What’s Your TOP Movie In Each Genre?

reply to post by Dave Rabbit


Dave the Titanic?.........come on man didnt you know the boat was gonna sink?

Originally posted by thethirdofthestorms
I see some people added some genres...

I think we need to add documentaries to the list; some docs are so much more powerful than any Hollywood film. I saw “The Times of Harvey Milk” when I was in middle school and it affected my life more than any scripted film has.

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DRAMA – The Departed

ACTION/ADVENTURE – Predator

MILITARY – Braveheart

COMEDY – Love Actually

ROMANTIC – PS I Love You (tied with) Serendipity

HORROR – Evil Dead

SCIENCE FICTION/FANTASY – What Dreams May Come

That is harder than I thought.

DRAMA- Easy Rider
ACTION- Indiana Jones (all of them combined)
MILITARY- Full Metal Jacket
COMEDY- Monty Python and the Holy Grail(all monty python really)
ROMANTIC- The Fountain
HORROR- The Cell
SCI FI- toss up between The Last Mimzy, and 12 Monkeys (heck maybe even Pi)
ANIMATION- Broken Saints (truly a must see)
DOCUMENTARY- What the #$*! Do we Know? or The Elegant Universe

Sorry, just felt the documentary genre is important.



[edit on 10/15/2008 by psychedeliack]

OK, I'll bite.
Drama: To Kill a Mockingbird
Action: Bourne Identity
Military: Dirty Dozen
Comedy: Monty Python, Search for the Holy Grail
Romantic: none, chick flicks
Horror: Creature From the Black Lagoon
Sci Fi: 2001 Space Odyssey

While my viewing history is quite limited in this genre:

MUSICAL - Dreamgirls [I'm extremely biased toward anything regarding Motown...and Jennifer Hudson can blow! [that's Detroit-speak for "sing very, very well", a la Aretha Franklin]]

While we're at it, what about favorite films of certain directors?

SPIELBERG - 'Munich'

KUROSAWA - 'Dreams'

KUBRICK - 'A Clockwork Orange'

COPPOLA - 'Godfather II'

SCORSESE - 'Goodfellas'

ANDERSON - 'Magnolia'

COEN BROS. - 'The Big Lebowski' [I'm so glad that I found a place to get this one in....here's to you, LebowskiAcheiver!]

Each of these is very difficult to settle on JUST ONE. Like my previous entries, however, I refrained from thinking about it too much, and rather just settled on the first one which entered into my consciousness.

Gotta go with the gut.


EDIT to correct spelling of Steven Spielberg's name...

[edit on 10.15.2008 by ItsTheQuestion]

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You make a good point.

DOCUMENTARY - 'Zeitgeist' [while some of the information seems suspect, this film flipped my world upside-down, for which I'm forever grateful]

And...
'ART'-FILM [not sure how else to classify this classic] - 'Koyaanisqatsi' [its companion film, 'Powaqatsi,' gets my vote for best original score]

Originally posted by rapinbatsisaltherage

Originally posted by seagrass
Rapin, It is showing how old I am... My dad took me to the David Bowie movie when I was like 14 or something. I was confused by it, I watched it much later and it wasn't so confusing. I loved Logan's Run when I was young, do you remember that one?
I cried on my bed when Thorn Birds played each night in that series. I was going through puberty at the time.. was it my hormones or what it really that sad? I will have to rent it again sometime....

Yeah I remember that movie but I haven’t seen it in years. I think I had a crush on Jenny Agutter.

It is really that sad. I noticed the older I get the more the movie seems like a mini-soap opera, but in a good way.

I wanted them to really invent that plastic surgery machine.. lol. I liked her in American Werewolf in London.

Directors :

David Lynch : Twin Peaks
Steven Spielberg : Schindlers liste
Alfred Hitchcock : Psycho
Woody Allen : Annie Hall
Yurek Bogayevicz : Edges of the Lord
Clint Eastwood : The Bridges of Madison County
Michael Cimino : Deer Hunter

edit to add :
Christopher Nolan : Insomnia
James L. Brooks : As good as it gets
Richard Curtis : Love actually


[edit on 16-10-2008 by flymetothemoon]

I love Sci-Fi! So DARK CITY is my favorite.

Great thread,
DRAMA. A Prayer For The Dieing.

ACTION/ADVENTURE. Con-Air.

MILITARY. Kelly's Heroes.

COMEDY. Dirty Sanchez- The Movie.

ROMANTIC. Titanic.

HORROR. The Dawn Of The Dead.

SCIENCE FICTION. The Final Countdown.

Okay.... My TOP TEN Directors.

NUMBER 1 - ALFRED HITCHCOCK - Psycho

NUMBER 2 - STANLEY KUBRICK - Spartacus

NUMBER 3 - SYDNEY POLLACK - The Way We Were

NUMBER 4 - GEORGE LUCAS - The Star Wars Series

NUMBER 5 - FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA - The Godfather Series

NUMBER 6 - STEVEN SPIELBERG - Schindler's List

NUMBER 7 - JAMES CAMERON - The Terminator Series

NUMBER 8 - DAVID LEAN - The Bridge On The River Kwai

NUMBER 9 - RON HOWARD - Apollo 13

NUMBER 10 - GEORGE ROY HILL - The Sting

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

Originally posted by Mintwithahole.

SCIENCE FICTION. The Final Countdown.

I love that movie and it is in my private collection. I remember thinking how much our history would have changed if the fighters were able to engage the Japanese.

Dave

Here's mine:

DRAMA – Kramer Vs Kramer

ACTION/ADVENTURE – The Dark Knight / Terminator 2

MILITARY – Platoon

COMEDY – There's Something about Mary

ROMANTIC – Vanilla Sky (not quite a fit, but gets me every time)

HORROR – Evil Dead II / The Thing

SCIENCE FICTION – Close Encounters


Directors:

NUMBER 1 - Spielberg - Jaws

NUMBER 2 - Oliver Stone - Platoon

NUMBER 3 - Ridley Scott - Alien

NUMBER 4 - Francis Ford Coppola - The Godfather / The Conversation

NUMBER 5 - George Lucas - The ORIGINAL Star Wars

NUMBER 6 - James Cameron - Terminator 2 / Aliens

NUMBER 7 - Sam Raimi - Evil Dead Series / Spiderman 2 & 3

NUMBER 8 - Peter Jackson - everything from Bad Taste to King Kong

NUMBER 9 - The Coen Brothers - O'Brother where Art Thou?

NUMBER 10 - Alfred Hitchcock - Rope (only 1 cut in the whole movie - genius)

edit to cheat and put in 11 - RICHARD DONNER - SUPERMAN I & SUPERMAN II THE RICHARD DONNER CUT - AMAZING!! - MORE BRANDO!



[edit on 15-10-2008 by marker3221]

Originally posted by Dave Rabbit
Okay.... My TOP TEN Directors.

Tony Kaye American History X
Robert Mulligan The Man In the Moon
David Fincher Zodiac
Takashi Miike Audition or Ôdishon
Sam Mendes American Beauty
Peter Weir Dead Poets Society
Stanley Kubrick A Clockwork Orange and Lolita
Alfonso Cuarón Y tu mamá también or And Your Mother Too
Alfred Hitchcock Psycho
Nicole Kassell The Woodsman



[edit on 15-10-2008 by rapinbatsisaltherage]

Originally posted by Dave Rabbit
WHAT MADE YOU CRY!

There are more movies that did that but the last one that did this is an amazing movie you should really check out.

The five people you meet in heaven

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No Ridley Scott Dave?

Steven Spielberg - Close Encounters
Ridley Scott - Blade Runner
Stanley Kubrick - Clockwork Orange
Clint Eastwood - Million Dollar Baby
Brian Singer - Usual Suspects
Richard Donner - The Goonies
Guillermo Del Toro - Pan's Labrynth
Alfred Hitchcock- The Birds
Oliver Hirschbeigel - Downfall
Guy Ritchie - Lock Stock And Two Smoking Barrels

Adding the new categories:

WESTERN: Young Guns

MUSICAL: Grease

SPORTS: Talladega Nights

MADE ME CRY: (as an adult) Terminator 2 ~ Yea, I cried when he terminated himself.

This is ever so much fun.

Lets do top 10 soundtracks next.

How about favorite actors?

1 - Gary Oldman

2 - Marlon Brando

3 - Jack Nicholson

4 - Sean Penn

5 - George Clooney

6 - Dustin Hoffman (early films)

7 - Daniel Day Lewis

8 - Javier Bardem (The Sea Inside)

9 - Ralph Fiennes

10 - Mathieu Amalric (The Diving Bell & The Butterfly) I've also met him & he is so humble & polite to boot!