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The VT Definitive All Time Greatest Movies by Genre


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7 hours ago, theboyangel said:

It has kind of started within the Film Thread but probably deserves its own thread in order to keep the Film thread for new films and what folk are watching!

Anyway film buffs - give me the top 3 films in the following Genres!

Comedy

Drama

Action

Sci-Fi

Horror

Western

Musical

Foreign Language

Christmas Movie (😉)

Documentary (added for @bickster)

I appreciate limiting it to 3 films might be difficult for some 😬

As for my choices, as Arnie said ‘I’ll be back’

 

Comedy Naked GunFour LionsIn The Loop

Drama ParasiteCasablancaAtonement

Action Beverly Hills Cop, ApocalyptoDie Hard

Sci-Fi AliensBlade Runner, probably one of the Terminator films

Horror nothing is good in this genre, this is a genre for sick people, but ok Silence of the Lambs, SevenThe Shining if they all count

Western Three AmigosTrue Grit (the remake)... does No Country for Old Men count as a Western?

Musical Moulin RougeSouth Park: The MovieA Star Is Born

Foreign Language Pan's LabyrinthVolverCity of God

Christmas Movie (😉Die Hard

Documentary (added for @bicksterFree SoloSennaMaradona

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8 hours ago, Follyfoot said:

Can we get a Brit crime/Essex geezer movie option please 🙏 

3 best Danny Dyer films

3 best Craig Fairbrass films

3 best times that Terry Stone plays Tony Tucker in an Essex based film

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Best docs - 13th, act of killing, bowling for columbine 

That last one is almost painful to put in there because he's such a clearing in the woods 

Edit - the Donald trump speech scene in 13th is one of the most powerful scenes Ive ever seen in film, its brilliantly done and I found it genuinely horrible to watch 

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Comedy

Sherlock Jr. (Buster Keaton)

My Man Godfrey (Gregory La Cava)

Playtime (Jacques Tati)

Drama

Mulholland Dr. (David Lynch)

The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton)

Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock)

Action

Tokyo Vampire Hotel (SIon Sono)

Terminator 2: Judgement Day (James Cameron)

Terminator (James Cameron)

Sci-Fi

Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky)

Solaris (Andrei Tarkovsky)

Starship Troopers (Paul Verhoeven)

Horror

House (Nobuhiko Obayashi)

The Shining (Stanley Kubrick)

Carnival of Souls (Herk Harvey)

Musical

The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Jacques Demy)

Singin' in the Rain (Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen)

Mary Poppins (Robert Stevenson)

Foreign Language

Celine and Julie Go Boating (Jacques Rivette)

Fanny and Alexander (Ingmar Bergman)

Mirror (Andrei Tarkovsky)

Christmas Movie

Muppets Christmas Carol (Brian Henson)

The Apartment (Billy WIlder)

A Charlie Brown Christmas (Bill Melendez)

Feature length Cartoon

Kiki's Delivery Service (Hayao Miyazaki)

Whisper of the Heart (Yoshifumi Kondō)

My Neighbor Totoro (Hayao Miyazaki)

Documentary

Histoire(s) Du Cinéma (Jean-Luc Godard)

Century of the Self (Adam Curtis)

Antoni Gaudí (Hiroshi Teshigahra)

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Comedy

  1. Team America: World Police
  2. Dr Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
  3. Monthy Python and The Holy Grail

 

Drama

  1. Léon: The Professional 
  2. Exorcist III: Legion
  3. Sorcerer 

 

Action

  1. Transformers: The Movie
  2. Enter The Dragon
  3. The Matrix

 

Sci-Fi

  1. Blade Runner
  2. Alien
  3. Aliens

 

Horror

  1. The Exorcist
  2. The Thing
  3. Ring

 

Western 

  1. Tombstone
  2. Bone Tomahawk
  3. No Country For Old Men

 

Musical

  1. The Producers
  2. The Rocky Horror Picture Show
  3. South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut

 

Foreign Language

  1. Grave Of The Fireflies
  2. La Haine
  3. The Raid

 

Christmas Movie

  1. The Muppet Christmas Carol
  2. Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence
  3. Gremlins
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Comedy

Dumb and Dumber

Step Brothers

Superbad

 

Drama

Shawshank Redemption

Goodfellas

Manchester by the Sea

 

Action

Commando

Mad Max Fury Road

Terminator 2

 

Sci-Fi

Donnie Darko

Pitch Black

The Matrix

 

Horror

SAW

Event Horizon

Hereditary

 

Western 

There will be blood

No Country for old men

 

Foreign Language

Let the right one in

Old Boy

Ong Bak

 

Christmas Movie

Muppets Christmas Carol

Home Alone

National Lampoons

 

Animation

UP

Ratatouille

Lion King

 

Martial Arts

IP Man

Hero

The Raid 2

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1 minute ago, tonyh29 said:

Noticed a couple of nominations , but how is no country for old men a Western ? 
 

I didn't add Bring me the head of Alfredo Garcia as I felt it was too far away from being a western. 

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36 minutes ago, AVFCDAN said:

 

Drama

Shawshank Redemption

Goodfellas

Manchester by the Sea

 

 

2 out 3 here if I did a list. Don't know what I would replace Goodfellas with though.

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3 minutes ago, tonyh29 said:

Noticed a couple of nominations , but how is no country for old men a Western ? 
 

It’s been described as a “neo-Western”. Set in the West and has various themes (gun slinging, masculinity, revenge, cowboy hats, stupid accents, farms, Mexicans, dusty ground, death, crime, rocky outcrops, the seedy underbelly of the American frontier, men who stare at you in a terrifying way) that call back to the classic Westerns.

Yes that’s pretentious bollocks, but how else was I going to squeeze 3 films into a genre that I never watch…

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7 minutes ago, NoelVilla said:

2 out 3 here if I did a list. Don't know what I would replace Goodfellas with though.

Casey Affleck with one of the truly great acting performances of our generation imo.

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34 minutes ago, tonyh29 said:

Noticed a couple of nominations , but how is no country for old men a Western ? 
 

It's not if your going by the strict genre tropes/definitions, but it did get tags like Neo-Western thrown at it.  So I'm having it, because they aren't 3 traditional Westerns that I actually like all that much.

Also if you wanted to be restrictive with the genre definitions, none of the lists would start making sense because all the best films subvert and straddle lines.  The Exorcist is horrifying, but it isn't purely a horror film.  Team America could just as easily be filed under Musicals.  Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence obviously isn't a Christmas film, despite the amusing assertions of HMV's shelving.  Then you get into foreign language as a genre, well that could be absolutely anything.

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“foreign language” as a film genre is a weird one… not sure a Japanese martial arts film has much in common with a Spanish romantic comedy

Nowadays with streaming services it’s much easier to watch loads of foreign language films and it’s less of a niche middle class culture culture hobby… maybe better to just include them in the main categories

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