Your favorite movie in the given genre/category

[Ensign Edison]

Title says it all, except that of course some of these 'genres' aren't. Copy mine and/or make up yer own.

Romantic Comedy: Annie Hall
Least likely to watch with your mother: Strange Days
Science Fiction: Dark City
Most embarrassing item you actually enjoy in your collection: Mannequin
Noir: Double Idemnity
Thriller: M
Actually did psychological trauma to you upon first viewing: Mulholland Dr.
Worst 80s movie: Less Than Zero, actually one of the worst movies ever
Best way to get your friends never to let you pick the movie again: Stranger than Paradise

[Tangent]

Romantic Comedy: Shakespeare In Love
Least likely to watch with your mother: Sin City
Science Fiction: 12 Monkeys
Most embarrassing item you actually enjoy in your collection: Popeye
Noir: Blade Runner
Thriller: Jaws
Actually did psychological trauma to you upon first viewing: The Mosquito Coast
Worst 80s movie: The Gate
Best way to get your friends never to let you pick the movie again: Waking Life

[TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW]

Most hilarious unintentional comedy: The Door in the Floor

[anyrose]

Romantic Comedy: When Harry Met Sally
Least likely to watch with your mother: Rocky Horror Picture Show
Science Fiction: Serenity
Most embarrassing item you actually enjoy in your collection: n/a - I don't own that many, and what I do own would be considered good by most people.
Noir: The Big Sleep (the Bogart version)
Thriller: I don't like thrillers that much
Actually did psychological trauma to you upon first viewing: Soylent Green
Worst 80s movie: gee, there are so many to choose from
Best way to get your friends never to let you pick the movie again: My friends and I have similar tastes
Movie you know like the back of your hand: the Princess Bride

[AuntiePam]

Romantic Comedy: Overboard
Least likely to watch with your mother: Blue Velvet
Science Fiction: Blade Runner
Most embarrassing item you actually enjoy in your collection: Tommy Boy
Noir: The Third Man
Thriller: The Mummy (well, I was thrilled)
Actually did psychological trauma to you upon first viewing: Cult of the Cobra
Worst 80s movie: The Sentinel
Best way to get your friends never to let you pick the movie again: Session 9

[AuntiePam]

Oh! We get to make up our own?

Best 50's mutant monsters: Them!
Best movie ever about a big pig: Razorback

[kung fu lola]

Romantic Comedy: L.A. Story
Least likely to watch with your mother: Shortbus
Science Fiction: Serenity
Most embarrassing item you actually enjoy in your collection: Swept Away
Noir: Sin City
Actually did psychological trauma to you upon first viewing: Grave Of The Fireflies
Worst 80s movie: Weird Science
Best way to get your friends never to let you pick the movie again: Dangerous Game
Movie you know like the back of your hand: Desperately Seeking Susan

[Miss Purl McKnittington]

Romantic Comedy: Shakespeare in Love
Least likely to watch with your mother: Clerks
Most embarrassing item you actually enjoy in your collection: Kate & Leopold
Noir: I don't really watch noir, unless Who Framed Roger Rabbit? counts.
Thriller: Don't watch 'em.
Actually did psychological trauma to you upon first viewing: The Day After Tomorrow (Embarassingly, one of my biggest fears is the earth being wiped out, especially where everyone I know and love is killed by a giant blizzard. I had nightmares.)
Worst 80s movie: For Keeps? And yet I watch it whenever it's on.
Best way to get your friends never to let you pick the movie again: Master & Commander
Movie you know like the back of your hand: North & South (mini-series based on Elizabeth Gaskell's novel -- rar, Richard Armitage!)

Movie that brought you the most nerdly pleasure: Master & Commander -- fantastic research and an absolutely wonderful movie, to boot. My friends are unappreciative of the great drama and the sex that is Paul Bettany.

[twickster]

Originally Posted by kung fu lola

Most embarrassing item you actually enjoy in your collection: Swept Away

The original or the remake?

[El_Kabong]

Romantic Comedy: don't really do those, but Bridget Jones' Diary wasn't bad
Least likely to watch with your mother: Betty Blue (37.5 le Matin)
Science Fiction: Blade Runner
Most embarrassing item you actually enjoy in your collection: The Omega Man (it really hasn't held up very well)
Noir: The Maltese Falcon
Thriller: Ronin
Actually did psychological trauma to you upon first viewing: Eraserhead
Worst 80s movie: Flashdance
Best way to get your friends never to let you pick the movie again: Zelig
Movie you know like the back of your hand: North by Northwest

And a couple to add:

Giant monsters destroying Tokyo or some other large city: Mothra
WW II: Das Boot

[Key Lime Guy]

Romantic Comedy: Sabrina (original)
Least likely to watch with your mother: Basic Instinct
Science Fiction: n/a
Most embarrassing item you actually enjoy in your collection: Dumb and Dumber
Noir: Sunset Boulevard
Thriller: does Ronin count?
Actually did psychological trauma to you upon first viewing: Jacob's Ladder
Best way to get your friends never to let you pick the movie again: Mindwalk
Movie you know like the back of your hand: The American President

Sweepstakes Trophy: Hoop Dreams

[Molly & Polly]

Swiss Family Robinson for adventure

[CalMeacham]

Romantic Comedy: Charade
Least likely to watch with your mother: Flesh Gordon
Science Fiction: Forbidden Planet or 2001, depending on the day
Most embarrassing item you actually enjoy in your collection: Starship Troopers
Noir: The Maltese Falcon
Thriller: the Day of the Jackal
Actually did psychological trauma to you upon first viewing: Eraserhead or Freaks
Worst 80s movie: King Solomon's Mines
Best way to get your friends never to let you pick the movie again: the Forbidden Zone

[lissener]

Romantic Comedy: The Awful Truth
Least likely to watch with your mother: Visitor Q
Science Fiction: Solaris
Most embarrassing item you actually enjoy in your collection: Life with Mikey
Noir: Detour
Thriller: The General (Keaton)
Actually did psychological trauma to you upon first viewing: The Shining
Worst 80s movie: [I don't do worsts]
Best way to get your friends never to let you pick the movie again: Empire State Building
Back of my hand: The Passion of Joan of Arc
Western: The Searchers
Crime caper: Rififi

[Gangster Octopus]

Romantic Comedy: Say Anything
Least likely to watch with your mother: Syriana, She simply cannot folow complicated plots and I have to eplain EVERYTHING
Science Fiction: Brazil
Most embarrassing item you actually enjoy in your collection: Swordfish
Noir: Chinatown
Thriller: Jaws
Actually did psychological trauma to you upon first viewing: Jacob's Ladder
Worst 80s movie: Superfuzz
Best way to get your friends never to let you pick the movie again: Tommy

[StuffLikeThatThere]

Romantic Comedy: Crossing Delancey
Most embarrassing item you actually enjoy in your collection: The Replacements
Actually did psychological trauma to you upon first viewing: Training Day, though I can't say it's a favorite.
Worst 80s movie: Sixteen Candles
Best way to get your friends never to let you pick the movie again: I'm usually pretty good at this.
Back of my hand: Crossing Delancey
Western: Unforgiven
Crime caper: Ocean's Eleven

[Rebecca DiMwitter]

Romantic Comedy: French Kiss
Least likely to watch with your mother: 9 1/2 Weeks
Science Fiction: [/b]Alien
Most embarrassing item you actually enjoy in your collection: Clash of the Titans
Noir: Blood Simple
Thriller: Don't Look Now
Actually did psychological trauma to you upon first viewing: The Serpent and the Rainbow[/b] and more recently, The Ring
Worst 80's movie: Howard the Duck
Best way to get your friends never to let you pick the movie again: The French Lieutenant's Woman
Most re-watched movie in my collection: Dangerous Liaisons
The western that made me love Westerns: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

--Beck

[Only Mostly Dead]

[quote=Ensign Edison]Title says it all, except that of course some of these 'genres' aren't. Copy mine and/or make up yer own.

Romantic Comedy: Love Actually
Least likely to watch with your mother: Lord of the Rings (a tough category since my mom was game to watch the uncensored Crash, though my dad quickly turned it off. So I just went with "what movie would be hell to have to explain every minor plot point." Nine plus hours of that would drive anybody insane.)
Science Fiction: Empire Strikes Back
Most embarrassing item you actually enjoy in your collection: Starship Troopers (actually within arm's reach right now)
Noir: The Third Man
Thriller: The Third Man (it's worth two listings)
Actually did psychological trauma to you upon first viewing: Silence of the Lambs
Worst 80s movie: darn, Empire Records is 90s... So I'll go with Sixteen Candles (Whassa happenin' hot stuff?)
Best way to get your friends never to let you pick the movie again: Robin Hood (the animated Disney one)
Movie you know like the back of your hand: Princess Bride (natch)

and I will add
Favorite not-quite-historical: Excalibur

[Push You Down]

(I added genres which were sorely needed)

Romantic Comedy: Keeping the Faith (I think that's it. With Norton, Stiller and Elfman)
Least likely to watch with your mother: Brokeback Mountain... again.
Science Fiction: Star Wars- Empire Strikes Back
Most embarrassing item you actually enjoy in your collection: Nothing But Trouble (Chase, Moore and Ackroyd)
Noir: LA Confidential
Thriller: ..ehh... I don't know if I have one.
Western: One Upon A Time in the West
Horror: Dawn of the Dead (original)
Actually did psychological trauma to you upon first viewing: Russ Meyers' UP (I bought it on DVD for 30 bucks a few years later)
Worst 80s movie: One Crazy Summer
Best way to get your friends never to let you pick the movie again: the 1920 silent movie version of Wizard of Oz. (Larry Semon and a young Oliver Hardy)

[Only Mostly Dead]

Also meant to add one other category, but hit 'Submit' too soon:

Explosion filled action: V for Vendetta

[kung fu lola]

Originally Posted by twickster

The original or the remake?

I don't have to feel ashamed of liking the original. Lina Wertmüller is awesome. I love A Joke Of Destiny.

As far as I am concerned, they are two completely different films with similar premises. I think the mental split came when Guy decided he didn't want to showcase his wife begging to be sodomized and wrote that part out.

back on topic, new category: You have quoted in real life more than any other: Tie: Office Space and Truth Or Dare.

PS, Miss Purl McKnittington: Paul Bettany is indeed sex on legs. If I'm at a friends' house and they put on A Knight's Tale, I use my cowl neck sweater to catch the drool.

[Rebecca DiMwitter]

[quote=kung fu lola]back on topic, new category: You have quoted in real life more than any other: Tie: Office Space and Truth Or Dare.

Monty Python's Holy Grail & Young Frankenstein for me as "most quoted".

--Beck

[El Perro Fumando]

Romantic Comedy: The Wedding Singer
Least likely to watch with your mother: Fahrenheit 9/11 (she's Republican - I am not)
Science Fiction: The Matrix
Most embarrassing item you actually enjoy in your collection: Bad Santa (So what if I cried at the end. . .)
Noir: The Usual Suspects
Thriller: Don't really watch these movies. . . so unless Wallace and Grommit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit counts, none.
Actually did psychological trauma to you upon first viewing: E.T. (the Government is Scary. . . )
Worst 80s movie: Say Anything. . .
Best way to get your friends never to let you pick the movie again: Santa Claus Conquers the Martians (The version I bought for Only Mostly Dead when we were first dating which is not the MST3K version . .)
Movie you know like the back of your hand: Princess Bride also most often quoted in our house.
Not-quite-historical: A Knight's Tale
Filled with Explosions: Mr. and Mrs. Smith

And my own addition:
Guaranteed to make me cry: I Am Sam

[twickster]

Romantic comedy: My Best Friend’s Wedding
Least likely to watch with your mother: Dead Ringers
Noir: Sunset Blvd.
Non-noir B&W movie: All About Eve
Screwball comedy: Ball of Fire
Movie you know like the back of your hand: The Producers (also most quoted)
‘50s musical: Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
Best way to get your friends never to let you pick the movie again: The Boy Friend (Ken Russell directs Twiggy in a ‘20s musical)
Make it a point to watch at least once a year: All That Jazz
Guaranteed to make me cry: Hair

[want2know]

Romantic Comedy: Don't like them
Least likely to watch with your mother: Pink Flamingoes
Science Fiction: 2010-The Year We Make Contact
Most embarassing item you actually enjoy in your collection: The remake of The Blob
Noir: The closest to this I get is The Thin Man
Thriller: Silence of the Lambs
Actually did psychological trauma: Carnival of Souls
Worst 80s movie: Tough choice; I've gotta go with Pretty in Pink
Best way to get your friends to never let you pick the movie again: Pink Flamingoes (again)
Movie you know like the back of your hand: Blazing Saddles

And 2 new categories:

Best live-action Disney: National Treasure
Yeah, well I like it, so ! : The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

[Winston Bongo]

Romantic Comedy: I avoid them like the plague, so I guess the closest thing to it that I actually like is The Princess Bride.
Least likely to watch with your mother: Blue Velvet
Science Fiction: I'm a big SF fan, so it's hard to choose a favorite, but probably Blade Runner.
Most embarrassing item you actually enjoy in your collection: Lifeforce
Noir: Classic -- The Third Man. Modern -- The Usual Suspects
Thriller: Rear Window
Actually did psychological trauma to you upon first viewing: Again, Blue Velvet.
Worst 80s movie: Are we talking about "good-bad" 80s movies? If so, then Buckaroo Banzai.
Best way to get your friends never to let you pick the movie again: Dark Star. I was almost lynched for making my best friend watch it in high school. He described it as "Four Ringo Starr clones do nothing in space."
Movie you know like the back of your hand: Tie between Monty Python and the Holy Grail and Back to the Future.
Horror: John Carpenter's The Thing
Western: The Magnificent Seven

And my own category:

Best movie to watch with a group of friends who have all seen it at least ten times: Big Trouble in Little China

[MrDibble]

Romantic Comedy: Shakespeare in Love
Least likely to watch with your mother: Showgirls
Science Fiction: Bladerunner, with Naausica a close second.
Most embarrassing item you actually enjoy in your collection: Star Wars- Phantom Menace
Noir: is Casablanca noir? I like that more than The Third Man, which would be my second choice.
Thriller: The Bourne Identity
Actually did psychological trauma to you upon first viewing: Even Dwarfs Started Small
Worst 80s movie: Shanghai Surprise
Best way to get your friends never to let you pick the movie again: Funny Games . I still get shit for this, 9 years later.
Movie you know like the back of your hand: Star Wars
Horror: Alien
Western: The Outlaw Josey Wales
Best movie(s) to watch with a group of friends who have all seen it at least ten times: Monty Python - any
Best live-action Disney: Pirates of the Caribbean - Curse of the Black Pearl
Yeah, well I like it, so ! : Underworld (and the sequel)
My add:
Best Musical: Little Shop of Horrors

[BMalion]

Romantic Comedy: Roman Holiday
Least likely to watch with your mother: Bo Derek's Tarzan
Science Fiction: Forbidden Planet
Most embarrassing item you actually enjoy in your collection: Silverado
Noir: The Big Sleep
Actually did psychological trauma to you upon first viewing: Bo Derek's Tarzan
Worst 80s movie: Bo Derek's Tarzan
Best way to get your friends never to let you pick the movie again: Casino Royale
Movie you know like the back of your hand: The Court Jester

[Evil Captor]

Black comedy: Comic Book Villains.
Runner-up for black comedy: Something for Everyone (A movie that will give you a whole new perspective on Angela Lansbury.

[LVBoPeep]

Romantic Comedy: Bridget Jones' Diary
Least likely to watch with your mother: Anything she likes (horrible taste in movies)
Science Fiction: Star Wars
Most embarrassing item you actually enjoy in your collection: Billy Madison
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Thriller: Primal Fear
Actually did psychological trauma to you upon first viewing: Dancer in the Dark

Worst 80s movie: Howard the Duck

Best way to get your friends never to let you pick the movie again: Orgazmo

Movie you know like the back of your hand:BBC version of Pride & Prejudice
Horror: I hate horror but I like The Others or The Shining type movies.
Western: Lonesome Dove
Best movie(s) to watch with a group of friends who have all seen it at least ten times: Office Space
Best live-action Disney: Pirates of the Caribbean - Curse of the Black Pearl
Yeah, well I like it, so ! : The Island

[Only Mostly Dead]

I have to join in on two added categories:

Musical - The Producers
Black Comedy - Bad Santa

[Don Draper]

Romantic Comedy: Bringing Up Baby
Least likely to watch with your mother: Either Eraserhead or Fellini's Satyricon
Science Fiction: the Liquid Sky
Most embarrassing item you actually enjoy in your collection: Ineligible. I rent.
Noir: the Postman Always Rings Twice
Thriller: Odd Man Out
Actually did psychological trauma to you upon first viewing: the Reflecting Skin
Worst 80s movie: My Best Friend Is a Vampire
Best way to get your friends never to let you pick the movie again: Another tie - Prospero's Books or the Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie

Horror: Nosferatu: Ein Symphonie des Horreurs
Non-english language: Kwaidon or To Live
Documentary: Crumb

[Talon Karrde]

These are the ones I could come up with so far:

Least likely to watch with your mother: Either The Last Temptation of Christ or Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Noir: Taxi Driver
Thriller: Psycho
Best way to get your friends never to let you pick the movie again: Grave of the Fireflies
WWII: Downfall

[delphica]

Romantic Comedy: While You Were Sleeping
Least likely to watch with your mother: 40 Year Old Virgin
Science Fiction: Star Wars
Most embarrassing item you actually enjoy in your collection: Point Break
Noir (classic) The Third Man
Noir (new) Brick
Thriller: it occurs to me I'm not really sure what defines this genre. Donnie Darko?
Actually did psychological trauma to you upon first viewing: Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
Worst 80s movie: does this mean worst 80s movie that is actually awesome? Then Real Genius. If it means worst 80s movie that I like anyway, then Beastmaster.
Best way to get your friends never to let you pick the movie again: Hudson Hawk (I'm still not allowed to pick the movie, and it's been over 10 years)

[Glory]

Romantic Comedy: Shakespeare in Love
Least likely to watch with your mother: Requiem for a Dream
Science Fiction: The Matrix
Most embarrassing item you actually enjoy in your collection: Grease 2,
Noir: Memento, House of Games, Bound
Thriller: Manhunter
Actually did psychological trauma to you upon first viewing: The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover
Worst 80s movie: Leonard Part 6
Best 80s movie: Breakfast Club
Best way to get your friends never to let you pick the movie again: Strictly Ballroom (I loved it, my friend hated it). Oh! Forbidden Zone (thanks again for that, Burnmeup!). A different friend brought Prospero's Books to my house a long time ago (it was mentioned earlier in this category so just wanted to AGREE).
Best documentary: Winged Migration, Spellbound
Movie you have walked out on in a theatre - The Phantom (and almost The Shadow)
Best movie(s) to watch with a group of friends who have all seen it at least ten times - Star Wars
Best musical - Moulin Rouge
Horror - The Thing (the remake), Alien
Best Foreign Film - Jean de Florette
Best same subject movies released at the same time - Dangerous Liaisons and Valmont
Well, I like it so! Centerstage

[Sapo]

Hard SciFi: 12 monkeys
Soft SciFi: Gattaca
SciFi comedy: Fifth Element
Space Opera: SW The Empire Strikes Back
Horror: Alien
Animated: The Iron Giant
Ridiculous Parody: Top Secret
"Serious" Parody: True Lies
Barakish: Baraka

[Evil Captor]

Movie you'd never watch with your mother: Electra (the one with Shannon Tweed)
Movie you'd never watch with your secretary: Secretary