The Empire Strikes Back Voted Greatest Film of All Time

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Star_Wars_Empire The Empire Strikes Back has topped a poll of the greatest movies of all time. I can’t say that we are really all that surprised at this news. Despite the beef that some people have with the movie, it is still a classic. It’s a part of pop culture and you’d be hard-pressed to find someone today who doesn’t at least know of the movie.

The movie, which came out in 1980, beat over 301 other titles in Empire magazine. Yahoo! UK News brings us more on the story:

Creator George Lucas said it was a “privilege” to be voted top.

Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather came second in the survey involving 250,000 film fans.

“The fans like The Empire Strikes Back the best, partly because it is so dark.

“It’s an overall story and as it happens in the second act, things get dark.

“I never really planned it to be three separate films but when it became three separate films, it had an interesting effect of each film having its own personality, caused by the plot,” Lucas said.

See the full list below.

Empire Magazine’s Top 10 Movies of All Time

1. Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back

2. The Godfather

3. The Dark Knight

4. The Shawshank Redemption

5. Pulp Fiction

6. Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope

7. The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring

8. Jaws

9. Raiders Of The Lost Ark

10. Inception

Would you agree with this poll? Did any of your other favorite movies make the Top 10 list?

Lisa Clark

Lisa has been an avid gamer since she was old enough to hold her first controller and a game writer for more than a decade. A child of the Nintendo generation, she believes they just don’t make games like they used to but sometimes, they make them even better! While consoles will always be her first love, Lisa spends most of her gaming time on the PC these days- on MMOs and first-person shooters in particular.