I'm not some run of the mill poster. I was Administrator on filmboards for over 4 years. I was the infamous GameBoy on IMDb. Now you know who I am*. 🤣
*Just playing with the bravado. But I do want folks here to know my background. I've been accused of being a sock or a fake gay and all sorts of things.
With the exception of The Politics Board and the odd troll here and there, hopefully you’ve noticed that we’re not a bad bunch over here.
shareYes, I love MovieChat and I don't know why it took me so long to discover it. But MC was considered the enemy and Hownos was known as a spy. 🤣
The difference between MovieChat and filmboards is that you obviously have more posters here. I've seen estimates of around 300 daily check-ins. Plus email registration is required here so there are fewer socks. On filmboards anyone can make a sock account in 15 seconds. And no email registration is required. So while there appear to be hundreds of posters on fb, there are only 30 to 50 individuals who post daily under hundreds of names.
Plus, conversation on fb is usually one liners. It's a troll clique who all know each other and talk more about personal gossip. On MovieChat we have in-depth conversation of films. On filmboards, most the individual movie boards are dead with little or no activity.
“individuals who post daily under hundreds of names.”
I’ve never understood the need to do this. It all seems like too much effort to me, lol.
That's often the line spoken by former D-list actors who get a little bit of fame and let it go to their heads. Meghan Markle has been known to use this phrase when people call her out for being a bitch, or don't let her hog the spotlight.
shareD-List???!!! Do you know who the fuck I am???
shareI read the info from someone who originally worked in the Hollywood industry and said that most of the good actors he witnessed on set were professionals and could work in a team (with a few exceptions). It was actors who were often terrible at their jobs, who had been "passed over" and "ignored" by the industry for years, who finally get a break in an acting role, and their ego just plain explodes. They suddenly start ordering people around, are demanding, think the world revolves around them, and get very nasty with people who won't bow down and kiss their asses. That phrase you mentioned, again, is often used when people don't give these former unknown actors what they want.
Unless they can truly give a good performance when the camera is rolling, eventually, nobody in the industry wants to work with them anymore because they're more trouble than they're worth.
Okay. Seinfeld said it on Larry King. "Do you know who I am?"
Is Seinfeld A-List or D-List?
Perhaps he was making a joke? I never watched Larry King.
shareSure he was joking. But it still came across as arrogant.
I think A-Listers can be self entitled pricks. What about Will Smith?
There's something wrong with a society where actors earn hundreds of millions of dollars.
From what I read, only some of the A-listers can be jerks, and only get away with their behavior longer because they are good at their jobs. People like Val Kilmer, Rex Harrison, and Fay Wray were AWFUL in person, but were very good actors.
Will Smith is the product of "too much money and fame" and a "bad marriage to a bitchy narcissist." He's changed a lot in the past 20 years, apparently.
It's not that there's anything wrong with actors earning so much, it's the fact that people worship them and act like anything these adult pretenders have to say carries any weight. Most of the time, actors are total idiots outside of their craft. Maybe some know a trade outside of acting, like running a ranch, or fashion, or music, but many of them are still idiots.
Well I have to disagree. There is something wrong in our capitalist society where actors are rewarded so richly. I really think it's inflation based on celebrity and hype. The bubble needs to burst and actor's salaries need to come down to earth. We are a vain society which worships celebrity and entertainment.
But yeah, many A-Listers are too full of themselves. Will Smith's little tantrum was a great example.
But Fay Wray? Was she really that bad? 🤣
Fay Wray was similar to Ellen Degeneres, where she'd scream if she didn't get what she wanted, and had her people order everyone outside the set not to look at her.
Would it surprise you to hear that before the 1920s, actors were very poor and seen as little more than street whores? My parents and I were talking about Hollywood history just today.
I only know Fay Wray from King Kong, of course. But that one role was enough to make her a legend. There's few actresses from that era whose names are so iconic.
Would it surprise you to hear that before the 1920s, actors were very poor and seen as little more than street whores?
Sorry, wrong Fay. It was Faye Dunaway....the star of "Bonnie and Clyde."
shareHaha. Girl, that's hilarious. You confused Faye Dunaway for Fay Wray?
OMG I must be getting old! 🤣
It's the first names....
shareWelcome.
Maybe we'll get some more movie chat?
Go for it. I post original threads on the individual boards to spur activity. MovieChat is excellent resource and I'm dedicated to enhancing it.
shareThat's great to hear.
I actually never go to the individual boards. All the action seems to take place in the GENERAL DISCUSSION
Bro, check out Plato's Cave. I haven't seen you there in a long time.
shareYeah, I'm on a Linux (on a Window), and I have to restart this shit every time, and the settings, etc... But also, I would come in, and there would be nothing for me to contribute, and the conversations didn't appeal to me. I ended up blocking enough people where the conversations didn't make sense to me, and I don't even have the URL. I don't post much anywhere, anymore. Maybe one post, and then I'll paste it onto the sites I get the most response.
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Yeah, I just don't want to say why :)
(but you probably already know)
Anyway, have you tried LSD yet? Or do I have to call the FBI?
(same department)
Nah, never tried LSD. I don't trust myself. My mind goes off in too many crazy directions when I'm sober.
Marijuana affected me like a hallucinogen. I didn't see things but I talked to god. I eventually quit marijuana too. It was driving me insane.
Of course I love cocaine but quit that one too. However it's not psychoactive and it was just pure joy. There's nothing dangerous about a cocaine high.
The cleanest best pleasure though is MDMA, ecstasy.
I don't even drink anymore though. It's been three years now, clean and sober.
I've gotten messed up a lot more on weed than LSD, but I never did that other stuff.
Trust me. Your mind can't be more than mine. My conscience is out of control!
It makes me more social and lucid than alcohol ever did, which I consider a fake drug.
POST MORE HERE...FUCK YOUR DUMBASS SECRET CLUBHOUSE.
shareOh jeezus, Kowlaski. I do support MovieChat. But I can walk and chew bubblegum too.
shareYEAH...I DON'T LIKE YOUR ADS FOR YOUR DORK CAVE...THIS ISN'T CRAIGSLIST,BUTTHOLE.
sharePlato's Cave doesn't advertise. Bill Hicks is a member.
And don't get nasty, Kowalski.
PLATO'S CAVE IS A SHITHOLE AND YOU CAN GO FUCK YOURSELF...STUPID ASS CAVEMAN FILMBOARD BULLSHIT SHENANIGANS.
I would come in, and there would be nothing for me to contribute, and the conversations didn't appeal to me. I ended up blocking enough people where the conversations didn't make sense to me
YEAH...BILLHICKS...LOVER OF THE CAVE.🙄