The True Joker

From this weekend on it's official: Imdb.com has lost all credibility. The Dark Knight opened this weekend, making the biggest gross ever, as well as taking the number 1 position in Imdb's Top 250: the movie gets a 9.7 rating over 23.000 votes, with more than 80% of the voters granting it the full 10. Thanks for forfeiting the remaining bit of leverage as a film review site Imdb had left, and turning it into an exclusive nepotistic forum site. We won't have to bother with that anymore.

How can one claim this, without even having seen the film? Well, because it doesn't really matter whether the film is good or not. Whether it's better than its predecessor(s) or not. The rating is just so stupefyingly ridiculous, there is no sense to it at all. Even previous champions [The godfather, or maybe Citizen Kane] couldn't muster such stats. These stats are plainly impossible. There can be only one real conclusion to the common sensed: another election fixed.

It also doesn't matter how it was done. The hype comes like a tsunami. There have been many a flood current smashed on the barricades erected by the good people of Imdb to protect historical quality from the insanity of the daily hype. The fight to keep The Shawshank Redemption from the number 1 spot in the last couple of years, is just most manifest in a struggle to keep off modern day audiovisual pollution. A list of overrated movies since 1990 would have no end. No meaning also, for when time has told, time will heal. We want so much to be witness to the premiere of the Greatest Film Ever. We like to say it came in our time, and we were the first to see it. Only then can we die in peace.