What’s Your TOP Movie In Each Genre?

reply to post by Dave Rabbit


Yay, something I can contribute to without feeling like the house stupid:

DRAMA – The Godfather

ACTION/ADVENTURE – Southern Comfort

MILITARY – Full Metal Jacket

COMEDY – Revenge of the Nerds

ROMANTIC – I'll pass. No idea.

HORROR – Bram Stoker's Dracula

SCIENCE FICTION – Alien

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It does my heart good to see Uncle Buck and City of God on the lists. we all have some exceptional tastes!

Musical: Wild Style

Originally posted by Nirgal
Appendix:

Musical: The Sound of Music.

Western: Pale Rider.

Sports: (For the title alone) The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings.

Well, if we're having these categories, then:

Musical: Fiddler on the Roof.

Western: Gunfight at the OK Corral.

Sports: Slapshot. Utter, UTTER genius.

Hmm let me see hmmyar...

DRAMA – Predator

ACTION/ADVENTURE – Predator

MILITARY – Predator

COMEDY – Predator 2

HORROR – Predator

SCIENCE FICTION – Predator

That just about covers it.

reply to post by Dave Rabbit


DRAMA – Crossroads (1986 w Ralph Macchio)

ACTION/ADVENTURE – Die Hard

MILITARY – Patton

COMEDY – Eurotrip

ROMANTIC – The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain

HORROR – Motel Hell

SCIENCE FICTION – The Andromeda Strain (1971 version)

My Musical would be Rocky Horror Picture Show
and Western~ Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.

DRAMA – City of God (Cidade de deus)

ACTION/ADVENTURE – The Matrix

MILITARY – Platoon

COMEDY – Dr. Strangelove

ROMANTIC – Before Sunrise

HORROR – The Shining

SCIENCE FICTION – 12 Monkeys

MUSICAL - hmmm...Sound of Music? West Side Story?

WESTERN - Tombstone

SPORTS - Above the Rim

[edit on 15-10-2008 by kawz1]

DRAMA – Scent of a Woman

ACTION/ADVENTURE – Terminator

MILITARY – Midway

COMEDY – Trading Places

ROMANTIC – Sleepless in Seattle

HORROR – Mr Frost

SCIENCE FICTION – Star Wars

Since we've added a few genres, I'll do those too.

Western - Pale Rider

Sports - Legend of Bagger Vance (I had another 'til this movie came out)

Musical - The Wiz

Peace

DRAMA – Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

ACTION/ADVENTURE – Lord of the Rings

MILITARY – Schindler's List

COMEDY – Kingpin

ROMANTIC – True Romance

HORROR – Night of the Living Dead

SCIENCE FICTION – Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Oh, more to add

WESTERN = SHANGHAI NOON

SPORTS = KARATE KID

MUSICIAL = GREASE

WHAT MADE YOU CRY!

Damn..... I can't believe I am actually going to do a SIDEBAR

Okay..... this, of course, could be a thread all to itself..... but I decided to keep Movies with Movies.

Now here's the deal...... some of you will be too chicken to admit it because of the Macho Mentality.... others will say "When I was a kid.....". But I want you to tell me and the membership, if you dare, what was the first movie you remember as an Adult (or whatever age you are now) that moved you so much it brought Tears in your eyes.

Mine, without any question is Brian's Song. The 1971 version with James Caan and Billy Dee Williams.

Watch Brian's Song ENDING Right Here

Here's The Background

The first time I saw it, I cried like a baby. Since that time, there have been others that have brought a tear or two... but none as forceful as that one amazing sequence of two men... one white, one black..... who were brothers in every sense of the word.

Whats YOURS? (If You Have The Guts)



[edit on 10/15/2008 by Dave Rabbit]

reply to post by Dave Rabbit


The end of "The Notebook". I cried like a baby the first time I saw it and still do. It gets me every time. My husband has made the mistake of walking into the room just as the movie ends and finds me curled up on the couch crying like someone just ran over my puppy. Of course he laughs at me and rolls his eyes when I tell him why I'm crying, but that's just cause he doesn't get it.

Originally posted by Dave Rabbit
But I want you to tell me and the membership, if you dare, what was the first movie you remember as an Adult (or whatever age you are now) that moved you so much it brought Tears in your eyes.

Only one movie in my entire life ever made me cry and that was 'Click.' Figures- my first movie to ever make me cry and it was an Adam Sandler movie! LOL! Anyways, if you have seen it and if you are a parent, you will understand why. My husband and I saw it together on 'date night' in the theaters and once we got home, we were both trying to out race each other to be the first one in the front door to play with our son. Even my husband (a huge 300 lb. redneck) was bawling like a little baby at the theater. It was a very well done movie.

Platoon. I couldn't believe that humans could treat each other that way. The inhumanity brought me to tears. That said, that was over 20 years ago when I was less jaded.

DRAMA – Memento/Million Dollar Baby

ACTION/ADVENTURE – Equilibrium/The Dark Knight/Rambo 4

MILITARY – Tears Of The Sun/Rescue Dawn

COMEDY – Hot Shots...or maybe Hot Fuzz?...Can't think right now.

HORROR – Family Guy(Absolutely Horrible)

SCIENCE FICTION – Independence Day/Terminator?...meh


EDIT: What made me cry?
Well...It's very hard to bring tears to this dudes' eyes. I wanted to cry for Lion King so badly when I was younger, because all the other kids said they cried...so I felt it was my duty as a kid to cry...but it just couldn't happen. The 1st and only movie that brought tears to my eyes was Million Dollar Baby! That sh!t was moving. Click nearly made it happen...but it wasn't sad enough. Also, I wanted to cry for Run Fat Boy Run, when the chick said yes and was gonna marry the chauvinistic punk, because I know how it is when your heart is for them, but their heart is for another...I was close, but didn't cry.

[edit on 15-10-2008 by sdrawkcabII]

reply to post by Dave Rabbit


Plenty must say but def. TITANIC
as a woman there are some privileges



Sorry ! take it back : was Deer Hunter
edit again to add : Gorillas in the Mist. Def. every movie about animals getting hurt = worst ever !!!

[edit on 15-10-2008 by flymetothemoon]

[edit on 16-10-2008 by flymetothemoon]

That's an easy one Dave. First movie to make me cry was:

"A man and a woman" (Un homme et une femme)

2nd:

"The bicycle thief"






[edit on 10/15/2008 by schrodingers dog]

Im an emotional man Dave you cant do this to me.

Im still trieing to do my top movies in each genre...............You wanna know how bad it is?.........Ok When ET says "Ill be right here" ..boo hoo

Jerry Maguire when she says "You had me at hello"...boo hoo

When Frank Sinatra got killed at the end of Von Ryans Express...boo hoo

When that kid on Amercian Pop Idol didnt make ...boo hoo


I aint playing no more i cant see the screen............no im not crying ive been peeling onions

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Dave
The end of Cinema Paradiso is incredibly powerfull but I possess far too much machismo to cry at films............no one dare mention The Champ.