Steve Christou

Here we go, The 100 Greatest Movies of all time, 2004 edition, as voted by readers of Empire magazine, the UK’s biggest selling movie mag.
Here’s the top 60:

01) Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
02) Star Wars Episode IV A New Hope (1977)
03) Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
04) Star Wars Episode V The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
05) The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
06) The Godfather (1972)
07) Pulp Fiction (1994)
08) Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (2003)
09) Fight Club (1999)
10) Jaws (1975)

11) Jurassic Park (1993)
12) Blade Runner (1982)
13) Goodfellas (1990)
14) The Godfather Part II (1974)
15) Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
16) Grease (1978)
17) Raging Bull (1980)
18) The Usual Suspects (1995)
19) Pirates of the Carribean (2003)
20) Taxi Driver (1976)

21) Donnie Darko (2001)
22) Citizen Kane (1941)
23) Star Wars Episode VI Return of the Jedi (1983)
24) Casablanca (1942)
25) 2001 A Space Odyssey (1968)
26) Schindler’s List (1993)
27) Kill Bill Vol.1 (2002)
28) Gladiator (2000)
29) Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
30) The Big Lebowski (1998)

31) American Beauty (1999)
32) Aliens (1986)
33) Back to the Future (1985)
34) It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
35) Apocalypse Now (1979)
36) Magnolia (1999)
37) Moulin Rouge (2001)
38) One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)
39) Memento (2000)
40) Leon (1994)

41) Seven (1995)
42) Heat (1995)
43) LA Confidential (1997)
44) Gone With The Wind (1939)
45) Vertigo (1958)
46) Forrest Gump (1994)
47) Seven Samurai (1954)
48) Some Like it Hot (1959)
49) Reservoir Dogs (1992)
50) Saving Private Ryan (1998)

51) Star Wars Episode II Attack of the Clones (2002)
52) Dr.Strangelove (1964)
53) Scarface (1983)
54) The Shining (1980)
55) Singin’ in the Rain (1952)
56) The Matrix (1999)
57) Titanic (1997)
58) Ghostbusters (1984)
59) Die Hard (1988)
60) Fargo (1996)

I like this list, it's a good list, representing movie fans of course rather than the film snob elite, who will have little interest in most of these films anyway.
I’ve seen every one of these movies, and I own nearly every one of them, and I have no problems with Fellowship at no.1.
My favorite movie Ben-Hur (1959) is at no.93 and City of God is last on the list at no.100.

Lou Sytsma

Blood will be spilled here!

Every man is my superior, in that I may learn from him.

Dome Vongvises

Let's go through the motions:

*Puts on monocle*

I do believe that somehow sheep have been given the ability to write. But that's more credit I would give them than much of today's audience. When will audience's see the veil of pandering and lowest common denominator that's prevalent in garbage such as this?

Personally, I weep at such nonsense

*Takes off monocle*

Well, I guess that takes care of film snob elites.

I like every movie on this list...except for The Big Lebowski, but I saw that in high school, and my opinion of it might change if I saw it again.

Clem

I don't mean this to be rude but why did you only list 60?

Patrick McCart

No silent films?

Tell The Weinstein Company to release Richard Williams' animated masterpiece The Thief and the Cobbler on DVD in Panavision widescreen and uncut! See and hear what you're missing from their Bitsy Award winner of Worst Standard Edition DVD of 2006 on YouTube!

Adam_ME

The Two Towers over The Godfather?! Please. And Jurassic Park at #11? You know what? I'm not even gonna bother with this list. One look at it and you know these people were on crack when they came up with it.

One interesting stat to keep in mind though. Out of the Top 60 films on this list, only 19 were released before 1980. Shows you how little research they really did.

I should really learn to knock....in case there's a threesome going on in my bedroom. - Sandy Cohen, The O.C., The Countdown

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Steve Christou

Because I'm a lazy bastage! I typed every word of that! [sobs] I might post the rest of it later. Unless there was a link to that list I wasn't aware of! Which would have helped.[wipes tears]

I was looking at Matrix way down at no.56, I think it would have rated much higher if those two loud crazy overblown sequels hadn't come out last year and diminished the impact of the first film.

Todd Phillips

Uhh, it's a survey. Research is irrelevant. As are surveys.

"Safe? Who knows what's safe? I know a man who dropped dead from lookin' at his wife. My own grandmother fought the indians for sixty years, then choked to death on lemon pie."

Stevan Lay

Well, that's like... just your opinion, man

Personally, I would immediately dismiss any film that was produced in the past 3-5 years for the simple fact that a great film requires to stand the test of time. Not that those films are not worthy of a consideration but it really needs to age a little first before we start bottling it up in a time capsule.

Steve Christou

Here we go, bang on time. Yep damn those pesky British cinemagoers. Sunrise should have been at no.1. And Ivan the Terrible at no.2, just to make you and Patrick happy.

Garrett Lundy

I'm sorry, but any filmthat contains a muppet should not be rated above Conan The Barbarian. The fact that this cinemtaic gem is not listed in the top 60 is just further proof that England should just sink into the Atlantic.