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Post by Doghouse6 on Mar 15, 2017 20:49:40 GMT
Thanks for inviting me to the Psycho board; is the thread still under Psycho on moviechat.org? (By the way, while I greatly appreciate that board's replication of the IMDb Boards format, I'm still having difficulties with accessibility there; I did post the "Who Sang the Cole Porter Songs in Sleuth?" question there too, but I prefer the ease-of-access here [and at IMDF]. Even so, of course if the dialogue is good, that makes it all worth it!) Moviechat.org is one of at least two sites that have replicated general-topic IMDB boards as well as those for titles and individuals, archiving their extant comment histories as of the last few weeks of their operation. imdbarchive.com is the other of which I'm aware, and it more closely mimics IMDB's GUI and functionality. Of those two, the first is the one that's had the most activity; posters ecarle, swanstep, telegonus, Movieghoul and Gubbio are among the regulars from the IMDB Psycho board that have continued their contributions there, although it doesn't offer the formatting options (quote blocks, bold and italic and so on) available here and elsewhere. A few users have mentioned occasional access difficulties, but I've personally never experienced any, and I've only just learned of the 5000-words-per-post limit (and yeah, some of we longer-winded participants have managed to exceed it, breaking up our replies into multiples). Those caveats aside, I'll add that I understand they're continually working to expand their capabilities and features but, on the whole, it's rather like moving your family from one residence to another: the bathroom's the first door on your left instead of the second one to the right and the kitchen has an electric rather than gas stove, but the inhabitants and their interactions remain the same. |
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Post by simpsonsfan742 on Mar 21, 2017 18:32:27 GMT
Someday, I'll need to watch that. I'm still in my 8-10 years(as of now, wow!) process, of trying to watch through as many Hitchcock movies as I can very slowly. This process started in a way back in the mid-2000s, when for a writing and movie college class I watched The Birds. After that I checked out the DVD of Psycho from somewhere(either a rental store or public library), and the rest is history from there! I'd say so far, my favorites remain(in NO order, btw) Psycho, North by Northwest, Strangers on a Train, Dial M For Murder, to name some of the ones that come to my mind. Rope, which was the most recent Hitchcock movie I saw(only DAYS ago!), was great as well. Ditto with at least the Salvador Dali dream sequence, you see in the movie Spellbound(and IMO, the most interesting part of that movie). Sigh, I have a weird feeling I'm going to forget one or 2 really good Hitchcock movies, I did see. Next on my list of Hitchcock movies to watch is I Confess, Marnie, and Frenzy. I have Frenzy checked out from the library, as of right now! remains a favorite of mine. Post your thoughts when you do get around to it, and I hope you enjoy Frenzy, which I've only recently seen, on Doghouse's recommendation, but which has quickly become another favorite. I agree with many of your favorites (I think Dial M is underrated by the folks who think it only a straight adaptation of the play: I think it's a great deal more than that), particularly with your thoughts on Spellbound: the dream sequences are the best parts of what I think is an overrated, rather slow movie! Thanks for the suggestion of Young and Innocent. I'm sure I'll get to that movie, one of these days. And yes, I'll post my opinion of Frenzy when I get around to watching that movie. And yeah about Spellbound, I wouldn't quite say it was among my very favorite Hitchcock movies. But it isn't a bad movie either. I agree with you that the dream sequence that Salvador Dali developed for this movie, definitely was the most rememberable part of this movie! Too bad I recall noticing in the DVD extras for Spellbound, that this dream sequence got changed a little bit(vs. the original vision for that scene) for the theatrical version of this movie, when it finally came out. |
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