Favorite Movies by Genre
Submitted by UncRoger on Tue, 02/20/2001 - 09:20
Tags:
- Comedy, Screwball:
Impostors
Brain Donors - Comedy, Off-the-wall:
Amazon Women on the Moon - Comedy, Classic:
Mr. Blandings Builds his Dream House - Comedy, Romantic, Classic:
Bringing up Baby - Western:
Silverado
Maverick - SF, Technical:
Sneakers - SF, Time Travel:
Back to the Future 1-3 - SF, Adventure:
Stargate - SF, Contemporary:
Space Cowboys - SF, Aliens/Robots/Etc:
Bicentennial Man
Men in Black
Jurassic Park - SF, Youth:
SpaceCamp - Fantasy, Youth:
Labyrinth - Fantasy, Adult:
Star Wars - Fantasy, Intellectual:
The Princess Bride - Social Criticism:
- Crime:
- Crime, Classic:
Lavender Hill Mob - Crime, Comedy:
The Ref - Musical, Light:
Xanadu - Musical, Intellectual:
1776 - Musical, Classic:
Singing in the Rain
Guys and Dolls - Musical, Modern:
Blues Brothers, Blues Brothers 2000 - Action/Adventure:
Air Force One
Lethal Weapon 1-4
The Fugitive - Suspense:
- Intellectual:
My Dinner with Andre
Koyanisqaatsi - Legal, Serious:
12 Angry Men
A Time to Kill - Legal, Light:
Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
My Cousin Vinny - Shakespeare, Modern Adapt:
Strange Brew - Military, classic:
No Time for Sargeants - Military, modern:
Stripes - Family, dysfunctional:
Parenthood - Youth, Coming of Age:
Stand by Me
Ferris Bueller's Day Off - Road Trip:
Planes, Trains, and Automobiles - Gay/Lesbian, light:
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
In and Out
The Birdcage - Gay/Lesbian, serious:
Better than Chocolate
Author Comments:
I'm not going to try and limit myself to one movie per genre, but with my lousy memory, I may not be able to remember more than one. Still, this is a work in progress.
I never would have thought of the genre "Musical, Intellectual", but I guess you wouldn't have either unless you had seen the movie that inspired it. You and I have discussed 1776 elsewhere, and I still haven't seen it yet, but I've got a week off from work, so chances are I'll catch it soon - if my local Blockbuster has it.
Good luck with the list.
Well, it helped that Xanadu isn't exactly brain food. But, as much as I think I ought to be embarrassed by liking it so much, the music was great, as was Gene Kelly (of course), and Olivia Newton-John -- need I say more? 8^)
I love "Xanadu"! I own "Xanadu"! I own the "Xanadu" soundtrack! And for Halloween next year I'm trying to get together an Olivia Newton-John outfit. Long live "Xanadu" and I'm glad there are others who aren't afraid to love it!
I have the soundtrack on LP and CD and possibly cassette, and the movie on VHS and DVD. I also have every album ONJ released in the US plus a few imports, and so on... 8^)
I would like to tally a third vote for Xanadu. I agree with Uncroger and Jen; Gene Kelly, Olivia Newton-John, and ELO make a triumphant trio. Sure the movie is cheesy, but it is so much fun!
Cool list! A minor technical note . . . As you can see, The Listology automatically bullets each line. Your list will be more attractive if you use <BR> tags instead of carraige returns in some cases. For example, I think if you typed:
<B>Action/Adventure</B><BR>Air Force One<BR>Die Hard
I think that would look better than it does now, with one entry on each line.
One of these days I'm going to write up a bunch of "power user" tips for The Listology, post them, and link to them from the help.
you really should do that, jim--for inept folks like me! can't wait to be more HTML-savvy. let me know when it's up!
Ah so! I'm an old COBOL programmer, so indentation and clear coding is second nature for me. I was doing the same sort of thing I do for my web pages -- I've got <BR>'s in there, but I included hard <CR>'s as well. I'll clean it up (along with the similarly over-formatted Favorite Albums by Genre list.)
Much better in both cases. And I do appreciate clear coding habits; sorry The Listology forces you to do otherwise in some cases. For the most part the automatic bulleting is a boon, but sometimes it does get in the way.
Be honest . . . You put the Lethal Weapon movies under "crime" because you didn't want to load up "action/adventure" any more, right? :-) In my own version of this list (when I get around to creating it), I'd probably list The Sting under "crime."
Actually, no... but now that you mention it, the Lethal Weapon movies do belong under A/A (and will easily replace Die Hard.) For crime, The Sting was pretty good, but I think I like the Thomas Crown Affair (new version) better, but I still have this nagging feeling that I've forgotten something...
Am I reading right, UncRoger? - THE LAVENDER HILL MOB ? - Are you a fan of British comedies of the 50s? That's a good one, no doubt about it. Have you seen one called TOO MANY CROOKS? Its plot was stolen by Abrahams/Zucker/Zucker and made into RUTHLESS PEOPLE, a funny movie in its own right, but not many people know that its plot was stolen from TMC.
I've long said that there are three things that brits excel at -- auto design (Land Rovers, Triumph, etc.), modern music (Beatles, Knoppfler, etc.) and comedy (Monty Python, Fawlty Towers, etc.) Still, I'm not sure I would say I'm more into british movies more than any other type.
I haven't seen Too Many Crooks, but I'll add it to my list. (I hope Kozmo stocks it!) I have to say I don't recall Ruthless People well enough to comment on it, so perhaps I'll rent them both and add them to my Remakes list. Thanks!
UncRoger! Earth to UncRoger! Does your computer play MIDI files? Hope so, cos I found this 1776 Medley, and it sounds pretty good. But it's only about 7 1/2 minutes long, not 30 1/2 minutes like it says on Windows Media Player.