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    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


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    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



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    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?

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



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    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

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    • 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

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    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
    Jack: How do you know?

    Will: It's more of a feeling really.

    Jack: Well, that's not scientific. Feeling isn't knowing. Feeling is believing. If you believe it, you can't know because there's no knowing what you believe. Then again, no one should believe what they know either. Once you know anything that anything becomes unbelievable if only by virtue of the fact you now... know it. You know?

    Will: No.

    If Demolition Man were remade today

    Huxley: What's wrong? You broke contact.
    Spartan: Contact? I didn't even touch you.
    Huxley: Don't you want to make love?
    Spartan: Is that what you call this? Why don't we just do it the old-fashioned way?
    Huxley: NO!
    Spartan: Whoa! Okay, calm down.
    Huxley: Don't tell me to calm down!
    Spartan: What's gotten into you? 'Cause it sure as hell wasn't me.
    Huxley: Physical relations in the way of intercourse are no longer acceptable John Spartan.
    Spartan: What? Why the hell not?
    Huxley: It's the law, John. And for your information, the very idea that you suggested it makes me feel personally violated.
    Spartan: Wait a minute... violated? Huxley what the hell are you accusing me of here?
    Huxley: You need to leave, John.
    Spartan: But Huxley.
    Huxley: Get out!
    Moments later Spartan is arrested for "violating" Huxley.

    By the way, that's called satire. Get over it.

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    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


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    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.

    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)

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    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

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