akuma587 on 06 August 2008
I have yet to vote on The Dark Knight on IMDB. I frequent IMDB, and I am pretty sick of the whiners who are bemoaning the whole Dark Knight thing. The reason why you liked IMDB in the first place is probably because it is a user-based system which gives equal preference to more modern movies, and because it is a dynamic voting system.
To dislike it now for the same reasons you liked it in the first place is very hypocritical. I do agree that The Dark Knight probably shot up higher than it would have due to Ledger's death, but it is a GREAT film that I don't necessarily have a problem with being in the top 10, or even at number 1. I like it more than the original Godfather and The Shawshank Redemption, but not every movie in the top 10 (like One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Pulp Fiction, The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, and Casablanca).
Your voice counts the same as everyone else on IMDB, and you should complain more about some of the Star Wars films and Lord of The Rings films being so high on the list if you want to bitch about movies whose scores are over-inflated.
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