Woh. Couldn’t understand a word of it. Ashutosh, Raja, Julie, Shiva, Ronnie, Sanjeev, and Rahul??? Really?
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The Stand also works an analogy, you always occasionally come across the corpse of an account of regular members of the pastActually this board feels a lot like Salem's Lot after the events of the book. Just a couple of people left, don't know if they're all vampires yet. Every now and then a newcomer comes in, asks a question and is then quickly gone and never heard from again.
Just my opinion but right now this board is like a hospice patient on a morphine drip. I think people join this community to have some sort of connection to the author. And that connection was always Ms Mod. With her impending retirement the connection will be severed. Look at recent events: Hot Topics was shut down. The board is only open three days a week. Ms Mod barely participates any more. As a result, we see less people join and less members participate. Like it or not these things make it easier to shut down the board when the time comes next year. And IMO they're doing things the right way to make the end less painful for the diehards here.It's just strange. because SK is more popular and omnipresent than he's been in a long while. And message boards are not something completely of the past; the IMDb boards were busy as ever, they were just closed because of the overall hateful tone that was going on for years.
You'd expect far more people to join in this period.
Yes, there was a time when the Board was really busy but as DiO pointed out, with the changes with the reduced hours, etc. participation has fallen off. I also noticed a direct correlation between the beginning of less activity when the official Facebook page was launched in spite of changing things so that moderation wasn't required after a certain post count, adding longer hours (at that time it was open 24/7) with volunteer moderators, and having an area that was open and visible only to members who'd achieved a minimum post count of IIRC 250 posts. Those were referred to as Social Groups and when we switched to this software, those had to be discontinued as it was not supported by the current board software.I think it's also largely down to him being a writer/creator. These people are fairly invisible to most. People's interests are more towards things and people you can see, like actors, popstars, characters or films as a whole. Even on the IMDb there were only a couple of new posts on his board a day.
Plus the majority of his work is still horror or horror-oriented, which is by and large still one of the smaller genres and to a lot of people not their cup of tea.
Was this board at any time ever really busy?
I think you are on the right track that message boards are not as popular as they once were. Stephen's Facebook page has plenty of traffic there and is increasing all the time. More people are already on Facebook so once there, it's easy enough to go to his page to get information about projects and post their thoughts.So it seems to be closing down more and more at a time when there's more popularity and interest in general. That seems strange.
But Twitter and Facebook work a lot with photos and pictures, which is something people can see. Hence the popularity.
But still that so few people come through from the 5.18 million followers on Twitter with a direct link to this site. Maybe boards have lost their appael in general (apart from the IMDb, which was a huge community), or it's time to really revise the policy used for the board.
Yes, there was a time when the Board was really busy but as DiO pointed out, with the changes with the reduced hours, etc. participation has fallen off. I also noticed a direct correlation between the beginning of less activity when the official Facebook page was launched in spite of changing things so that moderation wasn't required after a certain post count, adding longer hours (at that time it was open 24/7) with volunteer moderators, and having an area that was open and visible only to members who'd achieved a minimum post count of IIRC 250 posts. Those were referred to as Social Groups and when we switched to this software, those had to be discontinued as it was not supported by the current board software.
I think you are on the right track that message boards are not as popular as they once were. Stephen's Facebook page has plenty of traffic there and is increasing all the time. More people are already on Facebook so once there, it's easy enough to go to his page to get information about projects and post their thoughts.
Still the ding darn best message board on the net. I'll take what is made available till the end-times comes. A factor often overlooked is that this MB is one of a kind. The members do not tolerate trolls and nor the disrespectful nature often seen on other social networks. It has become a family. We discuss, we care, and often learn from each other.
Yes, it has becomes more social , as opposed to the early board of "on topic only". And compared to way back then, MsMod is a social butterfly today. One must realize she is still Stephen's PA and has other duties beside the MB. Thus she may not always be here.
FB and twitter might be more fast paced, but it also had more conflicts. Everything does not necessary need to be instant. Each, FB, Twitter, SKMB , has it;s own place. I, for one, will be happy being on that morphine drip and enjoying the conversations here as opposed to the other social networks.
Still the ding darn best message board on the net. I'll take what is made available till the end-times comes. A factor often overlooked is that this MB is one of a kind. The members do not tolerate trolls and nor the disrespectful nature often seen on other social networks. It has become a family. We discuss, we care, and often learn from each other.
Yes, it has becomes more social , as opposed to the early board of "on topic only". And compared to way back then, MsMod is a social butterfly today. One must realize she is still Stephen's PA and has other duties beside the MB. Thus she may not always be here.
FB and twitter might be more fast paced, but it also had more conflicts. Everything does not necessary need to be instant. Each, FB, Twitter, SKMB , has it;s own place. I, for one, will be happy being on that morphine drip and enjoying the conversations here as opposed to the other social networks.
I dunno, Everything’s Eventual 2 is pretty good imoAny of the sequels that he did not approve
Return to Salem's Lot I watched again for the first time in ages. I wouldn't say it's absolutely awful, but it's strange how it seems partly a comedy. Michael Moriarty especially plays it very broadly like it's a comedy. Samuel Fuller who plays a Nazi hunter has some comedy moments too. It looks like they meant it as a sort of commentary on society rather than making a straight horrorfilm - it's all about how it's easier to live as a vampire and it only has benefits if you are one (a theme also of another horror/comedy from the same year - 1987 - The Lost Boys).
It could have worked, but the tone is too uneven and especially the vampire make-up/masks look very, very bad. Also there is no connection to the original, apart from the name of the town and the theme of someone going back to the town of their youth.
I don't know why and how the film came into being and if Larry Cohen ever commented what his intentions for it were exactly.