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The old IMDb Psycho board fully reproduced


Here's the link:
https://filmboards.com/board/10054215/
The site appears to have (in full) almost all individual film and TV boards and most general boards but no name boards (let alone a structured database of film info linking titles and names and all the rest of it).

It's a great resource.

I haven't tried this yet but if you use Chrome as your web-browser the site also offers you the choice of installing an extension that effectively inserts the filmboards.com boards back at the bottom of IMDb pages. If you use the site like *that* then no database function at filmboards.com itself is no problem since you get to keep using IMDb's! This is pretty amazing if it works. Although patching directly into IMDb in this way does deny you the lover-scorned satisfactions of kicking IMDb to the curb, perhaps it does give you the continued-benefits satisfactions of someone who's been technically broken up with but you still get maintained in the style to which you are accustomed by them and still get to have sex with them, etc..

Changing metaphors: the ignominious fall of IMDb's message-boards really is starting to feel like the collapse of a great empire with all the chaos and contending sub-imperial powers and population transfers and refugee flows that that usually entails.

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That site along with an identical one at filmboards.com have disappeared. And Oceania (and with it Airstrip One) has always been at war with Eastasia.

Update: And they're back. Online reality is shimmering these days: Beneath the Planet of IMDb.

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Lol, yeah I've visited the alternatives and neither are thriving. I guess it died when imdb died

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According to Jim, the founder of/programmer behind moviechats.org the next 24 hours will see moviechats.org import the close-to-full IMDb archive contents that filmboards.com et al. have been featuring for the last week or two. There may be a few service interruptions while this big upload happens. Since Psycho never got the benefit of Jim's initial once-over-lightly archiving, the change to having all the old IMDb threads present at once here will probably feel especially dramatic.

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Holy tomoly! So does this mean you can now continue your "Wright's 1000 List" thread?

That would be great....

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OK, the latest word from Jim (over in General Discussion) is that it's going to take another couple of days to do the programming required to merge all of the relevant data... We all have to be patient, but holding hands with the IMDb past is coming (along with a whole bunch of other upgrades apparently).

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As for my 'Wright's list' project, I'm continuing to work my way through the final 70 or so. Here are the only ones I've seen post-IMDb (in order, together with rough scores)
The Doom Generation (1995) 3/10
Cop Car (2015) 6/10
Road To Morocco (1942) 3/10
Cheap Thrills (2013) 6/10
Roaring Twenties (1939) 9/10
Bitter Harvest (1963) 5/10
Sadly I may not have have energy or detailed enough memory to write capsule reviews for these now. Particularly when I really *don't* like something I start to forget about it almost immediately unless I write something down, and without the prompt of that IMDb thread I haven't been except for these scores.

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