Favorite Type Of Movies and Films

[Joey Deadcat]

I don't mean genres but movies that have a certain premise or theme like a road movie or buddy flick - you get the idea.

Me: always dig films that take place in a metropolitan setting during the span of one night. Protaganist gets into a number of situations and/or mishaps in the big city late at night while encountering an array of characters. After Hours with Griffin Dunne is a great example.

Another fave of mine are those films Like Crash and Ring Of Desire - the interactions and chance encounters between people from various backgrounds and their individual stories.

Edited March 11, 2010 by Joey Deadcat

[Eevee]

Uhm...hmm...I tend to like films with really beautiful and green landscapes. Like...in Pride & Prejudice (the 2005 one...which had TONS of beautiful scenery) or like in The Sound of Music or even Stardust.

I love nature and forests and really beautiful meadows/gardens.

[Slogo]

I'm a movie buff, so pretty much most genres. I plan to get some good movies outta this thread though.

Edited March 11, 2010 by Slogo

[Simon Bar Sinister]

period pieces...anything Merchant Ivory put out between the mid-'80s and, say, 2000 pretty much had me running to the theater.

scifi

most of the movies I saw between about '85 and '95 had subtitles, and a slim majority of those were comedies.

all of my closest friends are female, so I've probably seen more chick flicks than anyone here. liked a lot of 'em, too.

anything in 3-D! :D

Japanese monster movies.

[Joey Deadcat]

I gotta admit to still digging Adventures In Babysitting for its premise. There was another film that actually used the two concepts I'd mentioned in my post above - nighttime in the big city and individual scenarios converging. Can't remember the name but the characters were a divorced bail bondsman and his son, a hip-hop artist and his back-up singer/girlfriend, and a homeless drug addict (among others) dressing as Santa Claus. What was it called now?

[DJ Nocker]

I'm a movie buff, so pretty much most genres. I plan to get some good movies outta this thread though.

Oh really... *pulls up chair* lets talk film.

[phee]

Favorite kinds of movies.... I like movies that make you think, that do not simply map out the answers and plot lines. Ones that make you sit back afterwards and process what you have watched. (I like other kinds too.. but these are my favs)

Mulholland Drive

Primer

The Shining

The Prestige

These are examples of some that I really like in this way.

[Tyger]

Favorite kinds of movies.... I like movies that make you think, that do not simply map out the answers and plot lines. Ones that make you sit back afterwards and process what you have watched. (I like other kinds too.. but these are my favs)

Mulholland Drive

Primer

The Shining

The Prestige

These are examples of some that I really like in this way.

You and "The Shining"... If that movie was a person, I think you'd be making sweet sweet love to it....

[DJ Nocker]

Cramped dirty techy environments make me happy, cyber or steam, doesnt matter. Movies like Blade Runner, A Series of Unfortunate Events, Alien, Around the World in 80 Days...you get the idea

[phee]

Cramped dirty techy environments make me happy, cyber or steam, doesnt matter. Movies like Blade Runner, A Series of Unfortunate Events, Alien, Around the World in 80 Days...you get the idea

Indeed

[StormKnight (1)]

Cramped dirty techy environments make me happy, cyber or steam, doesnt matter. Movies like Blade Runner, A Series of Unfortunate Events, Alien, Around the World in 80 Days...you get the idea

Add to that for me: Hard science fiction, action-adventure, space opera, and high science fiction.

[Joey Deadcat]

Also dig films that has a (usually)lone antagonist making his way, rather violently, from point A to point B - it's the most simplest way to put it. Man With No Name trilogy, Road Warrior, and Bring Me The Head of Alfredo Garcia come to mind.

[Joey Deadcat]

And films that feature a fighting group who are brought together during the 1st half of the story.

Y'know, like Seven Samurai,Magnificent Seven, and The Dirty Dozen.

[Simon Bar Sinister]

spaghetti westerns! :D

[Joey Deadcat]

Now why didn't it ever occur to me to name this thread "Favorite Movie Tropes"...*facepalm*

That's the term I was thinking of.