Lumiere and Melies

Instead of covering the dreaded Terms and Conditions, I thought I'd introduce other people's ways of organizing movies, before I get to mine.
This will give me a chance to change my mind.
I have a hazy memory that this Organizing Principle (this will not be the last time that I start sounding like Winnie-the-Pooh) was spoken by a character in a film by Francois Truffaut, a member of that same New Wave to which Goddard belonged.
The idea is this: all movies are descendants of two French filmmakers, Lumiere (really the Lumiere brothers, there were two) and Georges Melies.
The Lumiere brothers came first. In the 1890's they made films like "Train Entering the Station" and "A Lion at the Zoo". We'd call these documentaries now. Straightforward, no actors, but exciting to those who saw them new because they were, well, new. People said they were "real" and "real life" until someone, many years later, pointed out how much they owed to French Impressionist painters.
Melies saw what the Lumieres had done and started making his own movies, except these were "trick films" with disappearing people in stage sets and all sorts of film magic. In other words, "special effects" movies. He's most remembered for "A Trip to the Moon" in 1902.
A pandering note to twentysomething readers: the Smashing Pumpkins music video for "Tonight, Tonight" was done in the Melies style.
And the children's librarians among us have insisted that I mention the 2008 Caldecott Award Winner, "The Invention of Hugo Cabret" which uses Melies biographical details and images.
So there it is. On one side there's Lumiere with documentaries, dramas, and even comedies. And then there's Melies with fantasy, science fiction, and horror.
It's fun to argue about the movies that have trouble fitting:
"Fight Club"? I'd say Lumiere.
"Mission Impossible"? I'd say Melies.
What do you go to the movies to see? Real people? With real stories that make you laugh and cry?
Or do you want to see things you've never seen before, like a bunch of aliens drinking pina coladas at a bar and listening to jazz?