10 Top 10 Films

I've become a huge film buff, and I've gotten closer and closer to reaching my goal of watching all 100 of the American Film Institute's Top 100 films.

So, what I want to know is this: Your 10 favorite films in 10 different genres in no real order... (I bolded my favorite of each.)

• Action and Adventure
• Animation
• Comedy
• Crime
• Drama and Romance
• Epics and Historical
• Fantasy
• Horror and Thriller
• Musical
• Science Fiction

Go.

Action/Adventure

• 3:10 to Yuma
• The Avengers
• Casino Royale
• The Crow
• The Dark Knight
• Die Hard
• Django Unchained
• The Hurt Locker
• Raiders of the Lost Ark
• True Grit

Animation

• Finding Nemo
• The Iron Giant
• Persepolis
• Princess Mononoke
• Secret of NIMH
• Spirited Away
• Toy Story
• Up
• Wall-E
• Who Framed Roger Rabbit?

Comedy

• A Fish Called Wanda
• Airplane!
• Anchorman
• Blazing Saddles
• Groundhog Day
• Life of Brian
• Monty Python and the Holy Grail
• The Princess Bride
• This is Spinal Tap
• Young Frankenstein

Crime

• The Departed
• Drive
• Fargo
• The Godfather
• Heat
• Memento
• Pulp Fiction
• Reservoir Dogs
• The Untouchables
• The Usual Suspects

Drama/Romance

• 12 Angry Men
• American Beauty
• Brokeback Mountain
• Citizen Kane
• The Crying Game
• Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?
• Lost in Translation
• One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
• To Kill a Mockingbird
• Taxi Driver

Epics/Historical

• Apocalypto
• Braveheart
• Bridge on the River Kwai
• Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
• Gladiator
• Lawrence of Arabia
• Letters from Iwo Jima
• Rashomon
• Saving Private Ryan
• Schindler's List

Fantasy

• Big
• Edward Scissorhands
• The Green Mile
• Harry Potter ans the Prisoner of Azkaban
• It's a Wonderful Life
• Jason and the Argonauts
• Life of Pi
• Lord of the Rings
• Pan's Labyrinth
• Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

Horror/Thriller

• Black Swan
• Let The Right One In
• Night of the Living Dead
• No Country For Old Men
• Psycho
• Requiem for a Dream
• Se7en
• Silence of the Lambs
• The Sixth Sense
• Vertigo

Musical

• Cabaret
• Chicago
• Guys and Dolls
• Oliver!
• The Producers
• The Rocky Horror Picture Show
• The Sound of Music
• Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Baker Street
• Tommy
• The Wizard of Oz

Science Fiction

• 2001: A Space Odyssey
• A Clockwork Orange
• Alien
• Blade Runner
• District 9
• Donnie Darko
• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
• Inception
• Looper
• Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

Ambitious goal, Laddy. I can probably give you one, but not ten.

Action: Die Hard
Adventure: Raiders of the Lost Ark
Animation: Aladdin
Comedy: The Big Lebowski
Crime: Se7en
Drama: The Godfather
Romance: N/A
Epics:
Historical:
Fantasy: Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Horror: N/A
Thriller: The Fugitive
Musical: The Sound of Music
Science Fiction: The Empire Strikes Back

For some reason I can't think of any epics or historical right now. What counts as epic?

A long, typically non-fantastical, quest-based storyline with heroic protagonists, large budgets, and rather deliberate pacing.

Action and Adventure: Commando
Animation: The Emperor's New Groove
Comedy: Austin Powers
Crime: Heat
Drama and Romance: America's Sweethearts...it counts as romance!!! It is a Rom-Com after all >.>
Epics and Historical: Lawrence of Arabia
Fantasy: Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring
Horror and Thriller: Pitch Black
Musical: The Producers
Science Fiction: Star Wars

Some of these categories were easier than others. The ones I put right off the bat are Sci-Fi, Horror, Historic, Action, Crime and Animation. The others were more like "I guess I will put this down" because I am not as big of a fan of those genre or nothing sticks out as "DUH!" to me...and I found my loop hole for Drama/Romance. Considering all of the Rom-Coms you shouldn't have double booked romance with drama. It gives a loop hole for fun =D

• Action and Adventure The Dark Knight Rises
• Animation Akira
• Comedy Team America
• Crime Se7en
• Drama and Romance The Shawshank Redemption
• Epics and Historical Gladiator
• Fantasy LOTR: The Two Towers
• Horror and Thriller Evil Dead 2
• Musical Oliver!
• Science Fiction Aliens

1. Action/Adventure
   
   
   • The Avengers
   • Casino Royale
   • The Matrix
   • The Dark Knight Rises
   • The Crow
   • Die Hard
   • Raiders of the Lost Ark
   • Young Guns
   • Expendables
   • X-Men Origins: Wolverine
   
   
2. Animation
   
   
   • Wall-E
   • Dragon Ball Z: Broly - Second Coming
   • Titan AE
   • Finding Nemo
   • The Iron Giant
   • Small Soldiers
   • The Animatrix
   • Fullmetal Alchemist: Conquerors of Shamballa
   • Up
   • Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
   
   
3. Comedy
   
   
   • Death Becomes Her
   • Hot Shots!
   • Robin Hood: Men in Tights
   • Blazing Saddles
   • Groundhog Day
   • Gremlins 2: The New Batch
   • Men at Work
   • The Princess Bride
   • Drop Dead Fred
   • Airplane!
   
   
4. Crime Drama
   
   
   • Ocean's 11
   • Fast and the Furious
   • The Italian Job
   • Armored
   • Heat
   • Q&A
   • Suicide Kings
   • Reservoir Dogs
   • The Untouchables
   • Set It Off
   
   
5. Drama/Romance
   
   
   • Forrest Gump
   • American Beauty
   • Boyz n the Hood
   • Rain Man
   • Sling Blade
   • Stand By Me
   • Schindler's List
   • One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
   • Romeo+Juliet
   • What's Eating Gilbert Grapes
   
   
6. Epics/Historical
   
   
   • Big Red One
   • Braveheart
   • Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
   • Gladiator
   • Alexander
   • The Ten Commandments
   • The Patriot
   • Saving Private Ryan
   • Jeanne d'Arc
   
   
7. Fantasy
   
   
   • Big
   • Edward Scissorhands
   • The Green Mile
   • Lord of the Rings
   • The Witches
   • It's a Wonderful Life
   • Life of Pi
   • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
   • The Neverending Story
   • Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
   
   
8. Horror/Thriller
   
   
   • Jeepers Creepers
   • An American Werewolf in Paris
   • Evil Dead
   • Sleepy Hollow
   • American Psycho
   • Event Horizon
   • Se7en
   • Silence of the Lambs
   • The Sixth Sense
   • Four Horsemen
   
   
9. Musical
   
   
   • Les Miserables
   • Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
   • Nightmare Before Christmas
   • The Rocky Horror Picture Show
   • South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut
   • Fiddler On The Roof
   • The Producers
   • The Sound of Music
   • Across the Universe
   • The Wizard of Oz
   
   
10. Science Fiction
    
    
    • 2001: A Space Odyssey
    • Star Trek '09
    • Alien
    • Blade Runner
    • District 9
    • Mad Max
    • Rise of the Planet of the Apes
    • Inception
    • Looper
    • Terminator 2

Action: Spiderman (Toby Maguire version) or Avengers
Adventure: Raiders of the Lost Ark
Animation: How to Train Your Dragon
Comedy: Dumb and Dumber or There's Something about Mary
Crime: Goodfellas
Drama: The Deer Hunter (does that count?)
Romance: Bridesmaids or Water for Elephants
Epics: No idea xD
Historical: Schindlers List, Saving Private Ryan or Full Metal Jacket
Fantasy: Pan's Labrynth
Horror: Låt den rätte komma in
Thriller: Silence of the Lambs
Musical: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes or Chicago
Science Fiction: Alien

I'll have to think about this some more.. this is HARD

I'm not even close to completing that 100 Best Films list and I cannot think of only ten films for each of those genres. I cba to list all of them so I will just give you one or two of each. :monster:

Action and Adventure: Bad Boys and 300
Animation: Up and The Lion King
Comedy: Dumb and Dumber and Ace Ventura Pet Detective basically only movies from the 90s have made me laugh.
Crime: The Usual Suspects and Goodfellas
Drama and Romance: These are two different genres, but both combined I'll say The Notebook.
DRAMA: The Green Mile
Epics and Historical Ben Hur
Fantasy: Pan's Labyrinth and mother smurfing Jumanji
Horror and Thriller: Oldboy and Psycho
Musical: No thanks. Does The Lion King and Nightmare Before Christmas count? Sweeney Todd wasn't horrible I guess.
Science Fiction: District 9 and Prometheus (yeah no Star Wars OR Star Trek because idgaf)

Action: Die Hard
Adventure: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Animation: Akira
Comedy: This is Spinal Tap
Crime: Zodiac
Drama: Let the Right One In
Romance: ?
Epics: Dances With Wolves
Historical: Das Boot (don't think it's historically accurate, but hey!)
Fantasy: The Fountain
Horror: Dawn of the Dead
Thriller: Aliens
Musical: ?
Science Fiction: The Empire Strikes Back