How Did You Find This Site?

[FL Tiger]

I am just curious how other posters found MovieForums.com.

I am a regular poster at TuffSports.com -- I joined in October and have over 1100 posts there. They also use vBulletin software, so I went to the Jelsoft Enterprises website and did a search on other posting sites I thought I might like. I found MovieForums was one of them --and the rest is history!

I am a huge sports fan but like everyone else, I also enjoy going to the movies. I may not always post here but I stop by every day to read what you folks write.

[Zephyrus]

Actually, I was searching for something similar on Google, I think it was, and ran into movie forums...It was my intention originally to start my own movie discussion forum if I didn't find a decent one on the net, but I had luck :)

[Flywaver]

I saw the url in Chris's signature in the SitePoint Forum. :)

Cheers!

[ryanpaige]

I got here the same way Flywaver did.

[OG-]

Ah how did I get here? Gather around kiddies and I shall tell you a tale....

Many moons ago, back in July or August I think, I was on a mission to find the directors cut of Mortal Kombat, no luck by the way, but on my journey to find it I came across Movie Forums. And it wasn't by searching, or by someone telling me, it was when I just tried seeing if it was a web site by typing in movieforums.com, and it worked. I even remember my first post. Mortal Kombat the Movie. It turned into just a friendly conversation between me and Chris. I think I even became a moderator that night, at like 1 in the morning.

[Yoda]

LOL - yeah, something like that. I actually found this site by creating it - freaky, huh?

[thmilin]

;) yeah, funny how that happened, huh, chris?

i found the big boss man's site by the URL in his signature after reading a post of his in Swirve.com's Very Crappy Movie Forums.

[Yoda]

I remember posting there! It's a shame I couldn't use an actual link there - just the text of the URL.

I still post there a bit with the URL afterwards to help promote the site. There arn't more than a handful of movie forums out there - 9 out of 10 are totally inactive for the most part.

Thanks to people like y'all, this is one of the few thriving ones. :)

I'll try to do my part in terms of trading links, buying advertising time and such sometime in 2001 to try to return the favor to all of you! :)

Let it also be known that loyal, active (and of course, knowledgable) MovieForums posters are the most likely to receive higher titles, such as official News Editors once we start posting news and reviews. :)

[sunfrog]

I was at some other board and someone left a post saying visit my friends movie site. Since I like movies I checked it out. Twt was very nice and here I am. :)

[PooPooMaster]

Commish threatened me. He said that if I didn't join "movieforums," he would break my legs. I didn't take him seriously at first...but then I found my favorite horse's head under my covers. Basically he offered me an offer I couldn't refuse. Don't mess with that guy!

[Flywaver]

LOL...that reminds me of a certain Coppola movie! ;)

watch out for oranges and stay away from the windows! hehe

Cheers!

[OllieO]

Sitepoint :).

[electrosphere]

i found it first by just typin in the name to see if it was a site, then by lookin on the vb list of forums, then i finally joined after it came out top on a search i did on google.

i was thinkin of startin my own film site as a little side project cos i really need to know more about the web, for my other site.

[Pigsnie]

Been on a lot of movie forums before this one. First, got started on SALON Table Talkers, but some boring intellectual type posters came on & started ruining threads. "To its credit, the uncomfortable feverishness of teenage menustration is captured in CARRIE, thanks to Sissy Spacek's arrested-development Medusa." Whatever.

And then I got on the New York Times, but they have only one general thread there for all movies, and it was taken over by a 55 year old art-house fanatic who can't stand any picture that makes over 4 million dollars.

Now CHUD is interesting. They seem friendly at first, but the message board is really one big exclusively male fraternity, in which movies are only peripheral. Basically, they talk about themselves. A LOT.

This forum, however, seems to strike a happy balance. Knowlegeable posters, an excellent format, and a large number of topics. By the way, I found this site when a thoughtful somebody posted the link on JoBlo. (I've been on JoBlo too, but had a problem with the upper hierarchy of Blo-ness.)

[Zephyrus]

Looks like you got really lucky!! I love this place because there are heaps of people around my age (so no 55 year olds as far as I know :)) and no boring posters. Makes me feel right at home (which is all of course a part of my conspiracy to eventually take over the forum and kick out TWT, but shhhhhh don't tell him)! :D

[Yoda]

Hadn't heard of JoBlo - I'll have to go check it out. Very glad you like it here, however. I'll try to keep the same feeling that you have now present at all times. We will be upgrading in a short while, though, so you might be surprised by a new design out of the blue one of these days.

[Wart]

A friend told me about this forum. Now, he's a fan like me of film but we don't get together too often (on account of how far I live) to discuss film so he recommended I join a forum. He mentioned CHUD and this one. I like this one better. Its better organized. And I like the little personal funny touches--even in the instructions like "Disable those Smilie Face Thingies" :)

[Yoda]

LOL - thanks. I must've spent an hour or two customizing things like that to make them kinda funny. Nice signature, and welcome to the site. :)

[TobyDammit]

I found this site when, my good friend Pigsnie was cruelly banished from Joblo and cast out into... He emailed about. it.

So there you go.

[Austruck]

I found this site by giving birth to a big ol' baby boy nearly 17 years ago, and, somewhere along the way, letting him pluck on the keyboard of my computer, then watching him eventually go his own way and start his own movie web site.

Oh, that, and he threatened to break my legs, too.

[TWTAdmirerFromAfar]

Well, I was outside TWT's window in a tree one day... and I saw him posting on this site. and I said to myself "go to that site" so I did.

[TWTwannaBe]

One time TWT went downstairs to eat his soup that i got for him, and i stumbled into his room and movieforums.com was on his computer. Immediatly i figured, hey this must be cool, and ever since i started posting on movie forums i chew a lot more gum.

[OG-]

I think this whole TWTwannabe deal is just a cover up for wanting to be like me. You OG-Wannabe. I know I'm your only friend Jeremy. Give it up. I'm on to you.

[TWTwannaBe]

Actually "TWTadmirierFromafar" is Jeremy. This (TWTwannabe) is his step brother (name confidential). All i can tell you about myself is that TWT is really cool. TWT seems to have a strange affection for cats, I guess that means cats are cool.

[OG-]

Oh I see.

[Austruck]

OG, I can enlighten you a bit. I'm the mom of both TWT and TWTAdmirerFromAfar (which, yes, is Jeremy). And, yes, TWTwannabe is their stepbrother.

If it helps, the two "new" TWTs are 14 going on 15. I think this explains a lot. ;)

If it gets too thick in here, just ignore them. That's what we do at home. Not that it works. :)

Linda, aka "TWTMom"??

[Pigsnie]

You have many strange sons, madam.

[TWTwannaBe]

HEY, im not strange. And TWT is certainitly not strange, he's my step brother and he is very cool. As for you Linda... I think somebody needs some priviledges revoked for giving out my personal information (not that its true, Im actually 34). What are you talking about 14 going on 15 "explains a lot". I think its time we all learn a little bit about Austruck, She's married to Wayne She's married to Wayne, now i think that explains a lot.

[Austruck]

Pigsnie, I gave up wishing for a normal son, so I had a coupla daughters instead.

They're their own brand of strange.

And no, I'm no madam. I got my kids (and stepkids) the hard way -- with husbands. :)

[Austruck]

Oh no, TWTwannabe gave out my deepest, darkest secret! Now I'm doomed!

Hey, at least I didn't give out your real name! You didn't say anything about wanting to hide your age.

[Wart]

Originally posted by Austruck

If it gets too thick in here, just ignore them. That's what we do at home. Not that it works. :)

Linda, aka "TWTMom"??


Have you tried leaving them in the emergency room? Or a freeway? :D

[Austruck]

Hmmm...

Emergency room is too risky. They ask questions like "How did he get that bruise?"

Freeway. Now there's an idea. Drop 'em off on I-79 somewhere and split....

Hmmmmmmm...

Linda (reaching for a map)

[TWTwannaBe]

I-79! How'd you know! You sunk my battleship! TWT is the only other person that has ever sunk my battleship, he beats me in all the board games we play (and with soup). I know something that nobody else in here knows! I know what TWT actually stands for. How do I know? Because I am TWT's step-brother!

TWTwannaBe (reaching for a crow bar)

[PigsnieLite]

I was bored and I wanted to do mayhum so I spyed on Pigsnie while he was posting. Do you know thaat theres a mole on the back of Pigsnies neck? It looks like the la brea tar pits.

[PigsnieLite]

This is a good thread too. Please post here how you found our famous site MoFo & state your reasons why you will never leave it, hahaha!

[Sir Toose]

Howdy Gang
I've been on Priemiere.com for a long time. One day I just decided to do a google search on "movie forums"... guess who popped up? The rest as they say is history.

[PigsnieLite]

So what didnt you like about premiere? Were the posters all 12 year olds & only talk about harry potter?

[Yoda]

Originally posted by PigsnieLite
So what didnt you like about premiere? Were the posters all 12 year olds & only talk about harry potter?

Hey, I like Harry Potter. Maybe I'll start a Harry Potter site, too. :)

[Steve]

I was referred by Peter (OG-), whom I met through Mark (Zweeedorf). I like how it's sort of a community here, it's not as impersonal as a lot of forums. I've stuck around for so long, I've become a wacko!

By the way, let's have a moment of silence for Zwee, who quit posting because he didn't like to be considerate of others.

[Yoda]

Originally posted by Steve N.
I was referred by Peter (OG-), whom I met through Mark (Zweeedorf). I like how it's sort of a community here, it's not as impersonal as a lot of forums. I've stuck around for so long, I've become a wacko!

By the way, let's have a moment of silence for Zwee, who quit posting because he didn't like to be considerate of others.

(silence).

Ok, now I'm done. :) Yeah, you're obsessed worse than Peter. I'll try to keep the feel personal...if there are any areas now that you feel are hurting that, say so ASAP! :) Hard to keep forums rolling smoothly in the face of growth. Feel free to mention it if it becomes a problem in the future, as well.

[PigsnieLite]

Zweeee is GONE??? But I like Zweee!!!! I think Im gonna cry. :bawl: :bawl: :bawl: Its all TWTs fault, not lettin him cuss, waaahhhhhhh!!!

[Wart]

Hey, I'll miss Zwee too. How many people would put up with us through all those polls.

[sunfrog]

I did a search for octopus beastiality

[Yoda]

FYI: moved this thread...fits better in the Feedback/Suggestions forum...sine that's here to hold all MoFo-related stuff. And way to come out of the closet, Frogman. :)

[sunfrog]

LOL! No, no, that was not me. I was just being funny. Don't know why I was thinking of that. :)

But I have my (cough, cOuGh, StoughveN) suspects. :D

[mecurdius]

Google search.

[OG-]

Wasn't me!:rolleyes:

[Arthur Dent]

Interesting. I never saw this thread before.

Even though it was something like 8 months ago, I still remember exactly how I found this site. I searched on Google for:

+"Maureen Dowd" +canoe +nose

and one of the two pages that came up was the "What Ticks You Off?" thread on the Intermission Forum of MoFo.

[spudracer]

:laugh: It's funny what you search for and what brings you here. I just clicked the link in TWT's signature at SitePoint.

[Yoda]

I think this thread needs to be resurrected for the new MoFos. :yup:

[The Silver Bullet]

I'm suprised I never found this thread.

So gather 'round children, it's high time ye learn, 'bout a hero named Homer and a devil named Burns...

Actually, I was just searching for information of Walt Disney the Facist and the rascism in his films and I'd read a few essays from the top couple of Google search results and then there was one that had discussions on it and it led me smack bang into the middle of the "Best Animated Film" thread. And that's where it begins.

[Yoda]

Well, you found a similar thread awhile ago, I believe, because I remember you telling us all how you found the place awhile ago. Fate is mysterious, indeed.

[Mary Loquacious]

I was cruelly thrust into the MoFo world by my friend Kyle, who you all know as Mystery Man. He kept wanting to check the threads while over at our house, and I decided that I wanted to join in the fun. So Mary Loquacious, the Garrulous Grotesquerie, was born.

And the rest, as they say, is history. Or not really history, but you know what I'm saying, homeslice. :yup:

[Raziel1]

just was google searchin for a forum. then i ran into all u nuts

[spudracer]

Originally posted by Mary Loquacious
And the rest, as they say, is history. Or not really history, but you know what I'm saying, homeslice. :yup:

Word biatch. :D :rotfl:

[Raziel1]

yo-yo-yo...Homie G funk. boy I love Ebonics.:laugh: :laugh:

[jrs]

Love talkin movies.......typed simply the word movie and forum on Yahoo! and TADA!!!! What do you think popped up?

[Naisy]

Originally posted by Zephyrus
Looks like you got really lucky!! I love this place because there are heaps of people around my age (so no 55 year olds as far as I know :)) and no boring posters. Makes me feel right at home (which is all of course a part of my conspiracy to eventually take over the forum and kick out TWT, but shhhhhh don't tell him)! :D

this thread must be old they called chris TWT :laugh: i found this site when i was looking over The Silver Bullets Shoulder and saw this site and thought that it looked pretty cool, so you all only have him to blame for my presence :D

[SamsoniteDelilah]

I was part of an invasion from another forum. Seriously.
This name was an alias. It's not the name or any of the variations on the name I use elsewhere on the 'net. I'm usually known as "Cat"... which would be a lot easier to type than SamsoniteDelila. Ah, hindsight.

I started posting regularly here because there are cool people, good discussions, few trolls/flamers... and a few other reasons I'll just leave off. Long story short: I'm a MoFo addict and really glad someone suggested we try and give Yoda a (friendly) hard time, a year ago.

[susan]

a friend told me about this place last year but i didn't actually show up untiil a year later to start posting

[Eyes]

i was actually looking for forums on M. A. Myers (naturally), and i came across this place, liked what i saw, and stayed

[Nitzer]

I was looking on google for how stupid the sequel to the mask looks and found this site. After about a week my reputation was in the negative tenths so I decided that my goal would be to stay here and see if I can get it to go up. It's accomplished.

[AboveTheClouds]

Google is my friend... thats all I have to say.

[HellboyUnleashed]

i was just messing around with the whole url thing cuz i had just been banned from ebaumsworld.com for accusing them of being idiots and cussing in all the wrong places. so i typed in movieforums cuz i was looking for another place to do this stuff in and i found this place and i have to say ya'll are the nicest buncha ppl i have ever posted on a forum with

[gummo]

I wanted to find a new forum to belong to cuz all the other forums weren't very popular. I was in the middle of watching the movie "Gummo" for the 2nd time that day so i decided to try a movie forum. I typed in "movie forums" in the yahoo search engine and here we go. It worked out well cuz i luv movies and there's lots of ppl and it's a popular site.

[The Taxi Driver]

i was bored one day and i thought i want to join a forum where we talk about movies. so i went to google and typed in "movie forums" and this came up. i clicked liked it and now i post everyday.

[Tacitus]

i was bored one day and i thought i want to join a forum where we talk about movies. so i went to google and typed in "movie forums" and this came up. i clicked liked it and now i post everyday.

That's also how I became a MoFo, though I've been posting on another movie site for ages. ;)

[starrdarcy]

I found this site by accident. I was on google looking for places to chat i found this place.

[dillskies88]

i was searching for news on freddy vs jason 2 and the thread on mofo came up and i was like i gotta join

[Holden Pike]

Took a left turn at Greenland.

[Loner]

I did a yahoo search.

A list of forums came up.

I lurked on several of them before picking this one.

Why this one?

Yoda and the other moderators do a fine job on this forum.

Knowledgeable posters.

The incredible writing ability some of you have.

Another thing I really enjoy is exchanging posts with people from all over the world.

[Anonymous Last]

I followed a little whiite rabbit down a hole. I saw a guy their that called himself Yoda- running things. Asked myself...how could I not love this place? I claimed some mofo property with the blessings of others. Took of my jacket and stayed awhile...that was about two months ago.

Thanks for havin' me!

[Pyro Tramp]

After completing a piece of course work for my Film Study course where i had to invent my own idea for a film and make a storyboard for a key sequence, i typed it's title to see if it was being made, and here it was Freddy vs Jason vs The Evil Dead

[Pyro Tramp]

Poster

[Zeiken]

Second star to the right, and straight on until dawn.

Well, thats what the crossdressing acid-head told me anyway. So here i am.

[The Sarge]

I won't actually discover this site for another 18months. But in 18months time i'll pee at exactly 88miles per hour and travel back in time to inform myself that i need to register as a MoFo, travel back to my future time (once again by peeing really fast), then furiously pee again in the future so i travel back to right now where i've just informed myself that i won't discover this forum for another 18months. :dizzy:

[Anonymous Last]

I won't actually discover this site for another 18months. But in 18months time i'll pee at exactly 88miles per hour and travel back in time to inform myself that i need to register as a MoFo, travel back to my future time (once again by peeing really fast), then furiously pee again in the future so i travel back to right now where i've just informed myself that i won't discover this forum for another 18months. :dizzy:

"Great Scott!"

[allthatglitters]

I used a search engine. Typed in 'return of the king soundtrack audio clips', it brought me to this site which had a link to another site. If I hadn't been lazy I would of bookmarked the other site with the clips, but no I wasn't feeling particulary active. So for almost all of last December i would venture to these pages to follow a link. I slowly began to read the threads though, and several times I considered joining. Some time after the start of the year I joined. Fun fun fun.

[Eyes]

I used a search engine. Typed in 'return of the king soundtrack audio clips', it brought me to this site which had a link to another site. If I hadn't been lazy I would of bookmarked the other site with the clips, but no I wasn't feeling particulary active. So for almost all of last December i would venture to these pages to follow a link. I slowly began to read the threads though, and several times I considered joining. Some time after the start of the year I joined. Fun fun fun.
weird, u joined the same day i got my braces off...

I don't even know why i'm sharing this, but it's about 2230 my time, i'm tired, so i'll generally be posting some random ***** around this time

[Movieman21]

I found this site through a search engine, and let me tell you, i am glad that i did. This site is great. I too run a film forum, and i like what i see here so much that I added your site to my list of helpful links for my members. Hope you dont mind. :D

[Anonymous Last]

I found this site through a search engine, and let me tell you, i am glad that i did. This site is great. I too run a film forum, and i like what i see here so much that I added your site to my list of helpful links for my members. Hope you dont mind. :D

Wait, what...? You mean to tell me that this site I'm on is about movies?

That explains a lot!

[moviefan20]

GOOGLE. I wanted to be on a movie forum and make new friends. But i think i made someone mad at me srj.

[Anonymous Last]

GOOGLE. I wanted to be on a movie forum and make new friends. But i think i made someone mad at me srj.
Who's mad?

Enough formalities and start posting about smacking dat ass.

[Sinny McGuffins]

I Google'd it too.

[LordSlaytan]

A few years ago I did a search for a site that might shed some new insights for a game I was currently hooked on and stumbled onto a forum for it. It was the first forum I had ever seen and thought it was a pretty nifty thing. Yet, within time, I became bored because games come and go, and the topics became stale. So I decided to see what other forums were out there that might keep me interested for more than a month. I thought to myself, “Self: what is it that you love, would love to talk about endlessly, and never get tired of?” Sex was the answer, but my dog was watching me, so I searched for a “movie forum” <----- (actual words in google), and viola! Here I am.

Anyone wanna talk about sex? My dog’s asleep. No? Okay. :(

Anyway…I am so happy I found this place. What I love most about MoFo is that new people join, and then we school them. I know that sounds patronizing, but if you come here thinking that Gone in 60 Seconds is one of the greatest movies of all time, and one year later you’re discussing The Bicycle Thief and are completely amazed that you ever thought that Gone in 60 Seconds was anything more than a trite piece of crap movie made from excrement belonging to a sick and injured pig, well…you been schooled.

All hail MoFo! School for the ignorant cinephile!

[Monkeypunch]

I honestly forget. I was part of amother forum that I forget the name of now, and they were all really unbelievable art movie snobs, you know, the type of people who like nothing but indecipherable foreign films and who will put you down for liking something even remotely mainstream...my favourite quote of theirs was that "Almost Famous," which is one of my favourite movies, was okay for an entertainment film....I mean what good are movies if they DON'T entertain you?

Anyway, after that, I found MoFo and I was an unbelievable ass for a good long time, and I am surprised I was never banned. I drifted away after an EXTREMELY painful time in my life, that well, there's still reminders of on here, but oh well, life goes on, and I am back, and hopefully less of a pain.

I really like the people here, they have been very friendly and I've even talked with a few of them on AIM, and thats wicked cool. I consider y'all my friends, really. (I miss Sexy Celebrity and Mary Lo a lot.)

[SpoOkY]

I searched for a certain review on a movie (forget which one) and really loved it, so I signed up to give credit to the reviewer. Plus after finding some interesting threads I soon got hooked and have never looked back :) .

[ash_is_the_gal]

i think i was just bored and searched google for "movie forums" and this is what i got! it seemed pretty cool. i actually joined a year ago and then never came back. then i came back like a month ago and decided to just create a whole new name and everything. now im addicted. already!

i used to be apart of another movie forum, but it was mostly just Horror forum. i used to love horror, but not as much now, since most horror film new releases are just horrible, and you get sort of tired of talking about the same old classic horror movies over and over again. theres only so much you can talk about the same movies. plus, everyone here is so much nicer and really welcomes new people. i seriously can't think of anyplace on the web that is so open to new people. most people are like "ew a newbie!"

this place is really unique in that way. :yup:

[Tea Barking]

I was looking up some film that was coming out and found this site, it looked nifty so put it in my favourites and forgot about it.
After a few months i remembered i put it in my favs so i started lurking here and even tho i know crap all about films i decided to join up ;)
I'll talk sex with ya slay, but i think you ment sex talk with a preddy woman ;D

[MovieMaker5087]

Wanted to post a question about the upcoming King Kong movie, so I just typed in www.movieforums.com, just to see if such a generic name existed. And, wallah! My pants are off!

[Naisy]

I would say mine was a tale of danger and adventure, but I would be lying.
I was walking past Bullet boy on typing away on the compy and I saw him on this site, thought it looked cool and decided to have a squiz, been hooked ever since....I also joined to spite SB, another story for another time arg.

[hazii82]

I did a search on yahoo for movie forums and this was one that came up...

[Travis Bickle]

Typed 'movie forums' in on Google.

[Darth Stujitzu]

God bless Google!!!!
Even a halfwit like me can use it!!!

[Ophelia]

Sam. de. mentioned it to me in a pm/email. I was curious.

[Iroquois]

I...don't...know...

[Strummer521]

I still didn't quite understand Donnie Darko and I figured the internet would be the best place to find people who could help me. Aside from that, I had never seen anything quite like that film and it spurred on a greater interest in movies within me.

[Wonder Boy]

I remember that I was looking for info for the Batman Begins sequel initially. After I became a member I was hooked.:)

[Austruck]

I probably posted earlier in this lengthy thread, but I found this site because my son was creating it and desperately needed people to pretend to be interested in movies and sign up. :D

Good thing I really AM interested in movies.

Of all the family members he initially signed up, I think I'm the only one still left (besides him). That's either really cool, or really pathetic. Haven't decided which.

[Eyes]

I probably posted earlier in this lengthy thread, but I found this site because my son was creating it and desperately needed people to pretend to be interested in movies and sign up. :D

Good thing I really AM interested in movies.

Of all the family members he initially signed up, I think I'm the only one still left (besides him). That's either really cool, or really pathetic. Haven't decided which.

Hats off to you then ;)

[Austruck]

Well, it's not like he needs me around here any more, but you guys are all a bit contagious. I mean that like it's a good thing.

:D

[Ash_Lee]

A guy called Greppin (dunno if he still posts here) was a member of another forum, and he either mentioned this forum and I searched for it, or he put a link to the sight up somewhere. Either way I became interested and promptly signed up

[nebbit]

I found MoFo through a link on another site, I was a member of many sites, ended up staying here because people are the friendliest here :kiss:

[Blister]

I googled my way into MoFo.....and never left.

[nebbit]

Good :yup:

[Twain]

I Googled my way here. I was looking for a movie forum where I could say my piece and hear what others had to say. I usually see 2 to 4 new movies a month and needed an outlet. :D

Whoever put this thing together did a good job and there's some really knowledgable people here. I'd like to stay awhile. :D

[Escape]

Yup. Me googled too. :p


I was on this startrek forum and said to myself. Hey, I love movies, why not find a forum about them and boom, it was the first sight I clicked on. :yup:

[WALKER OF THE HOPE]

i googled movie forums and i came with this site!:)

[throwatiff]

Was just surfing the net for movie forums and this one seemed to be the most active. So I joined.

[Xui Wan]

well it started out this morning i woke up with a dream in mind and i wrote it out then, i went to google interpretations then thought about what my dreams might mean so i furthered my search then found relations to movies so i then went on to all the links and voila i was here reading what other people had to say on some movies so facinated i needed to join seeing a 16 yr olds post and thought wow im attending post secondary and he writes so much better than me Grrr!!!! the next worthy movie critic??? i think maybe!!!!

[silverscreen888]

Hello
I found the site while looking for movie posters of favorite films, British variety.
Being an Anglophile, playwright, blank verse poet and admirer of classical acting made my decision to join last all of a nanosecond. Regards to all.
Robert C. aka silverscreen888

[John McClane]

I went to Google one day because I wanted to talk about movies. Find this site and then became addicted to movies.

[nyabzns]

Google. I was searching for information on the ultimate avengers movie.

[judas69]

Google, of course.

[Alvin]

I just tried typing 'movieforums.com' in about 4 years ago and discovered this place, and finally decided to sign up about a week ago. I remember back in the day when the site was just a forum, and Yoda wasn't called Yoda (although I don't remember what he was called).

Edit: It was TWTsomethingorother

[judas69]

For 11,000+ members this Site is kinda slow it seems (only 3 online).

[nebbit]

For 11,000+ members this Site is kinda slow it seems (only 3 online).

It depends what times you are on. :yup: i am here sometimes on my own. :( but don't let that put you off :nope:

[susan]

For 11,000+ members this Site is kinda slow it seems (only 3 online).


hey, never judge a book by it's cover!!!!!

[cenobite]

I was cruising the internet in search for one particular DVD wich I'm
searching for ages now and somehow I stumbled across this board.
It seemed nice to me so I stayed http://ceno.krankikom.de/goth/goth_lieb.gif


ceno

[Yoda]

For 11,000+ members this Site is kinda slow it seems (only 3 online).
You posted that at 4:00 AM.

[John McClane]

You posted that at 4:00 AM.What time zone? We seem to have more members that are closer to EDT.

[Nexus]

Typed in "movie forums" in Google, and here I am...

[jrs]

Generally did the same except on Yahoo!.

[Escape]

Typed in "movie forums" in Google, and here I am...

Yeah, that's why this site gets so many new memebers per day. It has probably the best name to google when somebody is looking for a movie forum to chat movies. The other would be "movieforum" without the 's'.

[BobbyB]

I typed in "Movie + Forums" on Google, and voila!

[judas69]

You posted that at 4:00 AM.

It's 11:00am now and theres 5 (including myself) on so.. I guess I'm wondering if there is a peak time for the Site?

[Yoda]

It's 11:00am now and theres 5 (including myself) on so.. I guess I'm wondering if there is a peak time for the Site?
Sure, but it varies from day to day. Over the weekend, for example, there were about 15 members on throughout most of the afternoon. On weekdays, I think the peak time would be a little later, but it's not perfectly consistent.

[Anonymous Last]

It's 11:00am now and theres 5 (including myself)

I'm an audience of one and Holden is always here... somewhere. Shhhh..... If you are very very quiet and really listen. I mean really listen, you are able to hear him rattling through the threads.

[judas69]

I guess my point was that out of 11,000 registered members, you only managed to keep a handful coming back. I'm used to message boards with 50+ on at all hours.

Perhaps you should expand and revise the Site a little; maybe lighten up the colour scheme? Just a thought.

[Austruck]

Most times I come on here there are a few dozen members on and, like, a few *hundred* guests. Right now it says 10 members and 203 guests. I have a nice handful of forums I visit and read a lot on, but that I've never joined. I'm a "guest" at those places but a regular one.

Well, anyway, I found this site because my son made me come here. ("Mom, become a member of my site, please? Do you think Grandma will sign up too?") :) :)

[SamsoniteDelilah]

I guess my point was that out of 11,000 registered members, you only managed to keep a handful coming back. I'm used to message boards with 50+ on at all hours.

Perhaps you should expand and revise the Site a little; maybe lighten up the colour scheme? Just a thought.
This is a fairly small site, but it has the considerable advantage of being a little community. People here generally feel freer to share more personal things than people on bigger forums do, and it's resulted in some great connections between people.

[nebbit]

This is a fairly small site, but it has the considerable advantage of being a little community. People here generally feel freer to share more personal things than people on bigger forums do, and it's resulted in some great connections between people.

That is how i find MoFo, I have been to many other forums but that community feeling wasn't there for me. :nope:

[Yoda]

I guess my point was that out of 11,000 registered members, you only managed to keep a handful coming back. I'm used to message boards with 50+ on at all hours.
I don't know what kind of standard you're using, but I've been doing this (and variations on it) for a very long time, and the turnonver here is above-average at worst, especially for its subject matter. I also don't know what other forums you're referring to, but I guarantee they either a) have higher levels of traffic to begin with, and thus more activity in general, or b) routinely prune their membership rolls.

Also, you seem to be operating under the assumption that our goals have to do with raw numbers. Maybe that's the case for some sites, but not this one. Quality comes first here; always has. If that turns off the hoards of teenagers who worship at the Alter of Keanu and have nothing of substance to say, all the better. I'll trade quantity for quality any day of the week.

Perhaps you should expand and revise the Site a little; maybe lighten up the colour scheme? Just a thought.
I'm sorry if this seems defensive, but you've been a member for a grand total of 11 days, and you're already trying to tell me how to run the place?

I've made expansions; news, DVD updates, et cetera. And you know what? The members appreciated them, but were relatively uninterested. They came here (and still do) for the intelligent discussions, not the rehashed movie news you can get on literally hundreds of other sites.

Coming in and sharing your thoughts and any constructive criticism you might have is always welcome. But complaining about activity levels in a thread on an entirely different topic and making broad, sweeping suggestions devoid of perspective to people who have been here for years is, in my opinion, rather rude.

[nebbit]

Coming in and sharing your thoughts and any constructive criticism you might have is always welcome. But complaining about activity levels in a thread on an entirely different topic and making broad, sweeping suggestions devoid of perspective to people who have been here for years is, in my opinion, rather rude.

Go Yods, you are my idol http://bestsmileys.com/happy/5.gif

[ash_is_the_gal]

quality over quantity! only the pick of the litter come back...

[Alvin]

I wouldn't expect politeness from someone calling himself 'judas69'...

[judas69]

Yikes, don't kill the messenger!

I know it's tough to keep people, but if you're going to take everything I say so defensively (especially when I'm trying to help) then I'll guess there's no reason to hang around.

Have a good one.

[Yoda]

Yikes, don't kill the messenger!
The messenger is delivering a message from...himself. So yeah, that's who you kill in that scenario.

I know it's tough to keep people, but if you're going to take everything I say so defensively (especially when I'm trying to help) then I'll guess there's no reason to hang around.
No, it's really not tough to keep people. Like I said, I don't grant your premise. And after, I dunno, roughly 8 years of community management at roughly every rung on the totem pole, I think I'm in a position to rebut those sorts of things.

There's a line between trying to help and being downright haughty. You were (and are) on the wrong side of that line. Toss in a bunch of bizarre criticisms that wouldn't add up to anyone with any real experience running an online community (and the fact that you're posting this in a thread on a completely different topic), and the response your comments got was inevitable.

Have a good one.
You too.

[Bill]

Google.

[David19770601]

:) by google

[The Gnat]

Googles "movie forums" and this is what came up at the top.

[Alvin]

:) by google

Catchy name you got there.

[Anonymous Last]

Catchy name you got there.He should get rid of all those charming yet pointless letters.

[Yoda]

Prolly his birthday.

[Anonymous Last]

Happy late birthday...

[Adastra]

I googled for "movie forums / community" ;)

[Purple_Panther]

Just browsing for movie forums and this one was the top one so I figured it must be a good one because it was #1.

[nebbit]

Just browsing for movie forums and this one was the top one so I figured it must be a good one because it was #1.

Thats it, we are #1 :yup:

[notstarring]

Google "movie forums"

[Social Misfit]

i used google - but im really just wanting enough posts to start a tread - Wanting somone to make me a list of all time movies to see, Funny ones, Counter Cultrual, Cult movies, teen movies, ones everyone should see before they die type dealyo!

[Yoda]

i used google - but im really just wanting enough posts to start a tread - Wanting somone to make me a list of all time movies to see, Funny ones, Counter Cultrual, Cult movies, teen movies, ones everyone should see before they die type dealyo!
Actually, you should probably use the search page (http://www.movieforums.com/community/search.php) first; a number of those threads already exist.

[Terminator734]

i googled movie boards, movie discussion sites, forums etc. the site kept coming up so here i am

[Heaper]

Google.......only had one good friend to talk to movies bout and now i left skool and dont see him much needed sumwer to tlk bout my favs :D

[B-card]

one day a friend of my said that he is posting in a lot of forums and asked me if i like to join but none of them seemed right for me.There was only one section about movies and it was about the latest.So i asked myself isn't there a movie forum for me and Google was my answer so here i am very happy and my signature says it all:)

[Zim Zim Zoom]

I just googled movie boards and it came up so here I am.

[VeronicaJ]

same here, felt like joining a forum abaout movies.

[shirble]

google

[diamondgeeza]

Film forum search on google

[Poppit]

Looked under movie forums on google

[Crystal49]

I'm a huge popcorn fan and I searched online for best movie popcorn and found this site. What theatres serve the best popcorn?
Does anybody use butter on their popcorn any more.

I'm not a fan of the imitation stuff!

[juno101]

does everybody google?!:D

I did- wanted to find a forum were people can discuss all movies - foreign films, b&w classic etc and not just the latest in theatres (although I like that too)

[Randal Graves]

i was bored and needed to join more forums lol...so i googled sumthin...i dont remember wat..and found this

[Black_Pylon]

This site came with a high recoomendation. I held out for at least a couple of years, but for some reason recently caved in. Glad.

[Dark Nyte]

Friend

[nebbit]

Friend
Someone here? :)

[ovais1500]

A friend told me about this site and said that I could download free movies from here. So could I actually download entire movies from movieforums and if so from where?

[Yoda]

A friend told me about this site and said that I could download free movies from here. So could I actually download entire movies from movieforums and if so from where?
Your friend is mistaken. We do not offer free movie downloads here, nor do we allow discussion as to where you can, as it is, well, illegal.

[Britbrat19]

i just looked for a place where i could talk about movies.

[PimpDaShizzle V2.0]

I had a vision. A horse with iron wires for hair galloped across an ocean of quick sand and stopped before crushing me with its razor hoofs. The rider glided down and bestowed upon me a secret address written in dust and magic marker. I punched him and jacked his horse for its precious jewels then came here within the hour. It wasn't so much a vision as it was an acid trip invovling some homeless guy, his basket of plastic bags, and an empty parking lot. Needless to say I have his plastic bags and I wont be giving them bag, I mean back.

[WooblesWobble]

A little Yoda came to my window and told me about this wonderful movie forum site.... No just kidding. I just goggled movie forums and poof there it was at the top of the list.

[Meecrob]

A friend of mine told me about it

[nebbit]

A friend of mine told me about it
Come on, who was it :yup:

[Escape]

A little Yoda came to my window and told me about this wonderful movie forum site.... No just kidding. I just goggled movie forums and poof there it was at the top of the list.
That's exactly why this site always has a crap load of new members signing up (they don't always stay of course) because of the words "movie forums". Its usually the first words someone will google if they are searching for something like this. It was for me too. Very fortunate to have your site called 'movie forums' to link others up I think cause I'm sure other movie sites envy that and would love to have it. :yup:

[linespalsy]

google search for "movie forums". this was the second message board i joined. the first was an anime message board, where i mostly talked about movies, so it seemed like a logical move.