Other forums

[Robert the List]

What others do you or have you used, that you're willing to say?

[Citizen Rules]

None. Seriously.

[Allaby]

I used a few different ones. My thoughts:

Moviechat- used to be good, has now become one of the worst. A lot of political fighting, trolls, racism, misogyny, antisemitism. The mods are incompetent, clueless hypocrites. Most of the people there are jerks, bullies, or fake hypocrites. Absolute garbage site with mostly terrible people.

Filmboards- a troll site filled with nasty trolls and constant fighting with little film discussion. Very loose rules, very little moderation

IMDB v2.3- okay site, but not very interesting or fun

Reddit- lots of different subreddits, including several for movies. Some good discussion, decent amount of activity, decent moderation overall

Movieforums (this site) is by far the best in every way possible. Best moderation and best people. Great discussion.

[Robert the List]

Wow. I didn't know there were so many other movie forums.


I'm glad I chose this one, I like it.


I've also used various sports ones but don't bother so much now.

[Torgo]

Wow. I didn't know there were so many other movie forums.


I'm glad I chose this one, I like it.


I've also used various sports ones but don't bother so much now.Good, thought you were leaving us.
From Whitney to the lists, your contributions would be missed.

[jal90]

I used a few different ones. My thoughts:

Moviechat- used to be good, has now become one of the worst. A lot of political fighting, trolls, racism, misogyny, antisemitism. The mods are incompetent, clueless hypocrites. Most of the people there are jerks, bullies, or fake hypocrites. Absolute garbage site with mostly terrible people.
Is there even movie discussion there? Or even discussion at all? 90% of the threads have 0 answers and most movie-related threads haven't been updated in months. It sounds like a political vent room rather than a "movie chat".

Anyway. As for actual functional sites, I'm at the ICM Forum (unofficial forum for Icheckmovies users) and SCFZ Forum (inspired by the old Mubi forums). Both sites share a lot of things and a good amount of their users; the former is a more competitive type with challenges and lists, and the latter is a more quiet and familiar environment. I'm also at Awardsworthy (previously Awardswatch), which is mostly focused on awards and predictions and seems reasonably civil for how big it is, though a little exhausting because there is too much activity compared to the other two.

[Allaby]

Is there even movie discussion there? Or even discussion at all? 90% of the threads have 0 answers and most movie-related threads haven't been updated in months. It sounds like a political vent room rather than a "movie chat".

Anyway. As for actual functional sites, I'm at the ICM Forum (unofficial forum for Icheckmovies users) and SCFZ Forum (inspired by the old Mubi forums). Both sites share a lot of things and a good amount of their users; the former is a more competitive type with challenges and lists, and the latter is a more quiet and familiar environment. I'm also at Awardsworthy (previously Awardswatch), which is mostly focused on awards and predictions and seems reasonably civil for how big it is, though a little exhausting because there is too much activity compared to the other two.

There's a little movie discussion occasionally, but not very often and much of it isn't good. Most of the movie discussion is about if a movie has nudity or if a movie is woke.

[jal90]

There's a little movie discussion occasionally, but not very often and much of it isn't good. Most of the movie discussion is about if a movie has nudity or if a movie is woke.
Damn... it sounds apocalyptic. I have been checking a little and can see what you mean about the toxicity. The interactions and answers, when there are, are only of the vitriolic reactive type. It seems one only goes to this site to get angry or vent frustrations.

[Miss Vicky]

This is the only one I'm currently on, but then forums have kind of gone by the wayside since the rise of social media.

But in the past I've been on forums for Fleetwood Mac, Warren Zevon, John Fogerty, pet rats, and pet reptiles/amphibians. I also used to be a member of the forums at another movie website before I came here. I didn't like the people on that other forum so once I found this place I never looked back. That was almost 16 years ago. I never thought I'd still be here that long. All the other forums I've joined I ended up losing interest in after a few months or a few years at most.

[Robert the List]

Agh that's sweet Torgo and appreciated, thanks.


Genuinely wasn't fishing there btw!

[hownos]

What others do you or have you used, that you're willing to say?

This is the only one. I left another place over a year ago and haven't looked back.

[hownos]

I used a few different ones. My thoughts:

Moviechat- used to be good, has now become one of the worst. A lot of political fighting, trolls, racism, misogyny, antisemitism. The mods are incompetent, clueless hypocrites. Most of the people there are jerks, bullies, or fake hypocrites. Absolute garbage site with mostly terrible people.

Filmboards- a troll site filled with nasty trolls and constant fighting with little film discussion. Very loose rules, very little moderation

IMDB v2.3- okay site, but not very interesting or fun

Reddit- lots of different subreddits, including several for movies. Some good discussion, decent amount of activity, decent moderation overall

Movieforums (this site) is by far the best in every way possible. Best moderation and best people. Great discussion.

You really don't like that "other" place. I won't mention which one.

[Citizen Rules]

This is the only one. I left another place over a year ago and haven't looked back.Why did you leave that site?

[hownos]

Why did you leave that site?

Absentee owner, absentee mods, no updates since 2017. There were other reasons.

[Citizen Rules]

Absentee owner, absentee mods, no updates since 2017. There were other reasons.I see. Yeah, no moderation means a free-for-all board which then becomes nasty.

[StuSmallz]

Well, there's this one that I have a soft spot for: https://globaldomination.freeforums.net/posts/recent

[FilmBuff]

I used to spend a lot of time on the old technodyke.com forums, they weren't movie-specific but did have a movie and TV section.

Sadly, they aren't active any more :(

[WrinkledMind]

Delcamp fourums which is an excellent place for learning classical guitar. They even offer a free course & there are loads of tabs & music sheets to practice. I still use that forum.


This is Anfield I am a Liverpool football club (LFC) fan since the early 2000s. This was a lovely place for fellow Liverpool fans to be on. Eventually it got shut down & now it's only a news site for LFC news.


I have been on various Mafia Game forums. Throuroughly enjoyed playing the Mafia games there, which are similar to the Traitors series that currently runs on the telly.

[Crusadia]

I used to post regularly on TMDB’s forums and MovieChat for a few years and before that IMDb for many years. If I had found this forum earlier I’m sure I would have been here much longer too!

Other than that I visit Steve Hoffman Music Forums occasionally and Reddit…usually via Google searches!

[beelzebubble]

I used to be on the World Literature Forums, and a Schizophrenia forum. On that one, I mostly said, "are you taking your meds" and "have you shared this problem with your doctor." I was on a Depression forum but that was too depressing. Now I am on Facebook groups on the weekend. One of my favorites is titled something like "what do you do when you hate autistic people but you are autistic people." Its quite fun and there's a lot leeway in what we are allowed to chat about. We aren't supposed to make personal comments. But believe me personal comments are made.

[iluv2viddyfilms]

I used to post at Rotten Tomatoes years and years ago when it was the site for film forums, despite the black hole nature of it, trolling, and thousands of repeat threads. It was genuinely great and the wild wild west of film forums back in the 2000s.

Currently I post occasionally on reddit under my other interwebs name, but primarily not about films but about politics, guns, culture, psychology, finance, and other odds and ends. It's another endless black hole of a site filled with trolls and the whole subreddit thing and how they have threads is not user friendly in my mind, having grown up with forums more like movieforums where it seems to be more user friendly.

My main jam for the longest time back in the day was moviejustice and MoFo was my secondary site. mark f posted a lot at moviejustice who I invited from metacritic where he posted and then Holden Pike (also a moviejustice regular) turned him to the dark side and he joined MoFo.

But sadly today in 2025, discussion based forums are maybe... maybe 1/1000th of the size and scope they were 20 years ago in 2005 before the rise of facebook, before X (twitter), instagram, snapchat, before youtube hit its stride where people use the comments like forums, and so on.

I honestly think myspace was the death knoll for forums as myspace broke onto the scene like mad in 2004/2005 or so and died as nearly as quick as it rose to prominence. But yeah discussion forums during that 2000-2009-ish time period were huge and now with the exception of a few like MoFo are a dying breed. And no, reddit... while technically a discussion forum... I think, doesn't really operate like one.

[Captain Quint]

I was just thinking about this, movie forum wise - when I was searching for a movie forum last year, I did consider Criterion, I guess I could still sign up there as well - but either way - I liked how this place was organized and then I saw CRs Noirvember thread and went, "Oh, I like Noir, I want to talk about Noir", so I signed right up.

But question? Didn't there used to be 2 Criterion forums? I distinctly remember 2, but now I only see one.

Also, on my hunt for a forum I was trying to find the one I used to be on in the mid 2000s. They had a reviews page, I remember someone reviewing Anno's live action Cutie Honey movie (2004), and the write-up and pictures posted caught my eye and I went off and watched it (enjoyed it too) and discussed it there.

And briefly there were these 2 guys going through Hitchcock's films in chronological order. Each week they did a write up and then opened the floor to discussion, I LOVED that thread and was bummed when it disappeared before we even got out of the silent era... turns out they got a book deal and had to end the threads and delete the old reviews.

I was happy for them of course, but disappointed that had to come to an end. (members could have continued the discuss on our own, but we never did)

I can't remember what they were called, and I came up empty on a search. But that was my original movie hangout place.