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Disney currently tops both the modern classics and classic movies buzz lists, probably thanks to the related discussion the new The Little Mermaid DVD edition has generated. Many forums currently run threads asking about the posters’ favourite Disney films, which shows here in MovieSay’s rankings.

While the top 10s are largely unchanged from what it was about a week ago, Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner, which has been climbing up in the charts for the past months in anticipation with next year’s “Final Cut” re-release, now finds itself 11th on the classic movies list. Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai, on the other hand, has started to fall, and is now 17th.

Martin Scorsese’s The Departed has rather expectedly taken the number one spot in the buzz rankings for movies now in theaters, but the release has also ignated quite some discussion of the director’s earlier masterpiece, Goodfellas. The film now finds itself second in the buzz rankings for classic films, only second to Disney’s The Little Mermaid.

The reason why The Little Mermaid has so suddenly taken over the number one ranking in the classics list is Disney’s new Platinum Edition double DVD release, which has sold over four million copies in North America in its first week on release.

The Little Mermaid has also boosted the discussion of other Disney classics, with the modern classics top ten now including three Disney movies: The Lion King, Beauty and the Beast and Aladdin.

Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now has returned to the top spot in the list of most talked about classic movies. It takes back the top spot from the 1952 Hollywood musical Singin’ in the Rain, which overtook Apocalypse some weeks ago, but now seems to be fading in the buzz.

In other news related to the list of most talked about classic movies, Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai has started to drop in the rankings now that it has been almost a month since Criterion released their new and superb version of the classic movie. The samurais now hold the 7th place in the rankings.

Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back has also dropped one place, with the 1969 road movie Easy Rider taking its spot in the top ten. Meanwhile, Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner is slowly climbing up the rankings, currently finding itself 14th, and no doubt breaking into the top 10 once the new “Final Cut” of the film is released both theatrically and on DVD next year.

According to Movie Say calculations, Empire Strikes Back (Episode V) is currently the most talked about movie of the individual Star Wars films. It also holds the 9th position in the overall classic films section, just below Mary Poppins and over the second Rambo film.

The second most talked about Star Wars movie appears to be Episode VI, Return of the Jedi. Remarkably, with A New Hope (first of the Star Wars movies) holding the third position, all of the old Star Wars films are more discussed than any of the new ones. This is especially startling, as in general newer films are more talked about, which is also the reason why modern classics are separated from older classics.

It must, however, be mentioned that the last of the Star Wars films, Revenge of the Sith, is not yet included in the buzz calculations due to the way the classics lists were originally built. From the two other new Star Wars films, meanwhile, The Phantom Menace ranks higher than does Attack of the Clones.