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Fury Road Is The Best Genre Film Since...
I enjoyed John Carter and The Hobbit, but no, they aren't as good. Avengers? Nope. I'm thinking maybe, maybe Raimi's Spider-Man or one of the LotR movies, but they came with a bunch of expected hype...I don't think any of us expected Miller's Fury Road to be what it was.
So, from your point of view, what was the last genre flick that even comes close to Fury Road?
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But in a way, Fury Road is kind of reboot for genre film in the post-LOTR/post-Marvel context. It's really very back to basics, almost like all the movies between it and 1982 never happened.
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I don't think one should skip over the Nolan Batman films and the clear standout is The Dark Knight, which came out in 2008. All three films are good - and The Dark Knight Rises is growing on me - but TDK is in a class by itself.
I've never been all that enamored with the Harry Potter films. The Prisoner of Azkaban is my favorite and considered to be among the best of the series but I don't consider any of them to be particularly transcendent. Deathly Hallows Part 2 is the other one people pick as the best and it came out in 2011.
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I'm STILL waiting for the next science fiction classic to come around... I was hoping Interstellar or Prometheus would be serious candidates but they fucked those up.
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Looper comes close.
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Hex Sinister wrote: I thought about the recent Marvel movies but while they are totally solid entertainment options I think there is some kind of mystery magic missing to make any of them classics.
I can see that. I'm cynical about them, but I feel like they're the epitome of films as commercials. Not only for tie-in merch, but for other films as well. Some of them are better than others for sure, but for some reason I just can't get behind any of them as being 'great' films (haven't seen Winter Soldier) much less anywhere near Fury Road's level.
I'd probably have to agree with LotR as well, then before that, probably The Matrix.
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So if that's the context of what a genre film is, then my vote would be Clueless
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Black Barney wrote: In French it means "like " and is used in the same way Valley girls say "like" a hundred times in a sentence. Drives me nuts
So if that's the context of what a genre film is, then my vote would be Clueless
Well, that's the colloquial use, but it's not all it's used for. It also means the feminine/masculine type of a word (in Homer's words: "In French, every word's a boy or a girl!" - he meant substantives, but whatever); also simply "type".
English uses it to designate speculative fiction works.
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