The Internet Movie Database has stunned the world of film by revealing that the greatest film is 1987 Patrick Swayze Buddhist bouncer classic – Road House.
“It’s actually damned embarrassing,” said representative of IMDB, Burt Fellini
“We use a sophisticated algorithm that calculates and weights user votes, critical appraisal, and box office popularity adjusted for inflation to produce a definitive chart of the greatest films of all-time.”
For the past year, IMDB has shown the greatest film of all time as the Godfather
“Problem is, we forgot to carry the one,” continued Mr Fellini.
“Which means the whole chart’s been a sack of crap for years. The top ten should read Road House, then the Mighty Ducks, then the Star Wars one with the teddy bears, then Ghandi, then something in European that I can’t pronounce, then Nuns on the Run, which is goddamn hilarious – two British guys dressed up as nuns? And one of them’s a fat guy? Never understood why it wasn’t higher. Next is Electric Blue 5, we think that’s mainly on audience votes, then the 1 Direction movie, then Predator 2, then Predator, and at number ten is Rome: Open City, but we think that’s just drunk people.”
Road House, which was passed over at the Oscars, is the tale of Dalton, a bouncer or ‘doorman’ who uses Buddhist philosophies to clean up a wild bar, get off with a pretty lady and defeat the baddie whose been terrorising town in a truck with big wheels.
The film has been hailed as a ‘profound allegory for the inevitability of violence in the face of pacifism,’ by some, and ‘stupid’ by others.
The Godfather came in at number 142 in the revised chart, just behind the Spy Who Loved Me.
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