Thread: Favorie kinds of movies.

What are your favorie kinds of movies, horror, action, drama, western, different thing. I like checking out different types of movies so give some examples of your favorites with a breif description.

One of my favorites and one I'm watching now is Death Sentence.

The family man and senior vice-president of the insurance company Starship Capital Nick Hume lives a comfortable life with his wife Helen and his sons Brendan and Lucas. While driving back home with his son Brendan after a game of hockey, Nick stops his car in a gas station in a dangerous neighborhood and he witnesses his son being murdered by the punk Joe Darley in the convenience store. When the prosecutor tells the grieving Nick that Joe would get a maximum of three years in prison, Nick tells the judge in court that he has not recognized Joe as the killer of his son. In the night, Nick goes to Joe's place and stabs him to death. When Joe's brother Billy is informed about the death of Joe, he summons his gang in a war against Nick with tragic consequences.

What are some of your favorites?

EDIT: Just as a caution Death Sentence has alot of violence and alot of cursing so if you don't like that do not watch.

Comedies are one of my favorite. A good example of a funny movie is Hangover. That is hilarious from start to finish. Horror is right up there too. I like true horror, not gore. A good example was: Paranormal Activity, Susperia, Session 9, The Gift, Night Watch, The Exorcism of Emily Rose, and the Exorcist IMO. There are a whole much more that I cannot think of at this moment.

Originally Posted by razorgal

Comedies are one of my favorite. A good example of a funny movie is Hangover. That is hilarious from start to finish. Horror is right up there too. I like true horror, not gore. A good example was: Paranormal Activity, Susperia, Session 9, The Gift, Night Watch, The Exorcism of Emily Rose, and the Exorcist IMO. There are a whole much more that I cannot think of at this moment.

I havn't gotten to see the hangover yet, do want to though, looks funny. I have a little obsession with horror movies I like the classics not like some of the stupid ones that are coming out now, like Trick 'r treat (one of the stupidest horror flicks ever) I like classics, Halloween, Friday the 13th, Nightmare on elm street. Half of my movie collection is horror

i guess you cold use 'artsy', 'odd', 'non mainstream' to describe the stuff i usually like. but sometimes i like regular stuff too.
when i posted in the movie thread my choices were flirt (hal hartley) and even dwarves started small (werner herzog), they proved to be hard to guess.

Originally Posted by gugi

i guess you cold use 'artsy', 'odd', 'non mainstream' to describe the stuff i usually like. but sometimes i like regular stuff too.

Hmm, like what, if you don't mind me asking, what are some of your favorites.

well i just edited my post above, but i can probably name hundreds of favorites. my favorite comedy is probably 'the big lebowski', i also enjoyed very much 'viky, cristina barcelona'. actionwise probably 'pulp fiction'.
then comes stuff like 'the color of pomegranates', 'werckmeister harmonies', 'damnation', 'el topo', 'black moon', 'the cremaster cycle', almost anything goddard, almodovar, bunuel, rohmer, bergman, antonioni, half of the cohen brothers movies... in other words not the usual fare...

Depends on my mood.

My favorite films are from all over the genre sprectrum. It has to engage me, it has to be clever. I like films you have to watch, more than films that just wash over you. Films that deal with difficult subjects and don't always bow to the stereotypes of their genre. I also like films based on true stories, I think they can often be the best, because they usually don't have a fantastical ending.

The Shawshank Redemption, The Great Escape, Man on Wire, Watchmen, The Thomas Crown Affair (remake), Mrs Doubtfire, The Truman Show, Pulp Fiction, Leon, The Alien Quadrilogy, The Matrix, Indiana Jones etc etc. All kinds of films.

In general movies made between 1925 thru the 1950s. Favorite comedy would probably be His Girl Friday with Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell and Arsenic and Old Lace a close second. OTOH, the silent films of Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton are so great, especially Keaton's early stuff with Fatty Arbuckle.

All of the film noir genre including the 'B' movies are great and the same for the cowboy flicks as long as no one sings. You can keep Gene Autrey.

westerns . the cowboys, once apon a time in the west,rio grande,the good the bad and the ugly. red river, the shootest, lonesome dove, quigly down under exc.. the list gos on and on horror? i like the old cheap japanese films from the late 50s to mid 60s roday godzilla, the atack of the 50 foot woman( "harry iam comeing harry")the mushroom people exc

For me it's not so much what the story is about but how it is told. I prefer European crime and drama movies, some horror. I do not much like action or war movies.
Some favorites that quickly come to mind:

Blade Runner
Unforgiven (Eastwood)
Big Fish
Paths of glory (Kubrick)
Blue Velvet
Das Leben den Anderen
Los sin nombre
Man without a past
Ring of dreams
Three rooms of Melancholy

Last 3 are Finnish and i do believe that there are no foreign copies.