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Movie meme, from seattleforge: Name your favourites off the top of your head. I can't say that any of these are breakaway favourites, but they certainly occupy a great deal of affection from me in their categories.

Action film: Diehard. Yup--Diehard. A perfect action film.
Tear-jerker: The Killing Fields.
Romance: A Room with a View. "He wants you for possession, like a painting or an ivory box!"
Comedy: Young Frankenstein. A movie I saw as a kid, thought I would love it as an adult, didn't laugh as hard as I thought, but each thing got funnier when I thought about it later.
Drama: Dangerous Liaisons
Foreign film: haaaa. By Jackie Chan: Fearless Hyena; by Jet Li: Twin Warriors. The Triplets of Belleville was fantastic.
Fantasy: The Heroic Trio. Super Woman comes on screen the first time running on telephone wires. Invisible Woman flips a manhole cover up with her toe. They spin around on a motorcycle in circles getting to the guy who's chopping off people's heads with an ancient wire device. Oh--and you've got to see the dubbed version.
Science fiction: Star Trek: First Contact.
Documentary: I've not really seen much of this genre.
Based on novel: Lord of the Rings. I understand the problems that Tolkein fans have, but never have I seen a fantasy movie where I could say to myself at points, "Holy shit--that looks _exactly_ like I pictured it."
Epic: Once Upon a Time in China I, II, and III. Or maybe Kill Bill, both volumes. Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon works pretty well for me, so I suppose that should be it.

Ok, so I watch a lot of martial arts films.

Based on a true story: nope. Nothing really jumping out. The Killing Fields qualifies, but I've already got that.
Horror/thriller: The Mummy
Tragedy: I don't like sitting around waiting for horrible things to happen to people.
Crime: Goodfellas. I would like to see Godfather I & II. I've seen most of II. I think it's important as a woman in her 30s, and for my citizenship in this country, that I see these films.
Cult Favourite: Raising Arizona? Oh, and on that point, I suppose maybe Vampire's Kiss. Never have I watched a movie where a guy acts in excrutiatingly bad ways, and yet, I don't flinch, I laugh (I'm usually really susceptible to excrutiating).

[info from seattleforge]paygem added some great categories to her post that I felt like adding too:

Animated: Disney's Beauty and the Beast. What can I say--I was working at a Waldenbooks when this came out on video and I listened to it a lot. Eventually I went through a Disney phase. I didn't fall in love with the films, I just thought it was important that I watch the films and not get so pissed off at the tit size of the overly white women on them, and how they butchered the actual stories. Still, I liked Beauty and the Beast.
Western: Silverado. Little Big Man is damned good also, from what I remember.
War: nothing's coming to mind. Schindler's Fist-err-List was totally respectable. I haven't seen the first 20 minutes of Saving Private Ryan.
Musical: Singin' in the Rain. Wicked and funny, beautifully danced, and fun songs.

My add on: So bad they're good: For the lord's good sake, may I never meet anyone who really likes the Dwight Yoakam flick, South of Heaven, West of Hell, but I have never. NEVER seen a movie so bad that it's ridiculously funny.

Oh. GOD this movie is bad. What's worse: Bud Cort tied to a stake holding a stone that's tied around his bad tooth? Bud Cort shut in a make-shift prison where he falls in his own shit and a guy comes in to masturbate by the passing Chicana cutie who sticks her tit in a hole in the wall? Bud Cort being hit by a poker in the ass? Why, Bud Cort, WHY? Bridget Fonda? Bridget Fonda smashing a burning oil lamp into a man's crotch, and the sight of the man's testicle later being removed by a doctor? And why is Bridget Fonda in that balloon with Dwight Yoakam? Why? Why? Well, the movie's got a lot of memorable scenes, all right. And I can't even articulate the final gunfight.