I have put my favourite films into their respective genres below. On the basis of the films categorised below, which is your favourite film genre ?
I have listed the genres in order based on which ones I think make the best movie. Best genre first
THRILLER/SUSPENCE
1. Point Break 20
2.Mississippi Burning 20
3.Capricorn One 19
4.Spy Games 19
5.The Hunt for Red October 19
6.Runaway Train (original) 19
7.Déjà vu 19
8.Last king of scotland 18
9.Westworld 18
10.Black Sunday 18
11.Shutter Island 18
12.Inception 18
13.The Sting 17
14.Hand that Rocks the Cradle 17
15.Speed 17
16.Argo 17
17.Cape fear
18.Jaws
19.Rope
20.Rear Window (original)
21.Cassandra crossing
22.The day of the jackal
23.Apollo 13
24. Marathon Man
ACTION
1.Gladiator 20
2.Star Wars 20
3.Any Given Sunday 20
4.Terminator 2 19
5.Terminator 18
6.Die hard 17
7.Bourne Identity 17
8.Bourne Ultimatum 17
9.Raiders of the Lost Ark 17
10.Black Hawk Down 17
11.The Getaway (original) 17
12. Real Steel 17
13.Skyfall
14.Bourne Legacy
15.The World is Not Enough
16. Crimson tide
17.Towering inferno
18.Lawrence of Arabia
19.True Romance
20.Days of Thunder
21.LA Confidential
22.Armageddon
LIFESTYLE
1.Pulp Fiction 19
2.Boys n the Hood 19
3.Stand By Me 18
4.The Commitments 18
5.Swimming Pool
6.Jackie Brown
7.Trainspotting
8.Leon
10.Betty Blue
11.Forest gump
GANGSTER
1.The Departed 17
2.State of Grace 17
3.Long Good Friday 17
4.Casino 17
5.Godfather 2
6.Goodfellas
7.Miami V*ce
8.K*ll*ng them softly
9.Resevoir of dogs
FANTASY
1.The Others 17
2. American Werewolf in London 17
3.The Matrix 17
4.Inception 17
5.Total Recall
6.Donnie Darko
7.Lost Boys
8.Flight of the navigator
9.Pitch black
10.Empire Strikes Back
11.Back to the future
HORROR
1.28 Days Later 18
2.Manhunter 18
3.28 Weeks Later 17
4.The Omen
5.Don’t Look Now
6.Alien
7.Aliens
ROMANCE
1.Green mile 18
2.Lost in Translation 17
3.Legends of the fall
4.Australia
5.King kong (original)
6.Field of Dreams
7.21 grams
8.Cyrano de bergerac
9.Honeymoon in Vegas
10. Footloose (remake)
11.Meet joe black
WAR
1.Casualties of War
2.Bridge on the river kwai
3.Gallipoli
4.Full metal jacket
5.Good morning vietnam
6.Gallipoli
7.Saving private ryan
8.The dirty dozen
9.Inglorious bstrds
WESTERN
1.Butch Cassidy and the Sundance kid 17
2.Shane
3.Once upon a time in the west
4. Good, bad, ugly
5. True grit
COMEDY DRAMA
1.48 hours
2.Beverley Hills Cop
3.Hannah and her Sisters
4.Inidiana jones last crusade
5.Stakeout
6.Brewster's Millions
COMEDY
1.Life of Brian 17
2. modern times (charlie chaplin)
3.The Pink Panther Strikes Again
4.Woman in Red
5.To hull and back
6.Ferris bueller’s day off
7.Four Weddings and a Funeral
8.Caddy Shack
Best Film Genre
posted on 17/12/12
You asked for feedback and I've given you 20+ films that deserve a critique and explaining why they're not on your list at least (imho)...so you pick on just one that you first watched on acid and don't like.
What about the rest?
Have you seen Chinatown? What did you think of it? Not seminal?
L.A. Confidential - another great film. Not rate it?
No David Lynch on your lists whatsoever, why not?
Do you know anything about films at all? If not, why post this here?
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I think you need to be taught a bit of a lesson here Ensil Kimchi.
I did not ask for feedback on whether you can think of any films which I have eroneously omitted from the list. I asked for feedback on which film genre you think is the best. So you can stick that one up your cake hole for a start.
With regards to the films that you have mentioned, LA Confidential is already on the list.
The david lynch films and stanley kurbrich films you have mentioned should be nowhere near the lists ive published.
Let me tell you what the movie industry is about.
It is about providing entertainment. It's as simple as that.
It's not about giving a bunch of drop out media studies something to talk abut to make them feel superior to your average cinema goer.
The films you have mentioned are nowhere near the class of the films ive mentioned for providing entertainment. Some of them may have contributed in a very minor way to the development of the mainstream market, but they are not themselves films which are of anything like sufficient entertainment value to warrant a place on a list of great movies.
A great movie isnt one that makes the director feel superior, or makes a drop out movie studies student feel superior for understanding the director's intention. A great movie is one that provides great entertainment.
The movies that provide great entertainment are listed out in the article. A clockwork fekin orange, and david fekin lynch, is rightly nowhere near my list, because they are pretentious shiiiite.
So, basically you can take your self diagnosed superior film knowledge, and shove it where the sun don't shine. Alternatively, go and find a drop out media studies student to talk to and enjoy how much he makes you feel inferior to him due to his more detailed understanding of unenjoyable and unentertaining 'classics'.
posted on 17/12/12
posted on 18/12/12
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posted on 18/12/12
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posted on 18/12/12
its explained on the thread galvers
posted on 18/12/12
I intended the lfiestyle category to represent films where they focused on the every day life of a character or group of characters, and their surroundings, rather than being driven by a plot to which the characters and surroundings were somewhat incidental.
The reomance category was originally called "loveydovey/feelgood".Whilst I changed the name of the category, I considered that films such as 'green mile' and 'field of dreams' were at home in that category, as the intention was that there film was about a relationship between THE VIEWER and the character/setting of the film. In that way, I believe it is viable to class those films as romances
posted on 18/12/12
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posted on 18/12/12
not really invented.
they were always there.
we just didnt know it.
posted on 18/12/12
ive also determined that there is no such genre as "sci-fi". it's just lazy labelling.
posted on 4/1/13
Raiders of The Ark