Movie Chat vs old IMDB forums.

TRY POSTING ABOUT MOVIES....THAT MIGHT HELP🤔🙂

Your analysis is pretty spot-on. Yes we have indeed shifted from low-inclusion to over-saturation, to the point where it does scream woke. Everything in moderation is the secret to life.

I too miss the IMDB boards, which were very active, and minus a few trolls, fairly entertaining and informative. The equivalent now is Reddit, but I can't stand the format over there, and it's almost TOO busy.

Someone here mentioned that IMDB had 200k forum users. I bet MC has

You are free to make quality or what you perceive to be quality posts about whatever movie you want.

And on a site that seems to respect freedom of speech more than almost every other site.

Things have gotten more sanitized over the last 10 years which has mostly killed my appetite for new movies. One thing I like with moviechat now is the general chat room.

One thing I'll add is that older movies were supposed to be an escape from regular television but new movies seem to be no better than what you can squeeze out of streaming..

"Nowadays for almost every new movie that comes out most of the discussion is about how woke the movie is."

I believe that you are exaggerating. There might be a few examples (such as Ghostbusters [2016]), but "almost every new movie"? If you were to say that, for almost every new movie, there is at least one thread about how "woke" the movie is, that would probably be true.

I was a regular on Seinfeld and Upstairs, Downstairs IMDb boards. There has been nothing like them in terms of participation and activity. Oh well, all good things...

There are a number of places I chat, and things like you mentioned (among other things) only makes me post less here. Sometimes I'll paste whatever I typed elsewhere, but I notice more and more posts about movies I'm interested receive less attention, so the tastes might be changing here.

This can be remedied by you by making lots of posts that don’t mention the ‘w’ word.