What is (are) your favorite movie category(s)

[Krummhorn]

Might be fun to poll our membership about their favorite movie categories.

[Edit: You may select multiple categories in this poll]

If you would like, please tell us the name of a movie you liked best in the selected category(s).

Please, please, no YouTube links to the films. We want to know what you thought about the film(s) in the poll.

 

[Corno Dolce]

Aloha GrandMaster Krummhorn,

Excellent thread you have started dear sir - Now, here's the film categories and films that rock my cradle and why I liked them:

1. War = Winds of War - Based on the Novel by Herman Wouk - Masterfully depicts human tragedy as individuals and as countries.

2. Biographical/History = Patton - The finest WWII Army Officer imo - the film imo perfectly sums up Patton as larger-than-life.

3. Westerns = The Magnificent Seven - A stellar cast brings one back to a time of Frontier Justice and a can-do attitude - No wimpy *girlie men*!!!

4. Science Fiction = 2001 A Space Odyssey - Arthur C. Clarke's Novel stupendously interpreted and set to film imo.

5. Musical = Sound of Music - For people with music in their blood, plus the added dimension of human foibles and set with the gloom of Nazi Germany haunting behind the scenes.

6. Comedy = The Sting - Prohibition Era Chicago and the mobs who gamed it - Paul Newman and Robert Redford so stunningly collaborate as actors to bring one back to those heady times.

7. Drama = Dr. Zhivago - The Drama/Romance Piece-de-Resistance. David Lean gives such an scintillating reading, interpretation, and setting to film of Boris Pasternak's masterpiece. I never tire of seeing this movie again and again and again and again.

 

[Krummhorn]

Aloha, CD :tiphat:

I quite agree on your selection for Sci-Fi ... the music is so fitting for that film, too.

• Comedy ... Pink Panther series
• Musical ... Mary Poppins and The Sound of Music are favorites
• Sci-Fi ..... 2001 A Space Odyssey
• Western .. True Grit with John Wayne

 

[wljmrbill]

Wow great concept. There are many under each cagegory.
sci- fi... also 2001 Space Odyssey,close encounters
Drama ... The Queen,Ten Commandants,
Music .... Sound of Music, movies of Operas,Phantom of the Opera
movies on composers/performers lives.
enjoy many of the Disney animation movies:Narnia chronicles;Eight Below;Evan
Almighty;Dinoursour.

 

[John Watt]

One soundtrack stands out above all, from my youth. I still find myself hitting those chords on guitar and singing it outside. "The Longships", a Richard Widmark movie. When that boat makes it through the enchanted, tempestuous harbour into smooth sailing, it still has as much resonance as "Giant Steps" by Coltrane and "Third Stone from the Sun" by Hendrix, a bold and deliberate melodic theme.
Of course, when the narrative is about risking your life to search for a large golden bell, taking you to Africa and back, and finding it built into a cliffside temple roof as a disguise, all grandiose melodies, and rhythms, are possible.
My parents thought I was old enough to watch "The Days of Wine and Roses", and that song is still in my heart, even if adults thought me singing it back then was odd.

 

[Contratrombone64]

My all time favourite movie genre (fetish/kink) wasn't mentioned, hence my selection was really my second choice ...