movie genres that are more or less dead

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westerns (i don't mean stuff like "brokeback mountain," i mean "old west" type westerns, with the sheriff and the cattle rustlers and whatnot)
musicals not based on broadway shows
sherlock holmes movies

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 04:34 (twenty years ago)

one-reel wonders

― born-again christians in the old corral (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 04:35 (twenty years ago)

private eye movies (they've all moved to tv)

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 04:37 (twenty years ago)

duck & cover-style civil defense educational films

― born-again christians in the old corral (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 04:37 (twenty years ago)

Esther Williams swimming-pool epics.

― truck-patch pixel farmer (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 04:37 (twenty years ago)

romantic comedies involving milkmen

― born-again christians in the old corral (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 04:38 (twenty years ago)

most of the subject matter of melodrama has moved over to lifetime tv

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 04:38 (twenty years ago)

crucial xpost

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 04:39 (twenty years ago)

Hollywood needs to bring back the Esther Williams swimming pool epics!

Come on people, Harvey Keitel with sparklers on his head, jumping from a trapeze into a pool of semi-naked women dressed as nuns.

Who's with me here!?!

― your neighborhood porch sitter (kittenbucket), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 04:49 (twenty years ago)

back to school was the last great high-diving movie

― born-again christians in the old corral (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 04:49 (twenty years ago)

German mountain movies.

― Matt #2 (Matt #2), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 04:52 (twenty years ago)

Agatha Christie style mysteries.

― shieldforyoureyes, Tuesday, 27 December 2005 05:27 (twenty years ago)

movies based on w. somerset maugham novels

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 05:30 (twenty years ago)

high budget porn. can't think of any. could be wrong though. actually PROVE me wrong.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 05:34 (twenty years ago)

private eye movies (they've all moved to tv)

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Memento, Motherless Brooklyn when it comes out

― Phoebe, Tuesday, 27 December 2005 05:37 (twenty years ago)

Bugsby Berkely production numbers

― kingfish holiday travesty (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 05:37 (twenty years ago)

high budget porn. can't think of any. could be wrong though. actually PROVE me wrong.

"the dreamers"

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 05:38 (twenty years ago)

ken russell movies

― born-again christians in the old corral (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 05:41 (twenty years ago)

Nudies.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 06:18 (twenty years ago)

"Why we fight" type of war movies.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 06:19 (twenty years ago)

has the iraq war produced a "green berets" type flick yet?

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 06:21 (twenty years ago)

There's a big-budget porn take on Pirates of the Caribbean, isn't there?

There are one or two old-school Westerns that come out every year or so. I watched part of Open Range in HD last week, it was as bad as you might expect from a Kevin Costner vanity project.

― Erick Dampier is better than Shaq (miloaukerman), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 06:24 (twenty years ago)

Sci-fi films warning us about the dangers of nuclear weapons.

In fact, any films warning us about the dangers of nuclear weapons.

All-singing musicals.

Swashbuckling epics (with Pirates of the Caribbean and the occasional remake of The Three Musketeers being the notable excpetions).

Car chase films (a la Smokey and the Bandit).

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 06:57 (twenty years ago)

Ensemble caper comedies like

'Those Magnificent men in their flying machines' or 'Montecarlo or Bust' or 'It's a Mad Mad Mad world'

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 07:17 (twenty years ago)

has the iraq war produced a "green berets" type flick yet?

i'm too lazy to look, but go find that thread about the pro-war flick Bruce Willis is going to make

― kingfish holiday travesty (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 07:24 (twenty years ago)

Silent films

― NoTimeBeforeTime (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 07:33 (twenty years ago)

That might not be a "genre" though.

― NoTimeBeforeTime (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 07:34 (twenty years ago)

what was the last silent film? (arty student films don't count)

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 07:39 (twenty years ago)

Silent Movie by Mel brooks

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 07:44 (twenty years ago)

Juha by Aki Kaurismäki (it's from 1999).

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 07:59 (twenty years ago)

wasnt dracula: pages from a virgin's diary silent? the guy maddin thing from 2002.

― t0dd swiss (immobilisme), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 08:06 (twenty years ago)

milo otm re: big budget porn, 'pirates' - multimillion dollar budget, written up in newsweek, POORLY LIT

― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 08:11 (twenty years ago)

What, Cowards Bend The Knee? Does it count as silent if it has a score (and the score is important)?

(xpost)

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 08:11 (twenty years ago)

how would that make it different from most silents???

― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 08:15 (twenty years ago)

are 70s style anti-westerns dead? deadwood's an altogether different beast right? spaghetti westerns killed themselves eventually. zucker style mad magazine laff-a-second flix are done right? (last one i can think of was that jay mohr 'mafia!' one) saddest death of all: mid-nineties style bruckheimer flix.

― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 08:18 (twenty years ago)

Ensemble caper comedies

Rat Race was moderately successful.

Silent movies were never really silent, the only diff now is themusic is on a soundtrack. But by the mainstream definition, the middle section of Hou hsiao-Hsien's Three Times is silent. (But yeah I guess Mel Brooks did the last Hollywood one.)

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 16:24 (twenty years ago)

Epic pie-fights

― Charlie Chaplin, Tuesday, 27 December 2005 16:36 (twenty years ago)

Cartoon shorts
Newsreels
Unironic Morality plays
Movies with cute, kid-friendly robots that are misunderstood by the government

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 16:44 (twenty years ago)

Two-reelers (3 Stooges, Little Rascals, etc).

― truck-patch pixel farmer (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 16:51 (twenty years ago)

movies based on w. somerset maugham novels

-- J.D. (aubade8...), December 26th, 2005

Or not...
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0446755/

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 16:54 (twenty years ago)

Weren't the Coen Bros. threatening to do a silent film at one point?

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 16:56 (twenty years ago)

Movies about totalitarian governments that ban rock and roll

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 01:31 (twenty years ago)

is the scream genre dead yet?

― born-again christians in the old corral (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 01:55 (twenty years ago)

zucker style mad magazine laff-a-second flix are done right? (last one i can think of was that jay mohr 'mafia!' one)

What about "Scary Movie" and its sequels? I think Zucker actually directed the third one.

― 31g (31g), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 03:56 (twenty years ago)

how would that make it different from most silents???

There are many silent films that don't have any score either. If it has that classic "silent movie piano", that was probably improvised and isn't "part" of the movie (although it was probably expected).

But Cowards Bend The Knee is practically a music video (or ten).

Wikipedia suggests that this year's Call of Cthulhu movie was silent.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 05:28 (twenty years ago)

gah i can't believe i forgot scary movie

― j blount (papa la bas), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 09:25 (twenty years ago)

Wrestling movies.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 22:08 (twenty years ago)

"east coast guy moves/travels to LA and is wowed by all the babes and glamor" movies

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 29 December 2005 00:57 (twenty years ago)

Beach party movies.

― naus (Robert T), Thursday, 29 December 2005 02:30 (twenty years ago)

ski movies

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Thursday, 29 December 2005 02:39 (twenty years ago)

Outlaw biker movies (and don't bring up BikerBoyz, that POS just killed it more).

― naus (Robert T), Thursday, 29 December 2005 02:52 (twenty years ago)

cyborg westerns

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 29 December 2005 03:11 (twenty years ago)

locked room cyborg mysteries

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 29 December 2005 03:11 (twenty years ago)

swedish bikini thrillers

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 29 December 2005 03:13 (twenty years ago)

bloody french living dead girl makeoutathons

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 29 December 2005 03:14 (twenty years ago)

spotty borstal teen makeoutathons

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 29 December 2005 03:15 (twenty years ago)

dollmen versus demonic toys

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 29 December 2005 03:17 (twenty years ago)

cyborg karate cop hijinx

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 29 December 2005 03:17 (twenty years ago)

robot dogs

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 29 December 2005 03:17 (twenty years ago)

kids with magic star cases who get picked on by seriously freckled mop heads and who end up in a R.V. with eddie albert

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 29 December 2005 03:22 (twenty years ago)

character-driven car-race movies.

― born-again christians in the old corral (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 29 December 2005 03:27 (twenty years ago)

white folx taught how to live learn and love by exotic others

oh, wait, that one is alive and well

white folx taught how to live learn and love by exotic cyborgs

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 29 December 2005 03:34 (twenty years ago)

really really really big bugs

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 29 December 2005 03:36 (twenty years ago)

white folx taught how to live learn and love by exotic cyborgs

k-pax, dude

― born-again christians in the old corral (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 29 December 2005 03:48 (twenty years ago)

one-reel wonders
Movies that get their story-telling done fluidly and efficiently in ninety minutes and then get the heck off the screen.

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Thursday, 29 December 2005 13:47 (twenty years ago)

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