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Title: Movie forum
Post by: SantaC on August 04, 2019, 06:25:02 PM
What's the best movie forum since IMDB boards are gone.
Title: Re: Movie forum
Post by: TVC15 on August 04, 2019, 06:28:37 PM
Quote from: shosta on August 04, 2019, 06:26:21 PM
http://www.thebore.com/forum/index.php?topic=46444.0

Not nearly the same thing. The IMDb forums were great for discussing smaller and non-mainstream movies. I really miss them. I remember watching The Wailing and finding a great IMDb thread pointing out all the religious and cultural symbolism that would be lost on non-Korean viewers. It made the movie better.
Title: Re: Movie forum
Post by: nudemacusers on August 04, 2019, 06:32:57 PM
http://geogoo.net/
Title: Re: Movie forum
Post by: TVC15 on August 04, 2019, 06:35:05 PM
Quote from: shosta on August 04, 2019, 06:30:43 PM
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https://moviechat.org/

Don’t you roll your eyes at me! I’ll make you roll your fuckin’ eyes, boy.
Title: Re: Movie forum
Post by: Madrun Badrun on August 04, 2019, 06:37:40 PM
If it will help, I can start a thread on all the cultural stuff that was changed in marvel movies to fit the Korean market.  For example, you know in Avengers 1, where Tonny got stuck in a giant Helicarrier's propeller?  Well, that was a no go because of Koreans unreasonable fear of fans.  Instead, Tonny got stuck in a closet and Cap had to open the door for him.   
Title: Re: Movie forum
Post by: TVC15 on August 04, 2019, 06:38:36 PM
Fans will kill you in your sleep. That’s one thing they got right.
Title: Re: Movie forum
Post by: nudemacusers on August 04, 2019, 06:39:15 PM
Quote from: TVC 15 on August 04, 2019, 06:35:05 PM
Quote from: shosta on August 04, 2019, 06:30:43 PM
::)

https://moviechat.org/

Don’t you roll your eyes at me! I’ll make you roll your fuckin’ eyes, boy.
After ur done with shosta do u want to flip my starfruit inside out?
Title: Re: Movie forum
Post by: TVC15 on August 04, 2019, 06:42:17 PM
only after I’m done tongue cleaning under your toenails and slurping up your toe lovejam.
Title: Re: Movie forum
Post by: nudemacusers on August 04, 2019, 06:46:32 PM
Quote from: TVC 15 on August 04, 2019, 06:42:17 PM
only after I’m done tongue cleaning under your toenails and slurping up your toe lovejam.
I just got done hiking in some old dr martens  :-[
Title: Re: Movie forum
Post by: TVC15 on August 04, 2019, 06:49:15 PM
I just want to peel the socks right off your feet and wring them out in my mouth and on my asshole
Title: Re: Movie forum
Post by: team filler on August 04, 2019, 06:49:53 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/ZI1an34.jpg)
Title: Re: Movie forum
Post by: TVC15 on August 04, 2019, 06:57:42 PM
Mmmm i’d frost dem flakes
Title: Re: Movie forum
Post by: Quaker on August 04, 2019, 10:07:11 PM
They're pretty much all trash. The minority of content that's actually thoughtful or about interesting movies gets ignored for dudes screaming and digging their heels in for that week's Marvel/Disney movie. Worse are when by some small miracle a movie tries something different and gets a spot in the mainstream and you get either really obvious reads presented as profound or hot takes by the ill-informed. People aren't really familiar with the idea that not every movie has to be for you or that when people dare to try something different it's not all going to land.

The best you can do now is find podcasts that fit your preference and hope they cover stuff you're interested in.

The ones I follow:

Blank Check
Probably my favorite right now because they bring the most context and knowledge but they are SUPER joke heavy so it's really obnoxious if you don't vibe with their style of comedy and that's probably 40% of the show. To start with, their series on the 3 Matrix movies are really good but they just wrapped up a series on Michael Mann that was great too.

The Director's Cut - A DGA Podcast
An official podcast from The Director's Guild of America where one film maker does a short interview with another after a screening. Very good, but they're pretty short and infrequent.

Filmspotting
Probably the most serious and academic(potentially boring depending on your tastes) show here but they've been doing it forever and focus a lot on arthouse indie and foreign movies and they specifically try and avoid spoilers in their discussions when not necessary. The show format is usually a review of a current movie and then an expanded top five of some related topic. Probably the best for me for putting stuff on my radar for both new and old movies that are basically ignored or forgotten nowadays.

It's largely two middle-aged white dudes talking calmly about movies so it might not be for a lot of people's tastes but I love that they'll talk about something like Burning for 10 or 15 minutes as an aside that week, which will put it on my radar, I'll watch it and a few months later when Criterion adds Secret Sunshine to their streaming site and I remember that they covered it in their Korean Auteurs marathon like 6 years ago and now I have a 20 or 25 minute review that I can listen to afterwards.

Kermode BBC Review
This is a straight-up BBC Radio show so the format can be excruciating(their jokes are godawful) but they cover the most amount of movies, including smaller indies and documentaries, so I like it for adding things to my radar and helping to set my expectations for a movie. Since they're the BBC's film guys they also do a lot of press junket 10 or 15 minute interviews which can be useful too.

The Next Picture Show
This is usually set up with one week being a retrospective review of an older, thematically related movie and the following week a review of the current movie of the pair by dudes from The Dissolve/AV Club. The shows aren't that long(almost always less than an hour) but the pairings aren't usually obvious and they cover both mainstream and arthouse movies(they'll do Shazam, Godzilla and Spiderman but they'll also do the new Scorsese Bob Dylan documentary paired with Velvet Goldmine and Under The Silver Lake paired with Chinatown.) I don't always agree with their takes(I think a lot of time they can be pretty big stretches) but they're usually pretty educated and measured.

Slashfilmcast
The closest to the Red Letter Media parody of film discussion where it's just a 3 regular, corny dudes with no credentials talking for an hour or two about that week's movie but I've been listening to them forever and like their back and forth. Their takes aren't usually particularly deep or insightful and they'll mostly stick to discussing that week's mainstream movie whether it deserves it or not so it's probably the one I'd recommend the least but it can be ok if their opinion happens to line up with theirs for that particular movie.
Title: Re: Movie forum
Post by: naff on August 04, 2019, 10:27:45 PM
i like letterboxd. also, a bunch of those podcasts quaker mentioned are sweet. particularly like blank checks series on tha god paul verhoeven.
Title: Re: Movie forum
Post by: Momo on August 05, 2019, 02:52:06 AM
im mostly on reddit RE movies, fuck r/movies though, I'm on the AsianCinema sub and some of the filmschool and writing critique subs
Title: Re: Movie forum
Post by: HardcoreRetro on August 05, 2019, 07:20:45 AM
It's what was good about them. Parents complaining on the How To Train Your Dragon board about the dragons being satan's spawn. Trying to lure children into satanic cults by representing hellspawn as cute friends.

Also remember people losing their shit over the kid in the Good Dinosaur eating a living bug.

Think there was also a Pixar short about Islam and people bitching about them trying to turn kids into terrorists.
Title: Re: Movie forum
Post by: SantaC on August 05, 2019, 08:13:03 AM
Quote from: Stro on August 05, 2019, 06:45:57 AM
The IMDB boards that I remember were basically GameFAQs but with movies

Why did they take them down anyway.
Title: Re: Movie forum
Post by: Mr. Nobody on August 05, 2019, 11:48:43 AM
Quote from: naff on August 04, 2019, 10:27:45 PM
i like letterboxd. also, a bunch of those podcasts quaker mentioned are sweet. particularly like blank checks series on tha god paul verhoeven.
Letterboxd is good when there are actual reviews and discussion instead of one-line zingers and failed SNL auditions.
Title: Re: Movie forum
Post by: MMaRsu on August 05, 2019, 01:59:59 PM
Why the fuck did they shut the IMDB forums down?

Do forums really cost a lot upkeep wise?
Title: Re: Movie forum
Post by: Don Rumata on August 05, 2019, 03:22:56 PM
Quote from: Mr. Nobody on August 05, 2019, 11:48:43 AM
Quote from: naff on August 04, 2019, 10:27:45 PM
i like letterboxd. also, a bunch of those podcasts quaker mentioned are sweet. particularly like blank checks series on tha god paul verhoeven.
Letterboxd is good when there are actual reviews and discussion instead of one-line zingers and failed SNL auditions.
It's time consuming enough to think about a score, let alone a zinger... let alone a fucking review.
Title: Re: Movie forum
Post by: TEEEPO on August 05, 2019, 04:46:58 PM
the imdb boards were incredible for lesser-known films where sometimes it wasn't necessarily a well thought out review that made it worth skimming through but the behind the scenes info on the production and the sorts that only an insider would've known. unfortunately, there was and still is no substitute
Title: Re: Movie forum
Post by: naff on August 06, 2019, 03:03:19 AM
Quote from: Don Rumata on August 05, 2019, 03:22:56 PM
Quote from: Mr. Nobody on August 05, 2019, 11:48:43 AM
Quote from: naff on August 04, 2019, 10:27:45 PM
i like letterboxd. also, a bunch of those podcasts quaker mentioned are sweet. particularly like blank checks series on tha god paul verhoeven.
Letterboxd is good when there are actual reviews and discussion instead of one-line zingers and failed SNL auditions.
It's time consuming enough to think about a score, let alone a zinger... let alone a fucking review.

i find the scrabble of aspiring critics there interesting, and i dig Not Armond White, Mike D'Angelo, Invicible Asia and Sally Jane Black among quite a few others for actual critique. though the real reason im there is it's great for cataloguing movies, getting a gauge on what's happening and keeping tabs on what i was, for some reason at some point, keen to watch; i use the my watchlist - order -> shuffle feature to choose a movie pretty often. great site.
Title: Re: Movie forum
Post by: Momo on August 06, 2019, 03:33:15 AM
ever watch a stranger whip his dick out and fap under really bright lights? that's what happened last time me and shosta and my other buddy went looking for a movie hangout.
Title: Re: Movie forum
Post by: Tasty on August 06, 2019, 09:55:35 AM
I enjoy Mark Kermode's reviews and John August's screenwriting podcast.
Title: Re: Movie forum
Post by: Tasty on August 06, 2019, 09:58:18 AM
Quote from: Momo on August 06, 2019, 03:33:15 AM
ever watch a stranger whip his dick out and fap under really bright lights? that's what happened last time me and shosta and my other buddy went looking for a movie hangout.

No, but bebps, kara and me saw two guys do penis origami one time.
Title: Re: Movie forum
Post by: bork on August 06, 2019, 11:28:58 AM
Quote from: Momo on August 06, 2019, 03:33:15 AM
ever watch a stranger whip his dick out and fap under really bright lights?
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yeah I dunno it reminded me of that "You ever dance with the devil in the pale moonlight" line for some reason  :P
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Title: Re: Movie forum
Post by: EightBitNate on August 06, 2019, 11:31:39 AM
http://reddit.com/r/moviescirclejerk/