Let's get LOTR out of fourth place!

[dreamflower]

I was pointed in this direction by middleearthnews:

Best Movie Drama of the Decade

Come on, everyone! We can't lose to Gladiator or The Dark Knight!

Comments

[shirebound]

Voted.

*glares at so-called competition*

[dreamflower]

Yes! And the poll is unfair. LOTR should be listed as three different movies, and win all three top spots!

[gamgeefest.livejournal.com]

I agree Gladiator needs to be bumped down a LOT (top three? seriously!) but The Dark Knight rules all! :D

[dreamflower]

I don't know. Although I was seriously impressed by Heath Ledger's performance, I was less impressed with the other parts of the movie. And while a Batman movie should be dark, that one was way too dark for me.

[cairistiona7.livejournal.com]

I voted! I tried to vote yesterday when I got a twitter from tORN about it but the link didn't work, so I'm glad you posted this.

[dreamflower]

Oh good! We really need to spread the word on this. LOTR needs to be at the top of the list!

[cairistiona7.livejournal.com]

I posted it to my LJ and from what I've seen, it's making the rounds of other folks' LJs and some of the yahoogroups. Hopefully we'll rally and get it up to #1!

[the-arc5.livejournal.com]

Voted. I mean, I love the Dark Knight, but Lord of the Rings is a SAGA. A saga with many, many more quotable lines, I might add. And Gladiator? Piffle.

[dreamflower]

The Dark Knight is just the latest interpretation of Batman, and not the most definitive to my mind.

But LOTR? Hellloooo! 11 Oscars for ROTK? Three epic 3 hour movies filmed simultaneously? And based on THE greatest novel of the 20th century? No way does it deserve to be down in fourth place!

[addie71.livejournal.com]

Done.

[dreamflower]

*high fives!*

[claudia603.livejournal.com]

heck yeah, I voted. I couldn't even watch the Dark Knight. I found it confusing and gratuitously violent. NO WAY SHOULD IT BEAT LOTR!

[dreamflower]

No way should any of them beat LOTR!!!! Half of those I'd never heard of! How could they be better than LOTR?

[aspenjules.livejournal.com]

Voting accomplished.

Eh... Dark Knight is only getting the sympathy vote. The fact that Heath Ledger did such an amazing job, and then died has got people voting emotionally, but honestly, none of them hold a candle to the Masterpiece that is LOTR.

Really.

[dreamflower]

I would agree with you if LOTR was only in SECOND place. Heath Ledger DID do an amazing job with that role, and on the strength of his performance alone, I could see it. (Although the competition is for the whole movie, and not just one performance.)

But "Gladiator"? A movie that was both historically inaccurate and roundly panned by critics? And I have to say I have never before even HEARD of "The Departed". It can't possibly have been a bigger hit than LOTR!