Why is the ratio of ILM posts to ILF posts approximately 8,793 to 1?

Unless, of course, the day comes when some ILF regulars actually do get banned from ILE...

It's gorgeous. As a merely part-time, fair-weather fan of old-style MGM musicals and someone who'll admit to "respecting" the new Moulin Rouge without ever wanting to really see it again, this is the great synthesis. And it might even be a better icon than Apocalypse Now for epitomizing Coppola's almost popped hubris. Tom Waits's songs aren't exactly bad.

This is my last post in ILF
He wILFight no more forever.

ILE film threads can be annoying with a lot of redundancy of their own (how many times do we need to argue the "spielberg is sentimental" thing ?) but they are often more spirited and fun. if im looking for well-informed original and interesting opinions and discussion about, i dont think ILE or ILF is really consistent enough to qualify.

This kinda hits the nail on the head, as far as I'm concerned, more so than the whole elitism issue. I Love Baseball, for instance, was started because although threads about the post-season did pretty well on ILE, those on more arcane baseball-related topics easily got lost in the shuffle. The number of ILE posters who are quite interested in baseball is still a small subset of the board as a whole. Whereas it's obvious that lots of people on ILE are quite interested in film, based on the response that ILE film threads receive. Which maybe then explain the elitism issue, because the only way that ILF can justify its existence in the midst of hugely popular ILE threads about film is to say "no, no, we're not about that kind of film." Or actually, remember when ILF first started and it seemed like it was going to be more about making films, like what I Make Music is now? Maybe that would've been a better direction for it, ultimately.

with ppl who say War of the Worlds, Mars Attacks! and Independence Day are all "based on the same source material."

I have no intention of looking at that film rockism thread again, but if calling the standard level of ILE film "discussion" cin-illiterate is elitist, gimme my pince-nez. That a bunch of ppl posted on ILF in 2003-04 have since abandoned it (and don't seem to post much now on ILE, btw) seems a poor reason to declare this board dead.

Or I'll just stick to the Slant forum.

bcz there are ppl like enrique

What's your beef with that fule now?

OK, now I see.