Favorite Film of 62 Sub-Genres
Submitted by bufdet on Tue, 02/20/2001 - 09:15
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- Action - Aliens
- Adventure - Raiders of the Lost Ark
- Animated Adult Theme - Watership down
- Animated Computerized - Toy Story
- Animated Traditional - Beauty & the Beast
- Anime - Akira
- Comedy Modern - Kevin Smit Trilogy
- (Clerks, Mallrats, Chasing Amy)
- Comedy Parody - Naked Gun
- Comedy Satire - Dr. Strangelove
- Comedy Screwball - Bringing Up Baby
- Comedy Teen Theme - Ferris Bueller's Day Off
- Coming of Age, Female - Man in the Moon
- Coming of Age, Male - Stand By Me
- Epic American - Gone with the Wind
- Epic British - Lawrence of Arabia
- Family Classic - Mary Poppins
- Family Modern - E.T.- the Extra Terrestrial
- Film Noir Classic - Double Indemnity
- Film Noir Modern - The Usual Suspects
- Foreign Classic - Les Diaboliques
- Foreign Modern - La Femme Nikita
- Courtroom Drama - Witness for the Prosecution
- Gangster Classic - Angels with Dirty Faces
- Gangster Modern - Godfather I and II
- Horror Classic - Psycho
- Horror Modern - Alien
- Midnight Mvoie, Comedy - Better Off Dead
- Midnight Movie, Horror - Evil Dead II
- Musical - Singin in the Rain
- Mystery Classic - The Big Sleep
- Mystery Modern - Mute Witness
- Coming of Age Classic - Rebel Without a Cause
- Period Piece - Dangerous Liaisons
- Prison Movie - Shawshank Redemption
- Pulp Violence - Pulp Fiction
- Romance Classic - Casablanca
- Romance Modern - Last of the Mohicans
- Romance Realistic - Splendor in the Grass
- Sci Fi Classic - 2001: A Space Odyssey
- Sci Fi Modern - The Terminator & T2
- Sports Classic - Pride of the Yankees
- Sports Modern - Bull Durham
- Suspense Classic - Rear Window
- Suspense Modern - Jaws
- Tear Jerker Classic - How Green Was My Valley
- Tear Jerker Modern - Joy Luck Club
- War, Holocaust - Schindler's List
- War, Civil War - Glory
- War, Prison Camp, Europe - Stalag 17
- War, Prison Camp, Asia - Bridge on the River Kwai
- War, WWI - All Quiet on the Western Front
- War, WWII, Africa - Patton
- War, WWII, Europe - The Longest Day
- War, Vietnam - Apocalypse Now
- Western Heavy - My Darling Clementine
- Western Light - Destry Rides Again
- Western Spaghetti - Once Upon a Time in the West
- Xmas Movie - It's a Wonderful Life
- Heist Classic - The Killing
- Heist Modern - Reservoir Dogs
- Cops & Robbers Classic - Naked City
- Cops & Robbers Modern - Heat
Author Comments:
I may have gone a little overboard, but I wanted to list my favorite classic films and modern films for people that appreciate both or have a preference. Splendor in the Grass' category was a stretch, but if you've seen it, you know what I'm getting at.
Well done! But would you care to further define your distinction between 'classic' and 'modern'?
I basically used 1970 as the cut-off. I've found, surfing the net, that many people's "best of" movie lists rarely contain movies before 1970. Therefore, my reasoning for this cutoff point.
bufdet
I thought the criterion might have been "Classic = movies made before I was born."
See that, Jim: this youngster is calling movies made before you were born 'classic'. He'd probably call movies made before I was born 'archaic' :-D
:) I thought about making my birthyear the cutoff for my personal definition of "classic" and then realized that would eventually make for some awfully old "modern" movies someday.
I was working on my weekend movie by genre this weekend (soon to be posted) and i couldn't think of a category for "Splendor in the Grass" so good job!