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Post by Omnipotent on Apr 7, 2007 16:00:25 GMT -5
The 1977 original in the Star Wars film franchise has retained its top spot in a five-yearly Empire Magazine poll of movie fanatics.
Star Wars - A New Hope finished ahead of Pulp Fiction and The Shawshank Redemption in a diverse list chronicling 100 blockbusters considered to be the greatest movies of all time by readers of Australia's most read film magazine.
The full list decided by 50,000 people in an online poll will hit stands in the magazine's May issue.
While the list has changed since it was last made in 2002, franchises also including The Lord Of The Rings, Pirates Of The Caribbean and Spider-Man remain fan favourites with their new versions making a mark on the list.
Among the 38 new entries in the list are recent hits Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (53), Babel (87) and Brokeback Mountain (78) and classics such as To Kill A Mockingbird (74), Seven Samurai (93) and Rear Window (91).
The Empire Magazine Top 10 Films of All Time:
10. Goodfellas
9. Amelie
8. Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back
7. The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King
6. Donnie Darko
5. A Clockwork Orange
4. Aliens
3. The Shawshank Redemption
2. Pulp Fiction
1. Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope
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Post by Twitchmonkey on Apr 7, 2007 19:05:02 GMT -5
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Post by Twinkle Twinkle Killer Kane on Apr 8, 2007 21:39:03 GMT -5
well, 50,000 English-speaking 14-year-old boys are certainly entitled to their opinions...
the generational/cultural bias is clearly showing through, at least as revealed in the top 10. nothing from Fellini (!)*, Kurosawa (!), Welles, Bunuel, Goddard, Truffuat, Hitchcock (!)**, just to name a few. nor are any of the enduring favorites present: Casablanca, Gone With The Wind, The Wizard Of Oz, The African Queen, The Searchers.
how about Apocalypse Now? 2001: A Space Odyssey? many others more worthy than most of what made it to the top.
difficult to take this list w/more than a grain of.
*could easily snag 3 positions himself: 8 1/2, La Dolce Vita, La Strada
**Psycho? The Birds? Rear Window at #91!?!
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Post by Twinkle Twinkle Killer Kane on Apr 8, 2007 21:46:40 GMT -5
thanks due to Omnipotent though for forwarding the info.
at least maybe this will further exposure of DD to a larger audience, probably scratching their collective head at this point...
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Post by Omnipotent on Apr 9, 2007 0:36:27 GMT -5
I don't know, Pulp Fiction is a cool flick, sure it's overrated, but let's face it America is land of the 85ers (generalisation obviously), less is more... the generational/cultural bias is clearly showing through, at least as revealed in the top 10. nothing from Fellini (!)*, Kurosawa (!), Welles, Bunuel, Goddard, Truffuat, Hitchcock (!)**, just to name a few. Makes me wonder if Lynch, Tsukamoto, Herzog, Fassbinder or Cassavetes made the list as well. |
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Post by ProvidencePortal on Apr 9, 2007 7:34:44 GMT -5
Pulp Fiction is a cool flick Twitch is just being contrary. This isn't the first time he's picked out something popular and claimed not to like it. Pulp Fiction is a landmark in film; it may not be great by traditional measures (which are important -- I'm not demeaning them), but that's because it shifted on-screen storytelling into a totally non-traditional space. It became a new set of criteria by which other films were evaluated. That, to me, defines "important," if not "great." let's face it America is land of the 85ers What are 85ers? And to Twinkle's point, this is clearly a top-ten of right-now movies, and the survey pool probably is skewed young. But it's an interesting list nonetheless. |
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Post by Omnipotent on Apr 9, 2007 12:04:35 GMT -5
85ers comes from the Five Percent Nation (The Nation of Gods and Earths) where 85% of the population are those walking around mentally deaf, dumb, and blind to the truth about themselves and the world they live in. Thinking about it now I chose the wrong term, it's only a movie poll after all. Anyway...
It's good to see that 'Donnie Darko' has seemingly met a bigger audience, much like 'Fight Club', the DVD saved it.
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Post by Twitchmonkey on Apr 9, 2007 17:18:46 GMT -5
Providence, you're being bourgeoisie. You gotta stop with that.
Actually, I do give Pulp Fiction an unnecessarily hard time, but even if I was trying to be objective about it, it still doesn't deserve a place in the top 10, or even 20 or 30. Because of its impact on the film world, and for that reason alone, I could perhaps see it being in the top 40 or 50, but not #2.
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Post by Twinkle Twinkle Killer Kane on Apr 9, 2007 21:50:28 GMT -5
yeah, i forgot Bergman, Dreyer, Wenders, Demme, and Miyazaki. the list of absentees could go on...
(thanks for mentioning Cassavetes, Omnipotent- still too often overlooked)
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Post by Frank the Tank on May 14, 2007 17:57:50 GMT -5
does this ranking mean Donnie is a cult classic despite its youth or do you think cult status can only be achieved with age?
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Post by SpikyBubbles2 on May 16, 2007 10:56:02 GMT -5
does this ranking mean Donnie is a cult classic despite its youth or do you think cult status can only be achieved with age? I believe DD is a cult classic regardless of it's age, because cult does not mean the film has to be old, in my opinion. |
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Post by ProvidencePortal on May 29, 2007 8:40:51 GMT -5
Providence, you're being bourgeoisie. You gotta stop with that. This made me wonder whether I really do have bourgeois taste. Then I realized you'd written bourgeoisie, and I was really confused. If I like a movie of the people, doesn't that make me part of the proletariat? Regardless, I laughed and I thought. Thanks for both. |
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Post by Twitchmonkey on May 29, 2007 18:28:21 GMT -5
The people are totally bourgeoisie to begin with, they just don't know it yet. They stopped being proletariat like 20 years ago. Blame the 80's, always blame the 80's.
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