Post by telegonus on Jul 4, 2018 18:10:57 GMT
Reminds me of the debates about Stalag 17 on its IMDb page …. great reading.
All sorts of tiny details were thrashed over .. like the possibility of surviving overnight in the cold water of the watertank and what the temperature if the water probably was that time of year.
I wonder what ever became of hobnob. Miss him.
I don't recall that page well, Bat, but it must have been lively. Sunset Blvd had a great one, and even better, for Holden's films, Bridges At Toko-Ri There some of those old message boards preserved on other sites (Filmboards, Moviechat), however they're not complete. I remember the IMDB people (admins?) tinkering with and deleting much (of, sadly, the best) of Toko-Ri's boards, which really annoyed me, and I made an issue of it on the main boards but it was never addressed.
They got more censorious there over time, and by the last few years a lot of the spontaneity was gone, even from its history! 
At least they retained most of their old reviews. There were some great threads on Tora! Tora! Tora!'s boards, too, also much of it gone by the time of the boards shutdown, and not preserved for posterity. Of the posters from the old site, Hobnob does seem to have, sadly, fallen off the face of the earth, unless he's over at TCM's site, which would seem a logical place for him to have gone.
At least they retained most of their old reviews. There were some great threads on Tora! Tora! Tora!'s boards, too, also much of it gone by the time of the boards shutdown, and not preserved for posterity. Of the posters from the old site, Hobnob does seem to have, sadly, fallen off the face of the earth, unless he's over at TCM's site, which would seem a logical place for him to have gone. Then there's the name change issue, as many old time IMDB people have changed their names or simply now use variations of their real names at other places. Some places I go to have made lists of ex-screen names of ex-IMDB users. It would be nice if someone would start a thread and do that here, assuming, that is, that lots of people from the other site have changed their screen names. Many good people have vanished. Hobnob is one of many. WeatherViolet seems to have fallen of the earth's face. Funkyfry, a great poster when at the top of the game, is another whose name I haven't seen in quite some time. Oh well. OT. I didn't mean to turn this into the "dearly departed" thread... 
