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On HTF specific interests, over the last three years:
The 2005 Official Oscars thread was 21 pages
The 2006 Official Oscars thread was 11 pages
The 2007 Official Oscars thread is just over 3 pages
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I knew things were bad but damn, it's not just a decline, it's a free fall
. At this rate there won't even
be an Oscar thread next year.
I clicked one of the earliest "Top 10 Time to Throw Down" threads the other day (I think it was 2000), and it was about a dozen pages long. People were updating theirs lists well into the summer of the following year.
As far as HTF goes, I think the LOTR/SW combo has played a major role in activity this forum used to see. A lot of people came over and hung around mostly for those flicks, but bled over as well into other stuff. There wasn't a year between 2001 and 2005 without a release from these franchises. And I think that period could be considered a golden age of sorts of "genre films" (gosh I hate hate hate that stupid expression) as well (bunch of other stuff came out like Spider-Man, X-Men etc...)
BTW, while Crash and BBM were terrific discussion fodders are evidenced by their (film and Oscars) threads lengths, I am surprised to see that the telecast numbers were just average. The media made a lot noise about those flicks, but it appears the public didn't care any more than usual?
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