The best thing about MovieChat is

The trending bar is kewl and professional.

But the best thing is that even some of the more obscure movies have vibrant and varied threads.

Ackbar, burning question: We're you one of the Ackbar gang on IMDb? Do you know President Ackbar?

The best thing about MovieChat is the archived IMDB threads.

If this site was entirely new threads with none carried over many boards would have barely any discussions at all.

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The worst thing about it is that it doesn't have anywhere near the amount of traffic that the old IMDb forums had.

No. The Latest Posts feed is.

There's no alcohol in the trending bar though.

Personally, I'd like for there to be an easier way to format text & insert quotes, etc than the <></> method. Also a way to have signatures in your posts. Time/Date stamps on posts would be nice too.