Movie Night?

Question

I am planning a movie night for the staff at the office. Any ideas on movies etc.

Answer 1

Watch Apocalypto

Answer 2

Office Space

Answer 3

Robbin Williams in RV:
9 to 5 with Dolly Parton
Cars:
Pretty woman
Chicago
Texa Across the River
Blazing Saddles
Stur Crazy
To name a few light comdies:

Answer 4

I'd say something funny and upbeat, and depending on the type of office you are in/people you work with, something as unoffensive as possible. It might seem weird but movies I NEVER tire of watching are Blast From the Past, Grumpy Old Men, and Home Alone! Just to name a few.

Answer 5

Well, which genre were ya looking for? A good place to get reviews on movies is http://www.imdb.com as well as http://www.netflix.com - when people return the movie, they'll often rate and review the movie. I try to do this when my husband and I return out movies to Netflix.

If you're not sure of what genre, I'd take a poll. Ask the staff what genre of movie they enjoy. Maybe make the poll with the genres, ask everyone to fill out from 1-5 (1 being their favorite, and 5 being their least favorite) which genre's of movies they like to watch and to leave blank the genre's they absolutely will not watch. Reason I suggest that is because my husband and I will not watch horror movies. We just don't like them. My husband has never had a taste for them, but I tend to get nightmares as my imagination runs away with itself. But here's some genre's to use:

Drama (Finding Neverland, Memiors of a Geisha, Field of Dreams, Days of Thunder, Chariots of Fire, Malcolm X)

Comedy (Fargo, This is Spinal Tap, Blazing Saddles, Ghostbusters, Young Frankenstein, The Mask, Beetlejuice, Sideways, Prizzi's Honor, Spaceballs, A Fish Called Wanda, The Sting, The Breakup)

Dramedy (A Drama with Comedy tied in, hard to fit in either catagory) (The Terminal, Adaptation)

Horror (Saw, Pulse, Dracula, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde movies, Frankenstein, A Werewolf in London, The Ring)

Musical (The Producers, Chicago, Guys & Dolls, Phantom of the Opera, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Rent)

Animation (Ice Age 1 & 2, Toy Story, Titan A.E)

Action/Adventure (Pirates of the Carribean I & II, Waterworld , The Mummy Movies, Sahara, National Treasure, Any James Bond movie, Robin Hood, Indiana Jones movies)

Sci-Fi/Fantasy (Serenity, Star Wars Movies, Star Trek Movies, The Fly, The Fifth Element, The Matrix movies, X-men Movies, Fantastic Four, Minority Report)

Western (Tombstone, Wyatt Earp, The Frisco Kid)

Epics (Dances with Wolves (Western), Star Wars (Sci-Fi), The Last Emperor (Historical), Apocalypse Now (Auteur), Gone With The Wind (War), Schindler's List (War), Gang's of New York (Historical), Godfather(Crime))

Thrillers - (The Butterfly Effect, Lucky Number Slevin, The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy)

War/Anti-War - (Glory, Fahrenheit 9/11, All Quiet on the Western Front, The Alamo, Gods and Generals, Casualties of War)

Crime/Gangster/Mystery- (Scarface, The Maltese Falcon, Cool Hand Luke, Shawshank Redemption, GoodFellas, Dirty Harry, The French Connection, Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, The Silence of the Lambs)

Anyways, there's some starters. Here's a good site that lists Film Genre's (http://www.filmsite.org/genres.html)to try as well as movies. It also has links to AFI (American Film Institute) picks like their 400 Greatest American Films, 100 Years...100 Movies (by decade), The 100 Greatest American Films, The 100 Funniest Comedies, The 100 Most Thrilling Films, plus love stories, etc.

Film Genres - http://www.filmsite.org/genres.html
Link to the AFI lists - http://www.filmsite.org/films.html#afiseries

Take a look at the first link. There's a lot of great suggestions and great movies there. As you can see I really had a hard time just picking one per genre. I hope I didn't make your mind whirl. But try those genre's with the staff in your office (using some of those films as examples) or you can add War, crime films to action/adventure. The Epics can be removed too as you can see if you visit IMDB (Internet Movie DataBase http://www.imdb.com) and look up any of these movies, most of them will fit into other categories (which is why the category Dramedy is beginning to flush itself out into existence. It was a term I picked up in high school theater back in 1993, so it's not exactly leaping its way onto the stage lol =P).

Good luck and enjoy your movie night =)