DVD Forum Cliches (1 Viewer)

[Malcolm R]

And the always popular TV version when, 30 seconds after Season X of a show has hit the shelf, someone posts asking when Season X+1 will be released.

Then there's the never-ending "Jurassic Park DTS" threads, varying between "I just purchased JP DTS version and it doesn't sound very good," or "In the store, how do you tell the defective version from the corrected version."

Which also leads into another, "I did a search on this topic, but didn't find anything," when a rapid search on the obvious keyword usually turns up sixteen existing threads.

How about: :rolleyes

 

[Joe Karlosi]

Or the interchangeable: "everything else is icing on the cake".

 

[Joe Karlosi]

Yep, sounds like me, all right!

 

[Joe Karlosi]

Hmmmmm... sounds about right....

except that I never owned a LD player. I'd probably change it to "in my day, we had to pay $60 for a used rental copy on VHS that was dark and in foolscreen/pan & scam".

 

[Jodee]

My favorite has not been mentioned yet:

"What are Criterion DVDs and what makes them better than regular DVDs?"

or interchangeably:

"Criterions are over-priced!"

 

[Robert Anthony]

That is THE WORST. That one just kills me.

"I don't give a crap about anyone elses opinion, but you should make sure you read and digest mine."

 

[Dan Rudolph]

"What is the Superbit process." "I hope they release a Superbit of (non Columbia Tristar movie)."

 

[Kevin M]

"So do all receivers decode the THX sound format?" (or any variant on the THX misconception)

 

[Chucky P]

IMDB says the film is 122 minutes long but on the back of the dvd cover the running time is listed as 119 minutes. Is it cut?

Mosquito Noise!

 

[Kevin M]

Chucky, are those HTF cliches or is that a DVD complaint?

 

[MarcusUdeh]

Blue Velvet?

 

[Joe Karlosi]

I don't know if that's the case, necessarily. How long do you think it would take to read every post in every thread for over 100 pages? By the time you're through, the subject is moot.

 

[Dustin James]

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[Zen Butler]

Yes, promotes permanent "bat-wing" syndrome.

 

[John Watson]

I kinda think that the way excitement about a release builds up, folks champ at the bit for release dates, check who got it where first, and then the movie is often never talked about again - is a behavioural cliche of the Forum world...

Getting there is all the fun.

I like those honest discussions where people admit 98% of their collection sits on a shelf.

 

[David Galindo]

Hah, yeah, I hate those people.

Wait a minute...that was me. Dang.

 

[Nick Sievers]

Well 100% of my collection sits on a shelf.

 

[John Watson]

I usually leave ONE in the player

 

[Robert Anthony]

In which case your opinion is probably also moot, or has been already stated and debated.

I've always found messageboards just as fun in the READING, not just the posting. If I find I have an opinion, and then some other person pops up to take that side, and then a couple other people take the other--I get just as much out of simply reading their take as I would jumping in myself. It's the ideas being batted around that matters more than simply popping up and sticking my two cents in while not really caring whether it's been brought up already or not.

I gotta admit though, I'm sort of biased. I used to mod some really big messageboards, and the redundant threads and super-redundant posts used to really get on my nerves because that meant less reading and more cleaning up. Killed the enjoyment of the board for me to have to be constantly pointing people to the same link, the same tidbit of info that had been brought up 3 or 4 times already if they'd taken the time to at the least SCAN through the thread before they posted.

 

[PhilipG]

Oh, touché!