When Boards Are Dead: No More "This Is Overrated… Needs a Remake"
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — The Godfather: Part II
TheFearmakers — 9 years ago(February 04, 2017 10:28 PM)
When something bad is about to happen. Like IMDb shutting down their message boards. I try, try hard, to be as optimistic as possible. I will miss many things about the Boards. What I won't miss, however, and I keep having to tell myself this is great movies some of the best ever made being bashed because Leo DiCaprio or Johnny Depp didn't star under Chris Nolan's direction, or that perhaps Michael Corleone should have been a Marvel superhero. Now the genuinely great movies (like this one) will always be great while the pretty good ones (like most of what's been made the last twenty years) will be cool in theaters and half-forgotten once they're inside everyone's cozy living room.
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whaledogs-82256 — 9 years ago(February 05, 2017 10:09 AM)
IMDB shutting down there Message board makes no sense at all. They might as well shut down the whole Site than. Well now I will go on YouTube and hope I get my questions answer from now on. Thanks a lot IMDB.
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Robbmonster — 9 years ago(February 08, 2017 05:36 AM)
Shutting down the message boards will be a good and bad thing.
While I will miss actually discussion of films and talking about things like story, character, theme, etc, I won't miss trying to explain to people why the top 250 is nothing but a meaningless measure of what's popular among young men rather than an indicator of what's actually good. I won't miss trying to explain why the words 'overrated' and underrated' should never be used in film criticism (along with the word 'manipulative', of course).
I certainly won't miss sifting through endless threads about box-office predictions and returns in order to find the aforementioned threads about character and story.
But basically, IMDb is shutting down the message boards due to their reputation as being host to some of the meanest, most immature posters on the interwebs. At least it will have a chance of going back to what it was when I first started using it back in 1996: an information database, rather than the competitive arena it has become.
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