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Empire 301 Greatest Movies
Mr.Lavigne
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The new issue of Empire has a (readers) list of the 301 Greatest Movies.
At #1 is The Empire Strikes Back.
Anyone else read the issue/list? What are the general thoughts?
At #1 is The Empire Strikes Back.
Anyone else read the issue/list? What are the general thoughts?
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The usual suspects.
I agree. Not that the ones at the top aren't good films. Some of them are very good or even great films. It's just like as you say, the same old faces. Usually more modern big name films which people have heard of because the media talk about them more than other films.
When I look further down that list I see much more interesting films, and often what I think are better films.
In fact it wouldn't matter if you'd turned the list upside down. The ones near the bottom could just as well be near the top.
For example if you swapped the film placed at 301, 'Bicycle Thieves', with the one at number 1, 'The Empire Strikes Back', that would be fine with me.:D
The Empire Strikes Back is a very enjoyable film, but the number 1 greatest movie? I don't think so. Not by a long shot.
On that list, The Breakfast Club was #369, which means it's moved up 331 place to rank #38 this time.:o
Other than that, the results are rather predictable.
Not a bad thing then as that movie contains those lines:
“Well, if you say you haven’t, you’re a prude. If you say you have, you’re a ****. It’s a trap. You want to but you can’t, and when you do you wish you didn’t, right?”
Rather appropriate when you think about that murderous misogynist who killed the people in Santa Barbara last week. And all the other examples of misogyny in the news this week.
is there any info on how people voted , I mean did they just vote for one movie or in different categories ?
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compiled by many readers .....
except ME!
buying it since issue TWO and have never wrote to the mag .....
although i post on the forum
fine with me what ever no1 is
Thoroughly disliked Atonement, Transformers and Black Swan out of those 45. I generally don't like depressing fims though - Atonement and Black Swan are definitely that to me.
Love the Back to the Future films, Home Alone, the Graduate, the Goonies, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Die Hard, Forrest Gump and the Shawshank Redemption.
You beat me to it. A staggering inclusion. It's an abysmal film.
And I note that the people are wrong again in placing Terminator and Alien below their respective inferior sequels. When will people learn?
Thank Christ for that. I thought for a minute that it was a credible list.:o
I have a copy of Empire from 1998 where they printed a readers poll and it was much better. Lovely paragraphs written for each entry.
but does your top choice get 5 points , fourth 4 points etc. ?
As for the list itself, nothing remotely surprising here. Though a glance towards the lower end has some interest (Come and See/Eyes Wide Shut), along with old warhorses who perhaps don't cut it so much now (West Side Story
Well we trust it was, but that wasn't always the case.
Supposed 'readers polls' that were actually thrown together by a few half-pissed hacks around a pub table used to be rife in publishing. Not sure these days mind.
Screen Magazine and Sight and Sound can get away with more indie orientated fare because they're aimed at industry members and enthusiasts, the kind of people who are more likely to enjoy less well known films, whereas Empire is aimed at the general public, so has to feature films that are exciting them.
Yes there are some good films on the list but it lost all credibility for me the moment I saw both Hunger Games films listed. Really? Best films of all time? No, the title of this poll should have been "Empire Readers' Favourite Films", which would have been more accurate (since the public are always unable to distinguish genuinely great films / music / TV programmes etc. from ones they just happen to like).
Thought I was the only person that didn't like Empire Strikes Back, in your opinion what is the best Star Wars film?
I think Return of the Jedi is the best, but I'm well aware I am literally the only person in the world that thinks that...
It is as bad and pointless as a CH4 top 100 countdown.