Marlon Brando’s 1972 Mafia Epic The Godfather Is Greatest Movie of All Time, Say 20,000 Film Fans

The Sun ^ | 9th June 2017 | Simon Boyle

[JBW1949]

They totally missed the best EVER........”Patton”

[musicman]

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[Az Joe]

I have no argument with this.

[GnuThere]

Yeah, I see no old movies in the Top 10. Really?

[Puppage]

Nor do I.

[Williams]

Good but ridiculous list. Shawshank Rebellion? Give me a break.

Lawrence of Arabia, Dr. Strangelove, Ben Hur, Forbidden Planet, 10 Commandments, On the Waterfront, The Hustler, Marty, Longest Day, so many others.

[Puppage]

Citizen Kane was great.

[forgotten man]

So says a bunch of millennial film fans. Most of them have probably never seen a black and white film, not even “Shchindler’s List.”

[Vermont Lt]

This is a pretty weak list. These are popular movies. But everyone has their own best. It has as much to do with experiences and where you were in life as it does with filmmaking.

[Buckeye Battle Cry]

Not a single comedy in the top 10? “Some Like it Hot”? “Animal House”? “Blazing Saddles”?

I agree with number 1, but the rest are open to negotiation.

[Ciaphas Cain]

The Bridge on the River Kwai

Gone With The Wind

2001: A Space Odyssey

Rocky

King Kong (1933)

The Longest Day

Metropolis

The Ten Commandments

Psycho

Airplane!

Blazing Saddles

Any of those should be in the top ten.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Godfather II was better. A Christmas Carol with George C. Scott as Scrooge. The Searchers, Kelley’s Heroes, The Enemy Below, The Thin Man and Night People are worth a watch.

[PGR88]

i would put Raising Arizona in there.

[wally_bert]

I see that Megaforce didn’t make the list - bummer.

Hopefully someone else will get a laugh.

[FredZarguna]

I suppose they mean Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather, since he was the director. Or perhaps Francis Ford Coppola's film adaptation of Mario Puzo's The Godfather.

Brando, thankfully, had very little to do with the film, and it would have been significantly improved had someone else been cast in his role.

[StAntKnee]

Nice to see a top 10 list without Citizen Kane. I know, all those thousands of critics can’t be wrong, but I guess I just didn’t get it.

I woulda put Unforgiven in the top 10. And Fargo.
If the Shawshank Rebellion is as good as the original, I’d give it a spot, too. ;-/

[Gay State Conservative]

The Godfather (and Godfather II) are among the best ever but certainly not *the* best.Schindler is *the* best ever...and Goodfellas is the best Mafia movie.Shawshank...The Dark Knight....Private Ryan...all among the best.

[AlmaKing]

Patton ?

[AlmaKing]

2001 A Space Odyssey