This isn't serious at all and is just my own personal pet peeve with how people write John's interests but:

Stop making John a Star Wars fan...please T_T

John likes campy action films that aren't realistic but that do not hold any trace of high fantasy. His favorite movie is Con-Air with Nick Cage, which is by and large a very silly action flick that is cheesy, unserious at times, and has a lot of flashy explosions.

He has never once been a fan of Star Wars like at all. So many fics make John quote Star Wars when it's the exact opposite kind of movie he'd enjoy T_T Star Wars is a slow, episodic high fantasy sci-fi film that takes itself seriously 100% of the way through. That kid likes Ghostbusters and schlocky action films from the late 80s and 90s. He enjoys shit like Night At the Museum and Little Monsters. I get it, though, because John is very geeky in that way, but it's pretty clear his favorite kinds of films are comedies.

Here's a John Egbert Movie list just off the top of my head what he referenced:

-Night At the Museum

-Zoolander

-Ghostbusters

-Con-Air

There's even a pretty good IMDB List OF some of the posters on his wall in his bedroom:

https://www.imdb.com/list/ls050749872/

The same can be said for Karkat as well. Many people only get that Karkat likes romances. What they don't get however, is that he is a fan of stupid as hell, and overly complicated Romantic COMEDIES. He lists shit like Miss Congeniality that's far different than stuff like "The Notebook," you know T_T? There's even a hilarious moment in Beyond Canon when John and Karkat both argue about what kind of silly action hero Vriska looks like when she arrives. Karkat watches the same kind of silly, terrible movies as John, but he prefers Romance films more. So stop making all his "datenight" Movie ideas in those fic,s sad stuff like The Notebook or Titanic. Make it something like 50 First Dates or 10 Things I Hate About You.

Anyways, does anyone remember the Lyrics to "Karkat: Be a Fanboy"? Here's a letterbox account that has all the movies that he would definitely like.

https://letterboxd.com/codenox/list/karkats-be-a-fanboy/