List the subgenre first and then the movie or TV show. The subgenres do not have to be established, you can make up your own as you go along. Just as long it is a theme that has recurred in a good amount of movies, but not in too many movies. The category crime is too broad, but a heist category isn’t. At the same time, the category Cannibal helps the FBI is too narrow, but Films or TV shows about the FBI is O.K.
Considering that Tolkien invented the term “Middle Earth” for the location of his stories (It’s not a ttranslation of “Midgard”, and, although there are similar terms, AFAIK only Tolkien uses this one), this pretty much narrows the field to adaptations of Tolkien, with the only other contenders being Ralph Bakshi’s version of LOTR and the Rankin-Bass versions of The Hobbit and Return of the King. Sounds pretty narrow to me, with weak competition. I think you want to broaden this subgenre a bit.
“Middle-earth” isn’t a literal translation of Midgard, but it’s probably the best translation for our purposes, and Tolkien wasn’t the first to come up with it. Middel-erde is the Middle English attempt to translate the name. “Middle-earth” is simply the modernization of that, a fairly straight-forward progression. Makes sense since Tolkien was, in essence, created a mythology for England. And for more of my choices:
Medieval Fantasy - A Song of Ice and Fire (That’s not intended to be a knock against Tolkien. I just feel his masterpiece achievement wasn’t LotR, but something a bit broader than his very strange novel.)
Created Mythology - Middle-Earth (though he doesn’t have much competition there, does he?)
Time Travel - 12 Monkeys
Comic Book Adaptation - Ghost World (with American Splendor a damn close second).
Is there a “Teachers” that I’m not aware of? The only one I can think of involved two teachers playing golf through the school and others drinking beer in the school.
Agreed, here. If you’re not talking “Das Boot” you’re not talking submarines.
FTM, “The Hunt for Red October” isn’t even what I’d consider a classic submarine movie - it’s a cowboy movie involving ships that sink on purpose. It’s a fun movie, but not the helplessness, cat & mouse, and endurance that I consider to be definative for the true submarine story.
I’d also like to see Murphy’s War as an honorable mention.
More than that, it’s The Enemy Below set in space.
Best time Travel: Blink (TV - Doctor Who episode first aired 9 June 2007)
Best submarine: another vote for Das Boot
Best anti-submarine: The Cruel Sea (book and film)
Best fantasy comedy: Discworld (books)
Best space opera: Nova (book - Samuel R Delaney)
A dedicated but burned-out teacher, an insane patient who becomes a substitute, JoBeth Williams topless…and it actually manages to encapsulate our lives quite well, sometimes.