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Is this site being trolled to death?
It feels that way.
Sad.
I agree, Amy. It's going to be difficult for the IMDB to get its mojo back. Once they had it, but they let it go. There are a lot of p!ssed off people out there. I'm more forgiving than most but their total destruction of the message boards was a slap in the face.
If they'd announced it sooner, or actually had a kind of town meeting or open forum on the message boards issue, such as it could be called, they might have worked out an arrangement, something like this site but more complete, spun off from the "old IMDB", with mods, probably a monthly or yearly fee, with some links to the "parent" site. They were so frickin' draconian. It's like they dropped an H bomb on the members.
Agreed. It's getting really bad here, and at the IMDB v.2 site as well. Same stuff happening at both, as if someone (some thing?) is trying to literally wreck the place. This is beyond trolling: it's disturbing and literally sadistic.
Great to see your reply, Swanstep, but we've got some major troll issues on this site and they need addressing soon. I know that Jim's busy and all but they/he are everywhere, answering one another's questions, acting like naughty teens. It's very demoralizing.
After all these years I still think the OP's question was a good one and that the metaphysical aspects of Lost Horizon. while not emphasized in the story as told are there implicitly, as there are many facets to the film, and the possibility,--albeit remote--that the passengers are all dead early on a distinct one and indeed one could read the film as a tale of the paranormal, admittedly an odd take on the story but not one that I would laugh at. Books and movies are open to various kinds of interpretation, and the notion that the new arrivals at Shangri-La have just died, are being taken to a place that's essentially a kind of benign limbo, not heaven as we understand it, is one way to view it.
Unfortunately, one of those trolls has just arrived here. Nasty as they come.
No. But the site is still relatively new, Swanstep (great to see you here), and man, if they were to archive all the stuff we wrote on the old Psycho boards that would take like five hundred pages! I wonder how much they CAN retrieve for busy film boards like that. Time will tell...
Nice to see Julie, Jennie and the others here. I'm also at that other site, the one with v2 after the name but I like it here, too. It's awful that those boards were taken down and I'm so glad this one was saved. Let's hope it stays that way.
I'm a fan. Talk away.
I just logged in, figuring that as it's not even midnight where I live I may as well take one last look...and there was nothing there. First time in sixteen years. Sad.
Now we're back in business, EC. That's a great scene, or rather great scenes, with actors, camera set ups, lighting, everything, sheer perfection. It takes several viewing to truly appreciate the mastery of this now not so unsung classic. We shall continue to be singing its praises for, I hope, a long time.
BTW, isn't this a great site?
It's still early yet, and it's evolving, but I like the way its evolving.
Telegonus
On the IMDB last night. It appears that they deleted the thread in which the formation of this board was announced, including my response! They REALLY don't want stuff like this (place, I mean) to happen. One might think they'd be only too happy that someone did what they should have done.
Thank you, Jim. My life is very busy and stressed now but when things simmer down I look forward to coming here and yes, I will make a donation. It's a bad time for all that right now.
Telegonus