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"It's a sapphic Christmas themed rom-com, I guess."
"That means that it stands apart; it's not just another piece of a predictable genre."
"It's distinctly a horror film and a science-fiction film."
"I actually think that the horror genre is the most important genre when it comes to film; however, it's just vastly underappreciated."
"It's Spider-Man more than it's a comedy, and then I remember feeling that about halfway through. It's not as funny as the first one, but it's not the same movie as the first."
"Aliens is up there with some of the best, if not the best, survival horror movies."
"I'd want to make a modern take on a slasher."
"I'm into incredibly stupid movies that are fun."
"It's a film that perfectly defines the splatterpunk movement..."
"Every movie is a different genre. What was the thinking behind going high school with this one?"
"An immediate entrant into the pantheon of female friendship movies [and] a pretty much perfect film."
"These are classic B movies done with a kind of sincerity."
"It's fun action comedy, it's Edgar Wright, that's where he makes his bones."
"It's dark comedy horror, great writing, and stupendous performances all around."
"I think it's probably the best decade of horror films for me. I think it's a masterpiece."
"Full Metal Jacket is often bundled together with other war movies that came out round about that time which were in particular exploring the horrors and traumas of the Vietnam War."
"Entertainment with the release of Run Hide Fight, a movie that answers the question: What if Die Hard took place at a school shooting?"
"This movie kind of popularized that really fast-paced goofy slapstick comedy with jokes that get called back over and over."
"This was definitely a fun movie to explore the James Bond world for the first time."
"Soul of the Dragon is something of a love letter to the kind of martial arts films we hardly see nowadays."
"It's a fun, silly concept that mixes gory slasher kills with wholesome characters."
"I'm very happy to see that Cameron Diaz is coming back to movies and doing an action comedy with Jamie Foxx called 'Back in Action'."
"Perfect blue is psychological horror with losing oneself being its ultimate fear."
"What is a Disney movie in 2023 because Disney movie is a genre all to itself right I mean we all have that Crystal Clear idea that so many of my generation have that cultural creative identity that's baked into the phrase a Disney movie."
"The film was an unexpectedly witty and fun take on the superhero genre that we just don't see very often."
"The romantic comedy is cinema’s version of comfort food."
"This ever charming, always idealistic movie genre all but guarantees a happy ending, after the good fun of a string of wacky misadventures along the way."
"Silent Hill... psychological horror is my thing."
"Groundhog Day with more murders... an interesting idea."
"Loaded Weapon 1: A relic of early '90s pop culture, a must-watch for fans of spoof movies."
"For me, 'Green Book' is a drama with a lot of comedy in it, handling heavy themes beautifully."
"Heathers is the kind of twisted teen movie that only could have been made in the '80s."
"Love really is not like the movies... it would be a psychological Thriller horror movie directed by Ari Aster."
"Magical realism presents its magic alongside its realism as equally beautiful and worthy of marvel."
"The B-movie just perfectly encapsulates all of that kind of chaotic nature."
"Japanese horrors... great subliminal direction."
"Enemy of the State is a Christmas movie. Christmas movie!"
"Captain America: The Winter Soldier, a film that was pitched as a superhero action variant on spy thrillers like Three Days of the Condor."
"It's a black comedy... outrageous, goofy, and over-the-top."
"This is gonna be a weird dark indie movie which is the kind of indie movie I like."
"There's certain like the straight-up slapstick comedies that are never get nominee."
"The Living Dead series truly is a revolutionary series and one that sheer importance in the genre will be impossible to ever replicate."
"This is a Dark Twisted Thriller with an incredible cast."
"It might be a coincidence that the end of the Reagan era was also the end of disposable people in slasher movies...but it does seem to fit a little too neatly to be ignored, right?"
"The film gleefully sends up the hard-boiled detective genre with tongue-in-cheek satire."
"Hot Fuzz parodies both the cop and detective genres in hilarious and intelligent fashion."
"21 Jump Street brilliantly weaves together elements of detective mysteries, teen high school comedies, and cop movie bombast."
"We can't go wrong with rom-coms; this genre instantly delivers happiness to our lives."
"It was like a great revenge flick like a movie right."
"One of the best space horror movies ever made."
"Captain America: Winter Soldier, a political thriller with Robert Redford. Come on, that's like '70s classic movie stuff!"
"How to lose a guy in 10 days is like the equation for rom-com, right?"
"This isn't meant to be a gritty disturbing horror movie, it's a colorful fun one."
"Yes, I had done this whole preliminary planning for a series of videos about Hammer films."
"What I like about the Captain America movies is they feel the most adult of all the Marvel Cinematic Universe movies."
"As the 1970s went on the spaghetti western craze had fizzled out probably due to the release of Star Wars Where The Wild Wild West days were over and spaceship movies were Now The Craze."
"Psycho, no without question. Psycho is different from any other movie that Hitchcock made because it's an actual horror movie."
"I think any good director could do it. They might have to make it a horror comedy."
"Frankenstein meets the Space Monster is a goofy B-movie."
"The whole purpose of a time travel movie is to immerse the audience."
"It's just nice to see like a mainstream wide-release horror film that feels like a horror film."
"Black Widow: less like a typical superhero movie, more like spy espionage."
"It's not your standard horror flick, it's an intelligent movie."
"Outland creates a more down-to-earth action movie."
"It’s one of the most iconic scenes in romantic comedies."
"This is just gonna straight up be an X-Men movie now because there's not really anywhere else for the story to go."
"The Coen Brothers channel the prohibition era with the mobster film full of memorable performances."
"A surprisingly tense Thriller with some real horror at play."
"It's effing Han Solo being sort of a gangster film set inside the Star Wars universe." - Paul Bettany
"Christmas is the most prevalent holiday of the year, creeping earlier and earlier every season like a zombie apocalypse."
"At the end of the day, these are kids' movies."
"This is a rom-com that is mostly a comedy. It's so cute and so funny."
"It's hard. It's still a monster movie and they do a pretty good job of embracing just that."
"You've got to give a win to the creation of an iconic world-changing line, right? Such a simple yet complex idea."
"Star Wars is the hero's journey, an adventure film like no other."
"I was about to say, this sounds like a clue-type movie, like Knives Out."
"Raiders of the Lost Ark: The pure definition of an adventure film."
"It's women's month, I believe. This is kind of a women empowerment movie."
"Schlock was definitely meant to imitate those bad ape movies on purpose and to pay tribute to all those gorilla men who played, you know, the same gorillas."
"He is in the top five Americans to ever live."
"It doesn't feel like a black film or about this, it feels like an American film."
"Jaws 2 really does feel like a contemporary late 70s horror slasher movie."
"Foreign films thrive on the idea that something dangerous or sinister is afoot."
"Halloween Ends will once again provide major scares."
"The Demolitionist: a 1995 superhero action movie that's also the directorial debut of Robert Kurtzman."
"This movie feels like a love letter to DC Comics fans."
"The poseidon adventure in space—it's just wonderful."
"David Fincher doing a zombie movie on an epic global scale? Come on, yes."
"Die Hard is a standard for over-the-top action flicks."
"It's a metaphorical social satire, yeah, in the style of Jordan Peel."
"It's entertaining, I like kind of the cheesiness of it."
"Chronicle... thought it was one of the best found footage movies ever made."
"Oh, Hugh Grant's in this movie? Oh, this promises to be a delightful British rom-com."
"Shrek 2 is probably the most perfect fairy tale parody I've ever seen."
"Tourist Trap is an early slasher made before the subgenres tropes had calcified after endless Friday the 13th clones."
"Ultimately, it's a movie that wants to be in that noir tradition, but also wishes to reaffirm the heroic nature of our protagonist."
"This is your kind of film because it goes into these existential problems and philosophical questions."
"A wonderful comedy about black and white friendships for people who see no color and love an opportunity to ignore their troubles."
"Secondly, I like that 2003 is already playing with body horror."
"Best of the Best wasn't really a straight fight movie, but more of a drama mixed with martial arts."
"Return to Argento's roots and a throwback to Italian giallo thrillers."
"Speaking of Anna de Armas in Deep Water, I feel like she's a perfect lead for a modern-day erotic thriller."
"And by the way there's any more popular than one horror movie it's that horror movie sequel."
"Monkey Man delivers a powerful revenge story that goes through the gamut of action with powerful force."
"The Suicide Squad is a excellent R-rated movie."
"I want to see Wes Anderson make a horror movie."
"It's the anti-Christmas movie which is exactly why it deserves to be more in the conversation about the films that are Christmas movies."
"Horror is doing very well on a low budget level. It's not my favorite genre, but we're in a bit of a horror Renaissance."
"The ending... becomes a horror film, kind of a call to action."
"Terminator 1 is more horror, more of a suspense horror."
"It's using the high school setting as so many of these movies do to poke fun and draw attention to different social hierarchies."
"Scream is both our favorite horror movie... it's also our brotherly bond."
"The best comedies are where the actors don't realize they're in a comedy."
"For those of us who grew up at a certain time, we would watch these movies when we were kids and we would love these Godzilla movies."
"I think the world is going to need more romantic comedies coming out of this."
"Happy Death Day... definitely fits that kind of mood if it's your birthday."
"American Graffiti stands as one of the great hangout movies."
"Star Wars is always meant to be an adventure."
"I am a sucker when it comes to these types of movies."
"The Ring was one of the most unsettling creepy horror movies of the 2000s."
"Found footage is one of my favorite sub-genres... it feels so realistic as long as it's done right."
"One of the things I love about these 80s and 90s action movies is none of them waste any time getting right to the action."
"It's supposed to be one of those movies that are like so dumb and Goofy that it's hilarious."
"Perhaps one of the strangest sub-genres to find success during this time was the era of teenage dystopian films."
"Clint Eastwood obviously is an icon of westerns."
"I would say this is a modern western."
"The first movie has such a specificity to it that it actually created a sub-genre with imitator movies being described as 'Die Hard on a blank'."
"Die Hard is definitely a Christmas movie."
"I think when you get into that genre because war movies of whatever kind, whatever conflict you might be talking, like, they've been around almost as long as movies have. And so there's such an enormous range of films to pick from."
"I haven't seen a ton of M Night movies but this is definitely probably one of my favorites."
"I'm so excited about Disappointment Boulevard especially because he's switching up the genre a little bit this is described as a comedy horror."
"Christmas movies tend to be wacky over the top anyways and that is Jim Carrey's comedic style."
"Who would have thought Guy Ritchie would be making a Latin film?"
"Honestly heck yes, we are back with found footage. I have realized that this is just my favorite genre in the entire world."
"The Batman is not really a superhero movie, it's a neo-noir flick."
"It's a 90s film spoofing gritty 80s action movies."
"It's more of like a drama thriller, kind of dark like black comedy because it's got a kind of wickedness to it and I absolutely loved it."
"It's a jello film. Kind of fits, doesn't it?"
"Definitely more of an action film. Most of it was set in the day, so we saw a lot more of Predator."
"the adults are more so there for nostalgia but the type of movie that this is is something that if there was never a ghostbusters film you would find this in the family fun section at the video store"
"That's a buddy cop movie I would watch."
"I have a thing for the little creature films, I guess."
"It's the type of Fun Adventure film kids will love."
"The Batman was a dark film, deliberately dark."
"Scream is what I like about all the other Scream films just stripped back and introduces the idea of meta horror, being in a horror movie while you're aware of it."
"I love going to the movies to be entertained like I'm not somebody who's going to enjoy like an artsy indie film."
"But this movie is like the first crime movie to show you how enjoyable it is, and that shows you the temptation of it."
"The genre has taken on a responsibility to comment on the wider issues of the time."
"It's just everything that a good sports movie should be this movie you know it tackles it in a great way."
"This movie is very much a war film, it is an action film."
"Halloween is through and through a holiday movie and it's iconic."
"My favorite horror movie, like the one that scared me the most, would probably be The Exorcist."
"It's like Last Action Hero style with slasher stuff, and that's like, okay, I'm rolling with you here."
"The Descent aims to take the traditionally male-dominated world of horror movies and switch those roles for an almost all-female cast."
"The essence of a mockumentary is quite simple: it aims to ridicule the characters or to use them to expose a political, social, or an interpersonal issue in a satirical manner."
"Neo-Noir is a very expansive and interesting genre with a great selection of cinematic bangers."
"It's a feel-good Tarantino movie."
"It holds up in that it's an 80s movie."
"It's time we look back at one of the classics of the slasher genre."
"It feels like an odd mashup of a Godzilla movie and an avant-garde art film."
"Curse of the Werewolf is something of an outlier in the lycanthropy library but it's also one that shouldn't be skipped when delving into the genre's classics."
"I think Goodfellas is hilarious, but it's certainly not a comedy, it's a document."
"It's one of the better rom-coms I've seen in a very, very long time."
"Rick's anti-heist rant is actually based on co-creator Dan Harmon's hatred of the heist genre films."
"...alien is known as one of the scariest movies of all time and this is part of the reason why."
"The western is America's favorite genre, it's my favorite genre too."
"It's a love letter to first the Golden Age of comics and then the Silver Age and then obviously retro spy flicks."
"It doesn't feel like a comic book movie, and I think that's what makes it so awesome."
"One of the most influential genres in movie history has to be the samurai genre, also known as chambara."
"They were serious, brooding, and melodramatic films that often leaned into horror or noir elements for suspense."
"In the world of horror, Asia has been one of the most prominent continents to contribute to the genre."
"Aliens is an action film at its heart."
"It's a Wolverine movie that you've probably wanted to see for a very long time, tone-wise."
"It's honestly one of the most uplifting funeral films I've ever seen in my life."
"It's a handsome apocalypse movie."
"I would always love to do a Western."
"It's classic Noir, it's a movie that was made in the 90s but maybe could have been made in the 40s."
"Post-apocalyptic settings have been popular in movies for decades."
"This movie is intentionally absurdist and a comedy."
"It was like a contemporary film noir, stylish with colorful comic-book style visuals and an all-star cast."
"It looks more like an actual historical epic."
"Essential Italian neorealism at its finest."
"It's really dark, it's good, it's dark comedy."
"For me, it's all about the cheesy, over-the-top, fun-loving 80s films."
"I just want to watch like Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston do a murder mystery."
"I debate if it's a Halloween or Christmas movie, but what do you guys think?"
"Of course, Ghostbusters is a Halloween movie."
"I'm always up for a good Western."
"It's sort of the anti-superhero movie; it's R-rated, it's low-budget, it's a psychological drama."
"Stallone wrote Rocky and invented that genre of triumph over adversity film."
"The adventure part of this film does work."
"It's a different kind of movie in that universe, it's almost in a way more of a thriller."