What’s Your TOP Movie In Each Genre?

Hey Dave, I have a quick question. Are you going to compile the results for any reason? It might be a fun and interesting study such as do ATS'ers think alike? Or do we really have a diverse forum here. It was just a thought.

As you were....

DRAMA – A Few Good Men, On the Water Front

ACTION/ADVENTURE – LOTR (Two Towers)

MILITARY – Saving Private Ryan

COMEDY – Animal House

ROMANTIC – what ever..

HORROR – Evil Dead

SCIENCE FICTION – Blade Runner

Edit to add On the Water Front. Brando's best movie.

[edit on 15-10-2008 by Erasurehead]

Some of you people really need to get in touch with your romantic self.

I know it's tough to watch if there isn't somebody's head blowing up or a car falling on somebody, but romance is good for the soul.

Peace

DRAMA – HEAT

ACTION/ADVENTURE – DIE HARD

MILITARY – SAVING PRIVATE RYAN

COMEDY – THE BIG LEBOWSKI / ANY ABBOTT AND COSTELLO

ROMANTIC – HMMM can't think of any right now

HORROR – DAWN OF THE DEAD (1978) / [REC]

DRAMA –

ACTION/ADVENTURE – Indiana Jones in Raiders of Lost Ark.

MILITARY – Band of Brothers (does that count?) or Master and Commander.

COMEDY – National Lampoon's Vacation (Family Truckster!)

ROMANTIC – none.

HORROR – Outland.

SCIENCE FICTION – The Day the Earth Stood Still.

DRAMA – The 7's

ACTION/ADVENTURE – Pirates of the Carribean

MILITARY – Braveheart

COMEDY – The Jerk

ROMANTIC – The Princess Bride

HORROR – Evil Dead
SCIENCE FICTION – Star Wars (Star Trek is no good)dont flame,cause I couldnt care less

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DRAMA – *

ACTION/ADVENTURE – Journey to the Center of the Earth (original 1959)

MILITARY – The Longest Day (1962)

COMEDY – Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)

ROMANTIC – *

HORROR – Aliens (1986)

SCIENCE FICTION – Back to the Future (1985)

edit:double post,sorry...

no idea why it happened

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DRAMA – Donnie Darko

ACTION/ADVENTURE – District B-13 (Banlieue 13)

MILITARY – Platoon

COMEDY – Caddyshack

ROMANTIC – The Wackness

HORROR – Evil Dead

SCIENCE FICTION - Empire Strikes Back

WESTERN - The Good, The bad, and the ugly. (thats one film by the way)



[edit on 15-10-2008 by drsmooth23]

It's great and fascinating to find out which movies you guys around here prefer [I'm from the Midwest, so "guys" is an all-inclusive, gender-neutral noun here].

But weren't we asked to just list our 'TOP' [i.e. ONE] movie in each genre? Some of you guys are listing 2 and 3 movies for each one! Now, I'm not trying to be a cop or a mod, but part of the cool thing about this exercise is it forced, well, some of us to whittle down each genre list to just ONE favorite.

I, like many, could fill a thread with my favoriteS.

By the way, for the added 'Western' category, could I use 'Serenity'? Or am I just trying to slip in a second SciFi? Otherwise, I'll go with 'The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford'.

Ok. went back and made up my mind on the ones that I listed 2 for.

DRAMA – no preference

ACTION/ADVENTURE – no preference

MILITARY – Sands of Iwo Jima

COMEDY – Planes, Trains and Automobiles

ROMANTIC – Are you kidding? lol

HORROR – Phantasm

SCIENCE FICTION – Star Wars

I copy-pasted this from the first post, but "Phantasm" is definitely one of my favorite scary movies. Pure coincidence.

DRAMA – Brokeback Mountain

ACTION/ADVENTURE – Never Ending Story

MILITARY – Saving Private Ryan

COMEDY – The Sweetest Thing

ROMANTIC – Gone With the Wind

HORROR – Nightmare on Elm Street (the first one)

SCIENCE FICTION – The Twilight Zone The Movie

DRAMA - The Godfather or Rebel Without A Cause (can't choose)

ACTION / ADVENTURE - Heat (action), The Goonies (adventure)

MILITARY - The Great Escape

COMEDY - The Breakfast Club

ROMANTIC - The Crow (it is romantic, seriously! all that Draven does he does for love, right!?)

HORROR - Stir Of Echoes

SCI-FI - Blade Runner (director's cut)

DRAMA – The bucket list

ACTION/ADVENTURE – Gone in 60 seconds "new version"

MILITARY – Full metal jacket

COMEDY – Life

ROMANTIC – What dreams may come

HORROR –Nightmare on elm street "all of them"

SCIENCE FICTION – 2001: A Space Odyssey

WESTERN Young Guns

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reply to post by Dave Rabbit

What’s Your TOP Movie In Each Genre?

...Keep in mind that if you are like me, it will be hard to select your TOP ONE... but throw one out anyway. My criteria is something that I never get tired of watching on DVD.

really - only one?

DRAMA – Lawrence of Arabia
ACTION/ADVENTURE – The Bourne series
MILITARY – The Bridge on the River Kwai
COMEDY – Life of Brian
ROMANTIC – Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
HORROR – The Haunting (original)
SCIENCE FICTION – 2001

Originally posted by ConMi27

Great thread! It's nice to throw in something relaxing and NOT so thought provoking with all of this recent chaos.

Peace

I believe Johnny would say I have created a SIDEBAR.

Sometimes we all need to be reminded that we may have different opinions.... but that is okay. We still are a member of the human race and can respect each other at the bare minimum.

Dave

DRAMA – The Shawshank Redemption

ACTION/ADVENTURE – Lord of the Rings Trilogy

MILITARY – We were soldiers

COMEDY – Dumb and Dumber (I know what your thinking, I liked it)

ROMANTIC – Ghost

HORROR – Nightmare on Elm Street 3, Exorcist (I can name a thousand of my favorites, I love Horror movies)

SCIENCE FICTION – Donnie Darko

DRAMA – Goodfella's

ACTION/ADVENTURE – Iron Man

MILITARY – Saving Private Ryan/We Were Soldiers (can't separate them)

COMEDY – Uncle Buck

ROMANTIC – The Odd Couple

HORROR – The Entity

SCIENCE FICTION – Starship Troopers

There's so many others which would also count as favourites, but these were the ones which sprang immediately tomind


[edit on 15/10/2008 by budski]

Originally posted by Replikant

MUSICAL - West Side Story

Yeah.... thought about musical...... but so few people really like all the singing and dancing crap. Still..... mine would be:

Sound Of Music or South Pacific. (Damn.... Dave's age is really showing now).