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Favorite Movies By Genre
« on: 26 January 2011, 00:59:28 »
As the title suggests, post your favorite movies by the Genre(s) they are in. Everything from animated kids movies to horror flicks.

Animated
Science Fiction
Documentry
Horror
Action
Adventure
Fantasy
Western
Classic
Drama
Musical
Comedy
Romance

If anyone has any other genres to add, feel free to do so.
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Re: Favorite Movies By Genre
« Reply #1 on: 26 January 2011, 04:18:20 »
The Princess Bride covers pretty much all of those :P

For horror/thriller, I would really have to say Frailty, though Brotherhood of the Wolf is a close second.
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Re: Favorite Movies By Genre
« Reply #2 on: 26 January 2011, 08:07:11 »


Animated: Heavy Metal
Science Fiction: Serenity
Documentry: Battle 360: USS Enterprise CV 6
Horror: Saw; none of those crappy sequels.
Action: Kingdom Of Heaven
Adventure: The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
Fantasy: Lord of the Rings
Western: Palerider
Classic: The Lion In Winter
Drama: Dr Strangelove
Musical: Little Shop Of Horrors
Comedy: Fight Club
Romance: Cemetary Man
Thriller: Se7en
Mystery: Memento
Dystopia: Brazil
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Re: Favorite Movies By Genre
« Reply #3 on: 26 January 2011, 09:55:27 »
Animated - Heavy Metal
Science Fiction - Star Wars ep IV A New Hope
Documentary - can't really think of a movie, but as far as documentary series it would have to be World at War
Horror - The Thing
Action - Where Eagles Dare
Adventure - Big Trouble in Little China
Fantasy - Lord of the Rings
Western - Unforgiven
Classic - Casablanca
Drama - Lost in Translation
Musical - White Christmas
Comedy - Airplane!
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Re: Favorite Movies By Genre
« Reply #4 on: 26 January 2011, 10:53:42 »
Animated - Princess Mononoke
Science Fiction - Blade Runner
Documentry - Roger and Me
Action - Forbidden Kingdom
Adventure - Ghost and the Darkness
Fantasy - Excalibur
Western - True Grit and McClintock
Classic - Casablanca
Drama - A Field of Dreams
Comedy - Four Rooms

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Re: Favorite Movies By Genre
« Reply #5 on: 26 January 2011, 12:12:46 »
Animated Nausicaa
Science Fiction Stargate
Documentary Generation Kill (docu-drama)
Horror The Thing
Action True Lies
Adventure Deep Rising
Fantasy Lord of the Rings
Western High Plains Drifter
Classic Laurence of Arabia
Drama Seven Samurai
Musical Moulin Rouge
Comedy Miss Congeniality
Romance Princess Bride
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Re: Favorite Movies By Genre
« Reply #6 on: 26 January 2011, 12:19:20 »
Quote from: Stormfury on 26 January 2011, 04:18:20
The Proncess Bride covers pretty much all of those :P



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Re: Favorite Movies By Genre
« Reply #7 on: 26 January 2011, 12:33:10 »
Animated- Patlabor the Movie (The serious story of Mech Vista always is super enjoyable.)
Science Fiction-Aliens
Documentary- Evolve
Horror-John Carpenters The Thing
Action- Indiana Jones - Raiders/Last Crusade
Adventure- Lawrence of Arabia
Fantasy- LotR
Western- The Man w/ No Name films
Classic- Star Wars (What does classic mean anyway as a genre? Older than X or occurring in a historical context? Not like you can apply the music definition)
War- Zulu
Post-Apocalyptic - The Road Warrior
Crime- The Maltese Falcon
Musical- Sound of Music I guess....I haven't really seen a lot of musicals.
Comedy- Spaceballs/MeninTights/Young Frankenstein or any Mel Brooks goodness.
Romance- Princess Bride

Wow look at that list and tell me you couldn't guess that I love Battletech. ;D
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Re: Favorite Movies By Genre
« Reply #8 on: 26 January 2011, 13:02:55 »
Animated - The Secret of NIMH.

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Re: Favorite Movies By Genre
« Reply #9 on: 26 January 2011, 13:07:27 »
Animated: Tenchi Muyo in Love
Science Fiction: The Empire Strikes Back
Documentry: Ken Burns' The Civil War
Horror: The Shining
Action: Ronin
Adventure: Stardust
Fantasy: The Lord of the Rings. All 3, back to back to back.
Western: High Noon
Classic: Casablanca
Drama: A Man for All Seasons
Musical: 1776
Comedy: The Freshman
Romance: I object to this genre's very existence, but if pushed... (500) Days of Summer
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Re: Favorite Movies By Genre
« Reply #10 on: 30 January 2011, 01:15:14 »
Animated: Ghost in the Shell 2
Science Fiction: Aliens 2
Horror: Phantasm
Action: Crank 2
Adventure: Escape from New York
Fantasy: Ladyhawk
Documentary: Ken Burns' WW2
Western: Sierra Madre
Classic: The Quiet Man
Drama: The Manchurian Candidate
Musical: Rocky Horror Picture Show
Comedy: Blazing Saddles
Romance: Er... looks at other posts... The Princess Bride
War: Saving Private Ryan
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Re: Favorite Movies By Genre
« Reply #11 on: 30 January 2011, 01:37:41 »
Animated: A Scanner Darkly
Science Fiction: Serenity
Horror: Hard Candy
Action: The Dark Knight
Adventure: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Fantasy: The Empire Strikes Back
Western: No Country For Old Men
Classic: Dr. Strangelove
Drama: The Shawshank Redemption
Comedy: The Big Lebowski
Romance: High Fidelity
War: Apocalypse Now
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Re: Favorite Movies By Genre
« Reply #12 on: 30 January 2011, 02:11:19 »
Let's try...

Animated: Batman: Mask of the Phantasm
Science Fiction: Jurassic Park
Documentary: (Documentary or dramatic retelling?)
Horror: Never seen one I liked
Action: The Dark Knight
Adventure: The Fugitive
Fantasy: Lord of the Rings
Western: The Big Country (Does that count as a Western)
Classic: The Guns of Navarone
Drama: Space Cowboys
Musical: Never seen one I liked
Comedy: Tommy Boy
Romance: Valentine's Day (I actually have only watched like four romance movies in my life)
Thriller: maybe Jaws
Mystery: Maltese Falcon (I haven't seen too many that I liked)
Dystopia: Gattaca
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Re: Favorite Movies By Genre
« Reply #13 on: 30 January 2011, 08:57:41 »
These will likely prove difficult...and I'm likely to have to pick at least 2 movies for several categories...

Animated: Hmm...there are so many from which to choose; several of which have been named...I'm actually going to break this into two categories:

>American Animated: Secret of Nimh / Transformers the Movie
>Japanese Anime: Galaxy Express 999 (there are so many others I could choose, but this one really takes it for me...)

Science Fiction: Doctor Who: The End of Time (the Doctor's rage at his fate, and his final words at it really made this one) / Serenity

Documentry: don't really have a movie for this one...if go docu-series, probably either Tales of the Gun or Wild West Tech

Horror: hmm...maybe the Cube or Resident Evil series, or perhaps Dracula: Love Never Dies...

Action: Hmm...likely anything with Jason Statham in it? Particularly the Transporter series and Doomsday?

Adventure: Probably the Indiana Jones series here, particularly The Last Crusade

Fantasy: The Lord of the Rings trilogy

Western: If I had to choose just one, it would likely be The Good, the Bad and the Ugly followed by Tombstone, but there are many great choices...

Classic: Now this is really hard...Captain Horatio Hornblower / Casablanca / The Maltese Falcon / Mr. Smith Goes to Washington / Sergeant York / Captain Blood / The Sea Hawk / To Kill a Mockingbird / It's a Wonderful Life are all films I really love...I'm not sure I could choose just one...

Drama: What Dreams May Come

Musical: not really in to musicals...did enjoy Little Shop of Horrors though, and I think there was one other I really enjoyed, but it slips my mind at the moment...

Comedy: again, hard to choose...Mel Brooks films, Monty Python films, Dr. Strangelove, etc. are all favorites for me...

Romance: hmm...think I may split this one as well:

>Animated Romance: Tenchi Muyo in Love / Tenchi Forever! / Whisper of the Heart
>Live-action Romance: The Princess Bride

Space Opera: Star Wars (all of them)

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Re: Favorite Movies By Genre
« Reply #14 on: 30 January 2011, 09:18:48 »
I love movies, so this is tough. I'll just pick the first ones that pop in my head or I'll be typing for hours.

Animated - Ninja Scroll or Final Fantasy
Science Fiction - Aliens
Horror - The original black & white Night of the Living Dead
Fantasy - The Lord of the Rings
Western - Unforgiven
Drama - The Godfather
Musical - Repo: the Genetic Opera
Comedy - Monty Pythons Holy Grail
War - Full Metal Jacket

I love Mystery Science Theater too. Some of those movies are just hilarious.

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Re: Favorite Movies By Genre
« Reply #15 on: 30 January 2011, 10:10:13 »
Animated-Hunchback of Notre Dame
Science Fiction-Serenity
Documentry-The Crusades
Action- The Four Musketeers
Adventure-13th Warrior
Fantasy-Lord of the Rings
Western-El Dorado
Classic- War & Peace
Drama-Shogun (yes I know its really a mini-series)
Musical- Camelot
Comedy- The Life of Brian
Romance- Sabrina (1954)
War- Gettysburg
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Re: Favorite Movies By Genre
« Reply #16 on: 30 January 2011, 10:40:34 »
Animated - The Secret of Nimh. I see there are at least two others who appreciate this truly awesome film.
Science Fiction - Blade Runner. This gave visuals to William Gibson's words, for many people.
Documentry - War at Sea. 'Cause grandpa's in it.
Horror - None. Despise horror.
Action - Fast and the Furious
Adventure - Around the World in 80 Days
Fantasy - Lord of the Rings
Western - True Grit (1969)
Classic - Dr. Zhivago
Drama - Citizen X
Musical - The Sound of Music
Comedy - The Great Race
Romance - The Quiet Man

Others:
War - The Big Red One
Docu-Drama or Biopic - The Right Stuff
Dystopia / Post Apocalyptic - The Road Warrior
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Re: Favorite Movies By Genre
« Reply #17 on: 30 January 2011, 10:53:33 »
Hmm...forgot the war and post-apocalyptic categories...

War: Enemy at the Gates / Glory

Post-Apocalyptic: Neon City / Book of Eli / The Road Warrior

And adding in the following:

Superhero: The Dark Knight / Iron Man

Best Epic Soundtracks: Conan the Barbarian (add this one to my fantasy favorites as well) / Last of the Mohicans

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Re: Favorite Movies By Genre
« Reply #18 on: 30 January 2011, 19:08:25 »
Animated- Arcadia of My Youth
Science Fiction- Star Trek II: The Wraith of Khan/Star Wars Episode V: the Empire Strikes Back
Documentry- Expelled/ Empire of Dreams/ Ken Burn's Civil War
Action- Die Hard
Adventure- Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Fantasy-Krull
Classic- Ben-Hur (1959)
Drama-Valkyrie/ The Prestige
Musical- 1776
Comedy- One, Two, Three/ the Producers
Romance- Beauty and the Beast
War- Patton/The Big Red One/Gods and Generals
Superhero- The Dark Knight/Superman
Best Epic Soundtrack- Transformers the Movie (1986)

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Re: Favorite Movies By Genre
« Reply #19 on: 30 January 2011, 19:35:25 »
OK, here we go....

Animated: For me this a 3 way toss up and the toughest choice. Watership Down, Macross Plus and Riding Bean. 
Science Fiction: Star Wars: A New Hope. 'nuff said.
Documentary: don't remember the name, but it was about the boming raid on Ploesti in WWII. That raid was a great idea and plan, and a complete CF in execution, but still managed to make a dent in Hitler's supply infrastructure.  There's a lot of great stories there.
Horror: Event Horizon.  Watch it with a good surround sound system and the lights out.
Action: Lethal Weapon. "DO YOU REALLY WANNA JUMP?!?!?!?!"
Adventure: Ronin. Forget the modern preconceptions, a group of adventurers (each with their own skills) comes together, is torn apart by betrayal, and reforms in pursuit of a mysterious quest.
Fantasy: Excalibur.
Western: A toss up between Tombstone and Open Range. Yes I know 3/4s of Open Range is boring as watching grass grow, but the shootout near the end is worth it.
Classic: Aleksander Nevsky. Because I said so.
Drama: Rob Roy.
Musical: Blues Brothers.  'nuff said.
Comedy: Slap Shot. Rumor has it that it was supposed to be a documentary, but minor league hockey was too unbelievably ridiculous. So it became a comedy. With Paul Newman being a smart-aleck.
Romance: True Romance (Director's Cut).
War: Kelly's Heroes.
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Re: Favorite Movies By Genre
« Reply #20 on: 30 January 2011, 20:44:33 »
Animated - Transformers: The Movie.
Science Fiction - Star Wars - Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back.
Documentary - Not sure.
Action - Don't care for the genre.
Adventure - Any of the films in the Indiana Jones series.
Fantasy - Lord of the Rings is the apparent and obvious choice. But to add a little variety to these listings, I'll say MirrorMask.
Classic - Depending on how far we can go back in cinema history to consider a film as "classic..." I'd say Gandhi.
Drama - Amadeus
Musical - Sweeney Todd [2007]
Comedy - Don't care for the genre.
Romance - Not sure.
War - Don't care for the genre.
Superhero - Batman [1989] or Iron Man [2008]
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Re: Favorite Movies By Genre
« Reply #21 on: 30 January 2011, 20:52:09 »
Quote from: Lore on 30 January 2011, 20:44:33
Musical - Sweeney Todd [2007]

THAT'S THE OTHER ONE!!!!

Yes, that is truly a musical I could appreciate...

Should I be worried that the two musicals I really like (outside of plays like The Phantom of the Opera) were Little Shop of Horrors and Sweeney Todd...both of which have murderers as main characters?

 :D

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Also reminds me...I should add Sleepy Hollow (the Johnny Depp one) to my list of favorite horror movies...

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Re: Favorite Movies By Genre
« Reply #22 on: 30 January 2011, 21:41:30 »
Animated:  Transformers the Movie
Science Fiction: Aliens
Horror: Evil Dead 2
Action: Ghostbusters
Adventure: Big Trouble in Little China (kinda doubling up the action)
Fantasy: LOTR Trilogy
Western: Once Upon A Time In The West
Classic: Arsenic and Old Lace
Drama: The Madness of King George
Musical: The Blues Brothers
Comedy: A Night At The Opera
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Re: Favorite Movies By Genre
« Reply #23 on: 31 January 2011, 08:32:22 »

Animated: Hercules "IF...if is good!"
Science Fiction: Return of the Jedi "How we doing?" "Same as always." "That bad, huh?"
Documentry: Battle 360 "It's the Big E, versus Japan"
Horror: Event Horizon "You can't leave, she won't let you..."
Action: The Dark Knight "Do you know how I got these scars?"
Adventure: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade "He chose..poorly."
Fantasy: Tron and Tron Legacy "I FIGHT FOR THE USERS!"
Western: Tombstone "I'm here, huckleberry."
Classic: Midway "I WANT that fourth carrier..."
Drama: The Last Samuari "I think a man does what he can, until his destiny is revealed to him"
Musical: Grease "Grease Lightning, GOOOOO Grease Lightning!"
Comedy: Spaceballs "HAIL SCROOB!!!"
Romance: HAHAHAHAHA!!!!!! ahem, sorry...
War: Ditry Dozen "I think killing generals could become a habit with me." 
Soundtrack: Tron: Legacy

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