semicolon ftw!
ali go, aka skunkgal, sent me a link today to a story on cnet regarding the dark knight’s recent ascent to the top of imdb’s top 250 list, dethroning the godfather. apparently zealous fans have actually been down-voting coppola’s classic in order to bump nolan’s epic to the top spot, dropping the godfather to number three, behind the shawshank redemption. what does this mean?
not much, aside from the fact that people on teh internets really like the dark knight. a lot. the article makes some comparisons to the hd-dvd issue on digg. a) i don’t read digg, mainly cause i’m not a ron paul supporter. b) they’re completely different situations.
mob mentality doesn’t really apply here. teh internet community (the article uses the terrible “web 2.0″ buzzword) is opinionated and vocal, but by no means represents the world at large, especially on a site like imdb that caters to hardcore movie nerds, like myself. i loved the dark knight; i saw it again on sunday with my mom. is it better than the godfather? no. and a bunch of nerds on a website aren’t gonna change that any time soon.
-srd
