My Favorite Movies by Genre (Under Construction)
Submitted by bitterms on Tue, 02/20/2001 - 09:15
Tags:
- Action:
- Adventure:
- Animation (Cartoon): Alice In Wonderland
- Animation (Computer): Toy Story
- Childrens Movie: Explorers
- Comedy:
- Black Comedy:
- Romantic Comedy: Sliding Doors
- Slapstick Comedy: don't like a lot of slapstick...working on this one.
- Dialogue Driven: Clerks
- Contemporary Drama: Good Will Hunting
- Period Piece: Sense & Sensibility
- Musical (Children's): Mary Poppins
- Musical (Adults): West Side Story
- Film Noir:
- Tear Jerker:
- Horror: The Shining (as horror as I get)
- Sci Fi Old School: Logan's Run
- Sci Fi New:
- Suspense/Mystery: Witness
- Suspense/Horror: Silence of the Lambs
Author Comments:
Some of these I obviously have to ponder and enter later. I've just been in a list rut lately and I wanted to at least get it started!
Now I keep thinking of more and more categories, and more and more movies. I have to keep revising!
I like how you've categorized. Are you really going to limit yourself to one movie for each genre? Talk about a challenge! Good luck!
What's the difference between old and new school science fiction? Is it by date, or style?
I'm going to TRY to limit myself. We'll see how it goes.
As for "old school" and "new school," I kind of have my own goofy way of categorizing it. Old school is Before Star Wars and new school would be After Star Wars, since I consider that to be the benchmark for all later GOOD Sci-Fi movies. I emphasize 'good' because there still were a lot of cheesy Sci-Fi's on the market in the 80's. (Example: Flash Gordon...which I loved regardless. Hey, the costumes were cool!)
Now, Logan's Run may not be considered a very GOOD sci-fi movie, even though it's BSW. (It came out the year before). Still, it was MY first good experience with BSW Sci-Fi (am I giving away my age here?) and it kind of sticks in my mind because of that. Am I justifying? Yes. Yes I am...
I like your use of Star Wars as the dividing flim between old and new Sci Fi. And I for one think there's no reason to apologize for Logan's Run- yes it had more than it's share of cheesey bits- but the underlying story...aah- that's why it's a classic.
I agree with Jim, this will be a hard but fun list to make, it has gotten me thinking about my favorites by genre. What about Comedy? (without the romance)
You know, guys, there's really no end to the making of genres. A genre is a category, and there are categories, sub-categories, and even sub-sub-categories, etc., ad infinitum. Take the genre of scince fiction for example. Just one of its main sub-genres is the "Global Disaster" or "End of the World", and within this sub-genre there are sub-sub-genres according to the variety of disaster involved: e.g. nuclear war, collision with asteroid, alien invasion, environmental collapse, and so on. And this is just one part of one genre. The same goes for the others, especially such very general ones as "Action" or "Adventure". And another problem with using genres is that many movies fit just about equally well into several genres. For example the "Back to the Future" movies, which are sf/comedy/adventure movies; indeed, the third in the series is an sf/comedy/adventure/western. See what I mean?
Having said all that, I admit that I too am guilty of a "Favorites By Genre" list, which I suspect (correct me if I'm wrong) may have played some small part in the origin of the present list.
Nope, I didn't come up with the idea all by my lonesome. It took some inspiration from the ever list-making Bertie.
Hey, the problem with this list so far is that I keep adding categories that I have no movies for yet!
Yes, and there are two ways it can be difficult. One way is with genres that you're not really into, so that you can't think of any titles to choose from. The other way is with genres that you are very much into, so that you can think of too many titles to choose from and don't want to limit yourself.
You've borrowed a list idea from me, so I feel free to borrow one of your genres: "Tear Jerker". Now all I have to do is...well, you know.
BTW looking for help on classifying this one. One of my favorite movies is "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane." I'm a big Bette Davis fan, and this is one of my favorites (I also enjoyed Dead Ringer and All About Eve). Could this be early Film Noir? Suspense?
Gothic noir, perhaps?
Without creating new genres such as the one above, I would have to say suspense, but that hardly does the film justice, does it?
Shalom, y'all!
L. Bangs
I think of film noir as starting in the thirties with all those nice black and white eerie movies. These were before the Hollywood censors, so they could actually have more sex and more unhappy endings. But, I digress-- without creating lots of new genres I would also have to say suspense or maybe 1950's - 60's suspense???
PS-- also a big Bette Davis fan.
:) I'll figure out where to put it. I became a fan quite by accident. I just kept coming across her movies, and I couldn't stop watching them. And I'm not usually one to stop on AMC either!
i'm really glad that you mentioned LOGAN'S RUN....i saw it on the LATE LATE movie in ireland last summmer, of all places....i enjoyed it a lot despite the cheesy bits and i thought that the underlying story was strong and thought-provoking...BTW, what does BSW stand for and when was this film released???
aha! BSW= befoe STAR WARS!?!? i forgot exactly when the first SW came out so i'm still curious as to when LOGAN'S RUN was released...thanks...
1976
http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Dimension/5357/
has a lot of information on it.
Logan's Run came out a little less than a year before SW, I believe. And look at the difference!