According to Empire magazine...
The list of the top 100 films published in Empire's 201st issue. I'm probably the last person to take any notice of these sorts of lists, but I was surprised and amused to see that my wife and I own 33 of these movies and our wish list includes another 34 of them. The asterisked movies are the ones we own. I won't bother you with our wish list movies because by the time we get around to getting them, the list will probably have changed anyway.
Some of the surprises for me were to see some of my personal favouite movies included on the list. I never thought I'd see 'The Big Lebowski' or 'Grosse Point Blank' on a list such as this. But I was even more surprised to see movies such as 'Stand By Me' and 'Evil Dead 2' on the list. Who'd of thought I had as good taste as this? Not me, thats for sure.
There are a few movies not on the list I think should have been included. Movies such as 'Natural Born Killers', 'The Sixth Sense' and 'Trainspotting', to name a few.
So, how about you JU? Do you agree or disagree with the list? Do you think there are some obvious movies they've missed? And what about your collections. How do they hold up against this list?
Top 100
1. The Shawshank Redemption *
2. The Empire Strikes Back
3. The Fellowship of the Ring *
4. Star Wars
5. The Godfather
6. Pulp Fiction *
7. The Return of the King *
8. Fight Club *
9. Goodfellas *
10. The Matrix *
11. Jaws
12. The Usual Suspects *
13. The Godfather Part 2
14. Alien *
15. Raiders of the Lost Ark
16. Gladiator
17. Aliens *
18. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers *
19. Casablanca
20. Back to the Future
21. Se7en *
22. Heat
23. L.A. Confidential
24. Apocalypse Now
25. The Big Lebowski *
26. Citizen Kane
27. Reservoir Dogs *
28. Die Hard
29. Raging Bull
30. Some Like it Hot
31. Lawrence of Arabia
32. Blade Runner
33. 2001: A Space Odyssey
34. Jurassic Park
35. E.T. The Extra Terrestrial
36. Batman Begins *
37. Terminator 2: Judgment Day
38. Lost in Translation *
39. The Silence of the Lambs
40. Revenge of the Sith
41. Donnie Darko *
42. Amelie
43. Taxi Driver *
44. Magnolia *
45. Toy Story
46. Schindler's List
47. Pirates of the Caribbean
48. Return of the Jedi
49. Memento *
50. Almost Famous
51. American Beauty *
52. Chinatown
53. Rear Window
54. True Romance *
55. The Shining
56. Ghostbusters
57. The Exorcist
58. Titanic
59. Dr. Strangelove
60. Grosse Pointe Blank *
61. Moulin Rouge!
62. City of God
63. Vertigo
64. The Princess Bride
65. Scarface *
66. Sin City *
67. Once Upon a Time in the West
68. Gone with the Wind
69. Annie Hall
70. Seven Samurai
71. Saving Private Ryan
72. Rocky
73. The Wizard of Oz
74. Withnail & I
75. The Third Man
76. A Clockwork Orange *
77. Cool Hand Luke
78. Toy Story 2
79. Kill Bill Vol. 1 *
80. Braveheart
81. It's a Wonderful Life
82. Stand by Me *
83. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind *
84. Evil Dead 2 *
85. Monty Python's Life of Brian *
86. Psycho
87. Garden State
88. Serenity
89. Double Indemnity
90. Clerks
91. Shaun of the Dead *
92. This is Spinal Tap *
93. The Searchers
94. Jerry Maguire
95. Edward Scissorhands
96. Leon
97. The Lion King
98. Superman
99. The Thing
100.The Terminator