Because I seem to have too much time on my hands, I added the films' rotten tomatoes and metacritic scores (where available). It is interesting to see how differently some of the story points are apparently valued. E.g. for Romance, Rotten Tomatoes seems to prefer Overwhelming Odds, while the other two prefer Surmountable Odds.
On the other hand, some choices seem to remain clear, e.g for Romance/Love Stories, Complete Tragedy is the least safe for IMDB, RT, and MC, while Personal Tragedy is the most safe for all three.
That siad, there is a problem. Rotten tomatoes has a lot of love for old movies; most of them enjoy 100% and don't have that many votes. Metacritic otoh doesn't have a lot of the old movies in the first place.
Here a link for all genre "recommendations".
Here Romance as an example:
IMDB Rating
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Nature:
- Best: Actual Dilemma (Q1 71.0%, median 73.0%, Q3 76.5%)
- Worst: Apparent Work (Q1 61.25%, median 73.5%, Q3 76.75%)
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Essence:
- Best: Surmountable Odds (Q1 71.0%, median 73.0%, Q3 77.0%)
- Worst: Overwhelming Odds (Q1 69.75%, median 73.0%, Q3 75.5%)
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Tendency:
- Best: MC Builds Resistance (Q1 71.0%, median 73.5%, Q3 77.0%)
- Worst: MC Facilitates Flow (Q1 69.0%, median 73.0%, Q3 77.0%)
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Audience:
- Best: Both (Q1 71.0%, median 74.0%, Q3 77.0%)
- Worst: Neither (Q1 69.5%, median 71.0%, Q3 73.0%)
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Concern_Position:
- Best: top right (Q1 71.0%, median 74.0%, Q3 75.0%)
- Worst: top left (Q1 67.0%, median 71.0%, Q3 77.0%)
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Ending:
- Best: Personal Tragedy (Q1 72.0%, median 73.0%, Q3 74.0%)
- Worst: Complete Tragedy (Q1 65.5%, median 76.0%, Q3 76.5%)
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OS+MC:
- Best: OS_Universe, MC_Psychology (Q1 72.5%, median 75.5%, Q3 77.0%)
- Worst: OS_Physics, MC_Universe (Q1 69.0%, median 71.0%, Q3 74.0%)
Rotten Tomatoes Rating
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Nature:
- Best: Actual Dilemma (Q1 83.0%, median 89.0%, Q3 96.0%)
- Worst: Apparent Work (Q1 55.75%, median 76.5%, Q3 84.5%)
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Essence:
- Best: Overwhelming Odds (Q1 79.5%, median 90.0%, Q3 95.25%)
- Worst: Surmountable Odds (Q1 79.5%, median 87.0%, Q3 92.0%)
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Tendency:
- Best: MC Builds Resistance (Q1 83.0%, median 87.5%, Q3 94.25%)
- Worst: MC Facilitates Flow (Q1 77.0%, median 88.0%, Q3 94.0%)
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Audience:
- Best: Neither (Q1 93.0%, median 96.0%, Q3 96.5%)
- Worst: Holistic (Q1 79.5%, median 85.0%, Q3 93.0%)
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Concern_Position:
- Best: bottom left (Q1 84.0%, median 90.0%, Q3 93.5%)
- Worst: top left (Q1 75.0%, median 80.0%, Q3 88.0%)
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Ending:
- Best: Personal Tragedy (Q1 91.0%, median 92.0%, Q3 97.0%)
- Worst: Complete Tragedy (Q1 62.5%, median 76.0%, Q3 81.5%)
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OS+MC:
- Best: OS_Physics, MC_Mind (Q1 86.5%, median 90.0%, Q3 96.5%)
- Worst: OS_Physics, MC_Universe (Q1 70.0%, median 92.0%, Q3 97.0%)
Metacritic Rating
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Nature:
- Best: Apparent Dilemma (Q1 69.0%, median 79.0%, Q3 86.0%)
- Worst: Apparent Work (Q1 55.5%, median 64.5%, Q3 73.5%)
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Essence:
- Best: Surmountable Odds (Q1 67.0%, median 76.0%, Q3 83.0%)
- Worst: Overwhelming Odds (Q1 66.0%, median 72.5%, Q3 80.25%)
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Tendency:
- Best: MC Builds Resistance (Q1 67.25%, median 74.5%, Q3 82.75%)
- Worst: MC Facilitates Flow (Q1 66.0%, median 72.0%, Q3 81.0%)
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Audience:
- Best: Neither (Q1 80.5%, median 94.0%, Q3 94.0%)
- Worst: Both (Q1 66.75%, median 76.0%, Q3 83.0%)
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Concern_Position:
- Best: bottom right (Q1 69.0%, median 70.5%, Q3 72.75%)
- Worst: top left (Q1 60.0%, median 69.0%, Q3 86.0%)
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Ending:
- Best: Personal Tragedy (Q1 78.0%, median 83.0%, Q3 83.0%)
- Worst: Complete Tragedy (Q1 59.5%, median 66.0%, Q3 76.5%)
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OS+MC:
- Best: OS_Physics, MC_Mind (Q1 71.5%, median 77.0%, Q3 80.0%)
- Worst: OS_Physics, MC_Universe (Q1 66.0%, median 72.0%, Q3 76.0%)
the numbers in the brackets show you the Interquartile Range. 50% of all the concerned movies have a rating between Q1 and Q3 (75% are at least Q1, 50% are at least the median, 25% are at least Q3). Note, we only consider options that have at least 3 examples.
Are you guys interested in anything particular? Maybe I simply haven't thought of something I could look into.
