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Top 5 Films (in Genres)

Posted:
02 Feb 2007, 12:54
by Jon B
Love to hear everyone's favourites - So hard to just select 5 from each. Mine is in no way a definitive list, just films I'm happy to watch over and over
1)Comedy
2)General
3)Horror
4)Sci Fi
4)Misc
Comedy:
Something About Mary
The Jerk
Planes Trains and Automobiles
The Out of Towners (Jack Lemmon version)
Life Of Brian
General
Godfather Pt 1&2
Cool Hand Luke
Goodfellas
Casino
Shawshank Redemption
Horror
Alien
The Thing
The Omen
Blair Witch
The Shining
Sci Fi
Matrix (Pt 1 only)
Fifth Element
1984
Blade Runner
Silverado (Not in anyway Sci Fi but just wanted to get this in

)
Misc
Kill Bill Pt 1&2
Pulp Fiction
Usual Suspects
Snatch / Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barrels
Coogans Bluff
Also like most things with Cary Grant in them and at the other end of the spectrum the Die Hard trilogy are just so easy to watch
Jon B

Posted:
02 Feb 2007, 13:20
by DMetters-Bone
Here goes mine! Again this changes ALL the time!
1)Comedy
Devil wears Prada
Bridget Jones Pt 1&2
View from the Top
Shrek Pt 1&2
Kath and Kim (although not a movie they did a Christmas special movie)
Priscilla
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Austin Powers
The Castle
2)General
Out of Africa
Amelie
Chocolat
Angela's Ashes
Billy Elliott
Brokeback Mountain
Beautiful Thing
Hedwig
3)Horror
Others
Ring
American Psycho
4)Sci Fi
War of the worlds
Minority Report
Matrix
4)Misc
Muriels Wedding
Donny Darko
Emma
Importance of being Ernest
Birdcage
Pretty Woman
Oh man I could go on!

Posted:
02 Feb 2007, 13:41
by Jon B
Originally posted by DMetters-Bone
Austin Powers
Forgot Austin powers - Just love the Dutch Guy 'Ish Touight Yesh'

Posted:
02 Feb 2007, 13:51
by DMetters-Bone
Me too! I think Mike Myers is great! I liked both movies![y]

Posted:
02 Feb 2007, 14:15
by Littlejohn
1)Comedy
Life of Brian (Nice one Centurion!), Blazing saddles (Beenz scene of course), Coupling (When you get back from work I expect your too tired to pucker), Airplane (Do you like films about gladiators?)
2)General
Master and Commander, 3 x Lord of the rings, Gladiator
3)Horror
Never really got into horror, although I suppose I could vote for ChittyChittyBangBang which I am sure you will agree is a truly horrific film.
4)Sci Fi
Matrix, matrix reloaded, matrix revolutions, Matrix rides again, return to the matrix......
4)Misc
A Beautiful Mind (this one is in my #1 spot), The Madness of King George (This one is at #1 too), Shooting Party, The Wall.
I also need to add one in, but can't remember the name - that one about the US prison. Help me out.

Posted:
02 Feb 2007, 14:20
by Jon B
Originally posted by sailor99
I also need to add one in, but can't remember the name - that one about the US prison. Help me out.
Shawshank redemption possibly
'I'm Brian and so's my wife'

Posted:
02 Feb 2007, 14:44
by Neil
1)Comedy - Cool Runnings, Rat Race, Shrek 1&2, Scary Movie Series, Jumping Jack Flash
2)General - Pretty Woman, Dirty Dancing, Beautiful Thing, Muriels Wedding, The Wedding Singer
3)Horror - Halloween (ultimate slasher film), Saw I,II&III, Urbun Legends, Carrie, Final Destination, Scream
4)Sci Fi - Can't stand Sci Fi, but how about Minority Report, Identity, Dreamcatcher
4)Misc - Signs, The Truth about Cats & Dogs, Life of David Gale, Panic Room, American Beauty

Posted:
02 Feb 2007, 16:39
by Littlejohn
Yep Jonb, that was it [y]. But apart from the shawshank redemption, what have the Romans ever done for us.

Posted:
02 Feb 2007, 16:46
by Jon B
Originally posted by sailor99
Yep Jonb, that was it [y]. But apart from the shawshank redemption, what have the Romans ever done for us.
Brought peace....... wine, aquaducts, roads, sewers - I'll leave you to add the rest

'half a dinari for my b****y life story'
Jon B

Posted:
02 Feb 2007, 18:55
by Francesca
I don't really understand the difference between General and Misc [:I]
1)Comedy - Life of Brian, Holy Grail, History of the World,East is East, Hairspray
2)General - To Kill a Mockingbird, Passport to Pimlico, Black Narcissus,Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Calamity Jane,Orphan Train, Bridge over the River Kwai, Shawshank Redemption,Goodbye Mr Chips (always makes me cry), True Grit, Magnificant Seven, The Great Escape, The Dirty Dozen, Back to the Future, Breakfast Club
3)Horror - I don't watch horror films
4)Sci Fi - Stargate, Serenity, Planet of the Apes
Mrs D

Posted:
02 Feb 2007, 21:19
by pjh
Comedy
Spinal Tap ("This one goes up to 11...")
Young Frankenstein ("Werewolf ? There wolf")
Airplane ("Don't call me Shirley")
Sean Of The Dead ("They were bit...bitey")
Life Of Brian ("He's not the Messiah..he's a very naughty boy")
Four Weddings & A Funeral (except the bits with Andie McDowell in them)
General
Apocalypse Now
Zulu
It's A Wonderful Life
The Green Mile
Die Hard 2
..and a general fondness for Jerry Bruckheimer's crash-bang-wallop pictures
Horror
Sixth Sense
An American Werewolf In London
(not much else...not a fan of the genre)
Sci Fi
The Matrix
The Children of Men
Close Encounters
ET
Misc
(bit of an overflow from General...)
Three Burials of Miqueles Estrada
Apollo 13
The Right Stuff
Lost in La Mancha
Spellbound
Paul

Posted:
03 Feb 2007, 12:56
by RedVee
Comedy
Arthur (the Dudley Moore one)
Life of Brian (in what way shall we f**k off, oh Master?)
The Wrong Trousers
General
LA Confidential
Top Gun
9_ weeks
Horror
Angel Heart
Poltergeist
The Sixth Sense
Sci - Fi
Couple of Philip K Dick inspired movies:
Bladerunner (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?)
Total recall (We can remember it for you wholesale)
Predator
Teminator 1 and 2
Misc
Finding Nemo
Pirates of the Carribean
Toy Story
Monsters inc
Pat

Posted:
03 Feb 2007, 19:51
by Scrooge
1)Comedy Animal House ( I can sit and watch the horse getting shot for hours on end)
2)General Shawshank Redemption
3)Horror Texas Chainsaw
4)Sci Fi Aliens
4)Misc Pirates of the Caribbean

Posted:
03 Feb 2007, 19:56
by Littlejohn
Not POTC II?

Posted:
08 Feb 2007, 11:35
by shazam
1)Comedy
Life of Brian
Shrek
Spinal Tap
2)General
Green Mile
It's a Wonderful Life
3)Horror
The Shining
Final Destination (first one)
Seven
4)Sci Fi
Matrix (all)
Blade (all)
4)Misc
Pulp Fiction
Donny Darko

Posted:
08 Feb 2007, 13:00
by Scorpio
1)Comedy
Dirty rotten scoundrels
The life of Brian
Holy Grail
Bruce Almighty(Only the bit were he uses his powers to get his arch rival talking funny during a live news update) oh how i howled[:o)]
Barefoot in the park (Jane Fonda`s mother climbing the stairs!)
2)General
Goodfellas
The godfather trilogy
Scarface
The great escape
Where eagles dare
James Bond films with Sean Connery
The dirty dozen 1 & 2
3)Horror
The Omen (all of them)
Amityville (the about about the boy getting possessed too)
Stephen Kings It
The entity (i still cant watch it all the way through)
Dracula films with Christopher Lee
Hammer Horror
The Skull
4)Sci Fi
Alien Trilogy
The event horizon
original star trek featuring William Shatner
Star wars (the old ones)
4)Mis
Shrek
Toy story
Rebecca
The birds
North by northwest
Vertigo
Psycho
War of the worlds (old & new)

Posted:
09 Feb 2007, 22:05
by Tinkerbelle
Originally posted by DMetters-Bone
1)Comedy
View from the Top
I LOVE that film!!!!![^]