# Great Movie Genres Hollywood May Have Quit Investing In **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 17, 2014, 9:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-movie-genres-hollywood-may-have-quit-investing-in/698722 "2014-09-17T09:55:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![regularshow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/13edae/32.png) [@regularshow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/regularshow)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2014, 9:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-movie-genres-hollywood-may-have-quit-investing-in/698722/1 "2014-09-17T09:55:17Z")
Hmm. I’ll go with: The puppet genre. Remember Team America and The Puppet Master movies? The troll genre. Remember Troll 1? The female prison genre. Remember Chained Heat 1 and 3? ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2014, 10:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-movie-genres-hollywood-may-have-quit-investing-in/698722/2 "2014-09-17T10:14:46Z")
The Western. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2014, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-movie-genres-hollywood-may-have-quit-investing-in/698722/3 "2014-09-17T12:32:20Z")
Movies for grownups. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2014, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-movie-genres-hollywood-may-have-quit-investing-in/698722/4 "2014-09-17T12:41:21Z")
> [@regularshow](#): > > The troll genre. Remember Troll 1? Ah, yes: the Golden Age of the Troll Movie. ---
**Author:** ![Death\_of\_Rats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a6a055/32.png) [@Death\_of\_Rats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Death_of_Rats)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2014, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-movie-genres-hollywood-may-have-quit-investing-in/698722/5 "2014-09-17T13:56:47Z")
> [@regularshow](#): > > The troll genre. Remember Troll 1? This was done in by the lack of trolls in Trolls 2. You can’t make money at Troll movies if you don’t put trolls in it. Lesson learned, Hollywood. Lesson learned. T&A teen movies. At truly lost art of the 80’s. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2014, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-movie-genres-hollywood-may-have-quit-investing-in/698722/6 "2014-09-17T14:02:05Z")
The “young kids from small town America who save the immediate locality” genre. It’s save the world or nothing, these days. ---
**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2014, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-movie-genres-hollywood-may-have-quit-investing-in/698722/7 "2014-09-17T14:10:21Z")
“Hey, let’s use the old barn to put on a show – we’ll have singing and dancing!” ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2014, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-movie-genres-hollywood-may-have-quit-investing-in/698722/8 "2014-09-17T17:07:13Z")
When’s the last time they made a classical mystery movie? I mean something other than a thriller. A movie where the main story is the protagonist is a detective assembling the clues and solving a case. It’s still a common genre on TV but it seems to have disappeared from the movies. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2014, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-movie-genres-hollywood-may-have-quit-investing-in/698722/9 "2014-09-17T17:09:04Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > Movies for grownups. I remember watching _Larry Crowne_ and thinking how unusual it was to watch a movie about adults dealing with normal adult problems. ---
**Author:** ![Zakalwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zakalwe/32/270_2.png) [@Zakalwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zakalwe)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2014, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-movie-genres-hollywood-may-have-quit-investing-in/698722/10 "2014-09-17T17:29:32Z")
> [@Death\_of\_Rats](#): > > T&A teen movies. At truly lost art of the 80’s. American Pie? Harold & Kumar? Granted not too many in the last year or three, but there was a resurgence waaaay post-80s. Nothing on the scale on Porky’s though. The quintessential teen T&A movie long may it live. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2014, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-movie-genres-hollywood-may-have-quit-investing-in/698722/11 "2014-09-17T18:04:49Z")
> [@regularshow](#): > > The troll genre. Remember Troll 1? > > The female prison genre. Remember Chained Heat 1 and 3? What happened to Chained Heat 2 Compared to 1 and 3, it was a cinematic disappointment with flat characterizations and a trite plot line? ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2014, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-movie-genres-hollywood-may-have-quit-investing-in/698722/12 "2014-09-17T18:10:45Z")
> [@Little Nemo](#): > > When’s the last time they made a classical mystery movie? I mean something other than a thriller. A movie where the main story is the protagonist is a detective assembling the clues and solving a case. It’s still a common genre on TV but it seems to have disappeared from the movies. Who Framed Roger Rabbit? … okay, that was 1988… I nominate musicals. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2014, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-movie-genres-hollywood-may-have-quit-investing-in/698722/13 "2014-09-17T19:40:16Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#): > > Who Framed Roger Rabbit? > > … okay, that was 1988… > > I nominate musicals. “Into the Woods” and “Annie” are both coming out later this year. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2014, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-movie-genres-hollywood-may-have-quit-investing-in/698722/14 "2014-09-17T19:51:43Z")
Blaxploitation. America needs Dolemite now more than ever! ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2014, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-movie-genres-hollywood-may-have-quit-investing-in/698722/15 "2014-09-17T19:51:43Z")
The big-hair big-breasts 1980s sword and sandal movies are gone. Some might say they have been replaced by premium TV series like “Game of Thrones” and “Spartacus” but those series just don’t have the sense of FUN that the 1980s films did. That said, the writing in Spartacus and particularly Game of Thrones is roughly 10,000 percent better than the writing in the 80s films, so all things considered … I’m cool. ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2014, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-movie-genres-hollywood-may-have-quit-investing-in/698722/16 "2014-09-17T20:01:32Z")
> [@Zakalwe](#): > > American Pie? Harold & Kumar? Granted not too many in the last year or three, but there was a resurgence waaaay post-80s. Nothing on the scale on Porky’s though. The quintessential teen T&A movie long may it live. With the Internet, there’s not much titillation you can offer a modern teen in a movie, short of filming a hardcore kink-fest bonanza (I guess that’s why Shades of Gray is being released as a movie…). Of course, then most teens won’t be allowed to go see them. We must make sure that teens can’t see the things up on the big screen that they’ve grown up with on the internet. ---
**Author:** ![G0sp3l](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c68b51/32.png) [@G0sp3l](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G0sp3l)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2014, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-movie-genres-hollywood-may-have-quit-investing-in/698722/17 "2014-09-17T20:46:26Z")
> [@Max\_Torque](#): > > Blaxploitation. America needs Dolemite now more than ever! That jive-ass mutha-fucka cain’t even fight! Have you **seen** _The Human Tornado_? You should’ve/could’ve referenced Pam Grier’s, _Black Mama, White Mama_ and gotten the blaxploitation/chicks-in-chains/prison-break trifecta! What we hollywood is really missing is the Shaw Brothers Kung-Fu movies. Not the John Woo/ Chow-Yun Fat shooters. I’m talking _Five Deadly Vemons/Master of the Flying Guillotine_ type movies!! ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2014, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-movie-genres-hollywood-may-have-quit-investing-in/698722/18 "2014-09-17T21:18:07Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > When’s the last time they made a classical mystery movie? I mean something other than a thriller. A movie where the main story is the protagonist is a detective assembling the clues and solving a case. It’s still a common genre on TV but it seems to have disappeared from the movies. Would you consider [Gosford Park](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0280707/?ref_=nv_sr_5) an example of this? It’s from 2001. ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2014, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-movie-genres-hollywood-may-have-quit-investing-in/698722/19 "2014-09-17T21:25:11Z")
“Subtle Political Satire”? ---
**Author:** ![Push\_You\_Down](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/push_you_down/32/9095_2.png) [@Push\_You\_Down](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Push_You_Down)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2014, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-movie-genres-hollywood-may-have-quit-investing-in/698722/20 "2014-09-17T21:36:08Z")
> [@Maserschmidt](#): > > “Into the Woods” and “Annie” are both coming out later this year. Both of which are going to great lengths to HIDE the fact that they are musicals. The trailer for Into the Woods features NO singing and there are two trailers for Annie one of which has no singing and one of which has a snippet of Hard Knock Life and that’s it. So Hollywood is willing to make a couple of musicals but doesn’t think audiences actually WANT to see musicals. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-movie-genres-hollywood-may-have-quit-investing-in/698722.md?page=2)