Guest zwolf1 Posted February 4, 2003 Share Posted February 4, 2003 Ack! What is this?!? I didn't realize this was going to be such a problem. Just ditch the extra forums entirely if it's just going to be "general film"... what a fuxterpated mess this is going to be. Somebody's going to want to talk about Sixteen Candles and right next to it somebody else will be discussing the merits of Cannibal Holocaust as compared to Make Them Die Slowly, while another guy's going to want to know if Superfly is a better movie than Truck Turner and why, while somebody else is trying to sell their 16 mm prints of Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome... it'll be one big glorious flustercluck! Don'tcha think this is *overly* streamlined now? Maybe there coulda been an "Eurasian Horror" combo-section, or "War and Westerns" or something would work, I dunno, but... "general film"? Does this cover the stuff I get on my teeth, too? Today I'd like to discuss Rashomon, Passolini's Salo as compared to Bergman's Wild Strawberries, Die Hard 2, the Bowery Boys series as a socialist polemic, and the symbollic use of color in the director's cut of Rainbow Brite And The Star Stealer! And who picked out this background wallpaper... Charlotte Perkins Gilman?!? (if you don't get that reference, go read http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~daniel/amlit/wallpaper/wallpapertext.html immediately... you'll be glad you did, it's a classic) Looks like somebody puked up an antique doilly... see, just there, where the pattern hangs like a broken neck... Sorry, guys, I love ya, love the site, I applaud all your hard work and thank you for it, I'm not meaning to break horns (or am at least trying to do so in what I hope is an amusing manner) but... who's gonna tell you the truth but your friends? This is a baaaaaaaad idea right here... me no like. As much as I loved the horror and Western and war and gangster forums, I'd rather only have the plain ol' kung-fu-only option than "general film." Personally, I don't see what the harm was in having "too many" forums, anyway. They weren't heavy-traffic, but they were only about a week or two old, and I liked 'em! Let the control-freaks who were being all uptight about the existence of forums that didn't interest them personally just deal with it... it'd be a good learning experience for the whiny little brats. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest fu sheng Posted February 5, 2003 Share Posted February 5, 2003 Cannibal Holocaust is one sick film. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest gimpusmons Posted February 5, 2003 Share Posted February 5, 2003 How about General Cult Film? I would like to salvage these threads. Mark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest zwolf1 Posted February 5, 2003 Share Posted February 5, 2003 "Cannibal Holocaust is one sick film. [ ]" ********* Yep! I can hardly wait 'til it comes out on DVD in a few months... It's completely reprehenisible... and I hope it's uncut! " How about General Cult Film? I would like to salvage these threads." ******* Me too! I don't like to complain without trying to come up with a solution, so I think I have an idea... I'll run this up the flagpole and see if it's salutable. How about making two forums - "Euro/Asian Horror and Sci-Fi" and "Non-Martial Arts Action Films"? The second would still be kind of broad, but it could cover war/westerns/gangster stuff of all types. Between the two, they could handle pretty much everything on the suggested list, but still be divided a little bit. And it'd just be two umbrellas instead of the six or seven there were? Cross-pollenation between war-movie fans and western fans and such would be much easier, since they're all action films. Horror's a little different and would be harder to mix in... but I think it could go side-by-side with Sci-Fi pretty well. Anyway, I'll support whatever you decide, but it's an idea... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest gimpusmons Posted February 5, 2003 Share Posted February 5, 2003 Thanks for the suggestions. I think I'll let this forum grow more naturally and consider making divisions in the future. Mark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest zwolf1 Posted February 5, 2003 Share Posted February 5, 2003 " Thanks for the suggestions. I think I'll let this forum grow more naturally and consider making divisions in the future." ******* That sounds like a workable plan, too... I can deal with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest DrunkMantis Posted February 5, 2003 Share Posted February 5, 2003 I think its better to have a lil less forums but i agree that it will be a mess soon. But like gimpusmons said, he will let the forum grow and have more users and posts to decide what to do. But just my opinion, the best would be to divide cult films in 2 parts: Anything Horror (classic like hellaiser, holloween with asian and italian classics too) / Westerns-War. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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