Top 10 Modern Adventure Movies (Part 1)
With summer — the ideal time for adventure — just around the corner, let’s explore the best adventure films of our day.
Adventure films these days are few and far between.
They were most notably popular during the 30s and 40s with films like The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) and Mark of Zorro (1940), but were replaced by other popular genres.
That is, until around the 70s, when rising filmmakers George Lucas and Steven Spielberg, who were nostalgic for these past thrills, successfully ushered in a new era of the adventure film with their Star Wars and Indiana Jones franchises. This era continued into the 90s, but pretty much died out in the mid-2000s.
So what defines an adventure?
Adventure stories find their protagonists out of their comfort zone, usually on a quest into unfamiliar territories and invariably encountering challenges and conflicts along the way.
Often the protagonist doesn’t embark on said quest, but is instead thrust into a crazy situation, often in alternative versions of home, and must face challenges inherent to this new world.
In short, adventure isn’t adventure without a sense of discovery, excitement and danger.
