The ESSENTIAL Collection - Movie Favorites By Genre

[David Meek]

Hi all.

I want to create a list of the ESSENTIAL movies or series that we should have in the ultimate collection. By collection, I'm not limiting this to DVD's - any movie or series available whether it be just released, only on late-night TV, laserdisc, VHS, DVD, you name it - is up for consideration. Now, the list will change and grow as categories are added or refined - feel free to suggest new ones! - and new movies come out and replace older nominations. Each category can have only 3 films listed - I know, that's not enough but they're my marbles and I'll play like I want to. Plus, that should generate some conversations on which three are best.

Initially, I'll keep this all in an Excel spreadsheet which will be the master and update it as entries arrive. I'll also edit the next post after this one as the list viewable by the Forum. I'll have the final say on disagreements (if any arise). How's that sound?

I'll get the ball rolling, but I'd like EVERYONE to contribute movies, categories, misc. suggestions and whatever, okay? Let's play!




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[David Meek]

ACTION/ADVENTURE

General
Raiders Of The Lost Ark
Die Hard (movie series)
Last Of The Mohicans
Cliffhanger

Cops 'N Robbers
Lethal Weapon (movie series)
?
?
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Spys
Mission Impossible (movie series)
Spy Games
Ronin
The Jackal

James Bond
Goldfinger
Dr. No
Golden Eye
The World Is Not Enough

Light
The Princess Bride
The Three Musketeers (Errol Flynn)
?
?

ANIMATION

General
Final Fantasy
A Bug's Life
Toy Story (movie series)

Anime
Titan, A.E.
The Ghost In The Shell
Akira
?

COMEDY

Dark Humor
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Risky Business
?
?

Light Humor
Friends (TV series)
?
?
?

Romantic
As Good As It Gets
While You Were Sleeping
IQ
Sleepless In Seattle

CRIME

On The Streets
Heat
LA Confidential
In The Heat Of The Night
The Usual Suspects

Courtroom
To Kill A Mockingbird
Legal Eagles
12 Angry Men
?

The Mafia
The Godfather(movie series)
The Last Don
Goodfellas
The Sopranos (TV series)

DRAMA

General
Anne Of Green Gables (movie series)
The Shawshank Redemption

FANTASY

General
Lord Of The Rings: Fellowship Of The Rings
Excalibur
?
?

HORROR/THRILLER

General
The Prince Of Darkness
Psycho
Se7en
?

Slashers
Halloween
Friday the 13th
?
?

MILITARY

Vietnam
We Were Soldiers
Platoon
Apocalypse Now
The Boys From Company C

WWII
Saving Private Ryan
Band Of Brothers (series)
Patton
Das Boot

Korea
Pork Chop Hill
The Bridges At Toko-Ri
M*A*S*H
?

WWI
Sergeant York
All Quiet On The Western Front
The Blue Max
?

MUSICALS

General
Moulin Rouge
Singing In The Rain
The Sound Of Music
Fiddler On The Roof

ROMANCE

General
As Good As It Gets
The American President
?
?

SCIENCE FICTION

On Earth
The 5th Element
The Thing (orginal)
The Terminator(movie series)
Independence Day

Outer Space
Star Wars
Forbidden Planet
Alien
Aliens

Comedy
Galaxy Quest
The Last Starfighter
?
?

WESTERNS

General
Silverado
The Outlaw Josey Wales
The Magnificent Seven
Purgatory (made for TV)

Cowboys vs. Cowboys
Tombstone
Shane
Unforgiven
High Noon

Cowboys vs. Indians
Duel At Diablo
The Mountain Men
The Stalking Moon
Chato's Land

John Wayne
The Shootist
True Grit
The Searchers
Rio Bravo

Comedy
Cat Ballou
Blazing Saddles
Cheyenne Social Club
?

MUSIC VIDEOS

General
Pink Floyd: The Wall
Eagles: Hell Freezes Over
Fleetwood Mac: The Dance
?




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[Sonnie Parker]

David, I'm not sure if I understand.... will this be a voting type thing? Whatever show gets the most votes type a thing?

I'd say for crime drama that "The Soprano's" is a good series but it's only on HBO.

I'm an HBO kinda guy and I could boost "Sex in the City" into one category but not sure which. It's suppose to be comedy but it ain't that funny to me, just an interesting show.

I believe both of those are available.

Others to consider:

The Last Don
The Godfather Series
Jurassic Park Series

Now, I suppose no need to list shows not available at this time. I believe some will be sooner or later.

Am I on the right track or am I confused?






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[David Meek]

Sonnie,

It could evolve into a voting process, but for now I'd planned to go on comments from members like "oh yeah, that would be a good one" and get a consensus. The one thing I don't want is for it to turn it into a pi##g contest. That'd kill the fun and Lex'd win that anyway - he's the big pi##r around here.




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[Brewer]

lets see there are afew i can think of that you left out,wise guys,rockyhorror,pinkfloyd the wall,baseketball.theres abunch move but these are some of my favs...




Kevin A Brewer

[GregoriusM]

Drama:

Anne of Green Gables & Anne of Green Gables: The Sequel

I'm sure this one won't stay on the list for long, knowing the people on this forum, but hey, it's one of my top 3 favorite movies.

[Lex]

Lets see, I will start my list here, and add to it later:

Comedy:
Friends DVDs Vol 1-4 (or wait on entire series)
Romantic
As Good as it Gets




Sci Fi:
5th Element
Independence Day DTS

Comedy Sci Fi
Galaxy Quest DTS

Action Adventure:
Die Hard 1,2,3
True Lies
Mission Impossible 1 and 2
Golden Eye

The World is not Enough


Romantic AA
Terminal Velocity
Comedy AA
Lethal Weapon 1-5

Romance
Sleepless in Seattle


Will fill in gaps later on.

Lex




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[efarstad]

AAAAHHHH Here's one:

Action/Sci-FI of the 80's: THE LAST STARFIGHTER !!!!!!

Yea baby, I Loved this movie as a kid and still due....heck I'm still a kid!

David, Not sure where this one lands so you can put it where you think! 8) I like my topic though, 80's movies are classics!!!

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[Andrew Pratt]

Here's my additions

Comedy
IQ
Search for the holly grail
Princess bride

Amine
Titan AE

Action
Jurassic Park 1
True Lies

Drama
Last of the mochians
Shawshank Redemtion

[P-Dub]

I think it'll be very hard to come up with a consensus. But here goes. Plus I've added a couple of other categories. I see you've broken down into additional categories. I'll add more than 3 in some categories as we should discuss each. That's the way to generate some traffic.


Comedy:
Sleepless in Seattle
When Harry Met Sally
South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut
Strictly Ballroom
The Princess Bride

Crime:

On the Streets:
The Usual Suspects
Ronin
LA Confidential

Courtroom:

The Mafia:
Goodfella's
Casino
Godfather trilogy

Drama:
Almost Famous
LA Confidential
Wall Street

Horror:
The Thing


Military:

Recent conflicts:
Black Hawk Down
Courage Under Fire


Vietnam:
Platoon
Apocalypse Now
Boys From Company C

Korea
Pork Chop Hill
MASH

WWII:
Patton
The Longest Day
Saving Private Ryan
Das Boot

WWI:
All's quiet on the Western Front
Sargent York

Sci Fi:

On Earth:
The Matrix
Fifth Element
Terminator series

Outer Space:
Empire Strikes Back
Aliens


Thrillers:
Alien
Se7en

Westerns

General:
Silverado

Cowboys vs Cowboys
Unforgiven

Comedy
Blazing Saddles

Animation:
A Bug's Life
Toy Story and Toy Story 2
Final Fantasy

Musicals:
Singin in the Rain
Moulin Rouge
South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut

Spy movies:
Jame's bond
Ronin

Fantasy:
Lord of the Rings
Excalibur


How about series, like Soprano's or James Bond? Are they counted as one title, or the series.

Maybe start off with a genre, and of course there will be movies that cut across genre's.




Paul

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[David Meek]

8O WOW! Thanks for all the input y'all! I was busy on a project all weekend and haven't had a chance to check things out forum-wise. I'll compile the results and get an updated listing out today.

One I am going to do: I think Paul's right about consensus not working, and as a result I'm going to use the "total times suggested" as the determining factor for which movies make the list. If there is a tie, I'll be the tie-breaker.

One thing I may do: Bump the title count from 3 to 4 per category. That'll give the list a little more variety.




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[David Meek]

All right, the list is updated as of this post. Several new categories have been added. Keep 'em coming!




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[Mats]

Comedy

The Jerk
Plains, Trains & Automobils
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

Take thoose 3 * 6 and they should make it to the list :LOL:




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[GregoriusM]

Music Videos

Premonition - John Fogerty

[Robbie]

OK David,

Here's some movies you missed IMO...

SCI FI:

Star Trek (At least the even ones)

Comedy:

It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World
Money Pit

Cop:

Bullit (for the car chase if nothing else)

Western:

Lonesome Dove (TV Mini Series)

Hope this helps

Robbie

[David Meek]

Bullit (for the car chase if nothing else)

Yeah Robbie, I've wanted a '68 GT fastback ever since I first saw this movie. What an awesome car. . .




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[John Holmes]

David,

My picks would be:

Ronin
Goldfinger
U-571
The Fifth Element
Shaft (Samuel Jackson)
Predator
Titan AE
Dark City
The Mask of Zorro
Air Force One
The Abyss
Deep Star Six
Species
The Astronauts Wife
Spies Like us
True Lies
The Prince of Egypt
She's Gotta Have it
Sleepy Hollow
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
Blade Runner
Gladiator
Star Trek (The Wrath of Khan)
The Legend of Bagger Vance
Heat
Galaxy Quest
As Good As it Gets
The Thing




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[Markj]

"A Fish Called Wanda" should be in the Comedy Light Humor section.

[George Bellefontaine]

It's amazing how many of the listed titles are in my collection.




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[Clive]

If you may, I think the following flixx should be given some consideration too.................wadiathink?

And Action!!
Exit Wounds
Crimsom Tide
Hunt for Red October

Laughs
Something about Mary
Kingdom Come

Fighting the other guys
Hamburger Hill
Memphis Belle

Space
Contact




CLIVE




HEY!! Why buy movie tickets when you can own a Theater?

[David Meek]

Good ones, gang. Keep 'em coming. I'll try to update the list later today.




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[John Holmes]

Does anyone else find it interesting that, The Phantom Menace has not been mentioned? 8O




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[David Meek]

I'd be surprised if it did show up on many persons' lists. The inclusion of one JarJar Binks made it a cartoon/parody/marketing vehicle for Christmas toys - whatever you want to call it. Had that oafish character NOT been in the movie, it would have been much more enjoyable (and desirable).

As always, just my 2 cents, John.




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[Markj]

Glad to see Titanic not listed.

"Gone With The Wind" should be on the list!

[SiliGoose]

Is "space" really a genre?




-Sili

[Robbie]

Just the other night thought of another:

Western Comedy
- Support Your Local Sheriff

A lot of good movies here.

Robbie