Which Category?

[OneWayFilms]

With some films representing several categories, but we only have ONE categories to list on this site....I'm starting this thread for people like me to ask others for their opinion on which category certain films belong in.

I will post some of my questionable titles and you can respond to help me.

Annie: Family or Muisical?
Beach Blanket Bingo: Comedy or Musical?
Nerve: Action or Teen?
Fantastic Voyage: Sci Fi or Adventure?
Oz: The Great and Powerful: Fantasy or Family?
Mary Poppins / Chitty Chitty Bang Bang: Musical or Family?

[Morsoth]

In my own opinion, I don't consider "Musical", "Teen" or "Family" as a genre. To me they are more a style.

so:

Annie: Comedy
Beach Blanket Bingo: Comedy
Nerve: Action
Fantastic Voyage: Sci Fi
Oz: The Great and Powerful: Fantasy
Mary Poppins / Chitty Chitty Bang Bang: Fantasy

[thatguamguy]

I'm not sure about all of 'em, but "Annie" is a musical for sure.

[OneWayFilms]

Originally Posted by Morsoth

In my own opinion, I don't consider "Musical", "Teen" or "Family" as a genre. To me they are more a style.

so:

Annie: Comedy
Beach Blanket Bingo: Comedy
Nerve: Action
Fantastic Voyage: Sci Fi
Oz: The Great and Powerful: Fantasy
Mary Poppins / Chitty Chitty Bang Bang: Fantasy

Sometimes, genres can be SO wide in definition, that large movie collections might benefit from narrowing down the genre some. Take a look in my collection and see what I mean.

I have Teen, Family & Musical in my list of genres, and they work very fine. But SOME movies seem to fit in more than one, even the most BASIC of genres.

I'm only asking for opinions. Thank you for yours.

[OneWayFilms]

Originally Posted by thatguamguy

I'm not sure about all of 'em, but "Annie" is a musical for sure.

So if you managed your OWN video store and had a MUSICAL section AND a FAMILY section.....ANNIE would be placed in your MUSICALS?

[AaronJ]

Nerve is a tough one. I guess Action is probably the right one, even though at times it feels a little Sci-Fi too ... even though there's nothing really Sci-Fi about it.

[AsOldAsRhyme]

Originally Posted by OneWayFilms

So if you managed your OWN video store and had a MUSICAL section AND a FAMILY section.....ANNIE would be placed in your MUSICALS?

If I had a video store, “Musical” would be a section and all musicals would go there, mostly because there are a lot of people that don’t like musicals and would not be happy if they brought Les Miserables home from the drama section and discovered it was two full hours of non-stop singing. Films in the musical section would be denoted in some way to mark their genres: “Comedy, Kids & Family” for Mary Poppins, “Drama, Historical” for Les Miserables, and so forth.

The only exceptions would be animated musicals, which would go in the “Animation” section.

[The_Donster]

Annie: Musical
Beach Blanket Bingo: Musical
Nerve: Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Fantastic Voyage: Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Oz: The Great and Powerful: Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Mary Poppins / Chitty Chitty Bang Bang: Musical

I've seen all but Nerve, which I think is a free movie on VUDU. So having watched the trailer, that's how I categorized it. It has a very Strange Days/A Scanner Darkly vibe to it. I put Beach Blanket Bingo in Musical for the same reason Hairspray is. So I'd put them in that or the Teen section of any video store. Annie, Mary Poppins and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang would probably be Musical or Family. I honestly want to say all of them were in the Children's section of my old video stores

[AaronJ]

Originally Posted by The_Donster

I've seen all but Nerve, which I think is a free movie on VUDU. So having watched the trailer, that's how I categorized it. It has a very Strange Days/A Scanner Darkly vibe to it.

It's really far lighter fare than those two films. There are definitely some serious moments, but it's filled with a lot of comedy and silliness.

I really liked Nerve. Of course, I like Emma Roberts and Dave Franco a lot. So, I'm sure that contributed to how I felt about the film. But it has a lot of energy. Fun movie, you should check it out.

[OneWayFilms]

In my collection, I also separate Suspense Thrillers from Horror movies.

Films like 'Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte' & "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?' just don't seem right sitting in the same category as Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Halloween, The Conjuring, etc ...

Now that I have a Suspense category.....I keep wondering about certain titles, like

SPLIT: Horror or Suspense?
THE GOOD SON: Horror or Suspense?
FLOWERS IN THE ATTIC; Horror or Suspense?

[AaronJ]

I haven't seen Split, but the other two I would probably categorize as Suspense. If you're going to discern between Suspense and Horror, might as well stick with the difference between the two.

[HD Goofnut]

Originally Posted by AaronJ

I haven't seen Split, but the other two I would probably categorize as Suspense. If you're going to discern between Suspense and Horror, might as well stick with the difference between the two.

Suspense is too specific of an animal IMHO. A film is either Mystery/Thriller, Drama, or Horror if it is suspensful.

[The_Donster]

Good points HD Goofnut. I have my Netflix BD que separated to the following categories myself. I kind of alternate viewing things as much as possible since I do 2 discs at a time and it seems to work for me:

Action
Classic
Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Comedy
Crime/Thriller
Foreign/Indie
Horror
TV/Animated
Drama

[shinobipopcorn]

I really don't like "Family" as a category, because it's so subjective. This topic is somewhat of an example... Every Disney movie gets thrown into Family, along with Bluth films, Rankin/Bass, classics like Sound of Music, etc. But there are definite exceptions. Secret of NIMH and The Last Unicorn are definitely not the same kind of movie as Bambi and Frosty the Snowman. Same thing with movies like Return to Oz, which scared the hell out of a lot of kids but still gets labeled as the same kind of family movie as the Wizard of Oz.

Back to the OP.

Annie is definitely a musical.
Mary Poppins is a musical too, but more theatrical... Too bad there isn't a stage musical category for Annie and theatrical for this (and Chitty).
Oz is definitely Fantasy. See my rant above. Of the three Oz movies I'd say this is the middle ground, since it's violent but has bright colors and less of the 80s creep factor.
Fantastic Voyage is usually considered Sci-Fi, so I'd go with that.

I haven't seen the others.

[OneWayFilms]

Since several movies can be classified in more than one category, I tend to go with the strongest trend.

Example: While The Muppet films ARE musicals, they are more known as FAMILY films....so I place them in Family. When most people think of Mary Poppins, they think of Kid-Friendly and Family before they think of the Music in the film...so for me...The Muppets & Mary Poppins are Family Film.

[shinobipopcorn]

Originally Posted by OneWayFilms

Since several movies can be classified in more than one category, I tend to go with the strongest trend.

Example: While The Muppet films ARE musicals, they are more known as FAMILY films....so I place them in Family. When most people think of Mary Poppins, they think of Kid-Friendly and Family before they think of the Music in the film...so for me...The Muppets & Mary Poppins are Family Film.

I solve that dilemma by having a Jim Henson section in my collection. One shelf, only Muppets and friends. (Except for the Fraggle Rock box, that's too big.)

[AaronJ]

Originally Posted by HD Goofnut

Suspense is too specific of an animal IMHO. A film is either Mystery/Thriller, Drama, or Horror if it is suspensful.

I sort of agree, which is why I don't categorize by genre (actually, I don't categorize by any system at present, since I still am working on re-organizing). But the OP said he had separate sections for Suspense and Horror. So, I was going by the original poster's system.

[blufellas]

Has anybody here ever categorize their collection by the release year. I've thinking about doing that for a long time. It would be kind of cool to see all my 70s, 80s movies together. Currently they are ABC... Regular cases, tv series, Criterion, Digibook, etc....

[The_Donster]

No, for me it is pretty much alphanumeric for the most part. Although I do have my Bond and superhero movies together. As well as my digibooks/special packaging. My son seems to organize his films by studios. His Disney's, Dreamworks, Lionsgate, etc. I fear I have created a monster with that one lol.

[HD Goofnut]

If anyone wants an easy guide for genre just take a look at my collection. Everything has a place and is easy to find for anyone in my family.