Tough competition in this one, but there was one clear winner for the best ‘Best Picture’ winner of the 2000s:
THE RESULTS:
– The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King: 9 votes
– Gladiator: 6 votes
– No Country for Old Men: 5 votes
– The Departed: 2 votes
– Slumdog Millionaire: 2 votes
– Million Dollar Baby: 1 vote
– A Beautiful Mind, Chicago, Crash and The Hurt Locker: 0 votes
I must say I am a little surprised by this outcome. I thought No Country for Old Men would find a way to win, but the LOTR fans were loud and made sure their voices were heard. I shouldn’t have underestimated you guys, but hey, at least Crash didn’t get a single vote! 😀
THIS WEEK’S POLL:
I am changing gears a little bit this week. Instead of the usual movie poll, I am going the TV route. HBO consistently puts out amazing shows from all sorts of genres. My question for you is, what is your favorite HBO series? You don’t need to have seen all of them to be able to vote — just let us know your personal favorite.
Happy voting!
A very deserving winner. The new poll makes me realise how much TV I don’t watch.
This poll has made me realize just how many TV shows I still need to catch up on. 😀
Ohhhh.
The new poll is nasty. Tough tough choices. I would go with Game of Thrones, but it hasnt been on that long… it could still collapse into suckitude.
Gotta stick with the tried and true and go with The Wire.
I had the exact same line of reasoning. Love Game of Thrones, but it’s still new and doesn’t have as many quality seasons as The Wire, The Sopranos, Six Feet Under, etc. Maybe in a few years it would get my vote, but not now.
Out of all th candidates neither particularly appeals to me though ROTK is for me one of the least deserving winners. I’d much rather prefer if the Oscar went to Fellowship of the Ring, which I thought was a much better film.
I agree that Fellowship was the better film, but I think LOTR fans will just vote for anything LOTR-related. 😉
Oh and best show – Six Feet Under.
Great choice. Six Feet Under blew me away, and the ending is still the best I have ever seen in a TV series.
Surprising/disappointing poll results. Even though I enjoyed the last of the LOTF trilogy I do not think it to be the most deserving of Oscar winners in this group. I love Gladiator, The Departed and No Country for Old Men, but the latter was easily the best Academy-award winner of the last decade and one of the best films I’ve had the pleasure to watch.
I also wish The Departed had gotten a couple more votes and maybe one or two for A Beautiful Mind.
As for your next poll, I don’t have HBO so my vote is for The Game of Thrones because it’s the only one I’ve seen more than a couple of episodes of.
Niels, I am right there with you. I would rank Gladiator, The Departed and No Country for Old Men all above LOTR as well. I figured The Departed would have got more votes…
My selection never wins; I voted for Gladiator (love that movie).
For the new poll I went with Game of Thrones, but I’m not a big fan of HBO’s original shows. I prefer Showtime and Starz for the original stuff, particularly Starz these days.
I am a big fan of Gladiator as well.
Showtime has some good stuff for sure, but I’m not familiar with anything from Starz. I know they have Spartacus, which I haven’t seen, but nothing else is coming to mind. What am I missing out on? I’m always up for some new shows.
Spartacus is by far my favorite (on any channel). Their new show Magic City is quite good. Boss is their other good show, but its next season won’t start until August.
I liked Camelot a lot too, but they canceled it after one season. Shame, especially since it started to get really good at the end.
Cool, thanks for the heads up. I planned to start Spartacus a while ago, but Netflix started messing with it on Instant Watch. They took down random episodes (including the beginning) and then got rid of it altogether. I’ll have to check if they put it back up…
I voted for Gladiator but hey, I certainly won’t cry foul that a LOTR movie won, my favorite trilogy ever!
Yup, LOTR sure is an impressive trilogy. I’ll never forget spending a Thanksgiving day watching the extended editions back-to-back-to-back with my girlfriend. I am nowhere near as big a fan as she is, so I was pretty burnt out by about the halfway point, haha. Still good fun, though.
I don’t see Band of Brothers in the poll. BoB in a landslide!!!!!!!!
COUGH Miniseries!
Haha Fogs beat me to it. I didn’t include Band of Brothers because it’s a miniseries. I was looking specifically at their TV shows for this poll. But I’ll let you have the vote if you must 😛
I’m a little surprised about this actually. I remember there being a heck of a lot of backlash against Return of the King because of its “multiple” endings.
This time, I’ve gone for Game of Thrones. It was a tough choice between that, Sopranos and The Wire, but what I love about GoT is that it’s made it “cool” to like watching fantasy shows. It’s a fantasy show in disguise!
You’re absolutely right on that last statement, Jaina. I was apprehensive about watching Game of Thrones because I’m not much into fantasy, but I am loving the show so far! Very, very entertaining.
I’m kinda surprised that some of the films’ results. i.e. Crash w/zero. But I am glad to see the winner. A tough poll.
A tough poll indeed. I’m glad it wasn’t quite the landslide that the last few have been. 😀