Yep… and cop dramas and action flicks of the past are seen as only enjoyed by men while never considering that “true crime” is often considered a girl thing…
Why it’s almost like the whole thing falls apart at the slightest touch! Critique as delicate as thousand year old lace.
And yet people keep embracing it… strange…
I’d argue that honestly having literally just one franchise just kind of owning the whole space and concept is what I see as underserved.
At least lately there have been some movies where it was normal couple stumbles into dangerous drama, though those have been at least half romcom, too.
First class, free champagne - and tasering the William Atherton character. Not bad, huh?
Well, there was this time I was watching Se7en in a theater and the parents in front of us kind of had to escort their crying kids out when that sloth guy tried to get out of the bed…
So maybe most of the movies in the ven diagram… 
True. Another reason this kind of fails as a “genre” for me though.
I think it was more “these are protagonists with advanced degrees who work for the state in this type of film” than any kind of statement about the type of work they do.
There was a lot of silly stuff in that movie but the most bananas part was when the government guy looking at a satellite surveillance photo asked if the tech guys could show the scene from a different angle so they could see something blocked by the camera’s view and they totally did like it was a normal request that actually made sense.
I guess it was a Dad movie for guys who have no idea how technology or optics work.
The author has another post where he massacres Dune and uses the word “cucked” and I’m not sure if it’s being used ironically or not. I want to read more but honestly I don’t have time to FBI this guy’s content to find out.
I question all of this quy’s classification of job/education when he somehow listed the protagonist of Falling Down as not having a graduate degree and not working for the state when it’s clearly established in dialog that he’s an defense engineer who’s disgruntlement is in part about having lost his job.
He probably couldn’t be arsed watching that stinking pile of shite.
I did and never again. Mind you I haven’t watched most of the films in the diagrams above. I’m a dad. Don’t like that shit.
I do enjoy romcoms and costume dramas though.
Also while I prefer the TV version of Tinker tailor I have a great fondness for the movie too. It’s quite different and the need to compact the story didn’t stop the director doing a lot of the plot and exposition via long, slow takes with little or no dialogue.
You are not wrong. Great thing about Die Hard is … it really was written with more than 5 themes, like literature and shit.
Same here.
I tend to loathe the stereotypical ‘chick flick’ but I love well done scifi and horror films.
And yet, I’ve been reading for half a century that all movies are marketed to 16-year-old-boys.
Thank goodness we’ve gotten past this phase so now everything is a Marvel Superhero movie
Yeah, but I’d still love to see Gary Oldman in a remake of Smiley’s People with the same aesthetic of the Alfredson film. I rewatched the Obi-Wan Smiley’s People a few months ago - it’s my favourite of the novels - but it wasn’t as good as I remembered.
Actually, I’d be satisfied with Oldman and David Dencik just doing the burning of Tricky Tony scene. That would be cool.
I’d watch that!
Does Wrath of Khan count?
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