What’s Your TOP Movie In Each Genre?

Movies to cry by:
Finding Neverland and Somewhere In Time.

I can't even think about these movies with out crying..... going to wipe my eyes now.


Ok, I'm better now.
Favourite directors include
Ron Howard: Davinci Code and The Missing and almost eveything else he's directed.
Ridley Scott: Gladiator and Alexander....wow....
Martin Scorsese: I forget but I know I like him. Oh yeah and the Japanese director who did "Face Off" and "MI2". I like his bird motif.

Favourite Actors:
Gary Oldman: Bram Stoker's Dracula and Immortal Beloved (sigh)
George Clooney
Tom Hanks
Sean Connery ( The Wind and the Lion....come on! An Arab with a Scottish brogue and I totally ate it up!.....sigh)
I know there's more but I have to go back to work now.......with red eyes
from thinking about those two movies!

Oh yeah......

Musical: Nightmare before Christmas

And Tim Burton is a favourite director of mine too.

DRAMA – The Majestic

ACTION/ADVENTURE – The Dark Knight

MILITARY – saving pvt ryan

COMEDY – 40 Year old Vergin

ROMANTIC – ...

HORROR – Alien

SCIENCE FICTION – Alien

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DRAMA – God Father II

ACTION/ADVENTURE – The Fifth Element

MILITARY – Pearl Harbor

COMEDY – Interview with Vampire

ROMANTIC – Brave Heart

HORROR – Jason vs Freddy

SCIENCE FICTION – Dune

DRAMA- Green mile

ACTION/ADVENTURE- 300 ( great battle scenes)

MILITARY- Full metal jacket or Apocalypse now.

COMEDY- Airplane

ROMANTIC- True Romance

HORROR- Aliens

SCIENCE FICTION- Close encounters of the third kind.

here we go...

DRAMA – American Gangster

ACTION/ADVENTURE – Braveheart ( really has 4 categories)

MILITARY – Saving Private Ryan

COMEDY – Naked Gun series

ROMANTIC – Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind (Is best!)

HORROR – The Omen

MUSICAL - Across the Universe

SCIENCE FICTION – The Fountain

HEAD TRIP - Memento

Well, here goes.

While there are many movies I've watched that I find rewarding, off the top of my head are:

DRAMA: Amistad

ACTION/ADVENTURE: To live or die in L.A.

MILITARY: Band of Brothers (the mini-series)

COMEDY: Friday

ROMANTIC: Officer and a Gentleman

HORROR: The Excorcist

SCIENCE-FICTION: Blade runner

HONORABLE MENTIONS: Men of Honor, 2001 Space Odessey, Hamburger Hill, Animal House, Steel Magnolias (I watched it with my ex. and it was good) Close Encounters of a Third Kind.

There are so many great movies, it's almost impossible to say what's my favorite. To tell the truth, Band of Brothers is my all-time favorite.

Got it

DRAMA – A Beautiful Mind

ACTION/ADVENTURE – The Mummy

MILITARY – Gettysburg

COMEDY – Grumpy Old Men

ROMANTIC – Elizabethtown

HORROR – Shaun of the Dead

SCIENCE FICTION - Aliens

DRAMA – The Deer Hunter - 1978 (Mike (Christopher Walken) shoots himself in a game of Russian roulette)

ACTION/ADVENTURE – Around the World in Eighty Days -1956 (The scenes in India)

MILITARY – Men of honor - 2000 (scene where Carl (Cuba Gooding) ask: Why are you doing all this? And Billy (DeNiro) says: “ To piss people off.” )

COMEDY – The Bucket List - 2007 (ACE!!)

ROMANTIC – 9 1/2 Weeks - 1986 (‘The scene where John (Mickey Rourke) blindfolds Elizabeth (Kim Basinger) and Eyes Wide Shut - 1999 (Masked Ball scene)

HORROR – The Shining - 1980 (That face coming trough the broken door)

SCIENCE FICTION – Contact - 1997 (Final hearing)

DRAMA – Hotel Rwanda/Shawshank redemption/Cuckoo's nest

ACTION/ADVENTURE – LOTR trilogy/Indiana Jones Trilogy/Fight club

MILITARY – Jacobs Ladder(i didn't know where this should go)/apocalypse now/ Deer Hunter

COMEDY – Big lebowski/Little miss sunshine (comedy drama but hey)/Life of Brian/Groundhog day

ROMANTIC – Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind/Amelie/Atonement/Titanic

HORROR – The Shining/The Exorcist/Poltergeist

SCIENCE FICTION – Alien/Star wars trilogy/Matrix/Donnie Darko

DRAMA – I am Sam

ACTION/ADVENTURE – Tango and Cash(act)The Labyrinth/The Neverending story(adv)

MILITARY – Breaker Morant/ Stripes/Starship Troopers

COMEDY – Fear and loathing in Las Vegas/ The Big Lebowski

HORROR – Evil Dead

SCIENCE FICTION – Star Wars (4,5,6)

FUN thread!!! HARD to narrow down,I'm a total movie freak but here goes:

DRAMA – Legends of the Fall

ACTION/ADVENTURE –Die Hard 2

MILITARY – Saving Private Ryan

COMEDY – Napolean Dynamite

ROMANTIC – Bridges of Madison County

HORROR – Jeepers Creepers (a friend of mine is the "Creeper!")

SCIENCE FICTION – Invasion of the Body Snatchers

Anything by Quentin Tarrentino in any category.





[edit on 30-5-2009 by irishchic]

[edit on 30-5-2009 by irishchic]

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God I LOVE "Road to Perdition" too...an under-rated IMO Hanks performance and Paul Newman at his BEST!

This is a lot harder than I thought it would be. I can never pick just one.

DRAMA – There Will Be Blood

ACTION/ADVENTURE – Kill Bill

MILITARY – Full Metal Jacket

COMEDY – The Big Lebowski

ROMANTIC – Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

HORROR – The Evil Dead

SCIENCE FICTION – The Lord of the Rings Trilogy

DRAMA – Pan's Labyrinth

ACTION/ADVENTURE – Blade Runner

MILITARY – Full Metal Jacket

COMEDY – Little Nicky

ROMANTIC – Alien vs Predator

HORROR – Hellraiser

SCIENCE FICTION - 2001: A Space Odyssey

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I love it! Star 4 U!!

DRAMA: Good Will Hunting

ACTION/ADVENTURE Dr. No

MILITARY Band of Brothers

COMEDY Grandma's Boy

ROMANTIC Cinema Paradiso

HORROR Frailty

SCIENCE FICTION They Live


(SPORTS) Miracle

[edit on 30-5-2009 by Ben Niceknowinya]

I feel i should add if there is a section for Musicals

its Rocky Horror Picture Show
all the way

DRAMA Reds

ACTION/ADVENTURE Apocalypse Now

MILITARY Saving Private Ryan

COMEDY Blazing Saddles

ROMANTIC Annie hall

HORROR Alien

SCIENCE FICTION 2001: A Space Odyssey

I would add:

Ran by Ario Kirosawa... this remake of King Lear is simply stunning
Koyaanisqatsi... Life out of Balance in Hopi... no plot, no words stunning images and
music by Philip Glass
The Truman Show... still eerie fortelling of the whole "reality TV" bullhooey
Forrest Gump... I didn't wanna like it and came to love this film
Dr. Strangelove... no other film drives home the whole madness of the cold war
The Day the Earth Stood Still... not the remake
Nosferatu... possibly the most frightening vampire of them all
Metropolis... they did this in 1927?
Wizards... Ralph Backshi at his best
The Princess Bride... A lovely sweet film
Repoman... Ron Howards first film great punk soundtrack both long out of print
Rocky Horror Picture Show... lets do the time warp again
The King of Hearts... a sweet film about the madness of war
Being There... Peter Seller's last and his masterpiece
Dreams by Ario Kirosawa... sometimes tedious but worth the Van Gogh sequence
Blade Runner... I do not want that future
The Unbearable lightness of Being... a gentle film that ends sadly.

How could I forget Casablanca? Possibly the best film to ever come out of the studio system.

[edit on 31-5-2009 by grover]

Drama: Blathazaar

Action/Adventure: Lord of the Rings/ The Twin Towers

Military: The African Queen

Comedy: Coffee and Cigarettes

Romantic: Casablanca

Horror: Nosferatu

Sci-Fi: Brazil

DRAMA: Shawshank Redemption

ACTION/ADVENTURE: Lethal Weapon movies

MILITARY:We Were Soldiers

COMEDY: Rhinestone

ROMANTIC: Bridges of Madison County

HORROR: 1408

SCIENCE FICTION:Contact

WESTERN: Lonesome Dove