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So that’s why my western war musical failed so hard.
You can also try to recoup your money by releasing a behind the scenes documentary about the horrifying financial crimes that went on during production of the first film.
Just make a documentary about it
I heard about that western war musical. I was excited to see “Alamo!” but they didn’t advertise it out here so I forgot.
Great, now I have Texans singing about the Alamo in my head.
Cool but awful design, why is every graph in a different scale
So that you can compare the relative changes over the years without having a tiny line for less popular genres.
It actually tells you right below the title why they’ve chosen to do that
Comedy looks popular but I feel lucky if I watch even one decent one in a given year.
A lot of films are categorised as Comedy “something” these days, most notably Comedy Drama. I imagine this counts towards the stats.
I fucking hate modern categories.
If I see Lord of the Rings listed in my science fiction category again I’m gonna reach through the internet to back hand whoever decided that through their computer screen.
No, The Expanse does not count as Fantasy.
Is it fantastical? I guess.
Does it fit the movie genre of Fantasy?
Fuck no. It’s 'Hard science fiction" as in science fiction based on real world science. Star trek is more soft science fiction. Possible, but basically magic to us. Star WARS on the other hand, I’d say fits into both.
Most of my gripes come from science fiction categories and how their movies are labeled. I swear I once saw Bridget Jones listed in science fiction.
Bring back westerns and musicals!
Give us Blazing Saddles: The Musical!
What genre are superhero films? Fantasy? Sci-fi? E.g. what is Superman or X-Men?
Both. Maybe leaning a little bit more on sci-fi since they try to explain many things with science like kryptonite. But definitely also fantasy for X-Men, mutants have superpowers because the DNA does … things.
RIP western
It really is a shame, even though the actual west was nothing like most if not all westerns, it’s so unique and I think has a lot of untapped potential
Edit: I think the best we’ll ever get is westerns made in a different genre, this is my opinion but I think Inglourious Basterds is a western set in WWII. I could see more things like that from different directors, although in fairness you could make that comparison to a lot of Tarantinos work
I think of westerns as a fantasy historical period genre. That period was chosen because it represented a jingoistic mythical American origin story. But we could build myths about a different period instead. There’s lots of untapped historical and cultural potential out there.
I agree, it effectively already is that, it’s just that at least half of those myths are fucking horrific. But the genre, in my very white opinion, doesn’t have to be problematic. And while I know it’s not a film but Red Dead 2 is a good example
I’m so glad musicals are dying out.
Also the fact that Thrillers and Horrors are steadily becoming more popular is kind of concerning. There seems to be a growing latent appetite for murder in the general population. lol
You lament the growing appetite for murder yet readily praise the death of musicals.
If I had 3 of my friends and a piano, we’d dance and sing our frustrations at you!
musicals make me want to murder
Alternatively, people’s appetite is unchanged, but the way they express it is changing towards consumption of visual media.
This graph sucks, the y axis differs between the genres
It says so in the text there. This feels like the only way anyway, since the boundaries between genres are fuzzy and it’s not possible to decisively compare genre tags on IMDB.
