Top 5 Films (in Genres)

Love to hear everyone's favourites - So hard to just select 5 from each. Mine is in no way a definitive list, just films I'm happy to watch over and over

1)Comedy
2)General
3)Horror
4)Sci Fi
4)Misc

Comedy:
Something About Mary
The Jerk
Planes Trains and Automobiles
The Out of Towners (Jack Lemmon version)
Life Of Brian

General
Godfather Pt 1&2
Cool Hand Luke
Goodfellas
Casino
Shawshank Redemption

Horror
Alien
The Thing
The Omen
Blair Witch
The Shining

Sci Fi
Matrix (Pt 1 only)
Fifth Element
1984
Blade Runner
Silverado (Not in anyway Sci Fi but just wanted to get this in )

Misc
Kill Bill Pt 1&2
Pulp Fiction
Usual Suspects
Snatch / Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barrels
Coogans Bluff

Also like most things with Cary Grant in them and at the other end of the spectrum the Die Hard trilogy are just so easy to watch

Jon B

Here goes mine! Again this changes ALL the time!

1)Comedy
Devil wears Prada
Bridget Jones Pt 1&2
View from the Top
Shrek Pt 1&2
Kath and Kim (although not a movie they did a Christmas special movie)
Priscilla
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Austin Powers
The Castle

2)General
Out of Africa
Amelie
Chocolat
Angela's Ashes
Billy Elliott
Brokeback Mountain
Beautiful Thing
Hedwig

3)Horror
Others
Ring
American Psycho

4)Sci Fi
War of the worlds
Minority Report
Matrix

4)Misc
Muriels Wedding
Donny Darko
Emma
Importance of being Ernest
Birdcage
Pretty Woman

Oh man I could go on!

Originally posted by DMetters-Bone

Austin Powers

Forgot Austin powers - Just love the Dutch Guy 'Ish Touight Yesh'

Me too! I think Mike Myers is great! I liked both movies![y]

1)Comedy
Life of Brian (Nice one Centurion!), Blazing saddles (Beenz scene of course), Coupling (When you get back from work I expect your too tired to pucker), Airplane (Do you like films about gladiators?)
2)General
Master and Commander, 3 x Lord of the rings, Gladiator
3)Horror
Never really got into horror, although I suppose I could vote for ChittyChittyBangBang which I am sure you will agree is a truly horrific film.
4)Sci Fi
Matrix, matrix reloaded, matrix revolutions, Matrix rides again, return to the matrix......
4)Misc
A Beautiful Mind (this one is in my #1 spot), The Madness of King George (This one is at #1 too), Shooting Party, The Wall.

I also need to add one in, but can't remember the name - that one about the US prison. Help me out.

Originally posted by sailor99

I also need to add one in, but can't remember the name - that one about the US prison. Help me out.

Shawshank redemption possibly

'I'm Brian and so's my wife'

[Neil]

1)Comedy - Cool Runnings, Rat Race, Shrek 1&2, Scary Movie Series, Jumping Jack Flash
2)General - Pretty Woman, Dirty Dancing, Beautiful Thing, Muriels Wedding, The Wedding Singer
3)Horror - Halloween (ultimate slasher film), Saw I,II&III, Urbun Legends, Carrie, Final Destination, Scream
4)Sci Fi - Can't stand Sci Fi, but how about Minority Report, Identity, Dreamcatcher
4)Misc - Signs, The Truth about Cats & Dogs, Life of David Gale, Panic Room, American Beauty

Yep Jonb, that was it [y]. But apart from the shawshank redemption, what have the Romans ever done for us.

Originally posted by sailor99
Yep Jonb, that was it [y]. But apart from the shawshank redemption, what have the Romans ever done for us.

Brought peace....... wine, aquaducts, roads, sewers - I'll leave you to add the rest

'half a dinari for my b****y life story'

Jon B

I don't really understand the difference between General and Misc [:I]


1)Comedy - Life of Brian, Holy Grail, History of the World,East is East, Hairspray

2)General - To Kill a Mockingbird, Passport to Pimlico, Black Narcissus,Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Calamity Jane,Orphan Train, Bridge over the River Kwai, Shawshank Redemption,Goodbye Mr Chips (always makes me cry), True Grit, Magnificant Seven, The Great Escape, The Dirty Dozen, Back to the Future, Breakfast Club

3)Horror - I don't watch horror films

4)Sci Fi - Stargate, Serenity, Planet of the Apes

Mrs D

Comedy

Spinal Tap ("This one goes up to 11...")
Young Frankenstein ("Werewolf ? There wolf")
Airplane ("Don't call me Shirley")
Sean Of The Dead ("They were bit...bitey")
Life Of Brian ("He's not the Messiah..he's a very naughty boy")
Four Weddings & A Funeral (except the bits with Andie McDowell in them)

General

Apocalypse Now
Zulu
It's A Wonderful Life
The Green Mile
Die Hard 2
..and a general fondness for Jerry Bruckheimer's crash-bang-wallop pictures


Horror

Sixth Sense
An American Werewolf In London
(not much else...not a fan of the genre)

Sci Fi

The Matrix
The Children of Men
Close Encounters
ET

Misc

(bit of an overflow from General...)

Three Burials of Miqueles Estrada
Apollo 13
The Right Stuff
Lost in La Mancha
Spellbound


Paul

Comedy
Arthur (the Dudley Moore one)
Life of Brian (in what way shall we f**k off, oh Master?)
The Wrong Trousers

General
LA Confidential
Top Gun
9_ weeks

Horror
Angel Heart
Poltergeist
The Sixth Sense

Sci - Fi
Couple of Philip K Dick inspired movies:
Bladerunner (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?)
Total recall (We can remember it for you wholesale)
Predator
Teminator 1 and 2

Misc
Finding Nemo
Pirates of the Carribean
Toy Story
Monsters inc

Pat

[Scrooge]

1)Comedy Animal House ( I can sit and watch the horse getting shot for hours on end)
2)General Shawshank Redemption
3)Horror Texas Chainsaw
4)Sci Fi Aliens
4)Misc Pirates of the Caribbean

Not POTC II?

1)Comedy
Life of Brian
Shrek
Spinal Tap

2)General
Green Mile
It's a Wonderful Life

3)Horror
The Shining
Final Destination (first one)
Seven

4)Sci Fi
Matrix (all)
Blade (all)

4)Misc
Pulp Fiction
Donny Darko

1)Comedy

Dirty rotten scoundrels
The life of Brian
Holy Grail
Bruce Almighty(Only the bit were he uses his powers to get his arch rival talking funny during a live news update) oh how i howled[:o)]
Barefoot in the park (Jane Fonda`s mother climbing the stairs!)


2)General

Goodfellas
The godfather trilogy
Scarface
The great escape
Where eagles dare
James Bond films with Sean Connery
The dirty dozen 1 & 2


3)Horror

The Omen (all of them)
Amityville (the about about the boy getting possessed too)
Stephen Kings It
The entity (i still cant watch it all the way through)
Dracula films with Christopher Lee
Hammer Horror
The Skull


4)Sci Fi

Alien Trilogy
The event horizon
original star trek featuring William Shatner
Star wars (the old ones)

4)Mis

Shrek
Toy story
Rebecca
The birds
North by northwest
Vertigo
Psycho
War of the worlds (old & new)

Originally posted by DMetters-Bone

1)Comedy

View from the Top

I LOVE that film!!!!![^]