IMDB best of 2005 poll - Vote Serenity! by chronicthehedgehog

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IMDB best of 2005 poll - Vote Serenity!

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Monday, January 9, 2006 8:57 AM

CHRONICTHEHEDGEHOG

IMDB is currently voting on their best and worse of 2005. Go over to www.imdb.com and vote!

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Monday, January 9, 2006 4:09 PM

FIZZ6KITTY

Batman Begins is about to overtake Serenity... so BUMP

http://www.imdb.com/features/rto/2006/poll/bestof2005

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Monday, January 9, 2006 5:46 PM

DERANGEDMILK

There was a thread about this about a week ago. No one really jumped on it, maybe it'll get the attention it deserves this go around.
Either way, I already voted. Make sure to vote Nathan and Summer for best actor and actress and Joss for director.
-e

"Storms getting worse."
"We'll pass through it soon enough."

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Monday, January 9, 2006 7:02 PM

RUNA27

Current standings!

"Best Picture (English Language)":

1. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire 23% with 8762 votes

2. Brokeback Mountain 13% with 4927 votes.

3. King Kong 11% with 4304 votes

4. Sin City 11% with 4063 votes.

5. Serenity 8% with 3064 votes

YAY!

TOP FIVE!

6. Batman Begins 8% with 2942 votes

7. Crash (2004) 7% with 2613 votes

8. Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith 6% with 2393 votes

9. The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe 4% with 1789 votes

10. Munich 4% with 1663 votes

Check it out! Serenity's beat out a Speilberg film by a mile and a half! *shock* Woot, as it were!

Now, "Best Actor":

1. Heath Ledger for Brokeback Mountain (2005) 20% with 4608

2. Daniel Radcliffe for Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005) 15% with 3471

(Daniel Radcliffe!? He was OK, but seriously...)

3. Philip Seymour Hoffman for Capote (2005) 13% with 2994

4. Joaquin Phoenix for Walk the Line (2005) 13% with 2923

5. Johnny Depp for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005) 9% with 2073

(I suppose there's no shame in being outvoted by Johnny Depp. Outside of the Firefly/Serenity cast, he's absolutely my favorite actor - and I say this utterly based on his actual acting skill, too)

6. Christian Bale for Batman Begins (2005) 8% with 1919

7. Nathan Fillion for Serenity (2005) 7% with 1594

YAY!

I certainly voted for him (though it was a real tossup for me between him and Adam).

8. Russell Crowe for Cinderella Man (2005) 5% with 1309

9. Viggo Mortensen for A History of Violence (2005) 3% with 860

10. Ralph Fiennes for The Constant Gardener (2005) 3% with 698

(For The Constant Gardner!? What about his turn as Voldemort!? Though admittedly, I haven't seen The Constant Gardner yet...)

"Best Actress":

1. Reese Witherspoon for Walk the Line (2005) 28% with 5714

2. Naomi Watts for King Kong (2005) 23% with 4580

3. Emma Watson for Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005) 14% with 2860

(Well, she was good, but I'm not sure about #3...)

4. Keira Knightley for Pride & Prejudice (2005) 8% with 1685

5.Summer Glau for Serenity (2005) 6% with 1321

WOOT! Top five!

Go Summer! (I voted for her, too! Whee!)

6. Felicity Huffman for Transamerica (2005) 6%
with 1258

(I'm thrilled for Summer and glad she's beating out Huffman right now, but I must say I'm glad to see Huffman on the list, even though its for TransAmerica and not, obviously, her TV work as Desperate Housewife Lynnete Schavo. Yes, it's my big-time guilty pleasure, why do you ask?)

7. Maria Bello for A History of Violence (2005) 3% with 744

8. Angelina Jolie for Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005) 2%
with 573

(Huh. I'll have to check that out. It sounded cute...)

9. Joan Allen for The Upside of Anger (2005) 2% with 516

10. Charlize Theron for North Country (2005) 2% with 495

(I notice it's for her OMG IMPORTANT DRAMA film this year... and not for Aeon Flux. Heh. As one person said: "Theron has her Oscar. Now she has her Catwoman.")

"Best Supporting Actor":

1. Jake Gyllenhaal for Brokeback Mountain (2005) 23% with 3669

2. Rupert Grint for Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005) 22% with 3473

3. Paul Giamatti for Cinderella Man (2005) 13% with 2167

4. Matt Dillon for Crash (2004) 8% with 1328

(Man, when was this even in theatres? I'm not even sure I've heard of it!)

5. Mickey Rourke for Sin City (2005) 7% with 1246

6. George Clooney for Syriana (2005) 6% with 1083

7. Jack Black for King Kong (2005) 5% with 876

8. Adam Baldwin for Serenity (2005) 4% with 728

Whee!

:( Too bad Alan didn't also make the list, though (I voted for him myself). But oh well, Adam deserves a bit of love for Jayne, too.

As he never, ever ceases to amuse me, nor many others!

9. Michael Caine for Batman Begins (2005) 3% with 624

10. Ian McDiarmid for Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005) 3% with 525

What the hell!? Not ONE of the Serenity ladies is on the Supporting Actress list!

Nooo! Jewel!!!! Why hath no one else voted for thee!? And Gina, too!

"Best Director":

1.Peter Jackson for King Kong (2005) 22% with 5125

2. Ang Lee for Brokeback Mountain (2005) 20% with 4539

3. Mike Newell for Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005) 14% with 3285

WHAT!? Oh come ON! EVEN *I* could have directed GoF better than that! :

4. Joss Whedon for Serenity (2005) 9% with 2077

YAY!!!

He not only made the list, he also made the top five, nay TOP FOUR! Here's the good part, though:

5. Steven Spielberg for Munich (2005) 8% with 1848

He's thus far beat out Spielberg by another mile and a half!

6. Robert Rodriguez for Sin City (2005) 7% with 1571

7. Christopher Nolan for Batman Begins (2005) 5% with 1268

And the Batman Begins guy by even more than that! HA!

8. George Clooney for Good Night, and Good Luck. (2005) 4% with 974

9. George Lucas for Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005) 3% with 849

It's sad to see a franchise whose spirit affected our beloved 'verse get the crap beaten out of it by it in the polls... but it is on occasion hilarious.

No, wait, it's not sad at all. It's just hilarious. To me, at least. Considering Joss described Serenity in "Two words: 'Millenium' and 'Falcon'." at one point.

Episode III has yet to even hit close to 1,000!

10. David Cronenberg for A History of Violence (2005) 3% with 771

I am headdesking over the "Best Foreign Language (non-English) Film" category. Memoirs of a Geisha was nominated. The film's IN bloody English! Idiots.

You can TELL FROM THE BLOODY TRAILERS ALONE! ARGH! FOREIGN LANGUAGE =/= SIMPLY BEING ABOUT A FOREIGN CULTURE!

Er... I'm OK. Really. I'm fine now. Eh... eheh.

Serenity is also #8 on the "Funniest" list, with 1091 votes; it's sandwiched in between Madagascar (#9 with 942 votes) and Wallace & Gromit (#7 with 1182 votes). That'd be my vote contributing to that one, since I STILL can't get over that "The hell with this, I'm gonna live!" line. Best. Comedic. Scene. Crammed in the midst of drama. EVER.

Serenity did not make the "Scariest" list at this point... which is ridiculous, because I was white-knuckled throughout the entire climax of the film, and yet Harry Potter takes the #3 spot! What the hell!?

"Best Action Movie":

1.Batman Begins (2005) 24% with 9068

2. King Kong (2005) 14% with 5409

3. Sin City (2005) 13% with 4941

4. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005) 11% with 4477

5. Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005) 11% with 4135

6. Serenity (2005) 8% with 3350

Only # SIX!? Why isn't it in the top five!? Ah, but at least it made the list and is probably secure in staying on it, what with being in the middle.

7. Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005) 7% with 2761

8. War of the Worlds (2005) 4% with 1828

9. The Island (2005) 2% with 1100

10. Kingdom of Heaven (2005) 1% with 434

"Best Popcorn (Most Entertaining) Movie":

1. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005) 25% with 8295

(Doesn't look like we'll beat it. *sigh*)

2. King Kong (2005) 21% with 7111

3. Batman Begins (2005) 10% with 3437

4. Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005) 10% with 3409

5. Serenity (2005) 9% with 3089

WOOT! Top five!

And at this rate, we might still be able to beat out Star Wars and/or Batman Begins to take third or fourth!

6. Sin City (2005) 6% with 2236

7. Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005) 4% with 1449

8. Wedding Crashers (2005) 4% with 1386

9. War of the Worlds (2005) 3% with 1239

10. The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005) 3% with 1184

Don't feel bad about Star Wars and HP dominating so many of the rankings, though. They're also on the "Worst Picture" list; both have a "Worst Actor", "Worst Supporting Actor" and "Worst Supporting Actress" in the lists; Star Wars has a "Worst Actress"; BOTH made both "Worst Screenplay" and "Worst Director"; HP also got "Worst Song", "Worst Trailer", and "Worst Poster" (What!? Hey, I liked the HP GoF posters...!); and Star Wars also made "Worst Visual Effects", "Worst Title", and "Worst Poster".

It should be noted, of course, that NOT ONCE was Serenity remotely featured in ANY of the "Worst" lists, not even for the poster (well, it's OK on its own, but not a particularly good way to advertize the film, IMO) or Worst Trailer (I HATED a lot of the trailers for Serenity. Some of them gave the TOTALLY wrong impression about River

)!

-Runa27

Can't Stop The Signal

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Monday, January 9, 2006 7:47 PM

INSANESPIKE

Yeah, I posted something about this around a week ago. Guess it must have gotten buried pretty quick before anyone noticed lol.

Come on Browncoats! Let's take this poll over!

"How drunk was I last night?"

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Monday, January 9, 2006 7:57 PM

TORPOR

Yeah, Harry Potter is high up on most of the categories. Even IMDb made fun of Rupert Grint getting a high standing on the poll. :)

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Tuesday, January 10, 2006 12:40 AM

GRANITE

Don't forget to vote for the worst stuff of the year too - note that Serenity is NOT on any of the worst lists - yipee!

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Tuesday, January 10, 2006 1:19 AM

SARGATANUS

How in the tyen shiao duh is Serenity getting beat by the gay cowboy movie?

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Tuesday, January 10, 2006 1:26 AM

ANDRE83

Quote:
Originally posted by Sargatanus:
How in the tyen shiao duh is Serenity getting beat by the gay cowboy movie?

Please....just saying something like that should get you banned.

Jayne: All those years of preacher training, getting knocked out by one bounty hunter
Book: Oh, dont get me wrong. I gave him a hell of a fight
Jayne: Epic i'm guessing

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Tuesday, January 10, 2006 3:28 AM

JONESRA

Serenity is middle of almost all Best of Polls, this should be enough to at least intrigue anyone who hasn't seen it.

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Tuesday, January 10, 2006 6:04 AM

ALLARTICULATE

I have a couple more email addresses. ;)
Might mix it up a little, so the vote counts don't exactly match for the BDM/Nathan/Summer/Joss

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Tuesday, January 10, 2006 12:05 PM

MATTIE

Yay for our BDM! I SO TOTALLY VOTED! When I saw the results I laughed out loud. Serenity and our BDH's are in almost every single one of the "Best of 2005" lists. Gosh, what more could we wish for? (Okay, I wish that it would beat out the other movies and make the top of the list, but "if wishes were horses, we'd all be eatin' steak".--I just love Jayne, don't you? He cracks me up!)

Wacky fun!

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Wednesday, January 11, 2006 5:37 AM

MSCKAREN

I've added my votes. I got some chuckles out of the options the system provided when I hit the "Cast Ballot" button. At least I learned that Alan Tudyk's middle name is Wray...

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Wednesday, January 11, 2006 8:32 AM

NIRVANA

Voted - seems like the poll is pretty solid... Joss Whedon is doing well for Best Director!

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Wednesday, January 11, 2006 11:27 PM

FIREFLYNUTTER

looks like serenity is moving upo the polls... bring it on... :D

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Thursday, January 12, 2006 2:23 AM

MATTY

Serenity is cetainly moving up the polls

Here are the categories the are in with the current results.

#5 for Best Picture

#7 for Best Actor, Nathan Fillion (Mal)

#5 for Best Actress, Summer Glau (River)

#8 for Best Supporting Actor, Adam Bladwin (Jayne)

#4 for Best Director, Joss Whedon (YAY go Joss)

#8 for funniest movie

#6 for Best Action Movie

#5 for Best Popcorn Movie (Most Entertaining Movie)

Unfortunatly Serenity didn't make it into the Best Supporting Actress catorgory

but i think Jewel Staite (Kaylee)and Morena Baccarin(Inara)should both get it.

That puts us in the Top 5 for 4 categories so come on guys keep voting for serenity.

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Thursday, January 12, 2006 5:05 AM

FIZZ6KITTY

Sounds good to me... the more votes the better!

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Thursday, January 12, 2006 8:00 PM

FIZZ6KITTY

We're actually almost up to 4000 votes for Best Picture, but still in 5th place.

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Friday, January 13, 2006 2:12 AM

HAEKELDRACHE

Just did my part. Keep on voting! ;)

"Burn the land and boil the Sea, you can´t take the Sky from me..."

Haekeldrache is german for Crochetdragon

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Friday, January 13, 2006 7:41 PM

FIZZ6KITTY

BUMP :)

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Friday, January 13, 2006 11:12 PM

UNSARDONIC

as of early Saturday 14th, Serenity's still #5 overall, with Sith currently trailing by 103 votes. It's also, 5th best action movie & 6th funniest movie. Also gratifying are results for Joss Whedon, #4 for Best Director, Summer Glau, #5 for best Actress & Nathan Fillion is #7 for best Actor. And that's on a VERY high-profile, VERY well-known-worldwide website & their overall-best poll for 2005.

Still... it needs more work, I think... more fresh newbie-voters. With as few votes as are currently on the totals, I risk being

when there are so many more browncoats than those few votes would indicate.

Vote, damn ya, VOTE, you

DUDES... "or your friends will think you're a stupid, inbred stack of meat."

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Saturday, January 14, 2006 8:13 AM

DIZZ

voted, and bump!

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Saturday, January 14, 2006 8:19 AM

SERENYTY

I've voted.

I also have to mention that on the worst of poll, pretty much everything on the best movies is on there, somewhere. Except Serenity.

~A message from Serenyty~

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Saturday, January 14, 2006 8:27 AM

CBY

Quote:
Originally posted by Unsardonic:
Vote, damn ya, VOTE, you DUDES... "or your friends will think you're a stupid, inbred stack of meat."

As I said on another thread, I personally (that's just me) don't believe in the mechanic of internet polls and the validity of their outcome. Same goes for internet petitions. Truthfully, I've never heard of any poll or petition on the net that actually achieved something.

Now go ahead and stone me

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Sunday, January 15, 2006 3:37 PM

UNSARDONIC

Quote:
Originally posted by DIzz:

hehhehheh

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Sunday, January 15, 2006 4:02 PM

UNSARDONIC

Quote:
Originally posted by CBY:
Quote:
Originally posted by Unsardonic:
Vote, damn ya, VOTE, you DUDES... "or your friends will think you're a stupid, inbred stack of meat."

As I said on another thread, I personally (that's just me) don't believe in the mechanic of internet polls and the validity of their outcome. Same goes for internet petitions. Truthfully, I've never heard of any poll or petition on the net that actually achieved something.

Now go ahead and stone me

No, no... no stoning... well... unless, like me, you just listened to Bob Dylan's classic, "Rainy Day Women #12 & 35," and therefore we'll stone ya as in "...EV'rybody must get..."

Now your point is well-taken and, obviously true but, what's the fun in only doing things specifically calibrated to "actually achieve something." People do lots of things for no reason - for (as I said fun - on a whim - jutht to be thilly - because of an uncontrollable impulse... on-n-on. Heck, I try to "actually achieve something" by going to vote in the regular national elections & feel like I just wasted my time because not a damned thing I voted for occured or, seemed to matter - but I go to let my miserably ignored voice get heard somehow anyway. Sometimes my only consolation is that I might be creating a piece of performance art... something akin to (with apologies to the ghost of Roger Zelazny) lying down in my hammock with the last bottle of scotch on Earth to contemplate the futility of all Human endeavor.

...contemplate the futility of all Human endeavor "or your friends will think you're stupid, inbred stacks of meat."

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Sunday, January 15, 2006 11:16 PM

MATTY

I just hope we get a nomination or an award at this years oscars cause if we win an academy award it just might slap the guys at fox who cancelled Firefly in the face (i hope it does)

You got a wife? All I got was a dumbass stick that sounds like it's raining.

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Monday, January 16, 2006 1:08 AM

FIZZ6KITTY

uh oh.... Star Wars is about to overtake Serenity for best picture!!! As of right now, it's
Serenity - 3942
Star Wars - 3905

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Monday, January 16, 2006 1:50 AM

MATTY

VOTE DAMN YOU VOTE

You got a wife? All I got was a dumbass stick that sounds like it's raining.

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Monday, January 16, 2006 6:02 PM

UNSARDONIC

Quote:
Originally posted by fizz6kitty:
uh oh.... Star Wars is about to overtake Serenity for best picture!!! As of right now, it's
Serenity - 3942
Star Wars - 3905

Worse now (Monday evening) - Sith is ONE vote behind (sorry, didn't get totals)

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Monday, January 16, 2006 6:35 PM

DERANGEDMILK

Still holding on to that one vote lead.
Serenity 3964
Sith 3963
-e

"Storms getting worse."
"We'll pass through it soon enough."

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Saturday, January 21, 2006 8:30 PM

FIREFLYNUTTER

well not anymore... :( it's now trailing EP3 by a good few hundred votes!
/me starts mumbling angry insults at furry animals and such

COME ON VOTE!!!!!!!

(tis also a good thing that I have plenty of emails... vote count by me upto: 2 times)

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