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Crazybirdman · 06-20-2008, 01:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Morrigoon

Princess Bride didn't make the Fantasy category but Groundhog Day did??? I call shenanigans!

I concur! (and will refrain from quoting the hell outta that film

)

Not Afraid · 06-18-2008, 10:25 PM

I protest the exclusion of Fanny and Alexander and Berlin
Alexanderplatz from the Epic category. I guess they aren't American, huh.

I can really tell which genres I prefer from this list. I do 100% in some and 2% in others.

innerSpaceman · 06-19-2008, 06:42 AM

Oi, I guess you are free to make such horrible puns.

innerSpaceman · 06-20-2008, 10:31 AM

Hey, all of GC's distressing straitification of recent days reminds me ....

Why no Musicals genre???? Shame, shame, shame.

And, btw, Triple Homocidal Inked, Drawn and Quartered Shame on the AFI for implying "Animation" is a genre. It most certainly is not. It's bad enough that plebes and peons make this nasty error, but the AFI? What frucktards!!

Chernabog · 06-20-2008, 11:27 AM

Last night I saw Michael Clayton, which I thought was excellent, especially how it's a movie involving attorneys and lawsuits and evil corporations, and NO COURTROOM SCENES! Amen. I hate courtroom scenes in movies (and TV). My roommate and I cannot be in the same room watching a courtroom scene since I scream objections at the television and whatnot. But I wonder if they still consider it "courtroom drama" if there's no courtroom?

innerSpaceman · 06-20-2008, 11:30 AM

Nope, not a courtroom drama. Lawyer drama. Whole new category. Defies listing. Huzzah.

Tom · 06-20-2008, 12:02 PM

I found their choices of genres to be very weird. To not include either war films or horror films was just very strange.

Kevy Baby · 06-20-2008, 12:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Tom

I found their choices of genres to be very weird. To not include either war films or horror films was just very strange.

And to not include porn either!

LSPoorEeyorick · 06-20-2008, 12:32 PM

Oh the upside, Tom's favorite movie and my favorite movie hit the Romantic Comedy list at numbers 1 and 9 respectively. What can I say? We're mooshy.

I've seen most of them, but I agree: genre choices, totally weird. Musicals and horror are two of my favorites, and they shouldn't have been excluded. War movies I can pretty much do without - but also, it seems like it spans westerns (sometimes) and dramas (always.)

What would your to 10 musicals be? Horror?

Tom · 06-20-2008, 02:53 PM

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Originally Posted by LSPoorEeyorick

War movies I can pretty much do without

Perhaps, but war films are one of the most significant and well-defined genres throughout the history of film. To leave them off this list is ludicrous.

06-18-2008, 10:25 PM	#2
Not Afraid HI! Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 17,108	I protest the exclusion of Fanny and Alexander and Berlin Alexanderplatz from the Epic category. I guess they aren't American, huh. I can really tell which genres I prefer from this list. I do 100% in some and 2% in others.
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06-19-2008, 06:42 AM	#3
innerSpaceman Kink of Swank Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Inner Space Posts: 13,075	Oi, I guess you are free to make such horrible puns.
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06-20-2008, 10:31 AM	#4
innerSpaceman Kink of Swank Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Inner Space Posts: 13,075	Hey, all of GC's distressing straitification of recent days reminds me .... Why no Musicals genre???? Shame, shame, shame. And, btw, Triple Homocidal Inked, Drawn and Quartered Shame on the AFI for implying "Animation" is a genre. It most certainly is not. It's bad enough that plebes and peons make this nasty error, but the AFI? What frucktards!!
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06-20-2008, 11:27 AM	#5
Chernabog Biophage Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: The Moon Posts: 2,679	Last night I saw Michael Clayton, which I thought was excellent, especially how it's a movie involving attorneys and lawsuits and evil corporations, and NO COURTROOM SCENES! Amen. I hate courtroom scenes in movies (and TV). My roommate and I cannot be in the same room watching a courtroom scene since I scream objections at the television and whatnot. But I wonder if they still consider it "courtroom drama" if there's no courtroom? __________________ And they say back then our universe Was a coal black egg Until the god inside Burst out and from its shattered shell He made what became the world we know ~ Bjork (Cosmogony)
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06-20-2008, 11:30 AM	#6
innerSpaceman Kink of Swank Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Inner Space Posts: 13,075	Nope, not a courtroom drama. Lawyer drama. Whole new category. Defies listing. Huzzah.
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06-20-2008, 12:02 PM	#7
Tom Valued member Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 541	I found their choices of genres to be very weird. To not include either war films or horror films was just very strange.
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06-20-2008, 12:32 PM	#9
LSPoorEeyorick scribblin' Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: in the moment Posts: 3,872	Oh the upside, Tom's favorite movie and my favorite movie hit the Romantic Comedy list at numbers 1 and 9 respectively. What can I say? We're mooshy. I've seen most of them, but I agree: genre choices, totally weird. Musicals and horror are two of my favorites, and they shouldn't have been excluded. War movies I can pretty much do without - but also, it seems like it spans westerns (sometimes) and dramas (always.) What would your to 10 musicals be? Horror?
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