My movie classification

One can classify movies in many ways but i have found a unique way to classify movies.

Type I, Also known as sleepers-new : These are movies which you can watch when your brain is dead (almost!) after a hard day's work. You can see anything but it should be good. It should be engaging yet not requiring brain to think (very difficult to achieve). Preferably, it should be comic or musicals as they requires least brain activity. Not even for an instant the brain should feel that it is wasting its time by watching it when it is so tired. A perfect example of this kind is My cousin Vinny. I love My cousin Vinny. It has Joe Pesci at its finest. The humor is both slapstick and witty. The comedy is situational and in lines. Acting is fine everywhere. Other movies in this genre are traditional Allen movies, most of the bollywood stuff.

Type II - Sleepers-old: Very similar to the above genre but these are the movies which you are watching again. You have seen the movie before, you had liked it. You know when to laugh, when to say aha, when to clap etc. So you sit back with your brain down and enjoy the movie knowing everything about it. While sleepers-new are generally limited to comedy genre, this one is quite broad and includes drama, action and all kinds of genres. My favorite movies in this category are V for Vendetta, LOTR, Eternal sunshine..., Freedom writers, A few good men etc.

Type III - The Morning Sunlight: There are days when you wake up and before your hectic schedule starts, you have a couple of hrs for yourself. You want to relax and enjoy before the frenzy begins. Generally it happens on Mondays. It is at these times the morning Sunlight movies come and make the day/week for you. These are emotional/inspiring movies, movies which end happily, movies that make you hopeful, all in all these are feel-good movies. No one wants to start their day/week on a sad note. Some of my memorable movies belong to this genre. Not because they are the best movies in any way but just because of their sheer timings. They gave me a positive start and energy. Movies that belong to this genre are Good morning Vietnam, Evelyn, Jhankaar beats etc.

Type IV - The Experience: These are movies which you handpick yourself either from netflix, or from your library or you download them. You wait for them, patiently for an opportune time, when you think that your mood will match the mood of the movie. You wait for the right moment, a time when you are ready you can take them and .... enjoy them. These are Experience movies. Movies that come in this genre are Forrest Gump, Saving private Ryan, Kielowski, Goddard, Bergman etc. Basically most cult movies fall in this genre. And these are not easy movies to watch. 2 hrs of watching is equivalent to 4 hrs of work. You are sapped out, drawn into the movie by its force.

Type V - Unexpected surprises: Some may say that the adjective "Unexpected" is unnecessary for surprise but i disagree. Every good movie is a surprise but with little expectations. We all know some plot or some concept about the movie but rest is a surprise. Movies in this category surpass the surprise into unexpected territory. These movies are not handpicked, instead you just watch them based on some whim or someone's recommendation. These movies completely baffle us, and it can be both good or bad. For some it is like wow, those aha moments, and for others it is "what the hell" , or "How can he do this?". Movies in this genre are Pulp fiction, Sixth sense, Khosla ka Ghosla, Lost in Translation etc.

Type VI - For the heck of it: These are movies which you do not want to see yet you watch them. Why? For the heck of it. Because your friends are urging you to watch, or because everyone in your family is going to watch it, or when you do not have anything else to do. Rare movies from this genre go to the above category where they are made memorable. But most of them are bad movies and they are bad because your friends are ignorants and can watch anything. Sometimes you are that friends making others to go with you and sometimes you are at the receiving end. For me, mostly i am at the receiving end. Movies when i have dragged others to watch that have turned into disaster are - Watchmen, Unforgettable (i hope i can forget it). But there are thousands when i have been taken for a ride into a bad movie. Now, if i say no, it is not because i do not want to go with that person but just that i think the movie is going to be bad.

Type VII - The mindless moron. These are self-inflicted movies; movies which i should not have watched in the first place yet i did them because i was acting like a mindless moron. Movies which you know are bad, your intuition says no-not this one, yet there is some uncontrollable urge to watch it. An optimist says - "To appreciate good, you have to see bad" and justifies this category but rationalist says "In order to experience living without heart attack, you do not need to have a heart attack". I have seen plenty in this category. Some that i remember are Transporter, brosnan bond movies, mission impossible III etc.

That's all folks!