Genres

[Ever (Zombiepreparation)]

Huh.

Regarding watching the 2019 version of Always be My Maybe (which I immediately tried to purchase after watching but it's not yet available on Prime):

When watching it I immediately tracked on its storyline and the storyline of movie Long Shot (which I had immediately purchased after watching) with Seth Rogan and Charlize Theron. They were both released in 2019 but I didn't see either of them until they came to NETFLIX. And was curious about their strong similarities. Writer? Producer? Both in 2019 seemed to nix that thought.

Tonight I asked Google about this: "the storylines of movies long shot and always be my maybe is too coincidental"

This was the top item in the results. BuzzFeed 2019: 'Always Be My Maybe and Long Shot....'. Huh. I just liked them. Mostly because the dialogue is clever and well delivered. But I did think they were comedies.

Okay but are the 1987 movies The Lost Boys, 1992 movie Bram Stoker's Dracula rom-vampire, or rom-horror? The 2008 Let the Right One In a rom-vampire? Rom-horror? 😏

So I asked Google again. Well, no, not a genre but it can be a grouping if one googles rom-vampire. To me they are just vampire movies. 🙂

The 2009 movie Zombieland a rom-zombie? Comedy? Rom-com? The 2016 movie Deadpool a rom-com? 😊

Would the movie The Gentlemen be a rom-crime? 😃

I do own all these movies. Maybe I'm just a romantic? 😅

Or maybe I'm not typically noticing genres. Not in literature, film, art, etc. With the notable exceptions being Comedy and Musical.



I wouldn't call me a science fiction 'fan' as such, though I do have  lots favs that are sci-fi. And I was a total FAN of Star Trek on TV within the first minutes watching it Sept. 8, 1966. And I have a whole slew of favs that are under the umbrella classification of sci-fi.

I'm most certainly am not a fan of fantasy, and yet...

There's no way I could ever be thought of as a Western fan yet (see above).

Repeat repeat repeat.

My experience of genres is:
-I like
-I like a lot
-I really really like
-Comedy
-Not my cup of tea
-I didn't get it
-Nope
-I didn't like
-I couldn't stand that
-I must Own so I can rewatch it as often as I want
-You like it/I don't
-I like it/You don't
-Ignore
Etc.

I do 'get' the fiction/non-fiction thing. But in my experience it seems, and regarding movies at least, the genre thing is now too overlapping at times to get accuracy using just a word or three.



So the movies Always Be My Maybe and Long Shot and their genres are to me:
-I like a lot
-I must Own so I can rewatch/read/listen to it as often as I want.
-Comedy

I do take issue with rom-com being the accepted genre for these two movies. Although, having never been really thinking about quote-RomCom-unquote, I appreciate what the linked article says about at least Updating the format for that 'genre' if most comedy movies that have romance are also being tossed there. 👍

[MacWa77ace]

So when I sort by Genre, I see the same movies across three to 10 genres. Some of which don't even make any sense.

"That's not a western!" I'll say a lot.