JONEZY Posted February 22, 2017 Share Posted February 22, 2017 With IMDB getting rid of the message boards, does anybody know of a good movie/TV message board out there on the interwebs? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AxlsFavoriteRose Posted February 22, 2017 Share Posted February 22, 2017 (edited) messages are gone, Hallelujah! they had descended into such a harborer of mean spirited, vitriol spewing, attacks by weak little trolls. i went there to be supportive and to praise the actors writers, directors, producers and others only to be met by cruel, vicious keyboard villains! the classic movies were the last to go so since they got taken owner i split, never to return! Edited February 22, 2017 by AxlsFavoriteRose Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angelica Posted February 22, 2017 Share Posted February 22, 2017 They needed moderators (and people in general need to try and suck less on the internet) but in terms of providing EVERY movie, tv show and personality a dedicated board, there's nothing else like them that I'm aware of. ? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jabberwocky Posted February 22, 2017 Share Posted February 22, 2017 Those message boards have always sucked ass. They were always overrun by dipshits who would doublepost, Post "is X gay?, what race is X?" etc. Glad they're finally gone 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tifalucis Posted February 23, 2017 Share Posted February 23, 2017 Thank goodness. It is filled with trolls 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wasted Posted February 23, 2017 Share Posted February 23, 2017 RT has comments I think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maynard Posted February 23, 2017 Share Posted February 23, 2017 I enjoyed the Room board. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Sabbath Posted February 24, 2017 Share Posted February 24, 2017 Blu-ray.com is decent enough for me. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-W.A.R- Posted February 24, 2017 Share Posted February 24, 2017 i'll miss 100 things we learned from. it was always funny to read those after watching a movie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Estranged Reality Posted February 27, 2017 Share Posted February 27, 2017 On 2/22/2017 at 6:34 PM, AxlsFavoriteRose said: messages are gone, Hallelujah! they had descended into such a harborer of mean spirited, vitriol spewing, attacks by weak little trolls. i went there to be supportive and to praise the actors writers, directors, producers and others only to be met by cruel, vicious keyboard villains! the classic movies were the last to go so since they got taken owner i split, never to return! See, I hate when people say stuff like this, because it's just...not accurate. I've been a member of IMDb since 2001, back when Col Needham (the site's founder) and I used to swap private messages, when they bragged they had "over 1 million visitors per month" at the top of their pages. I'm not even an old-timer compared to some people -- I think the site's been around since the early '90s -- but it was my home on the Internet, the first message board I ever used, and I had so many great discussions and learned a lot about discourse and conversation through that site. Honestly. I think engaging with people through that site, most of them older (I was 12 when I first registered), really helped inform me as a person and helped encourage me to write and dig deeper into movies. Yeah, towards the end, there were a lot of trolls. I stopped posting on the main forums many years ago, because it got a little pointless for me. I felt like the personalities changed and I lost a lot of my "friends" over time, plus I got older and had more of a social life. But you know what I did continue using? The title-specific forums. They were an invaluable resource for film fans. Any time I watched a movie over the last few years, particularly if it was a film I had a strong reaction to, I would flock to the forums to see what people were saying about it. The fact that there was a message board for every single title in existence was just amazing, and the fact that you could watch an older film that time has forgotten - the kind of film the trolls won't be going to the forums for because no one's there - and go chat with the few other people who had seen it and wanted to discuss it was an essential part of my experience as a film fan. I guess there's Reddit now, but it's just not the same. And people who say IMDb was infested with trolls were the people looking at forums for movies like Batman v Superman or whatever, and honestly, all IMDb needed to do was hire a few moderators to continually monitor the 100 most popular forums on the site. They didn't, because Amazon owns IMDb and now that they are so heavily involved in film production, they probably didn't want to seem to be associated with a website where people can openly talk shit on, say, Jennifer Lawrence or whatever. So because they focused on the minority of trolls behaving like assholes, they eradicated one of the best resources for film discussion on the Internet, if not the best. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Sabbath Posted February 28, 2017 Share Posted February 28, 2017 I don't know, man, every time I went there I found 9/10 posts to be shitposts. Like I said, blu-ray.com gets the job done for me when it comes to movie/TV discussions, though people there can be very pretentious at times which gets tiresome. So when people on this board fail me in a decent discussion, or when people like @Len Cnut shitpost, I just go there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Len Cnut Posted February 28, 2017 Share Posted February 28, 2017 47 minutes ago, Black Sabbath said: I don't know, man, every time I went there I found 9/10 posts to be shitposts. Like I said, blu-ray.com gets the job done for me when it comes to movie/TV discussions, though people there can be very pretentious at times which gets tiresome. So when people on this board fail me in a decent discussion, or when people like @Len Cnut shitpost, I just go there. Shitposters Consolidated, how many i help oooo? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AxlsFavoriteRose Posted February 28, 2017 Share Posted February 28, 2017 3 hours ago, Estranged Reality said: See, I hate when people say stuff like this, because it's just...not accurate. I've been a member of IMDb since 2001, back when Col Needham (the site's founder) and I used to swap private messages, when they bragged they had "over 1 million visitors per month" at the top of their pages. I'm not even an old-timer compared to some people -- I think the site's been around since the early '90s -- but it was my home on the Internet, the first message board I ever used, and I had so many great discussions and learned a lot about discourse and conversation through that site. Honestly. I think engaging with people through that site, most of them older (I was 12 when I first registered), really helped inform me as a person and helped encourage me to write and dig deeper into movies. Yeah, towards the end, there were a lot of trolls. I stopped posting on the main forums many years ago, because it got a little pointless for me. I felt like the personalities changed and I lost a lot of my "friends" over time, plus I got older and had more of a social life. But you know what I did continue using? The title-specific forums. They were an invaluable resource for film fans. Any time I watched a movie over the last few years, particularly if it was a film I had a strong reaction to, I would flock to the forums to see what people were saying about it. The fact that there was a message board for every single title in existence was just amazing, and the fact that you could watch an older film that time has forgotten - the kind of film the trolls won't be going to the forums for because no one's there - and go chat with the few other people who had seen it and wanted to discuss it was an essential part of my experience as a film fan. I guess there's Reddit now, but it's just not the same. And people who say IMDb was infested with trolls were the people looking at forums for movies like Batman v Superman or whatever, and honestly, all IMDb needed to do was hire a few moderators to continually monitor the 100 most popular forums on the site. They didn't, because Amazon owns IMDb and now that they are so heavily involved in film production, they probably didn't want to seem to be associated with a website where people can openly talk shit on, say, Jennifer Lawrence or whatever. So because they focused on the minority of trolls behaving like assholes, they eradicated one of the best resources for film discussion on the Internet, if not the best. what i was referring to was the forum board and i stand behind that. it became just a place to fight, to denigrate actors, directors etc etc etc. as an example there was a nutjob who posted on the American Idol board and each season he had his favorite and every time someone had a different opinion he would a throw a tantrum but using adult swear words and saying he hoped people would DIE. no matter how many people reported him he kept coming back. and there were people like that everywhere! it was very negative. the rest was useful and i will miss a lot of it. but in the end the trolls ruined it all. js... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hudsonsaul Posted February 28, 2017 Share Posted February 28, 2017 8 hours ago, Estranged Reality said: But you know what I did continue using? The title-specific forums. They were an invaluable resource for film fans. Any time I watched a movie over the last few years, particularly if it was a film I had a strong reaction to, I would flock to the forums to see what people were saying about it. The fact that there was a message board for every single title in existence was just amazing, and the fact that you could watch an older film that time has forgotten - the kind of film the trolls won't be going to the forums for because no one's there - and go chat with the few other people who had seen it and wanted to discuss it was an essential part of my experience as a film fan. Your whole post was brilliant. However this paragraph I've quoted nails it for me and describes how I feel and my usage of their boards. I never even bothered posting there, but you've hit the nail on the head with you post and this particular paragraph resonates with me. I'll miss it, and will need to find something similar. Was a good source of reading and "time out" for me 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AxlsFavoriteRose Posted March 11, 2017 Share Posted March 11, 2017 last thoughts on the IMDB MESSAGE BOARD section. good riddance to people always asking if such and such actor was gay and no matter if the actor was married for 20 years with 8 kids certain people still saying they were gay. same goes to people who said certain actors were fat, ugly, too short, too old, etc etc etc! and finally to all those really messed up sickos who'd post after an actor died saying they were happy, they deserved it, or the always NOT funny Jack Nichoson warned them! end of rant 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris 55 Posted March 19, 2017 Share Posted March 19, 2017 On 2/23/2017 at 0:31 AM, wasted said: RT has comments I think. For the reviews? They shut those down since weird Batman fans started threatening those who gave Dark Knight Rises bad reviews. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-W.A.R- Posted March 19, 2017 Share Posted March 19, 2017 On 2/27/2017 at 7:45 PM, Black Sabbath said: I don't know, man, every time I went there I found 9/10 posts to be shitposts. Like I said, blu-ray.com gets the job done for me when it comes to movie/TV discussions, though people there can be very pretentious at times which gets tiresome. So when people on this board fail me in a decent discussion, or when people like @Len Cnut shitpost, I just go there. "theres nothing wrong with the blu-ray, your screen is just not calibrated right" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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