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Did you watch AFI's 10 Top 10?

They had the 10 top movies in 10 genres. If you didn't spend 3 hours watching the show, you can absorb the 10 lists easily in about 3 minutes here. I see that over at Television Without Pity the commenters are mostly quibbling about what belongs in which genre and whether they picked the right 10 genres. That was my reaction too.

I was asking: Why are war movies grouped with epic movies? Is "Titanic" an epic movie or a disaster movie or a historical costume drama? The answer seemed to be epic ? but only because disaster and historical costume drama were not among the chosen genres.

But what is a genre movie anyway? If a movie doesn't fit in one and only one genre, doesn't that make it not a genre movie? I mean, "Pulp Fiction" isn't a gangster movie, is it? Yet that is how the AFI classified it.

My most-seen category: sci-fi. I've seen them all. My least-seen category? Ironically, it's courtroom dramas.

See what the problem is with these lists? You feel like talking about everything except whether the films are good.

Full post as published by Althouse on June 18, 2008 (boomark / email).