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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

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


TOPICS: TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: movies
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To: wally_bert
Deeds, not words, my FRiend. Deeds. Not words.
21 posted on 06/15/2017 3:20:14 PM PDT by FredZarguna (And what Rough Beast, its hour come round at last, slouches toward Fifth Avenue to be born?)
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To: nickcarraway

All movies listed were entertaining with the exception of Pulp Fiction. Utter nihilistic crap.


22 posted on 06/15/2017 3:20:51 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: nickcarraway
True cinematic connie-sewers such as myself prefer:

Birdemic: Shock and Terror
Lost Skeleton of Cadavra
Plan 9 From Outer Space
Manos: Hands Of Fate
Robot Monster
Glen Or Glenda?
The Conqueror
The Horror of Party Beach
Santa Claus Conquers The Martians
The Room
Terror Of Tiny Town

OK, that's eleven. Eleven is better than 10. QED.

23 posted on 06/15/2017 3:21:30 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: nickcarraway

24 posted on 06/15/2017 3:22:10 PM PDT by Snickering Hound
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To: nickcarraway

Godfather II is even better, IMHO.


25 posted on 06/15/2017 3:23:12 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: FredZarguna

26 posted on 06/15/2017 3:23:17 PM PDT by FredZarguna (And what Rough Beast, its hour come round at last, slouches toward Fifth Avenue to be born?)
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To: Williams

Definitely Ben Hur and The Longest Day should be in the top 10....


27 posted on 06/15/2017 3:23:57 PM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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To: nickcarraway
My top 10
  1. The Girl Can't Help It

  2. Hollywood Revue of 1929

  3. Pigskin Parade

  4. Gold Diggers of 1933

  5. Gold Diggers of 1935

  6. The Ten Commandments (1923 version)

  7. Around the World in 80 Days

  8. The Search for Paradise

  9. Big Jim McClain

  10. Alexander Nevskii

28 posted on 06/15/2017 3:24:09 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: nickcarraway

No Doctor Zhivago?


29 posted on 06/15/2017 3:24:25 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: FredZarguna

It’s all on on the wheel, it all goes around.

Whatever that means.

Thanks for the laugh, I needed one.


30 posted on 06/15/2017 3:25:07 PM PDT by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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To: nickcarraway

Casablanca, Blade Runner are two that should be on any greats list.


31 posted on 06/15/2017 3:25:24 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: nickcarraway

At one time it was probably between “Birth Of A Nation”, “Citizen Kane” and “Gone With The Wind”.

Two of the three are now out of contention because of rampant political correctness. They even changed the name of the D. W. Griffith award.

I do agree that “The Godfather” was a great one but the second Godfather film was even better. I would also put “Dr. Zhivago” in the top ten.


32 posted on 06/15/2017 3:26:25 PM PDT by yarddog (Romans 8:38-39, For I am persuaded.)
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To: Ciaphas Cain

Rocky, Gone With the Wind, Godfather II, and Braveheart all should have been on the list.


33 posted on 06/15/2017 3:27:51 PM PDT by murron
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To: nickcarraway

Nothing prior to 1970 and only US movies except Lord of the Rings. bleh Almost all box office blockbusters too. I agree most of these 10 are good movies but best ever....not even close.


34 posted on 06/15/2017 3:28:47 PM PDT by xp38
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To: nickcarraway

Meh

Nothing from the great age of movies. Try Thirty Nine Steps


35 posted on 06/15/2017 3:30:36 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the cloudsl)
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To: nickcarraway

The Lives of Others


36 posted on 06/15/2017 3:30:54 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Williams

Gone With the Wind. These dumb asses don’t understand what a conflagration the civil war was. It tore the country apart. It took a 100 years to start healing. Now they want to scrub that bit history. Morons.


37 posted on 06/15/2017 3:31:36 PM PDT by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them.)
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To: nickcarraway

I’d consider Casablanca and The Sting over some of the movies on that list.

Recently watched Gone with the Wind for the first time in years (decades) and found that I appreciated it far more than when I was younger.

How about the original Wizard of Oz?


38 posted on 06/15/2017 3:31:44 PM PDT by chrisser
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To: Billthedrill
Rocket Attack USA ought to be on your list.
39 posted on 06/15/2017 3:31:55 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: StAntKnee
Most Overrated movies of all time:

In no particular order, except that Citizen Kane is by far the most overrated film ever made.
40 posted on 06/15/2017 3:32:15 PM PDT by FredZarguna (And what Rough Beast, its hour come round at last, slouches toward Fifth Avenue to be born?)
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