Empire Magazine has a top 500 movies of all time list. Looking at this list, I find that I've not seen a majority of the top 50. This seems a bit wrong to me. I watched The Expendables the other week, and yet I've never got round to watching Raging Bull. Is that a sane situation? No.
So, I'm going to watch the ones I've not seen from the top 100, starting conveniently with the #100 film, Sidney Lumet's Network. Hold on a minute, I'll just go and do that.
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Back! Well, I'm not going to do a full review on that. The very fact it's in the Top 100 movies means that it's stood the test of time, and my 2p isn't going to tip the scales either way. But I will say I greatly enjoyed it. It was quite uncinematic, compared to a similar modern film, and the passage of time has made the whole thing seem far less outrageous. Surely Glenn Beck is only weeks away from actually declaring to the world that he's mad as hell, and not going to take it anymore. Most enjoyable though, all the same, with an ending that's still a bit outrageous, while seeming all too prophetic.
I will be claiming Empire 100 films on my annual tally, even though I'm not technically seeing them in the cinema. I have a pretty big telly.
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