Asklemmy

My favourite film has gotta be 1986 "Aliens"

Some tension, some horror, some action.

And Ripley was both pretty and a good asskicker of xenos.

I like that real dark and twisted shit. Examples like swallow, run, the lodge etc I always need good psychological horror films I've never seen before

All right, I'll have a go. My favourite film (tho not the one I've seen the most number of times (that's lotr)) is supposedly le fantôme de la liberté, 1974, Luis Buñuel. As for my favourite genre, I doubt I have one - there're too many excellent films in too many genres!

Slow, boring spy films like “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy”

My favorite movie is the Matrix (the first one). Gutted by what they did in the sequels.

Favorite genre is definitely Fantasy, love the world building in these movies.

My favorite genre is hardcore character studies.

I just wanna see some dude living life as some dude... Idk why but it just hits. There can be an external plot but all of my favorite movies are just people surviving.

it's such a beautiful day is definitely #1

I also loved In Bruges and its discussions of morals.

Mary and Max has a lovely take on what friendship is and a lot of talk about mental health.

Other random movies I love:

Kubo and the Two Strings

The Girl with All the Gifts

The Princess Bride

Sorry To Bother You

The Florida Project

Hoodwinked

Baraka and Samsara are definitely at the top for me. I also hold a special love for herzog movies.

Genre: dark comedies Movie: Death to Smoochy

Favorite movie is Dead Alive(but that is mostly my autism canned response)

Favorite genre is horror(the good and the bad, just all of it)

Horror, suspense and thriller. Documentaries too.

This got me paranoid for a whole week, but I still like the plot.

Psychological thrillers, especially those from the late twentieth century. Think Suspiria and Possession.

My mom used to say I had the taste of a teenage boy because I like sci fi and fantasy and comics so much.

LOTR trilogy is my favorite.

Pride and Prejudice with Keira Knightly is one we can watch over and over, as are Hot Fuzz and Into the Spiderverse. Those 3 are so good too but my favorite still is the Lord of the Rings trilogy.

Dumb and Dumber

Favorite: Alien Close second: Jaws Close third: GalaxyQuest

Favorite genre: sci-fi horror

I'm a 50/50 toss up between two reasonably different genres.

The first is coming of age films, particularly queer ones. My go to film to call my favourite is Call me By Your Name, I also love Stand By Me, Aftersun and have a huge soft spot for Kiki's delivery service.

The other 'genre' is dramas / thrillers that get pretty fixated on madness, particularly from the protagonist. There will be Blood is my go to second film to say, and I love Apocalypse Now, Perfect Blue, The Witch and The lighthouse.

I'm not as much fan of when the genres overlap however, although that may be because of how small the sample size is. There are quite a few films that have a young protagonist who is finding themselves, who may end up idolising another to the point that the film falls into being a thriller. We had Saltburn last year, which people often compare to The Talented Mr Ripley, and I do enjoy these films but I never get that milestone feeling that I've just experienced a piece of media that has profoundly impacted me. The only thing that exists in this shared space is one of my favourite novels; The Picture of Dorian Gray.

Strictly Ballroom. Baz's first film

Fave Movie: The Darjeeling Limited

I just like it, that's all.

Ghostbusters.

I like psychologically interesting movies, though my favorites aren't necessarily all like that. Some big ones for me:

Spirited Away - Miyazaki film about a girl who stops off at an abandoned amusement park while driving to a new house with her parents, who eat food meant for spirits and become pigs. She is unable to escape and ends up in the spirit world, enslaved by a witch who controls a spirit bathhouse as the protagonist attempts to rescue her parents and escape

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind - a man and woman break up in a very lightly sci fi world where it's possible to erase people's memories, and they choose to erase each other and inevitably the man regrets it as it's happening in his mind

Perfect Blue - animated Japanese film about an Idol who tries to escape Idol life by becoming an actress, which is an incredibly difficult and stressful process as she deals with a stalker and the film/TV industry at the same time. As the movie continues she becomes so stressed and tired that the lines between reality and the films she's in begin to blur together and she starts to lose grip on reality.

21 and 22 Jump Street - FUCK they're just well written and well executed comedy.

Favourite film: The Magic Sword (1962). It's on YouTube and it's very good.

Favourite movie: The Lord of the Rings

Favourite genre: fantasy/sci-fi/historical movies of epic proportions with immersive worlds