Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
The highest ranking films in that list that I haven't seen yet are The Apartment and Chinatown
Empire magazines top 500 films
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Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
Is The Apartment the Polanski one?
If it is, it's well worth seeing.
I think you mean The Tenant?
Dillinger4
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The Odd Couple? Some Like it Hot? Glengarry Glenross?
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
See that's why I haven't got around to seeing it - the most given away surprise ending ever.
Griff
Feeding the foxes
Griff
Feeding the foxes
That'll be the one!
trust me, there's no way you could guess the ending from me saying it's bleak, it could be bleak a dozen different ways
Dillinger4
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Has there been any Douglas Sirk films in that list? He is a great director I never see in top 100s.
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
I know how it ends - it's been written about so many times in various books and magazines
Ah, OK
I'll have to have a good look at that list to make sure 'O Lucky Man' is on there.
If memory serves, there's not a single Anderson movie
Griff
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If memory serves, there's not a single Anderson movie
Really?
I at least thought 'If' would be in there.
How odd
Really?
I at least thought 'If' would be in there.
How odd
The poll is a real shit for the 'recency' effect, a lot of fairly unremarkable 21st century movies at the expense of older classics
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
The Dark Knight is at 15!
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Certainly is. Just reading up about it on imdb and it was the first film Polanski made after his wife was murdered. Never knew that before. Maybe that explains the bleakness.
Really enjoyed watching it again, though. The plot's got so many twists it stands a couple of viewings. Can't beat a bit of noir, imo, and Nicholson is cool as fuck all the way through it.
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
First page already made me cross. Superman returns is a stinker of a movie.
Don't be foolish.
That is a top movie, and seeing it's name again I downloaded it and watched it again. Just now.
Fecking awesome.
First page already made me cross. Superman returns is a stinker of a movie.
Yes, and Sideways should be waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay higher than 494.
So, do you think they should have invented a 'cooler' and more 'edgy' list of films in order to satisfy Urbanites, or been honest, as they were, and listed the films actually voted by their readers?
It's piss-poor. I usually like superhero films, but I got bored after about 20 minutes.
I actually thought it was a pretty decent list. There was a very good proportion of films that I had never seen and probably should have seen by now, as someone with a film studies degree. It's a whole lot better than some lists which are solely voted by the foolish masses who have no foresight and think the film they saw last week was the best film ever (although you see it a bit in this poll - Dark Knight at 15? its good, but...). The last poll Empire did, I think a Lord of the Rings film was number one.
To get a list from the other side of the spectrum, have a look at some of the top tens from Sight and Sound, which is compiled entirely by critics, academics and directors. None of yer plebs sticking the Phantom Menace where it doesn't belong.
To get a list from the other side of the spectrum, have a look at some of the top tens from Sight and Sound, which is compiled entirely by critics, academics and directors. None of yer plebs sticking the Phantom Menace where it doesn't belong.
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