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"Empire's Top 100"

Absolutely stupid. They're supposed to be critics?

Donnie Darko - 21. Ridiculously high.
Casablanca - 46. Ridiculously low.

Oh, and number one and two? Drum roll please...

1. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
2. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

Someone needs to be shot.

Mr Snuggly wrote:
> Yep, correct. Pirates of the Caribbean at 19 was a bit far-fetched I
> thought.

Pirates of the Caribbean at 19?! Am i the only person who didn't think much to that film at all? If anything i thought it was boring.

Well we all know it's a farse because the top ten doesn't feature any of the "Debbie does" series. Which is bloody outragous!!!!!111

I agree with Meka. Just about anything the general public votes on ends up with stupid results (lol elections lol); but then a definitive list giving opinions on films is pretty silly anyway, hohohoho.

And I hope everyone who voted for Donnie Darko gets squished by a jet engine.

Anything that's voted for by the public will have a great deal of films that are popular at that very moment in time. I mean, 14 of the films on the list come from the last four years. How many of those will remain in the poll in ten years time?

Personally, I think they should do a poll, but only include films released before 1999 - over five years old. That way you'd not get all of these movies that are popular right now simply because they're recent, and anything recent is easier to remember...

There was a significant lack of comedy on the list though, and too many crime movies in my opinion - but that's because I prefer comedies to crime movies, I'm sure some people would regard some crime movie that's not on the list higher than some of the comedies on it...

My favourite old film (not because it's great, even though it is) is Notorious where Humphrey Bogart punches some bird in the face because she's talking too much. It's just fantastically un-PC.

donnie darko should be in the top 100

It IS a decent film.

It deserves to be in the 90-100 range.

Donnie Darko (in my op) is superb.

And thats not because I think it's 'indy cool I-knew-about-it-before-you, it's because it was a decent film.

But LotR first? Buh. Top 20, yeah, but not first.

Saying that, I guess it's just opinions.

Sorry, I must've missed all that. I felt it was in the second and third films, but not the first. They were together because they had a job to do, it wasn't until the end that they really, I dunno... bonded.

MoJoJoJo wrote:
> Fellowship bores me. Bores me until I want to cry. Then it kicks in at
> the mine, then slows back down and makes me want to cry. Then it has
> a good ending. You call that the best film of the lot?
>
> Two Towers and Fellowship have less talk and more great cinematic
> moments.

But there is a spirit about the fellowship that just seems to elevate it above the others.