anonymous prompted:how about books/movies/songs/anything really that you liked, but from genres you usually avoid?
Um hm. This is difficult because I am an asshole and I tend to, you know, hardcore avoid the things I want to avoid. I am a real brat about watching stuff that I do not think will be my kind of thing. However even I can be circumvented on occasion, so I tried to come up with a list of genres that I don't really like and then find a movie that defied that for me in each. These genres would be: war movies, horror movies, masculine movies of the 70s (u know what I mean), space things, westerns, and mob movies. I am not trying to disparage those genres in any way; they're just not what I'm drawn to most of the time.
War movies: Apocalypse Now
MAN what a movie. What an incredible movie. I haven't watched it in years and honestly that's probably because I'm still recovering, but I gotta do it soon. The opening has got to be one of my favorites in cinema. It's a movie where everything works towards one common goal: the visuals, the MUSIC, the acting, everything. Incredible.
Horror movies: Rosemary's Baby
I generally cannot watch scary movies because I am a flat out coward, and I wouldn't really call Rosemary's Baby a scary movie. Horror does not always equal scary (I know that's such a weird thing to say) IMO. It's not a movie I thought I'd like based on the subject matter but I really deeply enjoyed it and then felt gross about it, because fuckin' Polanski. But it is undeniably a great movie, beautifully and awfully tense. And I've been craving horror more and more lately in general.
Masculine movies of the 70s: Taxi Driver
Lol a lot of these are masculine movies from the 70s now that I look at this list. But you know what I mean when I say that, right? It's such a distinct time in cinema and it's not something I'm naturally drawn to, aesthetically-speaking. I really have to force myself, and sometimes I'm into it and sometimes I'm not. I fucking loved this movie, though. I cannot comprehend how it managed to build tension so well without seeming to do so at all; about an hour in, I was just sitting there literally clutching my face because I was so stressed out and I didn't even know how I got to that place. It's such a slow burn of a film, so lowkey that it really sneaks up on you.
Space: Star Trek (the reboot, tho I have yet to see the Benesnit Cumberfloop one)
I saw this film under MUCH DURESS and LOTS of complaining, because I DO NOT LIKE SPACE THINGS but then I was in love in like under five minutes. I was so annoyed about it. I was obsessed for like a summer, but then it faded. And I heard the second one was lame, so.
Westerns:Red River? That's probably the closest I'll get.
I don't actually like Red River outside of Monty Clift devotion. I really can't stand westerns but this one is bearable because of Monty and Joanne Dru and their absolutely GLORIOUS romance. IT WAS SO AMAZING. It was only like fifteen minutes out of the whole movie, but they were a glorious fifteen minutes.
Mob movies:The Godfather I guess
Again, it's probably the closest I'll get. I watched this for the first time recently and I liked it well enough. I mean, I respected it as filmmaking. But I had zero emotional investment.
Um hm. This is difficult because I am an asshole and I tend to, you know, hardcore avoid the things I want to avoid. I am a real brat about watching stuff that I do not think will be my kind of thing. However even I can be circumvented on occasion, so I tried to come up with a list of genres that I don't really like and then find a movie that defied that for me in each. These genres would be: war movies, horror movies, masculine movies of the 70s (u know what I mean), space things, westerns, and mob movies. I am not trying to disparage those genres in any way; they're just not what I'm drawn to most of the time.
War movies: Apocalypse Now
MAN what a movie. What an incredible movie. I haven't watched it in years and honestly that's probably because I'm still recovering, but I gotta do it soon. The opening has got to be one of my favorites in cinema. It's a movie where everything works towards one common goal: the visuals, the MUSIC, the acting, everything. Incredible.
Horror movies: Rosemary's Baby
I generally cannot watch scary movies because I am a flat out coward, and I wouldn't really call Rosemary's Baby a scary movie. Horror does not always equal scary (I know that's such a weird thing to say) IMO. It's not a movie I thought I'd like based on the subject matter but I really deeply enjoyed it and then felt gross about it, because fuckin' Polanski. But it is undeniably a great movie, beautifully and awfully tense. And I've been craving horror more and more lately in general.
Masculine movies of the 70s: Taxi Driver
Lol a lot of these are masculine movies from the 70s now that I look at this list. But you know what I mean when I say that, right? It's such a distinct time in cinema and it's not something I'm naturally drawn to, aesthetically-speaking. I really have to force myself, and sometimes I'm into it and sometimes I'm not. I fucking loved this movie, though. I cannot comprehend how it managed to build tension so well without seeming to do so at all; about an hour in, I was just sitting there literally clutching my face because I was so stressed out and I didn't even know how I got to that place. It's such a slow burn of a film, so lowkey that it really sneaks up on you.
Space: Star Trek (the reboot, tho I have yet to see the Benesnit Cumberfloop one)
I saw this film under MUCH DURESS and LOTS of complaining, because I DO NOT LIKE SPACE THINGS but then I was in love in like under five minutes. I was so annoyed about it. I was obsessed for like a summer, but then it faded. And I heard the second one was lame, so.
Westerns:Red River? That's probably the closest I'll get.
I don't actually like Red River outside of Monty Clift devotion. I really can't stand westerns but this one is bearable because of Monty and Joanne Dru and their absolutely GLORIOUS romance. IT WAS SO AMAZING. It was only like fifteen minutes out of the whole movie, but they were a glorious fifteen minutes.
Mob movies:The Godfather I guess
Again, it's probably the closest I'll get. I watched this for the first time recently and I liked it well enough. I mean, I respected it as filmmaking. But I had zero emotional investment.