Top 10 Films in 10 Different Genres
You’re making me pick only ten movies? For me, that’s just impossible. So here’s a compromise: my top ten picks from ten different genres.
Action/Adventure:
1. Raiders of the Lost Ark
2. Die Hard
3. Face/Off
4. Terminator 2: Judgement Day
5. Aliens
6. The Matrix
7. John Wick
8. The Mummy (1999)
9. Goldfinger
10. Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl
Science Fiction:
1. Jurassic Park
2. Star Wars (any of them)
3. Blade Runner
4. Starship Troopers
5. Inception
6. E.T. The Extraterrestial
7. 2001: A Space Odyssey
8. Close Encounters of the Third Kind
9. Back to the Future
10. Predator
Fantasy:
1. Lord of the Rings: Return of the King
2. Harry Potter (any of them)
3. Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
4. Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring
5. It’s a Wonderful Life
6. Who Framed Roger Rabbit
7. The Princess Bride
8. Dragonheart
9. Jumanji
10. Edward Scissorhands
Horror:
1. Alien
2. Jaws
3. The Thing
4. Psycho
5. Halloween (1978)
6. Night of the Living Dead
7. The Omen
8. The Conjuring
9. Tremors
10. The Haunting
Comedy:
1. Blazing Saddles
2. The Blues Brothers
3. Caddyshack
4. Spaceballs
5. National Lampoon’s Vacation
6. National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation
7. Trains, Planes, and Automobiles
8. Robin Hood: Men in Tights
9. Ted
10. Scary Movie
Drama:
1. The Shawshank Redemption
2. A Few Good Men
3. 12 Angry Men
4. Schindler’s List
5. Pulp Fiction
6. Tombstone
7. A Star is Born (2019)
8. Gran Torino
9. Forrest Gump
10. A Time to Kill
War:
1. Saving Private Ryan
2. Zulu
3. Black Hawk Down
4. Glory
5. Braveheart
6. Full Metal Jacket
7. The Hurt Locker
8. Inglorious Bastards
9. The Patriot
10. Windtalkers
Animation:
1. Beauty and The Beast
2. The Lion King
3. Shrek
4. Aladdin
5. The Land Before Time
6. Toy Story
7. The Lego Movie
8. The Prince of Egypt
9. How to Train Your Dragon
10. The Breadwinner
Comic Book:
1. The Dark Knight
2. Avengers: Endgame
3. Spider-Man 2
4. Logan
5. The Avengers
6. Black Panther
7. Superman
8. Captain America: Civil War
9. The Mask
10. Watchmen
Musicals:
1. The Sound of Music
2. The Wizard of Oz
3. Music Man
4. Mary Poppins
5. Les Miserable
6. Rocketman
7. Sweeny Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
8. Enchanted
9. Across the Universe
10. Grease
And just for fun: my picks for the top ten worst movies ever made.
1. Fan4stic
2. The Last Airbender
3. Dragonball Evolution
4. The Dark Tower
5. Kirk Cameron’s Saving Christmas
6. Twilight (all of them)
7. God’s Not Dead
8. Catwoman
9. Son of the Mask
10. The Emoji Movie