Favorite movie per genre?

[BigNorm]

i was wondering your favorites per subject, kinda give me an idea what to watch too.

Action: Fight Club / Shoot 'Em Up

Sci-fi: A Sound of Thunder / Serenity

Comic Book Adaptation: Iron Man / Punisher / Dark Knight

Christmas: Gremlins

Bond: Quantam of Solace

Sports: Baseketball

Historical Drama: Flyboys

Zombie flick: Shaun of the Dead

Video Game Adaptation: Max Payne

War movie: Saving Private Ryan / Band of Brothers

meh, that's all i can think of for now.

 

[Senshi1]

Family: Edward Scissorhands

Comedy: Shaun of the Dead

Sci-Fi: War of the Worlds (Spielberg version)

Horror: Silent Hill/Freddy VS Jason

Christmas: A Christmas Carol (Patrick Stewart)/The Grinch

Video Game Adaptation: Street Fighter: The Movie

Bond Movie: Goldeneye

Action: Die Hard 2: Die Harder/Robocop

 

[Zaq!]

Family/Musical: The Fiddler on the Roof

Comedy: Better Off Dead (you like raisins!)

Drama: Dead Again

Sci-Fi: The Fifth Element

Christmas: A Christmas Story (you'll shoot your eye out!)

Comic/Graphic Novel Adaptation: V for Vendetta

Bond Movie: A View to a Kill... because of Christopher Walken! :ggrin:

Action: The Bourne Identity

Sports: Slap Shot

Big Norm, I've always wanted to see A Sound of Thunder... what's your take on that one?

 

[FeatherDaemon1]

Bond Movie: Octopussy... because of Christopher Walken... and the reviews! :ggrin:

I thought that Walken played Zorin in A View To A Kill not Octopussy.

With Grace Jones as the heavy, it was a great Bond flick. :super_hap

 

[Violetta]

Family/Musical: Disney's Hunchback of Notre Dame

Comedy: Ghostbusters

Drama: Footloose

Sci-Fi: Forbidden Planet

Christmas: Scrooged

Comic/Graphic Novel Adaptation: Iron Man

Bond Movie: Goldeneye

Action: Predator

Fantasy: Fellowship of the Ring

Historical Drama: Flyboys

Pirate: Captain Blood

 

[Zaq!]

I thought that Walken played Zorin in A View To A Kill not Octopussy.

With Grace Jones as the heavy, it was a great Bond flick. :super_hap

Um... yep. That was it. So much for any credibility I ever had. Gotta stop having that second (or was it third?) mint julip after dinner.


Agreed though, Walken almost always plays a great villain, even when he cameos in an 'off the mark' movie... see The Addiction


More cowbell!

 

[P[a]pi]

martial arts: Flash Point, Invisible Target

superhero: The Dark Knight, Superman Returns

psychological: American Psycho, The Machinist

 

[FeatherDaemon1]

Family: The Secret of NIMH

Comedy:The Blues Brothers

Sci-Fi: The Empire Strikes Back / The Wrath of Khan

Horror: Halloween I / Dawn of the Dead

Christmas: A Christmas Story

Video Game Adaptation: Minesweeper

Bond Movie: From Russia With Love

Action: Blade Runner

Fantasy: Excalibur / Time Bandits

Sports: Major League

Drama: 12 Angry Men

Anime Movie: Akira / Project-Ako

 

[NMKamikaze1]

Comedy

The Man

Bad Boys 2

All About The Benjamins

Man Of The House (The one with Tommy Lee Jones)

Friday After Next

Bad Santa

Horror

Tales From The Hood

See No Evil

Freddy Vs. Jason

Children Of The Corn

A Nightmare On Elm Street (All)

Saw (1 through 4. Haven't seen 5 yet.)

Video Game-Based

Mortal Kombat: Annihilation

Action

The Marine

Jarhead

Sports

Rocky (All)​

 

[alphazion1]

Action: Kill Bill (soon to be displaced by Watchmen)

Comic Book: Sin City or 300 (ditto...) though I gotta give Dark Knight some love

Sci-fi: Serenity

Drama/Suspense: Natural Born Killers

Historical: Platoon or Saving Private Ryan

Family: Shrek

Disney: Lion King, Alice in Wonderland, Jungle Book, Fantasia

Comedy: anything Monty Python

Foreign: Oldboy

TV show adapted to movie: probably either South Park or Serenity again

edited to include
Horror: The Ring

Video Game: Resident Evil series

Porno: Pirates!

 

[Persephone]

Family: Finding Nemo

Musical: Sweeney Todd or Phantom of the Opera

Comedy: Bruce Almighty, Anchorman, or Anger Management

Drama: Cold Mountain

Christmas: Elf

Comic/Graphic Novel Adaptation: V for Vendetta

Romance: Ever After or Love Actually

Action: Gladiator or The Patriot

Anime Movie: Spirited Away

 

[BigNorm]

Family/Musical: The Fiddler on the Roof

Comedy: Better Off Dead (you like raisins!)

Drama: Dead Again

Sci-Fi: The Fifth Element

Christmas: A Christmas Story (you'll shoot your eye out!)

Comic/Graphic Novel Adaptation: V for Vendetta

Bond Movie: A View to a Kill... because of Christopher Walken! :ggrin:

Action: The Bourne Identity

Sports: Slap Shot

Big Norm, I've always wanted to see A Sound of Thunder... what's your take on that one?

critics hate it, but if you love Ray Bradbury stories, like i grew up on, you'll love it. it's simply great.

 

[BigNorm]

Family/Musical: Disney's Hunchback of Notre Dame

Comedy: Ghostbusters

Drama: Footloose

Sci-Fi: Forbidden Planet

Christmas: Scrooged

Comic/Graphic Novel Adaptation: Iron Man

Bond Movie: Goldeneye

Action: Predator

Fantasy: Fellowship of the Ring

Historical Drama: Flyboys

Pirate: Captain Blood

your right, Flyboys was really good.