AFI names Top 10 genre films

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

Plus "2001" is boring as all hell.

Bah!

The Fantasy list may be off, but the Scifi one is pretty good...save for The Day the Earth Stood Still being a bit low.

 

[The Grumpy Celt]

I am a member of a horror discussion group and over there people have been quavetching about the lack of a catagory for thriller's or horror.

 

[Cat Moon]

Wow, that Fantasy list is atrocious.

No kidding. You'd think that Legend would have at least made that list.

 

[Henry]

Lord of the Rings tops the list for me, if you're talking Sword and Sorcery. That film distills the classic D&D-ish elements out of Tolkien's book. Evil Overlord? Epic Artifact? Classic Adventuring party? Undead? Demons? Awesome combat scene with a troll? (I swear, you could have yelled "roll initiative!" at the screen for the start of that scene.) Orcs? Valiant Sacrifice to hold off the enemy? Of the three, that one has it all. It's what hundreds of thousands of geeks wanted the D&D movie to be like.

 

[Angel Tarragon]

No kidding. You'd think that Legend would have at least made that list.

Gads, you are right about that. Also, you'd think that Labyrinth would have made the list.

 

[Klaus]

Legend, Labyrinth, Conan the Barbarian and Ladyhawke should be in any Fantasy film list!

 

[el-remmen]

Legend, Labyrinth, Conan the Barbarian and Ladyhawke should be in any Fantasy film list!

Ladyhawke is ruined by its music (Tangerine Dream? Who was the genius who thought synthesizer music was good for a dark medieval fantasy movie? - It literally makes it unwatchable for me), which is too bad, because otherwise it is pretty good.

Legend and Labyrinth are both pretty horrible movies, but Conan the Barbarian is friggin' awesome and while it might not make top ten "fantasy" movies, it is definitely top 5 "sword & sorcery".

 

[Angel Tarragon]

Legend and Labyrinth are both pretty horrible movies....

Horrible you say? Blasphemer!

 

[Mark]

Don't all of the Indiana Jones movies have fantastical elements, not completely unlike Wonderful Life and 34th Street?

 

[Klaus]

Don't all of the Indiana Jones movies have fantastical elements, not completely unlike Wonderful Life and 34th Street?

Yep, pretty much so. Ark of Nazi Melting, Burning Stones and the spell Forced Ribcage Entry, and the Grail of Really Slow Aging But You Have To Stay Put.