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RE: The 500 Greatest Movies Of All Time - 20/10/2008 1:49:58 PM

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How many votes did it take to get on the list. I'm guessing most 10's sent in would have been very similar (covering say the top 100 films on the list). there are a lot of films on the list that , good as they are, I'd be surprised to see them in anyones top 10. And if ot only took a few votes to get in the bottom hundred, were any votes discounted for taking the piss, people voting for meet the spartans or the like. Still all in all good list, fun read

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RE: The 500 Greatest Movies Of All Time - 27/10/2008 2:30:43 AM

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The Fly? Where was it? Empire gave it 5 stars, and it definitely should have been on there.

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RE: The 500 Greatest Movies Of All Time - 27/10/2008 2:15:14 PM

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The Fly? Where was it? Empire gave it 5 stars, and it definitely should have been on there.

Agreed, I looked and looked and it's not on there. I bet it finished 501st...

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RE: The 500 Greatest Movies Of All Time - 27/10/2008 5:13:00 PM

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OK! Interesting to see some films that I�ve never heard of in the list. It�s always hard to weigh filmcritics votes to "the man in the street".
I think the list is overdominated with commercial blockbusters and american and newer films.
I would like to trade in some of those insead.

La Passion de Jeanne D'arc- Dreyer 1928
Metropolis -Lang 1927
City Lights-Chaplin 1931
Modern Times - Chaplin 1936
La Grand Illusion - Renoir 1937
Les enfants du paradis - Carn� 1945
Roma, citta aperta - Rossellini 1945
the Grapes of Wrath - Ford 1940
Smultronst�llet/Wild strawberries - Bergman 1957
Ugetsu monogatari / Tales of Ugetsu - Mizoguchi 1953
Umberto D- DeSica 1952
Du Rififi chez les hommes - Dassin 1955
Persona - Bergman 1966
L'Ann�e derni�re � Marienbad - Resnais 1961
Repulsion - Polanski 1965
Belle de jour - Bu�uel 1967
Aguirre-der zorn gottes - Herzog 1972
Stalker - Tarkovsky 1979
Dersu Uzala - Kurosawa 1975
Die Blechtrommel - Schl�ndorff 1979
1900 - Bertolucci 1976
Deliverance - Boorman 1972
Fanny & Alexander - Bergman 1982
Der himmel �ber Berlin - Wenders 1987
Hotaru no haka /Grave of the fireflies - Takahata 1988
Le grand bleu - Besson 1988
Trois couleurs: Bleu - Kieslowski 1993
Utomlyonnye solntsem / Burnt by the sun - Michalkov 1994
Todo sobre mi madre - Almodovar 1999
Il ladro di bambini - Amelio 1992
Fa yeung nin wa / In the mood for love - Wong 2000
Ying xiong / Hero - Yimou 2001
Mou gaan dou /Infernal affairs - lau 2002
Bin-jip /3-Iron - Kim 2004
Perfume:the story of a murderer - Tykwer 2006

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RE: The 500 Greatest Movies Of All Time - 27/10/2008 8:37:24 PM

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some good choices, but films like donni darko in there, an awful film

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RE: The 500 Greatest Movies Of All Time - 28/10/2008 10:42:50 AM

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Transformers at 309 - people should be ashamed, it's awful. But wouldn't these arguments be irrelevant if it was called the 500 most popular films of all time rather than greatest?

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RE: The 500 Greatest Movies Of All Time - 28/10/2008 8:50:03 PM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: pufred

OK! Interesting to see some films that I�ve never heard of in the list. It�s always hard to weigh filmcritics votes to "the man in the street".
I think the list is overdominated with commercial blockbusters and american and newer films.
I would like to trade in some of those insead.

La Passion de Jeanne D'arc- Dreyer 1928
Metropolis -Lang 1927
City Lights-Chaplin 1931
Modern Times - Chaplin 1936
La Grand Illusion - Renoir 1937
Les enfants du paradis - Carn� 1945
Roma, citta aperta - Rossellini 1945
the Grapes of Wrath - Ford 1940
Smultronst�llet/Wild strawberries - Bergman 1957
Ugetsu monogatari / Tales of Ugetsu - Mizoguchi 1953
Umberto D- DeSica 1952
Du Rififi chez les hommes - Dassin 1955
Persona - Bergman 1966
L'Ann�e derni�re � Marienbad - Resnais 1961
Repulsion - Polanski 1965
Belle de jour - Bu�uel 1967
Aguirre-der zorn gottes - Herzog 1972
Stalker - Tarkovsky 1979
Dersu Uzala - Kurosawa 1975
Die Blechtrommel - Schl�ndorff 1979
1900 - Bertolucci 1976
Deliverance - Boorman 1972
Fanny & Alexander - Bergman 1982
Der himmel �ber Berlin - Wenders 1987
Hotaru no haka /Grave of the fireflies - Takahata 1988
Le grand bleu - Besson 1988
Trois couleurs: Bleu - Kieslowski 1993
Utomlyonnye solntsem / Burnt by the sun - Michalkov 1994
Todo sobre mi madre - Almodovar 1999
Il ladro di bambini - Amelio 1992
Fa yeung nin wa / In the mood for love - Wong 2000
Ying xiong / Hero - Yimou 2001
Mou gaan dou /Infernal affairs - lau 2002
Bin-jip /3-Iron - Kim 2004
Perfume:the story of a murderer - Tykwer 2006

Just having a quick scan through that list there. Fanny and Alexander, La Passion de Jeanne D'arc and Deliverance were on it. Maybe others too

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RE: The 500 Greatest Movies Of All Time - 30/10/2008 6:02:56 PM

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No they weren�t. Otherwise I hadn't missed them!.

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RE: The 500 Greatest Movies Of All Time - 1/11/2008 5:29:06 AM

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RE: The 500 Greatest Movies Of All Time - 2/11/2008 12:19:04 PM

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Just having a quick scan through that list there. Fanny and Alexander, La Passion de Jeanne D'arc and Deliverance were on it. Maybe others too
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Pretty sure Deliverance ain't on it

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RE: The 500 Greatest Movies Of All Time - 2/11/2008 12:35:47 PM

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What about Thelma and Louise?

I can't believe some of the medeocre entries, Blade Runner should of been higher as should Citizen Kane.

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RE: The 500 Greatest Movies Of All Time - 2/11/2008 9:26:20 PM

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Awful list Empire, really bad, Im not a fan of this kinda lark but I found this one to be particularly bad.
I know everyone has different opinions and tastes and all that but most of it is rubbish! Having the Dark Knight at No.15 is shocking, I think its very overated, ya wanna have it in the top 500, fine, but not the top 20, thats just a joke!

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RE: The 500 Greatest Movies Of All Time - 4/11/2008 7:34:23 AM

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Hey Hey..
Where's Forrest Gump? It at least has to be in the Top 100 right? I personally thought it would be in Top 10.
And Platoon. That has at least to be better than Thin Red Line.
Are you guys putting them in?

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RE: The 500 Greatest Movies Of All Time - 8/11/2008 12:29:50 AM

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where the hell is Thelma & Louise??
The host?
Hero?
The house of flying daggers???
did I miss one??
what the hell!!

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RE: The 500 Greatest Movies Of All Time - 12/11/2008 12:19:39 PM

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Has anyone got a simple text list of all 500 films?

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RE: The 500 Greatest Movies Of All Time - 23/11/2008 6:00:58 PM

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amongs the 200 first ones must be:

MY favorite movies

The third man
Le temps des gitans
La starda
Amarcord
Nous nous sommes tant aim�s
Get Carter
Shaft
French Connexion
Le parrain I II III
Scarface
Les intouchables
Bonny and clyde
Natural born killers
La vie des autres
A bout de souffle
Pierrot le fou
Le mepris
Les 400 coups
La r�gle de jeu
Une partie de campagne
Chat noir chat blancs
Le 7 eme jour
Cria Cuervos
Ossessione
L�aventura
La nuit
Profession reporter
Blow up
L�incompris
Le fanfaron
Les felins
Plein soleil
The gold rush
Le bon la brute et le truand
Il �tait une fois dans l�ouest
Il �tait une fois la r�volution
Pour quelques dollars de plus
Pour une poign�e de dollars
Pat garett et billy the kid
Straw dogs
Guet apens
Bring me the head of alfredo garcia
The iron cross
Osterman week end
Big lebowski
Fargo
Kill bill
Kill bill 2
Reservoir dog
Jacky brown
Pulp Fiction
Death proof
Leon
Le �me element
Le grand bleu
Shindler�s list
Shoah
Les bronzes
Up in smoke
The party
Apocalypse now
Platoon
The wing of desire
Sous le signe du lion
America america
Down by law
The king of new york
Bad boy bubby
Easy riders
Barry Lindon
Amadeus
Casino
Ragging bull
Trois enterrements
The doors
Mort � venise
Las vegas parano
No country for old men
The goodfellas
Jaws
Star wars
Arsenic and old laces
Klute
Charley varrick
Le dernier empereur
1900
the parralax view
Point blank
The vanishing point
The game
L�avocat du diable
Usual suspect
Across the 11O street
The wild bunch
Miller�s crossing
Barton fink
Le cri
Le desert rouge
Zabriskie Point
Duellists
Taxi driver
Bullit
Faster pussycat kill kill
My darling clementine
Baby doll
The flying dutchman
Trainspotting
The intouchable
Cendres et diamants
Le bois de bouleaux
Stalingrad
Les chevaux de feu
O� le soleil est froid
The man who shot liberty valance
Aguire ou la col�re de dieu
Blade runner
Casablanca
Chinatown
Le jour se l�ve
Cidade de deus
Adieu ma concubine
Laurence d�arabie
Citizen cane
La vie est belle
Les tontons flingueurs
L�auberge rouge
Le cercle rouge
Le guepard
Melodie en sous sol
La piscine
The graduate
Le pont de la rivi�re kwai
Le train sifflera trois fois
Butch cassidy and the kid
Ben hur
Spartacus
Le silence of the lambs
L�etat des choses
Viva zapata
29 palms
the clockwork organge
Amelie poulain
Vol au dessus d�un nid de coucou
La grande �vasion
Heat
On the waterfront
Mad max
Jeux interdits
Amores perros
Le samourai
Le guepard
Jules et Jim
Les aventuri�s
La nuit de l�iguane
Shinning
Bernie
C�est arriv� pr�s de chez vous
La haine
Le cauchemard de darwin
La coline � des yeux
Match Point
Dead quiet
Le diner de con
La grande vadrouille
La ch�vre
Le vent se l�ve
Beaut� vol�e
Les valseuses
Midnight Express
Le corniaud
L�aile ou la cuisse
Basic instinct
Irr�versible
Ridicule
Mission
Au nom du p�re
Les damn�s
There will be blood
Les aventuriers de l�arche perdue
Some like it hot
Old boy
Lettre d�iwo jima
Blood diamond
La nuit nous appartient
Le chagrin et la pitier.
Aurevoir les enfants
De nuremberg � nuremberg
Delivrance
Buffalo 66
La bataille d�Alger
The servant
To be or not to be
The Barber l�homme qui n��tait pas l�
Un apr�s midi de chien
After the wedding
Mean street
The misfits
El topo
Le fugitif
Stranger than paradise
Dumb and dumber
Electra glide in blue
Paris, texas
Au hasard baltazard
Les sept mercenaires
La horde sauvage
Trois couleur : rouge
Trois couleurs : bleu
Come and see
As good as it gets
Rocco et ses freres
Rio Bravo

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RE: The 500 Greatest Movies Of All Time - 13/4/2009 9:01:56 PM

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I'm afraid I have come late to this (via remainders stall in the local market- sorry Empire!).
I think it is a good listing springing as it does from 10,200 contempories not the A/BFI or Channel4.
Naturally I'm not going to complain that ALL my favourites aren't there (wot - no True Confessions? Where was Angel Face? To whom should I pass the Runes parchment???). The listing is, after all, billed as "Greatest" not "Favourites".
Thank you for the concept and for publishing it.

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RE: The 500 Greatest Movies Of All Time - 17/6/2009 9:21:40 PM

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Films That Should Be higher
The Deer Hunter
Ben-Hur
Good Will Hunting
Lethal Weapon
Little Miss Sunshine
Robocop
Do The Right Thing
Batman
Casino
Mean Streets
Cabaret
Rocky
Predator
All About Eve
ZULU!!! (Favourite Film!!)
Fatal Attraction
The Green Mile
The Sixth Sense
The Truman Show
Rebecca
Braveheart
The Lion King
Midnight Cowboy
All The President's Men

Movie's That Should Be Added
The Fly
The Taking Of Pelham One Two Three
The Italian Job
My Fair Lady
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Sleuth
In The Line Of Fire
Amistad
Swimming With Sharks
Adaptation
New York, New York
Road To Perdition

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RE: The 500 Greatest Movies Of All Time - 17/6/2009 9:22:34 PM

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RE: The 500 Greatest Movies Of All Time - 30/10/2009 10:59:28 AM

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i think the biggest, and frankly unforgivable, omission from this list is Dead Poets Society. also, Snatch but not Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels? thanks for the good stuff, Empire, anyway!

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RE: The 500 Greatest Movies Of All Time - 3/12/2009 6:28:50 AM

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Andy Warhol should'nt have anything in here. Flesh was just some hippy shit that "captures the spirit of Haight and Ashberry" or some shit like that. The blond haired little shitbag should have died at birth rather than making gazillions with shit art and wanky mates. I hope the little fucker's burning next to Hindley.

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RE: The 500 Greatest Movies Of All Time - 3/12/2009 6:30:12 AM

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...and what about La Cabina?

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RE: The 500 Greatest Movies Of All Time - 3/12/2009 10:55:51 AM

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I am waiting for this list
Most Anticipated:
Moon
Johnny Mad Dog
The Road
Tree of Life
Thirst
Avatar
District 9
Enter The Void

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RE: The 500 Greatest Movies Of All Time - 23/12/2009 2:46:25 AM

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Andy Warhol should'nt have anything in here. Flesh was just some hippy shit that "captures the spirit of Haight and Ashberry" or some shit like that. The blond haired little shitbag should have died at birth rather than making gazillions with shit art and wanky mates. I hope the little fucker's burning next to Hindley.

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RE: The 500 Greatest Movies Of All Time - 29/12/2009 1:42:53 AM

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You forgot about either of Peter Bogdanovich's brilliant early 70's films, Paper Moon and The Last Picture Show. Surely, "Saw" is not better than either of these! Overall, though, a good list.

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RE: The 500 Greatest Movies Of All Time - 2/1/2010 1:29:40 AM

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I really like this list because it has a lot of films that I really like:
Dumb and Dumber
Spider-Man
Disney films
Iron Man
Pixar films
Star Wars
Indiana Jones
The School of Rock
Batman Begins & The Dark Knight
The Lord of the Rings
However I wish a few more of the Harry Potter films and Narnia would be on it but still a good list overall

Another reason why I like this list it because it is WAY BETTER than IMDb's shitty Top 250

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RE: The 500 Greatest Movies Of All Time - 21/1/2010 12:05:46 AM

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Been working my way through this list since the issue came out. Currently have 71 left to watch.

After seeing Lords of Dogtown and Blow Out I can't help but feel, reasonable movies as they are, that there was confusion in peoples entries for these.
Are Empire entirely sure that people weren't actually trying to vote for their original (better) versions Dogtown and Z Boys and Blow Up?

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RE: The 500 Greatest Movies Of All Time - 2/2/2010 5:23:27 PM

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what a load of old shitesome good films in the wrong order some afull films that should not even be there. Saw most of them. like a lot of them but it should be called the five hundred most popular films cause they sure aint the 500 best not in that order anyway. Fuck how can you put Once Upon A Time In The West ahead of The Searchers..thats just fucking dopey...and The Maltese Falcon...man that is just brilliant...some of the best dialouge ever written...most of you guy's a fucking nuts and A Man For All Seasons....another gem of a film....Anyway films should be divided up into different classes..war western an..you know...compare like with like ...fucking rubbish like...The Fantom crap...balls...wake up smell the crap ...The Leopard..now that a good film...but The Sweet Smell Of Success beats it by a mile...thank god a least two good Kirk Douglas films...Ace In The Hole and Paths Of Glory...but how many of the younger lot ever even seen them...and where is Detective Story...Nor did I see The Manchurian Candidate...and not the rubbish remake but the original and brilliantly acted by Sinatra.Harvey..and Landsbury...and James Gregory...fuck man what the deal here...its all shite anyway...and what about..Farwell My Lovely...tonyl.

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RE: The 500 Greatest Movies Of All Time - 14/2/2010 8:02:40 PM

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Transformers at 309 - people should be ashamed, it's awful.But wouldn't these arguments be irrelevant if it was called the 500 most popular films of all time rather than greatest?

No, it wouldn't, since the Empire list mixes popular movies with great movies. Citizen Kane and such are certainly terrific movies and are thus included in the list due to their theatrical greatness rather than popularity (no offense to the average movie watcher, but I'd bet that only a minority has actually seen those classics).
Other movies such as 300 and transformers which are widely popular, but cannot with the classics are merely listed due to their popularity (and being quite decent for entertainment). So, in my opinion this top500 is stuck in the middle, trying to appeal to cinematic mastery and to win the popularity contest. This approach can only lead to fail!

I was very disappointed not to see metropolis and the great dictator on the list. How can you forget a classics like that???

And what about listing superbad and hot fuzz, but not Wall Street? Yeah, Michael Douglas only gave one of the greatest performance of a villain of the '80s and received a oscar and a globe for that! *shaking head in disbelief*

I was also surprised by all those comic adaptations (besides the Nolan and Burton Batman movies, they're good).

A compromise of a decent movie and which most likely would be supported by the masses would be "slumdog millionaire".

Overall, the list is O.K., but some listings are clearly "swing and a miss"! Next time, make a film critics list and a list derived from popularity polls, but don't put them together!

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