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[–] [email protected] 42 points 4 months ago (3 children)

The scaling of the vertical axes is bugging me :(

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago

I was wondering how I'd missed so many sci fi movies until I saw your comment...

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

Oh I didn't even notice that. Yeah, that's bad.

[–] MajorHavoc 4 points 4 months ago

Yeah. That's just awful. Wow.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

The lack of decades on every x axis other than the bottom bothers me. This is not a cool guide.

[–] MajorHavoc 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Normally that indicates that all the x axis are the same. If that's not true here, then that's an issue. But I don't see any indication that it's not.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The axis being so far away, even if they are all the same, makes it difficult for the reader to line up where the peaks are, though some are easy to get from contextual clues (~1945 for War movies for example).

[–] MajorHavoc 1 points 4 months ago

Yeah. Good point. I've seen this with just two stacked graphs and not minded. But it makes the trends in the top graphs here pretty inaccessible.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago

Blazing Saddles came out in 1974 and practically killed a genre.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (2 children)

So which category are the marvel/"every obscure comic character gets their own file series" films?

Fantasy? Thriller?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

MCU should probably get its own graph, which starts as a line going straight up.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (5 children)

What different thriller/horror? They same?

[–] zero_spelled_with_an_ecks 15 points 4 months ago (1 children)

One of them has zombies, the other has zombies that dance.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Both contain Vincent Price

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

"Psycho" is a thriller. "Halloween" is horror.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Think of thrillers more like rollercoaster rides - they’re fun because they’re exciting and sometimes scary

Horror is more like haunted houses, they’re fun because they’re scary, which is sometimes exciting

This is the interesting thing about genres - they’re often abstract and can blur definitions easily. The same way we don’t consider a hot dog or a pop tart a sandwich, even though you can often find the definition of a sandwich in each.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Friday the 13th vs gone girl.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Horror is blood and gore. Thriller is scary (ghosts etc) but no (or only little) blood.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Can you please slow down with the reposted drivel? This one even got removed by the mods on Reddit, FFS!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Now do a heatmap of jaccard indices

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

I wish they would make some new good westerns. It is like all new stuff that is made is so 'remake' or 'next number'.