Top Adventure Movies

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1. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
2. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
3. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
4. Star Wars (1977)
5. Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
6. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
7. North by Northwest (1959)
8. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
9. Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi (2001)
10. Apocalypse Now (1979)

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Luminaries of the Genre

• Harrison Ford
• Sean Connery
• Mel Gibson
• Steven Spielberg
• Will Smith
• George Lucas
• Pierce Brosnan
• Kevin Costner
• Sigourney Weaver
• Douglas Fairbanks

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Very few comic books have successfully made the transition to film, and they have one thing in common: a director who takes them seriously. This is true of the first Superman, the first Batman, and most recently Bryan Singer's X-Men. Singer does fans the ultimate favor: he approaches the film as a film, not as a comic book with moving pictures. (For a dismal, dismal example of this latter strategy, see Batman and Robin). He accepts the outlandish premise--sudden, violent genetic mutations are producing a race ("homo superior") of freakishly powerful mutants--at face value. He does not wink at us behind the characters' backs, does not play for kitschy nostalgia, but imagines in subtle detail a world in which this abrupt evolution is actually taking place. (The mutants are terrified and isolated, feared and hated by family and friends, soon to be "registered" by the government, and echoes of the Holocaust are made explicit by the first scene.) Rather than over-producing an "event movie," Singer reins it in at a slim 104 minutes, leaving audiences intrigued and ready for more. (more)