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

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

The Godfather and several others NOT ON THE LIST are better films.

[Snickering Hound]

Kelly’s Heroes is one of the best movies ever made.

Love the equipment. They actually tried to make a Tiger tank out a T-34. All kinds of period equipment.

My biggest annoyance with 'Patton' is how German tanks are just National Guard tanks with crosses painted on them. And then Bradley says German tanks are diesels. Oof.

But then the 'Kelly's' sniper takes a Mosin Nagant into the church belltower...

[Snickering Hound]

Yes, Fargo was brilliant. Pretty much anything by the Coens. Also love the quirly Wes Anderson's stuff.

The 'Fargo' series on FX is actually good, especially the 1st season with Billy Bob Thornton.

Takes place in the same 'Fargo' universe, just at different time periods if that makes any sense.

[JoeProBono]

[Albion Wilde]

Oh, yikes, FredZ, Amarcord is one of my favorite movies ever. Then again, I speak Italian and have spent many happy journeys in Italy.

Other Italian faves are Nuovo Cinema Paradiso, É La Nave Va, Seven Beauties, Swept Away (the original Lina Wertmuller version) and and Il Postino.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Posh. Now HERE is a Super hero! Beats Superman, Batman, and the others!

[katana]

And don't forget Used Cars. "Yassir!"

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

JAWS II. Everyone in the theater was rooting FOR THE SHARK!

[SamAdams76]

I’m sorry that “Frozen” did not make the list, a thriller about people who were stuck on a ski lift with the ski slope closing and a blizzard moving in.

[katana]

The Maltese Falcon ...

[FredZarguna]

Il Postino, sì. But Amarcord must have lost something in translation.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

What? No GIANT CLAW??

[Big Red Badger]

Never heard of ,,,,

GONE WITH THE WIND.

???

[Albion Wilde]

I very much enjoyed every Scorsese movie I’ve seen. The Departed was outstanding.

Loved The Departed — seen it four times. Fantastic cast. Also loved Scorcese's Gangs of New York.

Which reminds me of Daniel Day-Lewis, which reminds me of A Room with a View with Day-Lewis, Helena Bonham-Carter and Maggie Smith, if you like Edwardian English romances set in Italy. Loved it.

Speaking of Maggie Smith, The Prime of Miss Jean Brody, Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood and The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. Which reminds me of Bill Nighy, which reminds me of Love Actually, my favorite Christmas movie, except for A Christmas Story with Ralphie and his air rifle.

[FredZarguna]

Disagree with majority of most overrated

De gustibus et coloribus non est disputandum.

[FredZarguna]

I have tried to watch all of them more than once; in fact I have watched both Citizen Kane and The Treasure of Sierra Madre at least three times, but have never been able to connect with either.

[Albion Wilde]

Brando makes the movie. Ernest Borgnine would have been a joke. One of the Oscars biggest mistakes was awarding him Best Actor for Marty

For my money, the biggest casting mistake of all time was Al Pacino in Scent of a Woman. That role was meant for Robert Duvall.

[Albion Wilde]

add Chinatown to whatever list.

If Chinatown is on the list, Bonnie and Clyde, Easy Rider and McCabe and Mrs. Miller have to go first. And the original M.A.S.H.

[Captain Peter Blood]

I see nothing from the Golden Age or any of the classic post-war European Films. Too narrow a list.

[OrangeHoof]

Citizen Kane was the first film to introduce a number of cinematic techniques that are common place today but were revolutionary in its day. They also took on a controversial target much as if somebody did a movie today on George Soros that made him out to be a crude, selfish megalomaniac instead of the Santa Claus for all matter of liberal causes.

It fully deserves to be in the Top 5 by any serious film historian.