I followed
byrdie's link to the
IMDB poll to vote for the
best and
worst movies and work of 2005. I cast my votes in the areas in which I felt qualified to cast my votes, and then I looked closely at the results. I noticed that Serenity (or someone involved in making Serenity) ranked between #4 and #8 in all the following categories: Best Picture (English Language), Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Director, Funniest Movie, Best Action Movie, and Most Entertaining Movie. However, what's really interesting is that 2/3 of the movies that beat out Serenity in these categories also appear somewhere in the "Worst of 2005" lists, while Serenity does not.
It just goes to show that what we
Browncoats have been saying are true: Almost everyone who actually saw Serenity liked it; it's just a shame that the number of those people was so small.