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Movie Chat vs old IMDB forums.


I appreciate that Movie Chat took over the IMDB forums when they closed down, but to be honest, they are becoming pretty boring in the last years. In the past I always went to the IMDB forums after watching every movie because there you would find most of the times good discussions about the movie itself, details you might have missed, theories, etc. Nowadays for almost every new movie that comes out most of the discussion is about how woke the movie is. And in the eyes of the chatters, almost everything is woke. If there is a non white person, woke, if there is a female in a significative role, woke, if there are gays, woke, if there are poor people fighting for their rights, woke, if there is a woman with short hair, woke, there is someone with a non-Christian religion, woke, and so on.

I myself was a little bit tired of extreme inclusion, etc, but it seems that the "cure" is worse, it is like we moved from one extreme to the other one. And the current one is much more annoying than the one before.

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Interesting.

The WOKE business, one could care less. In fact, it seems you are more interested in it than the rest of the posters here.

That aside, I tended to find more replies when one would post on IMDB. I don't know why that is. If a movie (and or documentary) caught my attention, I'd check the IMDB board, it seemed there was always plenty of activity. Then if I'd post, tons of replies would come in, right away.

On the other hand, a great passion, music - several posters here are as into it as I am. I never discussed music on IMDB. If I post something about music or a band, here - one always gets plenty of responses.

The one thing I don't care for on MC are the very few, and it's just a couple, posters that go out of their way to start confrontation, to agitate, purposely. I've had some unpleasant conversations here with such posters. This never happened on IMDB.

Overall though, MC is fine. Some terrific people to chat with. Not like I sit around wishing IMDB forums were still here.

The politics and WOKE business, yeah, it's there - but in very small doses. Doesn't bother me in the least.

If it bothers you - you can always bail out. Ok, best of luck to you - cheers.

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There were a lot of nasty people on the IMDb boards too.
So I'm glad that MovieChat at least has less of that, even if that is only because it has less traffic in general.

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I only know Moviechat, so I can not compare.

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