Empire top 100. thoughts?

Buck Owens

What does everyone think of Empire's top 100 films of all time?
LOTR And star wars making up the top 4! It was a good list overall.
Where was A clockwork orange. can anyone add anymore films that they think were left out?

davej

Again this is just a populist vote, so it means very little really. I've seen around 90 of the films in the Empire top 100 and I'd say less than a quarter of those should be anywhere near the top 100 best films of all time.

This poll should be taken for what it is: The 100 most popular films right now as voted by Empire magazine readers.

davej

ixoy

Well I think Empire is good as glossy toilet paper, so I wouldn't trust their reader's poll

As stated, it's a popular poll. That means current fads get in. Additionally, movies like Star Wars always do well. There's a simple reason for this - Star Wars fans, and their ilk, are far more rabid about their movie than other fans. They're also, generally, more nerdy. It means they're more likely than the average reader to bother to vote in the poll - particularly if it's done online. This skews these polls all the time, resultin in geek favourites assuming top positions.

Goodshape

bought it yeasterday for a bus journey.

There wasn't enough content in it to keep me satisfied for half of it... glossy pictures and then that stupid poll. Can't believe I ever bought that sh\te on a regular basis.

craptacular.

lamda

yeh I wouldnt pay any attention.
Empire is wan.k
I'm so glad i'm not alone in my hatred.

Makaveli

Ah it's not a bad magazine if you get it for free (I rip the covers off in the shop I work in, no way am I paying over the odds for a magazine).

Looking through it now...
Spider-Man's inclusion is a joke. #92
Titanic @ #57 yeah right.
Episode 2 @ #51.
PoTC @ #19, yeah it's good but not that good.
Grease @ #16 wtf?


Top 5:
LotR: FotR
Star Wars - A New Hope
LotR: TTT
Star Wars - The Empire Strikes Back
The Shawshank Redemption

projectmayhem

Originally posted by ixoy
Well I think Empire is good as glossy toilet paper, so I wouldn't trust their reader's poll

that says it all really. wouldn't trust it at all tbh

mewso

Yeah Empire is really gone downhill these days. All it does is tells people what will entertain them in the cinema. I mean what a waste. Where is the needless glorification of pretensious **** cinema we all love. Those films with odd quirky characters that say meaningfull things that only us really intelligent movie goers acknowledge for it's genius. A top 100 without at least one film shot in black & white and colour, containing at least 30 minutes of silence, completely inexplicale plot and disdain for the idea of entertaining is just not the kind of top 100 I'm interested in.

Agent Orange

Empire is for morons who like big pictures and pointless polls rather than decent critical analysis.

Sight and Sound, now there's a real magazine.

MrGump

What do u read agent orange apart from Sight and Sound.

(ESPECIALLY FOR U IXOY)

ixoy

Originally posted by MrGump
What do u read agent orange?

I'm going on a limb here, but I guess he reads "Sight and Sound".

ixoy

Originally posted by musician
Yeah Empire is really gone downhill these days. All it does is tells people what will entertain them in the cinema. I mean what a waste. Where is the needless glorification of pretensious **** cinema we all love. Those films with odd quirky characters that say meaningfull things that only us really intelligent movie goers acknowledge for it's genius. A top 100 without at least one film shot in black & white and colour, containing at least 30 minutes of silence, completely inexplicale plot and disdain for the idea of entertaining is just not the kind of top 100 I'm interested in.

Oh har-de-har. You know people can enjoy a range of movies. Just because I mightn't want "Star Wars" in its current slot, doesn't meant that I despise the series or don't acknowledge its contribution to the popcorn genre. I've quite enoyed the movies, at times. However, I'm also able to appreciate other movies, such as "Citizen Kane" for their arguably greater contribution. IMDB's Top 250 is, generally, a fairly good indicator of test, once you allow for the fact that there's a few too many modern movies.

Linoge

I haven't read it but it would be a crying shame if The Matrix Reloaded and Revolutions dont make it into the top ten:p

Can someone please post up the link to the list, I cant seem to get Empires webpage. I've tried empire.com, empirefilm.com and empiremagazine.com. None work.

Ste.phen

http://www.empireonline.co.uk/

Linoge

Originally posted by Igy
http://www.empireonline.co.uk/

Thanks for that, unfortunately they haven't put the list up on the site. Your sig is cool btw!

Franky Boy

I have been a reader of empire for quite some time now and i think that those listings were good,i was seriously happy with donnie darko@#21 and the graduate i would have rated a bit better than that.

Zoton

I'm a totalfilm man tbh. But the empire list did have quite a few shockers in there alright. I can never understand blade runners popularity, kill bill vol. 1 was very high up, magnolia and moulin feckin rouge shouldnt be in there at all.

Full list here

PWEI

When Crouching Tiger,Hidden Dragon doens't make the Top 100 it makes a complete joke of the whole thing!

ixoy

Originally posted by PWEI
When Crouching Tiger,Hidden Dragon doens't make the Top 100 it makes a complete joke of the whole thing!

Whereas personally, I think CTHD is the most overated cult movie of the last five years or so... Glad to see it not get in. Hell, even Xena was flinging herself through the air long before Ang Lee tried to woo Western audiences...

PWEI

Its fantasy,what's wrong with the characters flying through the air?I mean you don't look at Superman and say, "well that's stupid cause he's flying".
Just cause it was a marital arts film and the characters could deify gravity some morons thought it was stupid.Its only a fantasy!

Kalina

There are quite a few on the list that I haven't seen but I wouldn't have put grease in ahead of Schindlers List.
Still, for the most part the list was pretty much on the ball.

adonis

what is this film..
i hate darned acronyms...
i also dislike top 100 lists,, ...
what was number 1?

Makaveli

Pirates of the Caribbean

#1 LOTR FOTR

Lord of the Rings - The Fellowship of the Ring

adonis

#1 lord of the rings , the fellowship?

i would disagree with that...
top 5 maybe