• BeefPiano@lemmy.worldEnglish
    17·
    1 year ago

    Star Wars is in Fantasy but Lord of the Rings is in Action and Adventure? That’s not a criticism of this visualization, which is interesting, but of the underlying data.

    • Aatube@kbin.social
      2·
      1 year ago

      According to OOP on Reddit,they used IMDb’s dataset

      Yeah seemed weird to me as well, but the database is limited to three genres and it groups them as Action,Adventure,Drama

      this is all done programmatically, so I can’t do much about it.

      • devbo@lemmy.world
        1·
        1 year ago

        i just went to the page. it has 4 genres, the last being fantasy. they may have choosen to exclude the fourth genre for the chart.

    • DarkThoughts@kbin.social
      6·
      1 year ago

      I’m guessing that’s just stupid IMDB categories. Dumping every animated movie / show into “animations” is even worse, because they can have the same range of genres as regular ones.

  • Zeth0s@lemmy.world
    5·
    1 year ago

    How is romance so high? It is a genre where 99% of movie is a pile of stereotypes put together by an amazon warehouse robot.

    I am calling for mislabelling. Many dramas are probably also labeled as “romance” because main characters are a couple in some kind of relationship

    Edit. Reading better the graph this is for sure the case. What movie illiterate labeled forrest gump as romance?

    • jana@leminal.spaceEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      This is not a standard box plot given you can clearly see many data points below what should be the min line in pretty much every category

  • Drusas@kbin.social
    2·
    1 year ago

    As a horror fan, I was certain horror would have the lowest ranking. Lo and behold…

    I consider an IMDb rating of anything above five to be a good score for a horror movie, they skew so low.

  • bobby_hill@lemmy.world
    11·
    1 year ago

    How is spider man considered a cartoon and not action/adventure? I realize it’s animated, but it’s not exactly for little kids. Making it a cartoon puts it into the same category as paw patrol.

    • SmoothLiquidation@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      Movies can be in multiple categories in this data. That is why Return of the King is the top of 2 different categories.

      Spiderverse could be in action or adventure and not show up due to not being the highest rated movie.

    • Aatube@kbin.social
      1·
      1 year ago

      It’s considered an animation, which should not be considered the same as paw patrol.

  • Paragone@sh.itjust.works
    01·
    1 year ago

    Please consider using John Truby’s book ( or even the cover of it ) “The Anatomy of Genres” for identifying the 14 Genres of story.

    Myth, Epic, Western, etc…

    “adventure” isn’t a genre: it occurs in multiple genres, serving as the canvas on-which the genre’s points are written…

    That book, btw, is an awesome bunch of psychology.

    Some minor errors, like mis-defining comedy…

    ( proper definition of humour: “improbable violation of expectation”, or a strange-loop form )

    …to be made of a “drop”, a debasing, or put-down, or reduction of somebody…? Maybe in the US, but it isn’t the true fundamental root of humour.

    sooo much gold in that book, though: definitely worth investing in.

    ( for anybody wanting the core competencies in writing, I’d say that both John Truby’s books, and Shaun Coyne’s “The Story Grid” are books that are required, and they are the top/core competencies. Coyne recommends McKee, as well. )