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July 08
This past weekend, The Dark Knight made roughly $670 trillion, so who cares about any other stupid movie that didn’t?
But here’s the thing: IMDB users have voted it as the best movie of all time. The proof:
All this demonstrates to my keen eye is that IMDB users don’t really know what they’re talking about. First off, The Godfather II is far superior to the first. And second, Star Wars is the 13th best movie ever made? Have you actually seen Star Wars?
Don’t get me wrong, I really enjoyed The Dark Knight. It’s a great movie—but, as Greg pointed out, is flawed, largely in the pacing and the performance of Maggie “I’m-A-Big-Owl!” Gyllenhall. It is not, despite coolness, the best movie ever made. 2Fast2Furious is. Or what was that other one? The one with The Rock and all the stuff blowing up and those awesome one-liners? The Piano? I forget.
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This list is totally screwball. For example, the Fellowship of the Ring was a fantastic movie. I cried through most of it (Except the stupid part in Moria with Aragorn and Frodo using their body weight to direct the crumbling staircase. Heroically difficult, I think is what my game master would call it. I just call it ridiculous.)
But the second and third movie just paled in comparison and do not deserve to be so high up on that list. The “elves save the day” crap at Helm’s Deep really pissed me off. (The only good part of that movie was Legolas’ jump on the moving horsey acrobatics. This was quite exciting for everyone in the theatre.)
Anyways, this list is flawed and just goes to prove that the media is brilliant at manipulating people into believing they are seeing something fresh and fantastic, when it’s actually the same old tired crap.
I thought The Joker held up the The Dark Knight. What a great last role for Ledger.
I won’t disagree that IMDB users don’t know what the hell they’re talking about, but recognize also the selection bias at play here: those users who responded are those who saw the movie withing the first $670T two days of its release. Of course they’re going to be unduely exuberant.
It’s like asking someone who just dropped $25k on a Prius what his favorite car is. In his excitement, at first he’ll say the Prius, but after the passage of a few months, he’ll really start to miss the VW bug he drove around in highschool on three cylinders listening to eight-tracks. Not saying it’s not a great movie (I haven’t seen it), I’m just saying that IMDB users probably don’t realize that Heath Ledger is but a poor substitute for eight-tracks.
Can’t stop the fanboys from speaking loudly.
One thing that’s interesting to me is the the amount of box-office records TDK has “smashed”. Is anyone bringing inflation into the equation? Movies tickets have gone up steadily over the last few years. It just seems to be a flawed model. Should be based on ticket sales and not a monetary measurement.
You people and your logic. I scoff at your applications of reason.
SCOFF, I SAY!
*ticket prices. Damn mid-day drunkenness.