Empire Magazine’s 100 Greatest Movies Of The Century Features A Lot Of Serious Duds
Taste is an interesting thing. Everyone is entitled to their opinion of course, but some people simply don’t have good taste. They’d rather eat at McDonalds than a good restaurant. This list of Empire Magazine’s 100 films of the 21st Century shows most people would rather embrace the cinematic equivalent of a fast food burger joint than enjoy a succulent well cooked meal.
Is Avengers: Infinity War, a film not even out a year, the fourth best film released in the last two decades? The answer to that is no. It’s likely that the majority of people who voted for it are young, foolish and without any real cinematic taste. It’s cinematic fast food: designed and packaged to be sold around the globe.
There’s also a lot of great films which are notable by their absence. This list doesn’t feature All Is Lost, Vanilla Sky, Enduring Love, Big Fish and Far From Heaven for example.
Duds on the Empire list include the aforementioned Anvegers film, Avengers Assemble, Wonder Woman, Iron Man, Guardians Of The Galaxy and Captain America: Civil War. All enjoyable movies in their own way, but far from being all-time greats.
Movies In Focus will publish a list of 100 Greatest Movies of the 21st Century soon. Here’s Empire’s full list:
1. Mad Max Fury Road
2. The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring
3. The Dark Knight
4. Inception
5. Moonlight
6. The Social Network
7. Avengers: Infinity War
8. Get Out
9. Pan’s Labyrinth
10. Lost In Translation
11. There Will Be Blood
12. No Country For Old Men
13. Whiplash
14. Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind
15. Spirited Away
16. Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse
17. Mulholland Drive
18. Inside Out
19. The Wolf Of Wall Street
20. Interstellar
21. Children Of Men
22. Gladiator
23. City Of God
24. La La Land
25. Call Me By Your Name
26. Memento
27. Kill Bill Volume Volume 1
28. The Irishman
29. Boyhood
30. God’s Own Country
31. Amelie
32. Avengers Assemble
33. Wonder Woman
34. Zodiac
35. Arrival
36. Lady Bird
37. Donnie Darko
38. The Grand Budapest Hotel
39. Joker
40. Up
41. Avengers: Endgame
42. Casino Royale
43. The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King
44. Roma
45. Blade Runner 2049
46. Inside Llewyn Davis
47. Scott Pilgrim Vs The World
48. Star Wars: The Force Awakens
49. In Bruges
50. The Hunt For The Wilderpeople
51. Paddington 2
52. Inglourious Basterds
53. The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers
54. Brokeback Mountain
55. Captain America: The Winter Soldier
56. Before Sunset
57. Drive
58. Wall-E
59. Django Unchained
60. Carol
61. Shaun Of The Dead
62. Sideways
63. Under The Skin
64. Almost Famous
65. Toy Story 3
66. The Prestige
67. Hot Fuzz
68. Apocalypto
69. The Royal Tenenbaums
70. Avatar
71. The Raid
72. Birdman
73. Once Upon A Time In Hollywood
74. Oldboy
75. Training Day
76. Logan
77. Dunkirk
78. Michael Clayton
79. Little Miss Sunshine
80. Before Midnight
81. District 9
82. Skyfall
83. Frances Ha
84. Coco
85. The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford
86. Iron Man
87. Bridesmaids
88. Sweeney Todd
89. Her
90. Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
91. In The Mood For Love
92. Baby Driver
93. Phantom Thread
94. Batman Begins
95. A Prophet
96. Guardians Of The Galaxy
97. Ex Machina
98. Captain America: Civil War
99. Let The Right One In
100. Dead Man’s Shoes
Top Ten Critics Choice:
1. Mad Max Fury Road
2. The Dark Knight
3. The Social Network
4. Moonlight
5. Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring
6. There Will Be Blood
7. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
8. Get Out
9. Inception
10. Lost In Translation
Top Ten Readers Choice:
1. The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring
2. Mad Max: Fury Road
3. Inception
4. Avengers: Infinity War
5. The Dark Knight
6. Moonlight
7. Pan’s Labyrinth
8. Get Out
9. Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse
10. Lost In Translation
