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I first did this back in 2019, but I thought I'd dust it off, tidy it up, and maybe add to it. I need more categories.
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Favourite classic film: Lawrence of Arabia
Favourite war film: The Bridge on the River Kwai
Favourite beautiful film that I actually hate so I never watch it but love watching it when I do: The Fall (Tarsem Singh)
Favourite '80s not-even-remotely-guilty-pleasures: Trading Places, Major League, Private Benjamin, Desperately Seeking Susan
Favourite silent film: Battleship Potemkin
Favourite Bond film: You Only Live Twice
Favourite old Hollywood musical: An American In Paris, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
Favourite movies that I put on when I go to bed because sometimes I hate silence: three of the five Alien Nation post-TV series films: Dark Horizon, The Enemy Within, The Udara Legacy
Favourite John Hughes film: The Breakfast Club, Pretty In Pink
Favourite mindfuck: Altered States
Favourite film that was so emotionally affecting that I can never watch it again because it'll break my heart, again: A Taste of Honey
Favourite Star Trek film: Save the Whales (IV: The Voyage Home)
Favourite Christmas film: Scrooge (1951, Alistair Sim)
Favourite films to watch just for the colour: just about anything by Zhang Yimou, so Hero, House of Flying DaggersCurse of the Golden Flower, and also Tarsem Singh's The Fall.
Favourite weekend afternoon films when I was a kid: The World of Henry Orient, The Trouble With Angels, the two horrible Peter Cushing Doctor Who films
Favourite middle of the night film as a teen: Times Square
Favourite old comedic film: Operation Petticoat
Favourite worst adaptation of a book film: Pride and Prejudice (1940)
Favourite display of Ray Harryhausen's skill: The Valley of Gwangi
Favourite terrible Christmas movie: Santa Claus Conquers the Martians