Newest Review is LIVE!!! It’s time for the 200th Review Folks.
Hello All,
So for this special review, we are doing something a little bit different from the norm. I have selected a bunch of different film genres, including some from the suggestion box I had set up for this. We’re going to avoid the pro/con routine, and you can be assured that all the films listed are an easy 10/10. Now, before we begin, these are the rules.
- Films from previous lists can be mentioned, favourites are favourites, this is more discussing why they’re my favourite of the genre.
- Some of these maybe a combination of genres, and count if they do the genre selected for this review very well.
- No films that came out in 2016. That’d be too easy.
Sound good? So let’s get to the films shall we?
- (Suggestion Box Idea #1) Thriller: Reservoir Dogs (Sub Genre: Crime Thriller) - So if you’ve read my Top 5 Favourite Films review you would know that this is my favourite film of all time, so i’ve discussed it a bit there. The reason I choose this for thriller is, while it is a crime film, you never actually see the central crime of the film. It’s more the thrill of trying to figure what happened and why that drives home the heart of the story, and to me makes it just that awesome.
- (Suggestion Box Idea #2) Comedy: Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Sub Genre: Surreal Slapstick Comedy) - This holds a special place in my heart. This was one of the first films my dad showed me when I was a kid that really stuck with me. Even though I was a kid, It showed me that it was okay for adults to like silly humour as well. The film itself is comedic genius, as it takes a classic medieval legend and just twists it so far off it’s original idea and just leaves you wondering just what the hell else is going to happen in it. It’s just the right mix if the most unexpected and side splitting jokes that I can still watch it many years later and laugh just as hard as I did the first time. Fun fact: When I moved out, My dad let me keep the DVD copy of the film he originally bought. I’m still really glad he did.
- Romance: True Romance (Sub Genre: Romantic Crime) - For a lot of people, when they hear of a romantic crime duo, they think of Bonnie and Clyde. For me though, I have to go with Clarence and Alabama from True Romance. An amazing cast, with an equally amazing script originally written by Quentin Tarantino, lends itself to being in my mind possibly one of the most honest films about love ever made. It doesn’t go overboard into the melodramatic territory (which wants to make my inner six year old vomit), but at the same time in amongst the crime ridden story of the film itself, you can clearly see the whole way through just how much the lead characters clearly just love each other with all their hearts. Honestly, films like this make me want to tell Nicholas Sparks to go back to the drawing board.
- Drama: Fight Club - Yep, you read this right, Fight Club is considered a Drama. I’ll be the first to admit, it’s hard to see in amongst the chaos of the story itself. If you step back and think about it though, If you suddenly found yourself running a fight club/terrorist organization with your best friend, you’d consider that a pretty dramatic turn of events in your life. What a lot of people forget is that Drama comes in many forms, and not all of it (at least filmmaking wise) has to be slow, somber, melancholy dramas that are simply dramatic because they’re sad and slow (I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, I’m allergic to slow dramas.) Fight Club proves that life can be both dramatic and entertaining, a mix we desperately need more of.
- Mystery: Oldboy (2003 Version, Sub Genre: Mystery Neo Noir Thriller) - Good mysteries are sometimes the simplest, at least on the surface. The mystery in Oldboy surrounds the protagonist, and presents itself to him very simply: Who imprisoned you for twenty years, and why did they do it? It the twenty years part that is always intriguing to me. What do you have to do to someone that they take twenty years of your life without hesitation? The answers in this film are possibly some of the most mind blowing I’ve ever seen, and it’s a must for any lovers of mystery or foreign films.
- Science Fiction: Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (Sub Genre: Epic Space Opera) - The number 6 of my all time favourite films, it’s honestly my go to answer for Sci Fi simply because once again this was from when I was a kid watching films with my dad. Star Wars holds a special place in a lot of people’s hearts, as I think it was most people’s first introduction to the idea of science fiction. Truth be told, the film itself is awesome, and there’s a reason it still holds up today, even over the new ones Disney are making.
- Western: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly (Sub Genre: Epic Spaghetti Western) - So Django Unchained was admittedly a pretty close second for me, but for Westerns, there’s no better place to turn to than the Spaghetti Western subgenre. There’s just something about the way those films look and play out, and there’s no better example in my mind than Sergio Leone’s third entry into hsi man with no name trilogy. All three films are amazing, and if you can I’d say find the boxset, but the third one gets the mix just right. It has all the right plot points for a western, and the story and action are just awesome.
Alright folks, we have to stop there for now because believe it or not, these were the genre’s I could actually decide favourites for. For next time, we still have Action, Fantasy, Crime, Adventure, and many others to get through.
Guys, thank you so much for helping me get to 200 reviews. Without the incredible response from you guys and the incredible amount of feedback, I wouldn’t have made it this far. Here’s to another 100 reviews, as we got many more great, bad, and in between films to review, plus more of the specials, retro, and series reviews in between.
Next: Mechanic Ressurection - Hey, remember that Jason Statham action movie from a few years ago where he plays an assassin? No? Me neither mostly, but it’s sequel is coming out anyways.
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Until next time, I’ll see you folks at the movies.
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