ROTK - Ultimate Best Film winner - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Sauron the White · 02-20-2009, 06:51 AM

In an online poll pitting many great award winning films against each other in a tournament style competition, RETURN OF THE KING has been named as the Ultimate Best Picture of all time.

http://oscars.movies.yahoo.com/blog/...-rings-is-king

ROTK emerged over THE GODFATHER as over 700,000 people cast votes.

Kitanna · 02-20-2009, 08:50 AM

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The victims of Round One included such favorites as "Gladiator," which was barely bested by finalist "The Godfather," along with others like "Casablanca," "Silence of the Lambs," "Lawrence of Arabia," and "Gone with the Wind."

Really? ROTK beat out some of those movies listed? ROTK is a good movie (as long as you look at it as a movie not as an adaptation), but it's not better than Casablanca, Lawrence of Arabia, or Gone with the Wind.

William Cloud Hicklin · 02-20-2009, 09:20 AM

And by the same token, the Big Mac Combo Meal is the best comestible ever.

skip spence · 02-20-2009, 09:49 AM

Could hardly sit through RotK to be honest. I enjoyed FotR though.

The other finalist, The Godfather, would have been a worthy winner.

Sauron the White · 02-20-2009, 10:28 AM

WCH - can you point to a similar poll where the Bic Mac combo meal was pitted against other foods and was judged by 700,000 people to be the best?

Even those who partake of such meals do not necessarilly believe it is the best. Cost and availability have much to do with the success of McDonalds. Speed and access also play a role.

I seriously doubt that even if you interviewed customers right in a McDonalds they would tell you that their meal is the absolute best beating out all other meals.

It must really smoke your shorts that the public loves these films when you have the opposite opinion.

William Cloud Hicklin · 02-20-2009, 11:51 AM

Sauron, a poll is not reality. It's merely a measure of people's perception of reality: people, fifty percent of whom are of below-average intelligence.

No plebiscite or election can make 2 + 2 = 5, or make the Keynesian Multiplier other than a myth.

02-20-2009, 06:51 AM	#1
Sauron the White Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 903	ROTK - Ultimate Best Film winner In an online poll pitting many great award winning films against each other in a tournament style competition, RETURN OF THE KING has been named as the Ultimate Best Picture of all time. http://oscars.movies.yahoo.com/blog/...-rings-is-king ROTK emerged over THE GODFATHER as over 700,000 people cast votes.

02-20-2009, 09:20 AM	#3
William Cloud Hicklin Loremaster of Annúminas Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 2,301	And by the same token, the Big Mac Combo Meal is the best comestible ever. __________________ The entire plot of The Lord of the Rings could be said to turn on what Sauron didn’t know, and when he didn’t know it.

02-20-2009, 09:49 AM	#4
skip spence shadow of a doubt Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Back on the streets Posts: 1,143	Could hardly sit through RotK to be honest. I enjoyed FotR though. The other finalist, The Godfather, would have been a worthy winner. __________________ "You can always come back, but you can't come back all the way" ~ Bob Dylan

02-20-2009, 11:51 AM	#6
William Cloud Hicklin Loremaster of Annúminas Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 2,301	Sauron, a poll is not reality. It's merely a measure of people's perception of reality: people, fifty percent of whom are of below-average intelligence. No plebiscite or election can make 2 + 2 = 5, or make the Keynesian Multiplier other than a myth. __________________ The entire plot of The Lord of the Rings could be said to turn on what Sauron didn’t know, and when he didn’t know it.

02-20-2009, 10:28 AM	#5
Sauron the White Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 903	WCH - can you point to a similar poll where the Bic Mac combo meal was pitted against other foods and was judged by 700,000 people to be the best? Even those who partake of such meals do not necessarilly believe it is the best. Cost and availability have much to do with the success of McDonalds. Speed and access also play a role. I seriously doubt that even if you interviewed customers right in a McDonalds they would tell you that their meal is the absolute best beating out all other meals. It must really smoke your shorts that the public loves these films when you have the opposite opinion.