What’s Your TOP Movie In Each Genre?

DRAMA – I am Legend

ACTION/ADVENTURE – The Day after Tommorow

MILITARY – Wake Island

COMEDY – Hot Rod

ROMANTIC – Taylor takes her bra off(don't ask)
HORROR – Dawn of the Dead

SCIENCE FICTION - Independence Day

Musical? Easy.

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

All the elements of a good Bond movie with songs. Don't think Daniel Craig would be as good as Dick Van Dyke though, and anyone with the misfortune of seeing Mama Mia will know of Pierce Brosnan's delightful tones....

Originally posted by Dave Rabbit

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

Sound Of Music....

*covers mouth and giggles while pointing at Dave*

Peace

An excellent question Dave since I have at least seen about 2500 movies.

I am a vast fan of the Kung fu/samurai movies so I am gonna ad those genres to my list and perhaps some more since there are more genres that don't fit into action imo.

Only problem is that with some genres I have more than 1 nr. 1 because some movies are so close on touching/impressing you on personal level..

But since you could do it too I will give it a try to pick only one though I can't guarantee anything

Ok enough nagging, here it goes.

Best ever Dramas: Network and Ikuru.

Best ever Samurai Movie: Samurai Rebellion.

Best ever Kung Fu Movie: Fist of Legend

Science fiction, First men in the moon

Military, Full metal Jacket

Horror, The Shining

Thriller, Cape fear

Comedy; Monty Python and the holy grail

Best action movie ever is a tough one but I would pick the new Batman Dark Knight movie too, it is really that good

best childrens movie ever is Labyrinth

And best ever Mafia movie is Casino

This was a tough topic for me since it is indeed so hard to choose.

Edit - I can't remember when I watched a 'romantic"movie

[edit on 15-10-2008 by Grey Magic]

2nd edit

How could I forget the best musical ever?????

The Blues Brothers

[edit on 15-10-2008 by Grey Magic]

Originally posted by Vanitas

P.S. How would you categorise films like Midnight Cowboy, for example?(Which I like very much, BTW.)

One of my favorites too..... DRAMA.

Appendix:

Musical: The Sound of Music.

Western: Pale Rider.

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

Originally posted by Grey Magic
....And best ever Mafia movie is Casino

It's actually the best movie evahhhhhh, but that wasn't one of the categories.

You can either have the money and the hammer or you can walk out of here. You can't have both. What do you want?

Peace

Originally posted by AGENT_T
ROMANTIC – BRIANNA LOVES JENNA

DRAMA – Braveheart

ACTION/ADVENTURE – Indiana Jones & the Temple of Doom

MILITARY – Full Metal Jacket (hands down)

COMEDY – Blazing Saddles

ROMANTIC – Sin City (he dies to protect the girl, that's true romance)

HORROR – (toughest category because I am a lover of the genre) The Hills Have Eyes (the original)

SCIENCE FICTION – Aliens (see what I did there? I slipped a space horror movie into the Sci-Fi category )

Originally posted by Dave Rabbit

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).

Yep. All of those are good. Check out "Les Parapluies de Cherbourg" aka "The Umbrellas of Cherbourg", if you haven't already. Great movie!

www.imdb.com...

[edit on 15-10-2008 by Areal51]

Originally posted by GeneralLee

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....

As with all the threads that I have done (as few as they are), I really enjoy seeing our community come together and simply enjoy a moment together in something without throwing stones or feeling like everything always has to be confrontational.

Anyone is welcome to spend some time in a day or two and see which ones garnered the most votes and post them.

Personally, I have Googled several that I was unfamiliar with and plan on checking them out.

Dave

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

Another great thread. It took more thinking than I thought it would.

DRAMA: Road to Perdition

ACTION/ADV: Heat

MILITARY: Band of Brothers/When Trumpets Fade

COMEDY: 40 year old virgin

ROMANCE:

HORROR: Angel Heart

SCI-FI: Alien

DRAMA – Casino

ACTION/ADVENTURE – Lord of the Rings Trilogy

MILITARY – I don't like military movies. (Unless The Patriot counts as a military movie).

COMEDY – Embarrassing but the truth: Eurotrip.

ROMANTIC – Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera and Wicker Park.

HORROR – Anything with zombies in it.

SCIENCE FICTION – Star Wars Trilogy.

That's really all I know. Don't watch a lot of TV/movies.

[edit on 10/15/2008 by AshleyD]

DRAMA = TRUE CRIME

ACTION/ADVENTURE = DIE ANOTHER DAY

MILITARY = SUBMERGED

COMEDY = AS GOOD AS IT GETS

ROMANTIC = THE MATCHMAKER (location Ireland 97)

HORROR = HANNIBAL

SCIENCE FICTION = ALIEN RESURRECTION



[edit on 15-10-2008 by flymetothemoon]

reply to post by Areal51


Shhhh

No one else has noticed.


Romantic film time always clashes with "Sod this I'm going fishing" time.

Can I have two goes~ Is that cheating?


DRAMA – City of God

ACTION/ADVENTURE –The day of the Jackal (1973)

MILITARY – Come and See

COMEDY – This is Spinal Tap

ROMANTIC – Cinema Paradiso

HORROR – The Exorcist

SCIENCE FICTION – Close Encounters

P.S. Sendran -The original Willy Wonka is far better than Chitty Chitty gang bang

This was a wee bit difficult to narrow down!


DRAMA – Pride and Prejudice (At least I think it's classified as a drama. Sure seems like a drama to me!)

ACTION/ADVENTURE – Fight Club

MILITARY – Full Metal Jacket

COMEDY – Idiocracy

ROMANTIC – The Notebook

HORROR – Thir13en Ghosts

SCIENCE FICTION – Planet of the Apes (The 1968 version was better imho.)

reply to post by Dave Rabbit

As with all the threads that I have done (as few as they are), I really enjoy seeing our community come together and simply enjoy a moment together in something without throwing stones or feeling like everything always has to be confrontational.

ditto

...Personally, I have Googled several that I was unfamiliar with and plan on checking them out...

me too - and also this reminded me of some I'd completely forgotten about, and some I need to see again

picking one is hard - but when forced - interesting to see what you come up with

reply to post by Dave Rabbit


Two words:

SPACEBALLS

That movie has it ALL! Romance, action, drama, AND Dark Helmet.



"Are we stopped?"

Priceless.

DRAMA – Blossom Godchild the movie - The bit where ATS members cornered her was intense.

ACTION/ADVENTURE – Blossom Godchild the movie - The bit where the guy says "Im back" and blows up the mothership.

MILITARY – Blossom Godchild the movie The bit where the Military attacks the mothership.

COMEDY – Blossom Godchild the movie - The bit where that lady kicks Blossom where the sun dont shine.

ROMANTIC – Blossom Godchild the movie - The bit where Blossom makes out with ET...ewww

HORROR – Blossom Godchild the movie - See above.

SCIENCE FICTION - Blossom Godchild the movie.

OK, ok im still working on my favs....So far Steve Mcqueen has been in 3 of em