL!
 
Radrook said:
You will definitely not be disappointed. I suggest not reading any reviews because it will spoil the drama. BTW Jackie Gleason had an argument with Anthony Quin because Gleason didn't like the quality of voice that Quinn chose to use. He was demanding that Quinn stop using it. LOL!
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I enjoyed the Paul Newman movie Somebody Up There Likes Me, also with a boxing theme. Also Newman's movies The Hustler and Hud. Great, charismatic actor in his prime.
 
Irishdude said:
I enjoyed the Paul Newman movie Somebody Up There Likes Me, also with a boxing theme. Also Newman's movies The Hustler and Hud. Great, charismatic actor in his prime.
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True, was a charismatic actor. The Paul Newman movies I liked most was Hombre.
Thanks for the titles. I will look them up on YouTube.
 
Beezer said:
My favorite movie has to have a car chase...boobs...and gratuitous use of midgets.
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'Gratuitous' use of midgets? I have questions:
1) Midgets (body parts well proportioned to each other but all much smaller than average people's) or those with dwarfism (body parts not proportional, often growing, likely from in utero, at different rates which leads to constant stress on joints and for some near constant physical discomfort, or out right pain their entire lives).
2) By gratuitous do you mean that the actor's size is irrelevant to the story? I see that as a good thing it's called 'representation'. Normalizing the fact that human beings come in many different physical forms. Peter Dinklage is known for taking roles in which his dwarfism is not a prime factor (his Role in the Game of Thrones series an exception).
3) Or was that statement intended as 'humorous'?
 

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