First of all a Happy Easter Sunday to you all wherever you are on this fragile blue planet. My good self is spending the day at my desk at work whilst the rest of my family is out having a beautiful picnic at a local park on a day where it would be a travesty to see a cloud in the sky.
So while the day goes by slower than a Myanmar puppet show, I have managed to kill some of the time between calls by reading a copy of Empire Magazine. Now Empire claims to be the 'World's Best Movie Magazine' and considering I have never really heard of it before i would personally beg to differ and just as i type this i have just received two emails on top of each other. The first one asked if anyone wanted to go home early and the second one says if you didn't receive an email to say you can go home early then you have to stay. My computer decided to send them together even though the emails were 10 mins apart!! Arrghhhh!!!!
Ah well such as life.
Anyways back to Empire. The reason i am writing about this is because during my last minute easter egg shopping, i was standing at the checkout waiting to pay (so did about 3.5 million people who decided to do their shopping at the last minute) i saw the magazine cover which stated in bold silver writing "100 Greatest Movies of All Time." Naturally being a cinephile i wanted to read what Empire thought were the 100 Greatest Movies of All Time. So i picked up a copy knowing that working the next day "Company X" wouldn't be swamped with calls so i was give my opinion on this very ambitious list.
As suspected today hasn't been a busy day at work. I have some faxes to key but i'll get to them a little later. As i read the article i found out that the list was complied by the readers of Emipre (a list was also complied in 2002 and this is a 5 year update) which made me think that this list could be skewed a certain way. By that i mean the core of the readers would be men who harbour dreams of being in the film industry, men who are trying to break into the film industry or movie tragics who can tell you why Samuel L. Jackson has a purple light sabre when no-one other Jedi does.So here are the top 10 greatest movies of all time according to Empire Magazine readers.
10) Goodfellas
9) Amelie
8) Star Wars - The Empire Strikes Back
7) Lord of the Rings - Return of the King
6) Donnie Darko
5) A Clockwork Orange
4) Aliens
3) The Shawshank Redemption
2) Pulp Fiction
1) Star Wars - A New Hope
Now its 8.30pm as i got swamped with faxes at work and now after having some dinner i can finish this off. My point was going to be how does shit like Donnie Darko get rated above classics such as "Goodfellas"? How does "A Clockwork Orange" get a mention when the copy that Sab had froze at the 20 minute mark and therefore we couldn't watch the film? I do agree with Star Wars being number one cause that is just a bloody fantastic film and it still sucks you in after the 20th time. Still with this list it makes me think the readers of Empire don't know what they are talking about when it comes ranking the best movies ever because everyones tastes vary.
It's a good mag but this time around i wasn't impressed.
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that survey was based on theur reader or susbcriber base so of course its going to be sujective!
Can't believe that stupid boring f;ing movie Amelie was in there. And LOTR...WTF????????? 3 movies about people f'ing walking
Goodfellas - yes, yes, yes!!! It's my favorite movie EVER with the Departed and the Godfather coming in second and third.
Yes, I am a girl... my other favorite is When Harry Met Sally.
Not that I'm a great judge of films...
I bought Rocky Balboa in Malaysia - you'd be proud.
xxx
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