Here;s the thing, I've never denied that the Princess Bride is a good movie, even a great movie. But Best Ever? That's just ludicrous. It's a light, fun fairytale for kids and the young at heart. If you look at all the tournament winners, The Princess Bride was easily the most incongruous with the concept of Best Ever.
My other problem with its victory is that the early tournaments is that we didn't limit those to members only, and what often ended up happening is that Princess Bride would be down or near tied in a vote, then Skooch would make a plea for voting in his LJ late in the week, then all of a sudden, PB would shoot up in votes. So it's victory less represented the will of the community, and more the will of Skooch's flist (at the time, it didn't seem like that much of a problem, since we were mostly using the tournaments as promotional material to encourage higher membership, which did happen for the most part).
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I approve of this choice as well. The people have spoken and the movie snobs can bite me. ;)
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My other problem with its victory is that the early tournaments is that we didn't limit those to members only, and what often ended up happening is that Princess Bride would be down or near tied in a vote, then Skooch would make a plea for voting in his LJ late in the week, then all of a sudden, PB would shoot up in votes. So it's victory less represented the will of the community, and more the will of Skooch's flist (at the time, it didn't seem like that much of a problem, since we were mostly using the tournaments as promotional material to encourage higher membership, which did happen for the most part).
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