Are you looking for a good comedy tonight? How about Naked Gun, Airplane, one of a baggilion Adam Sandler movies? No, why not watch Nightmare on Elm Street! It's a Comedy because it's clearly in the Comedy section. No? How about Die Hard? It's a comedy if you ignore all the murder and violence.

I am so sick of looking for movies and seeing so much crap miscategorized and sitting in the wrong places. Last night I watched "Keanu" (which is a comedy-action) and thought I would add a second similar movie, "Caught Stealing", because it was also in the Comedy section.

It is not a comedy.

Having a single joke in a movie does not make it a comedy. "Reservoir Dogs" is not a comedy despite some mirthful scenes. So why the fuck are all these movies so badly categorized?

And there's a special place in Hell for people who add every category imaginable to porn. You got a woman have a 8-way with 7 dudes dressed as dwarves? Clearly that belongs in the "Solo" or "Masturbation" section. /s

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[–] 17 points 1 week ago* (6 children)

Much of the issue is people getting lost in the sauce, but plenty is marketing. I'm also frustrated. Give a movie 3 tags, tops. Order of tags indicates how applicable they are. Glass onion is mystery, comedy, drama. Cable guy is comedy, horror, thriller. Airplane is comedy, comedy, comedy. It's not that hard!

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  • [–] 5 points 1 week ago (5 children)

    If a movie tags itself as comedy three times I'm assuming it's shit lmao

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  • [+] -6 points 1 week ago (4 children)

    Airplane is pretty mid anyway. I much prefer Tyler Perry's Medea goes to hospice, personally.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    Surely you can’t be serious?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    When Medea breathed her last and she audibly farted, killing 3 very confused and terrified coroners, I just couldn't stop laughing. 11/10. A classic

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  • [–] 11 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    I think they just put every film under every category so it looks like their catalogue is bigger than it really is

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  • [–] 7 points 1 week ago

    i'm with you on this one. try searching for 'action movie' and you get the whole catalogue because apparently every movie has some action in it.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 week ago

    Assuming you are using a commercial service, the goal of those recommendations is not to serve you what you want to watch but to serve you what they want you to watch.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    So askin for a friend, what's the name of the movie where she has an 8way? For my friend science

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  • [–] 4 points 1 week ago

    The "solo" and "masturbation" is the tags for you.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    Same as it ever was. Maybe you're too young to have experienced the mess of p2p filesharing networks like Gnutella and KaZaA.

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    Limewire and Napster were my starting experience with p2p. It's been bad forever, but services like Netflix should be better

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago

    What service are you using?

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