Funny you mentioned that ... I was just thinking about kicking off a thread about movies etc.

Just got done viewing some SNL (Saturday Night Live) comedy dvd's. Best Of: Eddie Murphy and Steve Martin ... hilarious! Also picked up a replacement "Young Frankenstein" (pronounced FronkenSteen) with Gene Wilder ...   

Comedy at this particular time, but I did get inti sci-fi for a while, until all the remakes of all the old ideas ran out, but that was at least a year ago.

What genre is "Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World" ? or "Gladiator" (both Russel Crowe) ?

Good topic...you'll get a lot of replies for this one I'm sure .

For some strange reason I have a great collection of westerns, even though I know almost nothing about that era.

I think it has to do with the whole morality issue of good and evil (of course in real life nothing is that black and white).

The genre, if there is such a category would be the "Revenge" or "Payback" type of films which I would consider my favourite.

My least favourite genre would be Romantic Comedies or Musicals (a close tie) .

My all-time favorite, Sci-fi, Because it's cool.
I would have to say my least favorite would be horror, especially those ones made on the sci-fi channel. needless gore and VERY stupid people "hmm, I hear a growling noise , I think I will run screaming out of my hiding spot and into that dark alley."
*sigh*
'meet the parents' seemed to me more like a comedy than anything else.

Totally. A lot of Horrors are stupid: "I think there is a monster behind this door, I guess I'll open it to find out." and the classic "Lets split up [and get killed] and cover more ground..." and "What does this button do? [He pushes the button...] OH MY GOD!"

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Partial to what I'll call Small Group Action films, at least the good ones. These are usually war films but not always. Saving Private Ryan, A Walk In The Sun, Silverado, Dirty Dozen, Serenity. Film is actually in many ways a better medium for telling this sort of story than print, because quick jumps between the actions of several separated but cooperating characters can be done more smoothly in film.

Also, Spy/Conspiracy(/Techno) Thrillers. Borne Conspiracy, Shooter. Film works particularly well here too, because it handles the jumps between locales smoothly, with a lot of visual interest in much less "space" than setting a similar scene in print. It also handles the action sequences generally better than print, though usually with less accuracy and subtlety.

I put parentheses around the Techno Thriller sub genre, because too many of these sacrifice precision and believability-through-careful-and-accurate-explanation, strengths of the written form of the genre, for over-the-top action slapped on an carved up and illogical plot adaptation. Also, often movies don't do well/can't afford to believably depict the interplay of dozens of very expensive nation-scale resources. This is often a key element in the written Techno-Thriller. A few films have pulled it off. Red October was great, the other Clancy based films were not-so-much (Clear and Present Danger was a joke where they tried to both go low budget and focus a wide-ranging original story only on the star character - Sorry, Harrison.) Air Force One, and Peacemaker, with Clooney and Kidman, were terrific.

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I love sci fi category movies and inspirational movies such as 'Amistad' and 'Braveheart'

I hate any movie that has wone any European film festival awards, their always stageringly crapola.

Whatever movie category that movie called 'The colour purple' was in would be my least favourite category. I remember when i watched that movie, 'the color purple', i sat down, started watching, waited for the story line and the plot to develop, then it ended?? A movie about nothing? yea, um.... well Seinfeld would love that!