What’s Your TOP Movie In Each Genre?

What’s Your TOP Movie In Each Genre?

I think this would make for an interesting ATS MIX Show segment. I have selected the following genres and have listed my favorites in each one. I’m curious to see what the pulse of our intelligent community is when it comes to entertainment, especially movies.

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.

DRAMA – The Majestic

ACTION/ADVENTURE – The Dark Knight

MILITARY – Uncommon Valor

COMEDY – It’s A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

ROMANTIC – The Notebook

HORROR – Phantasm

SCIENCE FICTION – Forbidden Planet

YOUR TURN!

Dave

FLAG & STAR THE MUTHA!


[edit on 10/14/2008 by Dave Rabbit]

Another fun post from you. Starred and flagged, sir!

DRAMA – The Secret Life of Words

ACTION/ADVENTURE – the Bourne movies

MILITARY – Full Metal Jacket or Apocalypse Now

COMEDY – Little Miss Sunshine or Harold and Maude

ROMANTIC – Amelie

HORROR – Jacob's Ladder or The Shining

SCIENCE FICTION - 2001: A Space Odyssey

edit to add The Shining

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DRAMA – Cool Hand Luke

ACTION/ADVENTURE – 300 or V for Victory (of course)

MILITARY – Apocalypse Now

COMEDY – Office Space

ROMANTIC – City of Angels

HORROR – The Exorcist

SCIENCE FICTION – Stargate

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DRAMA – The big Lebowski (when Donny died? Oh man)

ACTION/ADVENTURE – The big Lebowski (When the Nihilists came to get the money? Oh man)

MILITARY – The big Lebowski (Every time Walter mentions 'Nam. )

COMEDY – The big Lebowski (Nearly every single Scene.. Priceless)

ROMANTIC – The big Lebowski (Maude's Proposal and Dude's offering to be involved with the baby)

HORROR – The big Lebowski (The toe! The marmot! Eek!)

SCIENCE FICTION - The Big Lebowski (The Iron Lung was pretty futuristic!)


Now seriously:

DRAMA – Goodfellas

ACTION/ADVENTURE – the Dark Knight

MILITARY – Full Metal Jacket

COMEDY – The Big Lebowski

ROMANTIC – A Year of Living Dangerously or Lost in Translation

HORROR – the Shining

SCIENCE FICTION - the Matrix

Edited to correct title

[edit on 14/10/08 by Lebowski achiever]

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Always fun posts Dave, thanks. Like you said, one for each is hard; following your criteria:

DRAMA: Cinema Paradiso

ACTION/ADVENTURE: Series 6

MILITARY: Paths of Glory

COMEDY: Blazing Saddles

ROMANTIC: Leaving Los Vegas

HORROR: Maniac (can only watch once)

Sci-Fi: Original Alien

ColoradoJens

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DRAMA: Passion of the Christ

ADVENTURE: Pirates of the Carribean trilogy

MILITARY: Gallipoli (it's an Aussie movie)

COMEDY: National Lampoon

ROMANTIC: Ghost

HORROR: Silent Hill

SCI FI: War of the Worlds (remake) / The Matrix (can't choose both faves)


Starred and Flagged!!

DRAMA – LA Confidential

ACTION/ADVENTURE – LOTR

MILITARY – Patton

COMEDY – Airplane

ROMANTIC – Princess Bride

HORROR – Jaws, it was scary back in the day.

SCIENCE FICTION – Heavy Metal

Hey Dave, what about "musical"? Jesus Christ Superstar

DRAMA – Supersize Me

ACTION/ADVENTURE – Raiders of the Lost Ark (all time tops)

MILITARY – Full Metal Jacket

COMEDY – Wedding Crashers

ROMANTIC – The Princess Bride

HORROR – Re-Animator

SCIENCE FICTION – 2001

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DRAMA – Jean De Florette/Manom Des Sources

ACTION/ADVENTURE – Apocalypto

MILITARY – Apocalypse Now

COMEDY – The Jerk

ROMANTIC – Amelie

HORROR – Salem's Lot (1979)

SCIENCE FICTION – Planet of the apes (1968)



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DRAMA – Wings of Desire

ACTION/ADVENTURE – The Lord of the Rings

MILITARY – Jacob's Ladder

COMEDY – I Heart Huckabees

ROMANTIC – Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

HORROR – Ravenous

SCIENCE FICTION – Aliens

DRAMA – Green mile - the most difficult film ive had to watch in the pictures struggling between blubbing and keeping my machismo intact

ACTION/ADVENTURE – Big trouble in little china - jack burton is the man

MILITARY – Schindlers list - theres no glamour its horrendous

COMEDY – Life of brian, its genius. O brother where art thou is close though as is airplane

ROMANTIC – wedding singer - i like my romance funny

HORROR – blair witch project - when it came out i lived next to the woods, its the only film to have creeped me out

SCIENCE FICTION – Star Wars - i like reading science fiction but never watch it on the big screen much

like most lists, its changeable depending on mood and memory

DRAMA – Requiem for a Dream (One of the best ever!)

ACTION/ADVENTURE – Pulp Fiction

MILITARY – Full Metal Jacket

COMEDY – Super Bad

ROMANTIC – Casablanca

HORROR – Last House on the Left

SCIENCE FICTION – Donny Darko.. Oh, and I LOVE the original Twilight Zone show!!

I'm just posting my favs in general

The Wizard of OZ

Original Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Life of a House

Phantasm, Exorcist, 1st Hellraiser

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Awsome topic here are mine.

DRAMA – Legends of the Fall

ACTION/ADVENTURE – The dark Knight (also)

MILITARY – We were Soldiers

COMEDY – Monty Python and the quest for the Holy Grail

ROMANTIC – Not to sure, dont watch many.

HORROR – Pulse

SCIENCE FICTION – War of the Worlds (Original)

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DRAMA – One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

ACTION/ADVENTURE – Fight Club/Raiders of the Lost Ark

MILITARY – Troy

COMEDY – American Psycho

ROMANTIC – The Princess Bride

HORROR – The Shining

SCIENCE FICTION – 2001: A Space Odyssey

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Another sweet topic. Thanks!!

DRAMA – The Godfather

ACTION/ADVENTURE – Lord of the Rings trilogy

MILITARY – Full Metal Jacket

COMEDY – Caddyshack

ROMANTIC – Best of Jenna Jameson

HORROR – Ammityville Horror

SCIENCE FICTION – The real Star Wars trilogy...

HONORABLE MENTIONS- Boondock Saints, A Clockwork Orange

Cheers,
Patrick

can we add an animated category?

DRAMA – Fight Club (my all time fav)

ACTION/ADVENTURE – *looks around and hopes no one sees: Titanic

MILITARY – Saving Private Ryan

COMEDY – Groundhog Day

ROMANTIC – The Princess Bride

HORROR – The Last Broadcast

SCIENCE FICTION – Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy


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DRAMA – Tombstone

ACTION/ADVENTURE – Pirates of the Caribbean

MILITARY – Saving Private Ryan

COMEDY – The life of Brian

ROMANTIC – Shrek

HORROR – Dog soldiers

SCIENCE FICTION – Predator

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My selection;

DRAMA - From Hell (Johnny Depp)

MILITARY - Platoon (Johnny Depp)

THRILLER - Secret Window (Johnny Depp)

HORROR - Sleepy Hollow (Johnny Depp)

SCI FI - The Astronauts Wife (Johnny Depp)

COMEDY - Pirates Of The Carabean (Johnny Depp)

ROMANTIC - Chocolat (Johnny Depp)

(mmmmmmm ! Johnny Depp - God I love that man) !

ACTION/ADVENTURE - The Die Hards (Bruce Willis)


Seems to be a bit of a theme running through my selection (excuse me whilst I drool).

Woody