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It's always been a joy when this or that movie airs on TCM and then (unless on during some obscure or low-key part of the day or night when fewer viewers are tuning in) a number of posters have gone onto message boards either immediately or during the hours afterwards, to add new comments, observations, interesting trivia they happen to be aware of, ask questions, etc. Although I (regrettably) no longer get TCM, I still often glance over a current day's TCM listings, just to see what movies (which ones of interest to me) maybe others will post something new about, then I'd keep an eye on those movies' boards later on.
In regular everyday life, I don't have anyone, at all, who I know who's interested in, or cares anything about, Classic films. (Anything in b&w is a major turnoff to most people nowadays, apparently?) If it weren't for online, there'd be no means of feeling like someone like me can have any means of expression or sharing or somewhere to ask questions, compare insights, trivia, etc., as just watching a movie and moving on would be the whole extent of as good as things get. Ugh.
TCM was my favourite channel, back when I still had it on my cable (which I downgraded to limited basic at the end of 2015). Every day I enjoyed looking through the day's TCM schedule, to see what might hit the spot. Was crazy about Silent Sunday Night, which definitely was must-see for me (unless it was a movie I already have or have seen). Is it still the same opening montage for that as a couple years ago? Was always fun quickly mentally trying to remember which film each shot came from. :)
Back on the IMDb boards, whenever there was a movie I really want, but that hasn't ever yet been released on DVD, I'd post asking that if anyone ever finds out that this or that has newly been released to please drop me a response post. Regrettably, that was the only record I had of various great specific movies that I still want. Even if IMDb boards are available, I still won't know which movies I determined in the past that I want, as I only would recognize the titles if the posts I did back then actually were electronically linked to my username and if someone were to reply and me actually receive the notification e-mail. Bummer.
I own dozens of Warner Archive, KINO, Criterion, MGM Premier, etc. DVDs, of my fave available DVD titles, so have created my own home version of "TCM". But I do miss also getting to see random just whatever sounds interesting that airs throughout any given week on TCM.
Huge TCM fan here - except, regrettably, I'm not presently still on the level of cable (with my Comcast) that TCM is included on. So, I definitely love TCM, but haven't gotten it since about 14 months ago. (Be back here later. Just dropped in for a second, between commercials of HtGAwM! :) )
Here and TMDb is the only two sites that appealed any to me, when I checked out a small smattering of options earlier in the weeks. I followed some leads that I noticed posters were tending to mention most often, though quickly realized where the fit felt right.
Too true, regrettably. I have a great idea: How about the trolls create an All Trolls paradise destination site for their own selves to dwell merrily within, and to enjoy feeding off of one another. After all, that's their "thing." :)
I had always been a poster, whenever I actually could think of something new to say. Problem is that I had largely "tapped out" on my range of boards in question, as I'd previously already added posts, so thereafter didn't know of anything new to add that hadn't already been mentioned by either me or whomever else.
I wonder how many different sites IMDb exiles dispersed to. I heard, last Saturday or so, that there were something like 60 different site options, at that time. But I can't imagine users actually spreading in THAT many different directions. Actually, many users are in foreign countries, and there may well even be various language-specific sites wherever, that we've never ever heard of.
Hopefully none that are more than half cracked. ;)
LOL: Nah - I don't do politics and that sort of thing. :) PS: If I'm not mistaken, there's a Laurel & Hardy movie titled "Utopia". It's a comedy, though I don't remember what the story is actually about. lol
But, a wonderful thing, meanwhile, is that we're all meeting nice new people. So it's really actually revitalized the film-loving community (the posters thereof), as, until now, many of us may have settled very much in to a routine, whereas now all sorts of interesting new things are happening. The dynamic of everything is really getting a major shot of adrenaline in the arm.
Good ol' Bob. Long may he live! :) Btw, I totally forgot about TCM.com having boards; I used to be aware of them, but eventually forgot since I just always automatically went straight to IMDb boards (creature of habit here!). I'll need to see if anyone using a username I may recognize happens to be posting anything there. At present, it's like we're all in Displaced Person camps all over the globe, and everyone is hoping to eventually find their "family" who vanished during "the war."
True: Now actual users, and people who care, are driving the surge in effort and in very vital activity. We're all passionate, know what we want and need, and building our own new "Utopia". And, in our cases, since now it's 2017, where it's okay to mix-and-match, rather than having to be exclusive to just one site, everyone wins, as we can spread the love around, and we benefit, and the sites benefit. It's win-win either way, as everyone gains, no one loses (including the sites). Some might say that unless you're exclusive it cheats the growth of one competing site or another. But I personally think it generates healthy innovation for the competing companies, that if there's no competition they can just "settle" and coast. Have options and then the goal is "build the better brand and they will come." :)
I typically posted (most frequently) on boards for movies of from roughly 1923-1934. There was a small posting base of "the usual" posters for those type boards, except when one of the movies in question would newly re-air on TCM, then every so often a flurry of new activity would occur. So I hope I'll eventually cross paths with some of the posters I remember, as it's hard now to find anyone else who's in to the really old fare, like I am. (Btw, I'm definitely not even close to being old, in case my movie preferences suggest that I am. lol. I just happen to really love VERY old movies. :) )
I think that IMDb is going to wind up discovering that users who left probably will never return, more than perhaps 40% of them, tops. Meanwhile, IMDb shot their self in the foot, as they generated competition that wouldn't have otherwise existed, and people have come to realize that we don't truly need IMDb to fulfill our needs and wishes, after all. So, whereas prior to last Sunday night IMDb was viewed by everyone as the MUST-GO-TO movie/t.v. site, now we're all feeling like there actually are options, and that the options are accommodations, whereas IMDb is not. As a result, the international messaging community has wound up permanently splintered into who knows how many different directions. It's sad that I'm sure there's many people, for example older type folks that aren't sure how to seek options out, who no doubt now simply have fully given up on thinking there's any options at all, so just never will be heard from again. (By the way, it would be great here on Movie Chat if we could hit Enter to post, and not need to use the Submit button unless we feel like. Would save an extra key stroke. :)
Good to know. Fortunately I actually do have a record of my posts I personally wanted saved as I manually copied out everything during the two weeks before IMDb zapped the boards. But I only saved out some of my own posts at that time, rather than also the other posts of within the same threads. That's how I was able to recognize where there are missing posts, as I had worked with them just before IMDb did it's number on us all. By the way, I'm liking the Edit and Delete features having been newly added here. :)
I don't understand why the Save IMDb Boards petition didn't get presented to IMDb prior to last Sunday. It already had definitely more than the 10,000 goal quantity signatures on it by Wednesday or Thursday of the week that immediately preceded the pulling of the plug on the boards.
I just looked at one of the exception-to-the-rules specific-title movie boards that I posted messages on throughout the years (most movies I've posted about aren't currently showing up as having any messages for them, even though I know they had numerous, back on IMDb). Curiously, that board has all the threads still on it, for that particular movie. Yet, on a particular thread that I was one of the leading posters on, that there was a lot of positive reply responses to (and absolutely nothing controversial, etc. was being discussed), my comments are entirely missing from the thread, while others still appear there. Also some other posters in the same thread are no longer showing up. It's weird, as some boards that have gotten reproduced have entries inexplicably missing within them. That said, most movies (all of them oldies) that I typically posted about don't have their message boards showing at all here, regrettably. So I'm, unfortunately, not finding hardly any of the past content that I had hoped to. PS: My past-posted comments on the thread I'm referring to definitely were there a day or two before IMDb zapped the boards, because I actually enjoyed reading back that thread, for old time's sake, just last week, on, actually, Sunday afternoon.