Movies.com reader poll
Six days ago -- October 10 -- I didn't post anything about the Movies.com 1st Annual Readers Poll Awards, partly because the results seemed so obvious and insipid and indicative of a lazy, low-rent reader mentality. 30,000 fans participated in the poll, and...and...and I can't write about this. I just can't. The site itself is lively, punchy, well-designed. Let's just leave it that.
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Posted by Jeffrey Wells on October 16, 2006 at 2:48 PM
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Daniel Fienberg
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Granted that the results are, as you say, insipid, but what exactly caused you to expect better out of the readers of Movies.com?
It's not like the site's content or writing is particularly edgy or indie, nor does it intend to be. The site caters to people who think that "Return of the King" is the best movie ever made and that Orlando Bloom is "dreamy." And I bet they're making good money off of it. But that's the choice they made. You can't resent a horse for not being as exotic as a zebra if its only goal in life was not to buck the little children at the petting zoo.
-Daniel
Posted by Daniel Fienberg
at October 16, 2006 5:53 PM