Top 50 movies...

Top British film magazine 'Empire' has recently finished it;s annual top 50 films listing, as voted by the readers.

Whoile not definitive, of course, it's a very important poll. And, as ever, Star Wars won it again, ES was second, ROTJ 40th and TPM nowhere.

Here is the list, make your comments...

1. Star Wars
2. Empire Strikes Back
3. The Shawshank Redemption
4. The Godfather
5. The Matrix
6. Fight Club
7. Gladiator
8. Goodfellas
9. Breakfast at Tiffany's
10. Pulp Fiction
11. Raiders of the Lost Ark
12. The Usual Suspects
13. Jaws
14. American Beauty
15. Casablanca
16. Blade Runner
17. The Godfather part II
18. Seven
19. Aliens
20. Saving Private Ryan
21. Silence of the Lambs
22. Schindler's List
23. Alien
24. Some Like it Hot
25. LA Confidential
26. Apocalypse Now
27. Magnolia
28. Citizen Kane
29. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
30. It's a Wonderful Life
31. Braveheart
32. Leon
33. 2001: A Space Odyssey
34. Titanic
35. The Big Lebowski
36. Lawrence of Arabia
37. Taxi Driver
38. Gone with the Wind
39. Fargo
40. Return of the Jedi
41. Singing in the Rain
42. Raging Bull
43. Jusrassic Park
44. The Searchers
45. Forrest Gump
46. Grosse Pointe Blank
47. Rear Window
48. Dr. Stangelove
49. One flew over the Cuckoo's Nest
50. Vertigo

Gladiator is highly over rated

indeed. also, am I the only one who didn't like the matrix?

No, I hate the Matrix. And only one of my freinds liked it as well.

Where is The Wizard of Oz, The Shining, Boogie Nights, Spartacus? They are much better than some of the films there. Oh, well, at least Star Wars won again. 🙂

Matrix is too high on the list, should of been more towards the bottom. In almost every American film list, Citizen Kane is #1.

Most people adore the Matrix in my area of the world, including me, but it has never seemed to be popular around here.

Expect to see Gladiator dropping in the next few years, probably sharply. A few years back that list was full of Tarantino flicks but Pulp Fiction is the only one that stayed up top.

CTHD probably won't last either. And with any luck Jurassic Park will slip out soon...

A lot of classics aren't in the list!

To be perfectly honest with you I am surprised at the amount that are.

Fight Club???????????? One can clearly see that the majority of voters were men

I love that list. The top 2 are Star Wars films so thats the best list I've seen. And I also like Gladiator, Jurassic Park and Fight Club. The JP's are some of my favorite movies, probably my second favorite trilogy.

Pal, you've got some good movies on that list.

Three movies are on the list that belong in the toilet; The Matrix, Gladiator and Fight Club

The Matrix- Keau Reeves heads a cast of quite possibly the worst actors ever assembled for a film. Reeves plays the same character in all of his films. Special effects are a tool used to make movies better, not to make movies.

Fight Club- I did like this film, but the scene in the end where he shoots himself in the head is laughable. Plus, I don't like how his club turned into a cult.

Gladiator- Nothing but a rip off of Braveheart. Russel Crowe is a terrific actor, and was in this movie. But to see the them carry off Crowe at the end instead of the Emperor of Rome was a little unbeleivable. Crowe won the oscar instead of Hanks for Cast Away, I was pretty upset.

I thought Meat Loafs bitch tits were pretty funny! 😄

Magnolia:

Can someone please explain this film to me? It was really, really good and was going along nicley. All of a sudden, it starts raining frogs!!! What the hell is that all about?!? And if I remember correctly, the people in the movie passed it off as if it were raining water.
What a goofy-ass movie. It's like From Dusk Til Dawn. It starts out pretty well: A couple of crooks kidnap a family, then hide out at a bar. THEN Selma Hyak turns into a vampire! Who the hell wrote this script? From Dusk Til Dawn has got to be the worst movie ever made.

And yet, oddly, it still appeared in that list when Tarantino fever was in full swing...

Well, personally I thought the acting in The Matrix was perfectly sufficient for the film. It wasn't Remains of the Day or anything...

I rented Magnolia last week, and I still dont know what that movie was about, I'm sure that little rapping kid raps out the theme of the movie, but I cant understand him, I need to rent the DVD and turn on subtitles.

WOOHOO!! Jurassic Park in the top 50!!

That's all I care about in that List. I dont hink JP is going anywhere, expect it to grow higher in the list, as movies like Gladiator will fall down. Think about it JP came out in 1993.

And though it's not a dramatic piece, based on the time this movie came out, it totally changed my expectations of movies to come, and it did change the average movie. And it's still great. Basically anyone who has respect for Jaws, should definitly have some respect for JP. They're more Like Horror Sci Fi, and camparing the two, I think JP is a heck of alot scarrier.

I couldn't agree more. Lucas himself said after seeing what could be done in JP he knew he wanted to make the new SW movies. It totally changed movie making almost the same way as the original SW.

I didn't rate it much. It has been slowly falling in that list for years, anyhow.

I love JP. Liked Gladiator even though it rips off Braveheart and Fight Club is one of the best movies I've seen in a while.

I agree with what everyone said about The Matrix. If it is going to be on the list then it should be WAY down near the bottom.

Judging by Empire readers you can expect to see it stay up top for a long time.