Empire Top 500 Movies Of All Time: - Page 6

acid_scars · #26 10-13-2008, 02:38 AM

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Originally Posted by aura

stopped reading after "superbad."

ditto.

AspirinBaby · #27 10-13-2008, 03:10 AM

Ew, I stopped reading too and than did a search for my favourite movies. Most of which weren't there... I admit, I've probably got crap taste but I still consider it far superior to this shit. The thing with voters' lists is that people don't have a very good memory or a big interest in film history and therefore all the shittier new ones make the selection.

Can we do our own top ten now?

PrincessTrae · #28 10-13-2008, 07:11 AM

I think Knocked Up should have been there over Superbad if anything. I am OBSESSED with it. It's such a clever comedy but it also has a point about superficiality and it's quite sweet.

Ophiel · #29 10-13-2008, 09:12 AM

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Originally Posted by nogginthenog

Empire did a big selection of covers for this list. My friend bought it and he commented that a lot of the selections seem to be there purely to fill a space.

Yeah, I did see that. They'd obviously come up with which covers they were going to do before the listings were made, since quite a few of them were way down in the 400s. Men In Black was one of them, anyway.

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Hush there - I do like Stephen King very much. However, it's probably one of my least-favourite adaptions. At least the cheesy bad horror films don't make you cringe at Oscar-pleading performances.

That's why The Shining should be higher: it's a great movie, but Stephen King didn't like it. Win win, surely?

Ophiel · #30 10-13-2008, 09:22 AM

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Originally Posted by AspirinBaby

Ew, I stopped reading too and than did a search for my favourite movies. Most of which weren't there... I admit, I've probably got crap taste but I still consider it far superior to this shit. The thing with voters' lists is that people don't have a very good memory or a big interest in film history and therefore all the shittier new ones make the selection.

Can we do our own top ten now?

That's the way the other thread I made on Kerrang! has gone, so yeah, why not?

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Originally Posted by PrincessTrae

I think Knocked Up should have been there over Superbad if anything. I am OBSESSED with it. It's such a clever comedy but it also has a point about superficiality and it's quite sweet.

On a similar note, if you're going to have a Farrelly Brothers Movie in there, why use Dumb And Dumber? I know it's the famous one, but Stuck Together, Kingpin and Me Myself & Irene are far better as films.

In another thread, someone compared Legally Blonde to Star Wars (as a jokey way of illustrating a point: someone was saying that you can't hate Star Wars until you've seen Empire Strikes Back; he then said that he could hate Legally Blonde without seeing Legally Blonde 2), and I realised that I actually seriously enjoyed Legally Blonde more than Star Wars.