ave changed their issues. As movie genres have widely expanded, old ones have been forgotten and new ones have been discovered. The Sci-fi genre is probably one of the oldest yet still alive in movies today. Sci-fi started out as space exploration to the moon. Finding aliens on planets in these movies were common. Years past by and better technology went into them. Special effects were brought in by using computers and blue screens to generate more life-like images in to today’s movies. Especially in the recently released Dinosaur, which uses the latest and most up to date technology that is available. Back in the 30’s and 40’s, movie effects were horrible. You could see the model spaceships attached to strings as they were hovering around. In addition, drama films have changed through the years with more social issues. A Few Good Men, Dead Man Walking, Forrest Gump, and The Grapes of Wrath all had one thing in common. They all came from that genre. One movie that stands out from the crowd was Gone with the Wind. A story of dramatic Civil War action with love scenes that touched peoples hearts. However, in today’s movies like Forrest Gump and Dead Man Walking, they deal with realistic problems in the 1990’s. The majority of today’s Drama films deal with issues that are happening in the real world, such as AIDS, drugs, and crimes. Movie genres seem to change their main concerns sometimes. Most notably was the western genre. It depicted the lives and times of cowboys, Native Americans, and settlers in the western United States. The Westerns usually romanticizes life in the western and southwestern United States from the mid-1800s to the early 1900s. Stars of these Westerns were usually Clint Eastwood and John Wayne in films such as The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly and Stagecoach. Now however, rarely anybody makes these types of movies any more. It has become an action genre, with fast paced plots and ex...
