FiveThirtyEight Explains All Movies Via Mark Wahlberg

Posted on October 14, 2016 at 8:00 am

I really enjoyed this discussion of Mark Wahlberg’s career on the FiveThirtyEight website. Walt Hickey’s “Hollywood Taxonomy” of the four categories of Mark Wahlberg movies can really be used to categorize pretty much all movies. It’s not just divided into serious action (“Deepwater Horizon”), less serious action (“Transformers: Age of Extinction”), arthouse (“The Fighter,” “I Heart Huckabees”), and silly (“Daddy’s Home”). Hickey says that the categories are: “A Gambler,” “Max Pain,” “More Than Meets the Eye,” and “Invincible.” That’s a pretty good set of categories for most Hollywood films.

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