A movie you just can't refuse. THE GODFATHER tops Empire's biggest ever poll

by Matt Holmes

In one of the most ambitious "movie list polls" ever conducted in the U.K, the world's favoured movie magazine Empire have named Francis Ford Coppola's 1970's masterpiece THE GODFATHER, the greatest movie of all time. Similar to the results of a poll conducted by the Online Film Community (of which we were apart of), THE GODFATHER still sits high and mighty above everything else. The Top Ten Looked Like This...

1. The Godfather (1972) 2. Raiders Of The Lost Ark (1981) 3. Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (1980) 4. The Shawshank Redemption (1994) 5. Jaws (1975) 6. GoodFellas (1990) 7. Apocalypse Now (1979) 8. Singin' In The Rain (1952) 9. Pulp Fiction (1994) 10. Fight Club (1999)
Which compared with our Top 10 from last summer...
1. Godfather, The (Coppola, 1972) 2. Citizen Kane (Welles, 1941) 3. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Kubrick, 1964) 4. Raiders of the Lost Ark (Spielberg, 1981) 5. Casablanca (Curtiz, 1942) 6. Blade Runner (R. Scott, 1982) 7. Jaws (Spielberg, 1975) 8. Godfather Part II, The (Coppola, 1974) 9. Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (Kershner, 1980) 10. Alien (R. Scott, 1979)
Other facts from the list.. There was little love for the Brits, only two movies classed as U.K. productions made the Top 100. Those being A CLOCKWORK ORANGE (37) and well, er, um, CASINO ROYALE (56!). 56! 56! Fucking hell. The other Bond movie to make the list was GOLDFINGER.HARRY POTTER AND THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN was the only movie from that franchise which made the list and only just coming in at 471. Despite barely being two months old, THE DARK KNIGHT made it into the Top 20. Classics EASY RIDER and SOUND OF MUSIC didn't make the list, despite bizarre recent entries like SAW, INDIANA JONES AND THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL, 2 DAYS IN PARIS (why?) and SUPERMAN RETURNS. The list was conducted by... Which is said to have included Mike Leigh and Quentin Tarantino. Full list printed in the new issue of Empire which hits the news stands tomorrow.
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Matt Holmes is the co-founder of What Culture, formerly known as Obsessed With Film. He has been blogging about pop culture and entertainment since 2006 and has written over 10,000 articles.