Re-Post: Off-Topic: Top Five Movies

I've been thinking about this list, and I'm pretty happy with it:

 

Off-Topic: Top Five Movies

A note on CITIZEN KANE: Citizen Kane is almost universally accepted by movie critics as the best movie of all time. While the film is not terribly 'entertaining', it is profound in a way that words fail to describe.  But it is a hard film to 'get'. In fact, I think the best way to understand the film is to study the work of Andre Bazin, the film theorist whose philosophy is brought  to live in KANE. I think Kane transcends genre, and so it is not on my list. Watched with the right eyes, and you have to have the right eyes to get it, it really is the finest thing ever produced on film. It stands in a class by itself.

Action Films
1) THE AVENGERS
2) RONIN
3) DIE HARD
4) THE DARK KNIGHT
5) LETHAL WEAPON

Comedies
1) YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN
2) GROUNDHOG DAY
3) BLAZING SADDLES
4) ARMY OF DARKNESS
5) GHOSTBUSTERS

Science Fiction
1) STAR WARS: THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK
2) STAR TREK: THE WRATH OF KHAN
3) ALIENS
4) THE MATRIX
5) AVATAR

Fantasy 
1) PAN'S LABYRINTH
2) LORD OF THE RINGS: THE TWO TOWERS
3) THE PRINCESS BRIDE
4) DRAGONSLAYER
5) STARDUST

Musicals
1) WIZARD OF OZ
2) LES MISERABLES
3) OH BROTHER WHERE ART THOU
4) DAMN YANKEES
5) ACROSS THE UNIVERSE

Horror
1) EXORCIST
2) THE SHINING
3) EVIL DEAD II
4) THE LOST BOYS
5) THE THING

Animated- Children's
1) UP
2) CINDERELLA
3) THE SECRET OF NIMH
4) WALL-E
5) MONSTERS VS ALIENS

Drama
1) AMERICAN BEAUTY
2) TREE OF LIFE
3) CASABLANCA
4) AFRICAN QUEEN
5) THE GREEN MILE