IMDb message boards shutting down

[Orang Utan]

Me too, so I use it all the time. Every time I watch a film. Usually during, so it often takes me twice the length of a film to watch it all

 

[danny la rouge]

See, thats a film from 1941, yet theres a relatively busy board for it- people have posted repeatedly throughout 2016 Board: How Green Was My Valley (1941) - IMDb

Yes, there's a lot of stuff posted, but I'm not personally very interested in the postings. Though it does appear to be well used.

 

[danny la rouge]

Me too, so I use it all the time. Every time I watch a film. Usually during, so it often takes me twice the length of a film to watch it all

Fucking smartphones!

 

[ska invita]

Yes, there's a lot of stuff posted, but I'm not personally very interested in the postings. Though it does appear to be well used.

Theres a thread called AN INSULT TO WALES! <come on Danny, sign up and pile in

 

[danny la rouge]

Theres a thread called AN INSULT TO WALES! <come on Danny, sign up and pile in

See, if that was on here I'd be in like a shot, picking fights with everyone. But that's because I'm used to you guys. I don't really want to do that with a bunch of usernames I don't have a relationship with.

 

[editor]

Seems a real shame that they're encouraging their users into the open arms of the data-mining, privacy-rummaging Facebook.

 

[sovereignb]

Anyone found a worthy alternative for imdb forums?

 

[Reno]

Anyone found a worthy alternative for imdb forums?

There are two forums who set themselves up to fill the void but they are relatively small:

Film General | IMDB v2.3

Film topics not covered in the boards below.

imdb2.freeforums.net

IMDForums

Internet Media Discussion Forums

www.imdforums.com

Film themed Reddit and Twitter threads is probably the closest you'll get in scale.

I'm on a home theatre form called blu-ray.com which is fairly large but half of the members are Trump-supportes and it can get toxic being on there.

 

[cybershot]

blu-ray.com is ok

 

[sovereignb]

There are two forums who set themselves up to fill the void but they are relatively small:

Film General | IMDB v2.3

Film topics not covered in the boards below.

imdb2.freeforums.net

IMDForums

Internet Media Discussion Forums

www.imdforums.com

Film themed Reddit and Twitter threads is probably the closest you'll get in scale.

I'm on a home theatre form called blu-ray.com which is fairly large but half of the members are Trump-supportes and it can get toxic being on there.

blu-ray.com is ok

Much appreciated

 

[Orang Utan]

Anyone found a worthy alternative for imdb forums?

Yes, here!

 

[CNT36]

I use it for when maybe I'm wondering the name of an actor. "Who played that character in x or y film?" sort of thing. Or "did x direct such and such a film or was it y?". Or if I'm watching something and I recognise an actor and I wonder where I've seen them before. So pretty infrequently. Maybe once a month at most. And like I say, Wikipedia is just as useful for that.

I'm more likely to look at genre specific websites, say French New Wave or whatever. Or if it's a genre I'm particularly into I'm more likely to buy books.

But I personally find IMDb, the mobile version particularly, very limited and not very useful (to me).

Near daily - Who's that? What they been in?

 

[alsoknownas]

I hope they don't kill off user submitted synopsis and so on. I lean on those quite a bit.

 

[Reno]

I hope they don't kill off user submitted synopsis and so on. I lean on those quite a bit.

These days I find Wikipedia far more useful when in regard to information on films, especially when it comes to a synopsis, which tends to be more extensive and informative. IMDb is useful when you want something like all the credits to a film or user reviews, but even with the latter, Letterboxd is better now. The contributors there are a little more knowledgeable about film and the standard of writing is higher.

I find IMDb increasingly redundant with its awkward interface and with many features disappearing behind a paywall. Its main demographic also seem to think that film history started with Star Wars, so it's just not where I would go for insightful evaluations of films.

 

[Saul Goodman]

IMDb is worthless. It's full of paid ratings and reviews, and pretentious wankers who write about how brilliant a film was because it was B&W and 4:3. For the first few weeks, you'll see a new film getting rave reviews with ratings of 8+, but once real people have actually seen the film, the scores start plummeting, and the vast majority of new reviews are 1 or 2/10.
Never trust IMDb ratings, at least not until real people have had the chance to vote and review.

 

[alsoknownas]

These days I find Wikipedia far more useful when in regard to information on films, especially when it comes to a synopsis, which tends to be more extensive and informative. IMDb is useful when you want something like all the credits to a film or user reviews, but even with the latter, Letterboxd is better now. The contributors there are a little more knowledgeable about film and the standard of writing is higher.

I find IMDb increasingly redundant with its awkward interface and with many features disappearing behind a paywall. Its main demographic also seem to think that film history started with Star Wars, so it's just not where I would go for insightful evaluations of films.

All good points. One thing though - IMDB release all their data as downloadable datasets, which means you can integrate it into your own personal databases, which can be useful. They make it bloody tricky to link up the poster images though!

Datasets here if anyone's interested:

https://datasets.imdbws.com/

 

[Reno]

All good points. One thing though - IMDB release all their data as downloadable datasets, which means you can integrate it into your own personal databases, which can be useful. They make it bloody tricky to link up the poster images though!

Datasets here if anyone's interested:

https://datasets.imdbws.com/

Being the techno-idiot that I am, I have no idea how to use that.

 

[butchersapron]

The trivia section is sometimes useful:

Mini Bio (1)

Valerio Fioravanti was born on March 28, 1958 in Rovereto, Italy as Giuseppe Valerio Fioravanti. He is an actor and director, known for Piccoli ergastoli (1997), Shango (1970) and La scoperta (1969). He has been married to Francesca Mambro since February 1, 1985. They have one child.

Trivia (2)

Child actor who later became a neo-fascist terrorist. Was arrested and convicted for homicide of policemen and for the slaughter in Bologna station.

(1981-2009) In the Rebibbia jail in Rome, inprisoned for life for several murder accounts.

 

[ska invita]

bump
Another annoying thing about Amazon is since they bought up IMDB theyve fucked the website
killed off the forums, shitted up the layout, and generally made it clunky to use