I see that a recent poll has decided The Godfather is the best film of all time. While my own personal favourite will remain Naughty Nina's Campus Frolics, I can understand the choice. The Godfather is an excellent film but the whole question of selecting "the best" is simply not possible. There is no way of objectively measuring the quality of a movie as it will always boil down to a matter of individual taste. We've talked often on this site about favourite films and I'm using this recent poll as an excuse to return to the subject. I've always loved The Graduate and it comfortably gets into my top ten, yet it failed to get a mention in the top 100 of that recent poll. Another of my absolute favourites, Stand By Me, scraped in by the skin of its teeth at number 100. The Princess Bride, just a glorious film AND book, did marginally better at number 93, but well behind the likes of Hot Fuzz (71) and Terminator 2: Judgement Day (25). And not a mention of Ulzana's Raid, Burt Lancaster's brilliant Western.
These polls are rubbish, I tell ya.
