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Lemme go to do what you just said. brb. Hopefully will work.
I just signed out, then back in. When I signed out, I then got the option to either "Log In" or to "Sign In". (I think those were the two options.) I tried, first, Log In - which DID ask for an e-mail address. I filled in the entire screen - and it responded that my i.d. was already taken, of my genplant29 (and I supposed also my e-mail address?). So I then simply signed in via where it says "Sign In". There, as usual, it asked ONLY for my username (no e-mail address whatsoever) and a password. I probably did have to enter an e-mail address the first time I came on Movie Chat on Tuesday or Wednesday, but don't recall now, if so.
See the message I added a minute ago about, so far, no screen ever asking for my e-mail address. Lemme try something. I'll totally sign out of Movie Chat, then sign back in. Maybe something is different about the sign in now. If I don't reappear, it'll mean that something went terribly wrong and I screwed something up. lol
Something just occurred to me: Whenever I sign in to Movie Chat, all that the Sign In thing asks for is just my USERNAME and a password. It has NEVER (yet) asked for any e-mail address. So, to date, Movie Chat doesn't have my e-mail address, as I never had any fill-in screen that asked for it. I always just type in "genplant29" and a password to be able to post on Movie Chat. No e-mail address.
I still don't have any notifications, whatsoever, from Movie Chat about any replies. But it's solely this type page I've been posting on. So maybe these type pages don't generate notifications of replies, since this is more like a "conversation," rather than how the message boards set-up is a sort of different type flow to how things work.
It always was neat hearing firsthand information about family members of from back in the 1800s and of throughout the early years of the 20th Century.
I can't think of anything in particular. Over here, it's this type forum or whatever, that I am very drawn to and greatly enjoying. This sort of thing is a major shining plus here, that's a great strength of Movie Chat.
I had already added all my stuff over there before I was aware of here. I started there a week ago, so had already added everything there. PS: I've been giving plugs, over there, to over here, incidentally.
So far I haven't done any specific type message boards posting about any titles or actors/actresses. I've solely just done this type of group messages on these forums or whatever this type page is known as. By the way, I've posted quite a bit on the TMDb boards, as that's where I'm mainly based now. I enjoy over there for certain things, and over here for other type things. So it's a wonderful combination, that is good, each site, for different type things.
What's really cool is that my late mom was born in 1916 (I was born in '60, when both of my parents were 44; I'm my family's "baby"), and the Silents and Pre-Codes that I love were many of the actual movies that my mom and her siblings went to the local theatres to watch while they were themselves personally growing up. That's why I'm so addicted to Silent and Pre-Code cinema, is I feel like I got a front-row seat to those days. In recent years, I watched movies of back then with my mom, and she remembered so many of them, and who a lot of the supporting cast names were, that she was a fan of. She'd tell me who she used to have signed autographed studio pictures of that she'd mail in for, etc. That all was stuff going on during the '20s through '30s. Really helped me gain perspective. PS: My mom was born in 1916 and lived to 2012, died age 96. HER g-grandmother - who she personally knew - was born all the way back in 1833! So, I myself PERSONALLY knew someone (my mom) who PERSONALLY knew someone (HER g-grandmother) was born in 1833. I find that mind-blowing that it's even possible that, until 5 years ago, I actually had that sort of real immediate connection to the extremely distant past. MEANWHILE, my mom's g-grandmother's PARENTS were born back in the 1700s!!!!! Btw, my g-g-grandmother also lived to be 96. That's how my mom was able to personally know her.
I haven't posted on any movie/show/person boards here - only solely on this type board (or is this here known as a forum?). I just now checked spam, and definitely no auto notifications there about anything that anyone responded to me on the TCM forum (or whatever this type board is considered to be) here.
Howdy, Arvin. I've gotten reply posts on the TCM thread here just minutes ago but didn't receive a corresponding notification e-mail about any of them. Should have I? Or do you mean that on the boards for the specific movies/shows/people that notifications are now in effect? If there, the notifications only work on our newly added posts - right? None of our old ones that may have carried over from throughout the years?
I enjoy watching the really old movies, as it's like entering a time capsule and being taken back to 70-80+ years ago. Many old movies haven't dated at all well and are nothing special to need to watch today. But as for the movies that HAVE dated superbly, and are really good movies, and entirely relatable still, those are the ones I've always gone for, that you feel like you're taken back into the 1920s or early 1930s, and you realize that that was "now" at the time. I like watching a really old movie and then keeping in mind that those were actual living-colour people who reported for work and did their thing in front of a camera, rather than b&w imaginary film characters. Even the creakiest looking of old films, those were "now" at the time.
Ugh. I've tried to persuade a couple different people to watch this or that amazing old movie with me and was essentially answered, by each, that they "can't watch" anything that old. It irritated me, because I always would pretend I was happy to watch their own movie selection and would just go along with it. But when **I** suggested this or that of my old movies, it simply wasn't an endurable possibility for them (even though whatever movie I had in mind at the time was PRECISELY selected by me to PERFECTLY suit their interests and tastes, and what I knew, as a fact, would have definitely appealed to and impressed them). While my late elderly mom was still alive, she was the only vintage movies "buddy" I've ever had to watch old movies with. I was her live-in caregiver throughout her final years, and we watched numerous films together, over time.
Oh - you were commenting to me (I didn't visually notice the trail, till just now - lol). I meant that, throughout recent years, I built up my own very fine-tuned DVDs collection, so now feel like I created my own personal "TCM". :)
By the way, I checked out the TCM.com message boards late Thursday afternoon, after you mentioned them. I glanced over the Silent and Pre-Code boards, though it didn't look to be the sort of activity there I was hoping for. I'll take another, closer, look in a day or two. But it didn't seem to be very many people posting. That having been said, people HAD posted about some specific movies of interest to me. But hardly any posts anytime in recent months. So I get the impression the Silent and Pre-Codes boards there never really have much caught on fire, compared to how on IMDb boards long was.
When I had the additional cable channels, there were only roughly a handful of the extra channels (above the limit basic line-up level) that I ever watched. That was much of the reason I eventually decided to downgrade, as so much more was being spent per month for many more channels than I ever actually watched. Now just networks t.v., PBS, and other standard type channels is what I have. (I do watch quite a few PBS things, as in Masterpiece or documentary productions, some destination type shows, etc..)
My ritual has always been - still is - that either soon before, or shortly after, watching a vintage movie I go onto the TCM.com site and access the Overview page for it, then ALWAYS read the Article, as there's some very interesting articles there. If you've never noticed them, be sure to check them out. During the last year or so I've also gotten so I generally also check for a Wikipedia article about a given vintage movie, after watching it, to see if there's more I can learn about it. Between the TCM Articles, Wikipedia, and IMDb - then looking over the corresponding IMDb boards, it makes for a full-immersion experience.
Love The Black Cat! It finally occurred to me to get the DVD of it about two years ago! :)
I never was impressed by or interested in alternate host Ben Mankiewicz. I always liked either Robert Osborne or, sometimes, guest hosts. "The Essentials" were interesting for the conversations. I really enjoyed the season co-hosted by Drew Barrymore, 2-3 years ago.
When I was still on higher Comcast service (to merely the first level, "Digital Starter," up above limited basic), it was entirely so I could get TCM.
For sure, Styx. Many b&w films are visual true works of art, in addition to being really great movies.