This is very deliberately vague. I’m interested in film and have been for over a decade. I love looking deep into how films and shows are made, the different aspects people prefer or find boring that i may love or hate personally!
Be as vague or as straight-forward as you like. Personally I’m a jack of all trades kinda person. I like romance in my action, I like complex moral issues in my superhero films, I love action in political dramas, dark real-world commentary in fantasy. But the basics also work more than well enough!
To get a ball rolling on here, I think the MCU is pure gold. Agree? Disagree? Let’s chat!
I love to love and hate a good villain. If I can understand them and sympathise with them but think “I still want the protagonist to win” or I just love hating them, I’m happy!
Static shots with very minimal shaky cam in my action films is what I love. John Wick has some of the best action direction in cinema, I adore it. It takes cues from kung fu films and the like to make the action slicker and easier to follow.
Not to mention it’s great wish fulfillment. If someone killed my dog I’d love to assassinate them
I hate shaky cam. It hurts my dyspraxia so much and I just can’t figure out what’s happening or even who’s winning. And being the type of girl to grow up with WWE, I wanna see the punches and stuffs
I like certain aspects of every genre so with comedy I like them to just be deliberately silly for example movies like “airplane” “naked gun” “monty python Holy Grail” “monty python life of Brian” even more modern day ones like “scary movie” I love things to be silly/random and borderline surreal.
For horror this is where the good scores/soundtrack thing comes in. I mentioned on another thread my favourite horror movie is the excorcist. I love older horror movies because even though the affects are kinda cheap in some instances I feel like they have more of an impact on me then the more modern day ones (I do like some modern day horror movies) I really doubt anybody here has seen the movie basket case (it’s a bit of a B movie) the budget for it was like $1000 and I really enjoyed it, I enjoyed it even more then some modern day ones that cost wayyyy more than that. The main thing I go along with though is, if it scares me it’s done its job.
As for romance, I’m not too keen on romance I can tolerate rom coms.
Now for action. I love most Arnold Schwarzenegger movies. Also Idk if Indiana Jones counts as action or if it’s more adventure but loved those movies growing up.
Fantasy is an amazing genre, I like the idea of alternative worlds (I’m including Sci-fi in fantasy) or magical powers. I love Harry Potter, narnia and manyyyy others.
Now my mind is blank and I can’t think of anything else so I may edit this post in the future. I’ve been on a 5 mile walk so I’m pretty tired rn .
I like a movie that makes you think, one where you have to either watch it a couple times to finally figure out the entire plot, or the kind that sticks with you even after watching the movie. I also like movies with plot twists. Not the kind everyone suspects, but the kind that make perfect sense and make you feel betrayed and dumb for not figuring it out earlier all at the same time. I like love-hate relationships with characters, and characters with visible faults.
Movies where characters are actually smart and do the most logical thing. Also, movies where people know how to properly hold a gun. So many people in movies hold guns with the X shape or the teacup—no. Just no. I guess you could say it’s one of my pet peeves.
Anyways, I also love when the characters aren’t the cliche, typical people you’d find. They’re different and something you haven’t seen before.
I am not rly sure… but one thing i know for sure is that i don’t want confusing or bad endings, seriously i watched so many movies (mostly horror) and i was so confused by how it ended, like:
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