Posted on 06/15/2017 3:04:27 PM PDT by nickcarraway
THE Godfather has pipped The Empire Strikes Back to be voted greatest movie of all time.
The 1972 Mafia epic that starred Marlon Brando as Don Vito Corleone topped a poll by film mag Empire of 20,000 readers.
At third was Christopher Nolan’s 2008 Batman film The Dark Knight, for which Heath Ledger won an Oscar for his performance as The Joker.
The Shawshank Redemption came fourth, despite often being hailed best-ever film online.
La La Land — released six months ago — came 62nd.
The all-time top ten are as follows:
1. The Godfather
2. The Empire Strikes Back
3. The Dark Knight
4. The Shawshank Redemption
5. Pulp Fiction
6. Goodfellas
7. Raiders of the Lost Ark
8. Jaws
9. Star Wars
10. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Pan’s Labyrinth, while a competent movie, was made by an America-hating commie, So I drop it from contention.
I posit that it was Ernest Borgnine who made Airwolf what it was: pretty darn awesome.
To a 12 year old at least, which I was at the time.
Hard to believe that same year he did "Last Tango in Paris."
Wasn’t Last Tango in Paris the one where he put a stick of butter of some chick’s butt?
Rifftracks thought otherwise.
They skewer it rather well.
***Other than that it was all mumbling, cotton, ***
Why pick on THE GODFATHER! Brando mumbled and sounded like he had cotton in his mouth in ALL his movies! Some were still good.
Ernest Borgnine MURDERER!
He killed that poor little rat in WILLARD!
Ain't he/she cute!
Why pick on THE GODFATHER! Brando mumbled and sounded like he had cotton in his mouth in ALL his movies! Some were still good.
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Because Brando gets way too much credit for the success of The Godfather.
Did you know they cast Brando as the Don before the script was written. The part was written for him with him in mind.
The only mis cast person was Sonny, James Caan did not do a great job IMO.
Good, the Bad and the Ugly not on there? How about Titanic? Chicks loved that flick.
As for the rest, he sucked in The Godfather and he sucked in pretty much everything he did after 1962. What he did before 1962 was spotty, at best; have a look at Viva Zapata! sometime if you want to see some of the most howlingly bad acting. EVER.
I don't think that's true. Laurence Olivier was originally cast in the part, he even learned to mimic the speech patterns of Italian-American ghetto English quite well to do the role. I don't remember the details of why he was replaced by Brando, but Olivier was Coppola's first choice.
The cast was great with three weak points IMO Talia Shire(Coppola’s sister),Diane Keaton and James Caan.
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