What proportion of the films you watch are genre films?

[Kermit the Frog]

Just getting an informal gauge of what a forum of media-savvy people like to watch, would also be interested to know if people have a favourite genre and if so, what it is. I've loved Westerns since I was a boy and I never get bored of them, can watch pretty much anything from that branch from the early Tom Mix stuff all the way down through Randolph Scott, John Wayne, Peckinpah, etc. Also love Hong Kong wuxia stuff since I was a teenager and could get my hands on it, and still love that stuff although that's a genre that has burned out bit since CGI and the big mainland productions. Anyway, share your love of a genre or your disdain for one that you can't abide, or your scepticism about generic categorisation, or whatever. Another question to answer could be whether you still enjoy the same genres you did when you first fell in love with cinema. I retained my love of Westerns, but my affection for horror comedy and superhero stuff has tapered off in the intervening years. What about you? Do you still seek out the kinds of stuff you liked as a young-un?

[Small Man Big Horse]

As a kid I largely watched comedy, sci-fi / fantasy and slasher movies and horror, and I'd say the first two are still my favourite genres, though I'm starting to tire of superhero movies these days and I never watch straight horror having lost interest in it completely. Otherwise I watch pretty much any genre equally, bar westerns, I can't quite explain it but I just tend to find too many of them overly macho and tedious, though there are exceptions

[phantom_power]

I think I probably watch an even mix of various levels of genre film and more serious dramatic films, depending on my mood. I go through phases certainly but over the course of a year I imagine it is a pretty even split

[mothman]

I went for "no particular genre" because, while sure I'll always watch a SF film if it looks good, and a lot of the modern action and/or superhero/comic films, it's not to the exclusion of anything else. My wife will not watch anything streamed if there is crap on live TV she can watch RIGHT NOW. Recorded stuff, occasionally. And I'll admit I'm not great at thinking "nothing to do, nothing on TV, I'll watch something streamed or recorded." So we can be at the mercy of the schedules. But if that means we end up watching, say, Lady Bird on a Saturday night because it's on C4, then it's not all bad.

[Sebastian Cobb]

Most I reckon, some serious, some less-so. Love noirs, exploitation, paranoia films, seedy 80's thrillers, whatever the stuff people like peter strickland is called, greek weird wave etc.

Not sure if there's something running through all those or not.

[dissolute ocelot]

I watch a fair bit of genre, although not limited to one particular genre - I like to relax with action but also watch a bit of science fiction, horror, and rom-com, and don't mind a western. Is comedy a genre? Regardless, action is probably the main genre where I'll watch bad films as well as good ones - with e.g. horror it tends to be the more interesting ones, not run-of-the-mill slasher/torture-porn.

Having said that, while I know what people usually mean by genre films, isn't everything one genre or other? I'd hope to differentiate non-genre art films from the Hollywood idea of non-genre, which is generally "prestige drama" shit like King's Speech or Green Book. Although fortunately this sort of Oscar bait is actually sometimes losing out in the Oscars to proper art films like Moonlight. But it's subjective really.

[Sebastian Cobb]

I don't know what horror is any more, someone called me an idiot because I said some things were what I would consider thrillers or psych thrillers.

[sevendaughters]

I sort of think of all films as having a basic genre, but in terms of identifiably 'genre productions' as opposed to 'quality' or 'art', I guess 30-40%? I'm always looking for those genre productions that have an extra layer.

[greenman]

Most I reckon, some serious, some less-so. Love noirs, exploitation, paranoia films, seedy 80's thrillers, whatever the stuff people like peter strickland is called, greek weird wave etc.

Not sure if there's something running through all those or not.

I'd guess that sums up quite a lot of CaB, I find my viewing these days is most either various genre stuff or more overtly arty stuff with very little in the way of "sensible adult drama" which honestly I find mostly emotionally too blunted.

[Sebastian Cobb]

I'd guess that sums up quite a lot of CaB, I find my viewing these days is most either various genre stuff or more overtly arty stuff with very little in the way of "sensible adult drama" which honestly I find mostly emotionally too blunted.

I find with some of those even if they're well made and the story is alright for what it is, I'll come to the realisation I just don't really give a shit about what is happening to any of the people in it.

Watched one with Juliette Binoche and her relationship with her difficult mum a while back. Just didn't give a fuck.

[greenman]

I find with some of those even if they're well made and the story is alright for what it is, I'll come to the realisation I just don't really give a shit about what is happening to any of the people in it.

Watched one with Juliette Binoche and her relationship with her difficult mum a while back. Just didn't give a fuck.

French drama I always find a bit harder to gauge because there isnt really such a clear divide(at least from my perspective) between "sensible adult" and "genuinely ambitious" as there is in Hollywood/British cinema were you can generally pick up inoffensive blandness warnings quite easily. I spose those kinds of bourgeois comedy of manners films like The Truth(what you were reffering to I'm guessing?) or Non Fiction are easier to pick out but there are plenty of Binoche films from the last decade I'd rate quite highly.

[Johnboy]

I definitely veer towards true stories/biopics especially music ones

[Sebastian Cobb]

French drama I always find a bit harder to gauge because there isnt really such a clear divide(at least from my perspective) between "sensible adult" and "genuinely ambitious" as there is in Hollywood/British cinema were you can generally pick up inoffensive blandness warnings quite easily. I spose those kinds of bourgeois comedy of manners films like The Truth(what you were reffering to I'm guessing?) or Non Fiction are easier to pick out but there are plenty of Binoche films from the last decade I'd rate quite highly.

Yeah that was it. There's been a load of Binoche films on Mubi, and yes plenty of them are great. To be honest I was torn between picking that one or another one I saw with Charlotte Rampling (also been in lots of great stuff) as an example but I could barely remember the latter.

[greenman]

Yeah that was it. There's been a load of Binoche films on Mubi, and yes plenty of them are great. To be honest I was torn between picking that one or another one I saw with Charlotte Rampling (also been in lots of great stuff) as an example but I could barely remember the latter.

You even get the same directors dirfting between them,  Assayas directed the IMHO pretty unremarkable Non Fiction coming off of Personal Shopper and Clouds of Sils Maria which I thought were both exellent.

Genre film wise really there is a pretty big cutoff for me sometime in the mid 90's, at least with Hollywood. Around that point I felt genre cinema tended to become far blander, horror, comedy, etc  became quite limited ghettoised and happy to recycle the same simple unambitious formulas again and again to a hardcore audience.