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Post by Head Mutant on Dec 19, 2006 13:26:01 GMT -5
I was at Best Buy today and was perusing the comedy aisle. Among the titles was "Secretary", a S&M movie that has not one whit of comedy, quirk or wit within.
So let's start a thread based on your observations of local video rental shops and stores -- what movies have you seen wildly mis-classified in terms of genre?
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Post by Spiderdancer on Dec 19, 2006 18:48:33 GMT -5
My local Blockbuster used to put many creature/goth movies in with the actioners, including Cronos, which has almost no action at all.
For bonus points, it has a cover featuring a beautiful young woman with the gold Cronos bug puncturing her neck. This looks like a typical capitalization on the vampires=sex theme, except that there are NO women in the movie who are even in that age bracket. The main character is older and so is his wife; the only other female character is his child granddaughter. No women are bitten or otherwise fangishly victimized anywhere in the piece.
Makes me laugh every time I look at that dvd.
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Post by blinkfan on Dec 19, 2006 19:34:12 GMT -5
Open Water is in the horror section yet is the most unscary and boring piece of poo i have ever seen.
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Post by puggyd on Dec 20, 2006 18:29:19 GMT -5
"Secretary" is more drama than comedy, but it also happens to be hilarious. Quirky and witty, too. I'm siding with Best Buy on this one.
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Post by StarOpal on Dec 20, 2006 18:46:54 GMT -5
I'd say Secretary is extremely twisted, very dark comedy.
...Of course this wouldn't be the first time Fearless Leader and I disagreed.
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Post by sarahbot on Dec 20, 2006 19:37:52 GMT -5
Being pedantic here, but aren't 99% of the movies in my Blockbuster "foreign"? If you aren't Canadian, you're foreign.
Taking a course in Canadian cinema (feel free to wince, most people do) tends to get me & my fellow students incensed about this sort of thing.
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Post by sirgallahad2 on Dec 20, 2006 19:46:38 GMT -5
I once saw "Things to do in Denver When You're Dead" sitting in the Action film section of a video store.
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Post by bragwair on Dec 21, 2006 10:11:30 GMT -5
I never realised that Goldfinger was Asian Cinema until the other day....
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Post by varana on Dec 21, 2006 15:20:42 GMT -5
I've seen Harry Potter (movie 3# I think, but not 100% sure which HP it was) classed as "Dark suspense" in the +18 section. Erm....Same store had but every single James Bond movie under "comedy"
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Post by Head Mutant on Dec 21, 2006 15:42:46 GMT -5
I'd say Secretary is extremely twisted, very dark comedy. ...Of course this wouldn't be the first time Fearless Leader and I disagreed. Somehow, with lots of intercession, we will pull through this, eh?  |
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Post by StarOpal on Dec 21, 2006 23:24:16 GMT -5
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Maybe.
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Post by Head Mutant on Dec 21, 2006 23:44:16 GMT -5
My Pac-Man will eat your dots then!
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Post by PoolMan on Dec 22, 2006 11:09:07 GMT -5
My Pac-Man will eat your dots then! Crudest euphemism EVER.  |
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Post by StarOpal on Dec 22, 2006 13:47:30 GMT -5
*spit take*
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Post by Thumbscrews McGee on Mar 19, 2007 14:30:10 GMT -5
A nearbye library had The Crow in the Children's section and my iTunes put the muscial A Little Night Music in the Punk and Alternative genre...
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