Interlude: Genre

This is a somewhat difficult classification. I limited myself to giving each movie at most two genres. Naturally, there are cases where a movie has more, so I tried to give the two which I felt represent the movie the best. Obviously this is completely subjective, and perhaps open to as much debate as the list itself. Since a movie can have more than one genre, the number of total entries will be greater than the number of movies I've seen. Duh. As always, I'll list the totals first, then averages. I have to have seen at least ten movies from a genre for it to be considered for averages.

Most Viewed Genres: Genre (# seen)

18. Biopic (1) Yeah, this number suprised me too. But I don't consider "Ed Wood" and "Rudy" straight biopics, and I can't really say why. Just a gut feeling.

17. (tie) Documentary (2)
Religious (2)
16. Western (9)
15. Music/Musical (10)
14. Comic Book (13)
13. War (17)
12. Animation (26)
11. Mystery (30)
10. Fantasy (49)
9. (Tie) Romance (56)
Crime (56)
8. Adventure (57)
7. Horror (65)
6. Sci-Fi (72)
5. Family (76)
4. Thriller (109)
3. Action (170)
2. Drama (270)
1. Comedy (295)

Any of those numbers suprise you? I would say the #1 suprises me the most. I don't consider my self a "Comedy Movie" kind of guy, but it looks like I keep going back to those for whatever reason. Another possibility is that comedies tend to be shorter in length and easier to swallow, which facillitates watching them. From this point I decided to calculate which movie in my life is representative of the movies I've seen. Since I've seen the most comedies out of 770 movies (I missed a couple on my original list), then #385 would be in the middle. So I just looked for the comedy nearest to here and voila: "Airplane II". As a matter of fact, it is a comedy, so there ya go. What an interesting guy I am!

Anyway, just cuz I've seen a bunch of comedies, doesn't mean that that's my favorite genre, so on to the "Averages". Now, I've listed the #1 movie out of each genre, and the worst movie from each, but take that with a grain of salt. For example: "Shaun of the Dead" is the best movie I've seen from the Comedy genre. Does that make it the funniest? Of course not. Far from it. Its just the best overall movie. So...interpret this however you want. Mostly, though, we've learned that I'm a huge nerdy-nerd.

Remember: 10 movie minimum to qualify for Averages.

16. Romance (490.34)

Best: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Worst: Straight Talk

15. Horror (466.35)

Best: The Silence of the Lambs
Worst: Prom Night

14. Mystery (453.27)

Best: Memento
Worst: Darkness

13. Thriller (441.03)

Best: Silence of the Lambs
Worst: Turbulence

12. Comedy (438.30)

Best: Shaun of the Dead
Worst: Baby's Day Out

11. Family (425.30)

Best: The Incredibles
Worst: All Dog's Go to Heaven

10. Comic Book (414.77)

Best: Spider-Man
Worst: Daredevil

9. Action (402.14)

Best: Jurassic Park
Worst: Turbulence

8. Music /Musical (357.1)

Best: The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Worst: Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit

7. Adventure (346.75)

Best: The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
Worst: Mortal Kombat

6. Sci-Fi (341.15)

Best: Jurassic Park
Worst: Johnny Mnemonic

5. Fantasy (330.82)

Best: The Lord of the Rings
Worst: The Kid

4. Drama (326.73)

Best: Pulp Fiction
Worst: 200 Cigarettes

3. Crime (317.20)

Best: Pulp Fiction
Worst: 8 Heads in A Duffle Bag

2. Animation (269.92)

Best: The Incredibles
Worst: All Dogs Go to Heaven

1. War (163.77)

Best: Schindler's List
Worst: The Patriot

Wow. That was a little more than suprising. I never would've guessed that War would be #1 for me. I also didn't think that Music/Musicals would be so high. This got me thinking that we only really remember the best of a genre, or director, or so on....sometimes a genre will be better than another pretty much only if it has less "bad" movies. Alright, I hope this was exciting for everyone. Have a great weekend.