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Empire magazines top 500 films

Eye of the Tiger (which my auntie took me to see when I was little)


That was a good film, but there's another Sinbad film that really stuck in my mind and can't remember the name of it.

Towards the end, the band of heroes have to cross a treacherous swamp to a high tower. Inside the tower hangs a huge, thick rope which they have to climb up. At the top is a chamber with a giant mailed fist that rotates on pivot, threatening to smash anyone who comes near.

Sinbad gamely jumps on top and skewers it with his sword. He cuts the fist open, and inside is a pulsating red heart which he cuts out. Can anyone remember the name of this film? (No, it's not Sinbad and the Giant Fist :D)
 
I have, i think we may disagree on what comprehensive means. There's no Bill Douglas, no Teernce Davies. There are whacking great holes.

edit: i tell a lie, one Davies film in at #224
 
405. Dirty Dancing (Emile Ardolino, 1987)

Okay, okay..... I know that there is a captive audience for this type of film but FFS!!

Higher placed than Ben-Hur????
 
The list is generated from a poll of readers and critics - many of Douglas' films have only just been released on DVD and very few readers would be familiar with his work. I'm surprised Distant Voices Still Lives isn't on the list, but again, not many people have seen it to vote for it.
 
That is a good list, was pleased to see Ran and Andrei Rublev in there, plus good motivation to go and see lots more films I've never watched.


No Les Diaboliques or La Cabina, which is a shame, but you can't expect to agree with absolutely everything about it.
 
405. Dirty Dancing (Emile Ardolino, 1987)

Okay, okay..... I know that there is a captive audience for this type of film but FFS!!

Higher placed than Ben-Hur????

Why is this so surprising? Many people love that sort of crap and most people have only dim memories of Ben Hur from TV in their childhood
 
The list is generated from a poll of readers and critics - many of Douglas' films have only just been released on DVD and very few readers would be familiar with his work. I'm surprised Distant Voices Still Lives isn't on the list, but again, not many people have seen it to vote for it.
It is on the list -that was my mistake.

But how the poll was generated is neither here nor there. It's not a comprehensive list - it couldn't be. I'm not saying it should be, i;v said nothing about the listy other than it's no comprehensive.
 
It is! It's impossible. You can get degrees of coverage and i don't think the empire one covers much. I'm not having a pop at it or the voters/readers though. It's just a list.
 
294. The Red Balloon (Albert Lamorisse, 1956)

Watched this once, when I was about eight or nine. I cried. It stayed with me for weeks.

Have watched it since. Both times, I cried. I'm not watching it again.

But I would recommend it to anyone -- movies should impact us like this.
 
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