There should be someone (or ones) responsible for announcing what movies come out in a given week, or which ones have been out two weeks (same with video). I suspect that there will be confusion otherwise.
What'd you all order a dead guy for?
Jayne ,'The Message'
Bureaucracy 1: Like Kafka, Only Funnier
A thread to discuss naming threads, board policy, new thread suggestions, and anything else that has to do with board administration and maintenance. Guaranteed to include lively debate and polls. Natter discouraged, but not deleted.
Current Stompy Feet: ita, Jon B, DXMachina, P.M. Marcontell, Liese S., amych
§ ita § - Feb 18, 2003 2:44:34 pm PST #4751 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Lyra Jane - Feb 18, 2003 2:49:29 pm PST #4752 of 10001
Up with the sun
I could do new releases. The problem may be that some films do spread slowly, so I may assume a film is wide because it's in D.C., but then discover it's not in, say, Wichita. Does anyone know of a web site that lists nationwide release dates?
Wolfram - Feb 18, 2003 2:49:39 pm PST #4753 of 10001
Visilurking
Let me be more specific. As someone who loves movies, but doesn't go to see them - I don't think the world owes me white font because I don't get to the movies. I'll be happy with anything and have learned from years at Buffy boards to avert mine eyes quite quickly.
What I meant was, I think the two week/two week spoiler policy is fine for most people. To satisfy my own insanely-heightened spoilerphobia, a movie thread would have to consist of:
Buffista 1: Saw No Way Out last night on video I can't believe that...
Buffista 2: Please whitefont that B1. I haven't seen it yet.
Buffista 1: Of course, how inconsiderate of me.
Buffista 3: This thread sucks.
Jessica - Feb 18, 2003 3:03:05 pm PST #4754 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Title: Buffista Movies 1: Who doesn't love Denzel?
Slug: Someone else write this because I suck at slugs (and I know one was already written, but I'm too busy right now to look for it).
Header: A place to talk about movies--Old and new, good and bad, high art and high cheese. It's the place to place your kittens on the award winners, gossip about upcoming fims and discuss DVD releases and extras. Spoiler policy: White font all plot-related discussion until a movie's been in wide release two weeks, and keep the major HSQ in white font until two weeks after the video/DVD release.
jengod - Feb 18, 2003 3:09:19 pm PST #4755 of 10001
Slug: Did you know that the Chinese characters for "movie" translate literally into "electric shadow"? Isn't that pretty? Um. Yeah, so, this is the Buffistas movie talk thread. Drop on by.
(P.S. Can we please drop the "O" in old to lower case? "old and new"? That second part isn't a complete sentence. Thanks!!)
Lyra Jane - Feb 18, 2003 3:09:45 pm PST #4756 of 10001
Up with the sun
Sue's slug was pretty good:
A place to talk about movies--Old and new, good and bad, high art and high cheese. It's the place to place your kittens on the award winners, gossip about upcoming fims and discuss DVD releases and extras.
Edit: Oops, this is actually part of her header. I apologize.
Jessica - Feb 18, 2003 3:10:17 pm PST #4757 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Oh, I thought that was the header. Isn't a little long for a slug?
Lyra Jane - Feb 18, 2003 3:14:26 pm PST #4758 of 10001
Up with the sun
It's actually kind of both:
Sue "Bureaucracy 1: Like Kafka, Only Funnier" Feb 18, 2003 12:55:03 pm EST
But I agree it may be long. My suggestion was:
Movies and Foamies and Oscars, oh my! The Buffistas go Hollywood.
But I'm not especially attached to that -- it was just the first thing to pop into my head.
Jon B. - Feb 18, 2003 3:14:36 pm PST #4759 of 10001
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Slug?: A place to talk about movies--Old and new, good and bad, high art and high cheese. Spoiler policy at the top of the thread.
jengod - Feb 18, 2003 3:18:04 pm PST #4760 of 10001
Movies and Foamies and Oscars, oh my! The Buffistas go Hollywood.
No offense, but I'm sick of the 'Oh my' construction. How about just "The Buffistas go Hollywood."
Or
"The balcony is open."
(Siskel, you are not forgotten!)