DVDs Chez Icarus!

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Or some of them, anyway. On the back of my last post, I decided to write out an inventory of the ones in the press, sans TV Series, and put them up with tentative genre classifications. And thoughts/criticisms/ideas welcome! Whether about the classification system or our taste in movies, I leave to you!

 

Crime/Thriller/Action:

Heat

The Big Sleep

Who Framed Roger Rabbit (film noir is film noir, cartoon antics or no!)

Gorky Park

Con Air

Phone Booth

Bourne Identity

Bourne Supremacy

Sin City

Assault on Precinct 13 (thought is was the original, but turned out to be new one in the original box. Gah!)

Narc

The Untouchables

Serpico

Pulp Fiction

The Illusionist (best guess genre)

The Transporter

Man on Fire

The Siege

Ronin

Red Heat

Road to Perdition (though this may be drama?)

Insomnia (haven't watched this yet)

For Queen and Country

Eastern Promises (seen patches)

The Taking of Pelham 123 (love!)

Collateral

The Usual Suspects

L.A. Confidential

Silence of the Lambs

Sleuth

Black Jack (anime - went with medical crime as main plot, sci-fi elements aside)

Blood Diamond (not quite war, nearly drama)

Donnie Brasco

Carlito's Way

Colours

The Crimson Rivers

The Score

The Jackal

A Kiss Before Dying

The Killer Elite

La Femme Nikita

The Saint

The Rock

'Bullitt'

The Conversation

The Getaway

Zodiac

Training Day

Comedy:

Dogma (nearly fantasy)

Chicken Run

Love Hina (series, yes, but it came in one box)

Starsky & Hutch (the movie - have the series, too, much better)

Flushed Away

The Life Aquatic

Shrek

Shrek 2

Hound of the Baskervilles spoof version

Over the Hedge

The Odd Couple

Muppets Wizard of Oz (kinda crap)

The Raven (class!)

True Lies (haven't watched yet)

MIB

Wallace & Grommit Complete Adventures (all 4)

Young Frankenstein

Witches of Eastwick (not fond of it)

Muppets Christmas Carol

The Italian Job (ORIGINAL, if you please)

Musicals:

Moulin Rouge

The Rocky Horror Picture Show (stumped us for ages)

Fiddler On The Roof

Bugsy Malone

Brassed Off (nearly drama, class either way)

Fame

Fantasy:

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (best guess?)

The Mummy

Excalibur

13th Warrior

Pirates of the Carribbean

Pirates of the Carribbean 2

Lord of the Rings Trilogy in Extended Editions

Trinity Blood (best guess - anime)

Saiyuki

Cardcaptor Sakura (movie)

Green Mile (loooong argument over this one)

The Storyteller (Jim Henson, fabulous series of shorts)

Harry Potter & the Philosopher's Stone

Batman Returns (I know, I know, but the Penguin?)

War:

(to warn you, I haven't seen half of these)

Battle of Britain

A Bridge Too Far (hell of a cast!)

Paths of Glory

Das Boot

Downfall

Platoon

Zulu (I kinda loved this)

Gallipoli

The Longest Day (tell me about it!)

Lawrence of Arabia (well, there's a war in it, isn't there?)

Three Kings

The Sand Pebbles (nearly drama)

Stalingrad

Saving Private Ryan (filmed near us)

Enemy At The Gates

Patton

Hunt For Red October

The Blue Max

Bridge At Remagen

Crimson Tide

The Great Escape (again, nearly drama)

Ice Cold In Alex

Master & Commander

Tora! Tora! Tora!

Thin Red Line

We Were Soldiers

Memphis Belle

M*A*S*H*

Band of Brothers (full set)

Disaster Movie:

Jaws

Twister

Perfect Storm

Dantes Peak

Flight of the Phoenix (nearly drama)

Vertical Limit (I hate this movie)

The Ghost & The Darkness (nearly horror, nearly drama)

Western:

True Grit

The Magnificent Seven (love!)

The Wild Bunch

Long Riders

Sci-Fi:

The Fifth Element

The Phantom (I still think this was more fantasy)

Cowboy Bebob (the movie)

V for Vendetta (AU = sci-fi, y/n?)

Blade Runner (Film noir, yes, but the androids kinda fix it)

Cocoon - The Return

Stargate (the movie)

Akira

Enemy Mine (soooo much love)

The Andromeda Strain

Appleseed (original)

Minority Report

Strange Days (nearly crime)

Metropolis (1926)

Metropolis (90s anime)

Ghost in the Shell (the movie)

Aliens (nearly war, nearly disaster movie)

I, Robot

When Worlds Collide

Macross Plus

The Matrix

Horror:

Van Hellsing

Alien (nearly sci-fi)

Duel (nearly drama)

Frankenstein (Branagh version, unfortunately)

Underworld

Underworld 2

The Crow

The Wicker Man (again, original, if you please)

Carrie (haven't actually seen it)

Manhunter (Hannibal the Cannibal, yes, but I put this firmly in horror, not crime)

Sixth Sense

'Salem's Lot

The Prophecy (nearly fantasy, but the soul they were looking for?)

28 Days Later

28 Weeks Later

Pitch Black (I thought sci-fi, but was overruled)

From Hell (Jack the Ripper, but the Gothic overtones tipped it, I think)

Nosferatu (20s German version - gorgeous)

Drama:

Unbreakable

St Elmo's Fire (haven't seen yet)

The Shawshank Redemption

Philadelpia (what dad calls a 'disease of the week movie')

Falling Down

The Crucible (haven't seen)

12 Angry Men (class of the highest order!)

On The Waterfront (nearly crime)

Dead Poet's Society (which is an argument in itself, not to mind genre!)

84 Charing Cross Road

Bringing Out The Dead (best guess)

Dead Zone (horror? crime? drama?)

Last King of Scotland (best guess)

Midnight Cowboy (fabulous)

Scent Of A Woman

Strumpet City (series, but hey)

Gladiator (we didn't know where to put it!)

Hotel Rwanda (which I would put in Horror, emphatically, but ...)

One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (again, horror for me)

The Merchant Of Venice

The Right Stuff

Romeo & Juliet (Luhrman version)

Thunderbolt And Lightfoot (haven't seen)

Withnail & I