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Demisemicenturian 
"Four ever European"
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 Posted - 06/23/2007 : 22:59:40
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Hi Salopian, your link was much slower than the .com links and it logged me out and then my chair caught fire. What is going on with this .co.uk business? (I was kidding about the chair.)
My link isn't slower because of the domain (as far as I know); it's slower because I have a lot of statistics on my page. I just prefer .co.uk. If you want to have .com, you can readily change the link in the U.R.L. This is what I do when I'm in an Internet cafe and click a link with a different domain to the one I'm using. |
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BaftaBaby 
"Always entranced by cinema."
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Posted - 06/24/2007 : 00:11:59
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Originally posted by demonic
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Originally posted by zulu
OMG! Even my wife laughed at it!
I take that to be the highest of compliments Zulu. 
Seen 'em all to here.
Hi Demonic
I loved your review, too ... but am assuming you haven't seen this 
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Whippersnapper. 
"A fourword thinking guy."
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Posted - 06/24/2007 : 00:37:38
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We sure need that identical review checker.
How about "That's a Moray" sung by Elvers Presley?! 
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demonic
"Cinemaniac"
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Posted - 06/24/2007 : 04:18:18
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Originally posted by BaftaBabe
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Originally posted by demonic
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Originally posted by zulu
OMG! Even my wife laughed at it!
I take that to be the highest of compliments Zulu.
Seen 'em all to here.
Hi Demonic
I loved your review, too ... but am assuming you haven't seen this
Ah. That is one way to take the shine off of it Baffy. I hadn't seen it - certainly not a film I've ever looked up, but I concede it might have snuck into my consciousness on a Top 500 trawl some time ago, although I haven't voted on it. 
It's problematic as good ideas come to you legitimately and appropriately for a film and it's impossible to know if someone else had the same good idea for a different film entirely. Look at "It's a Wonderful Knife" - currently earning votes for B-Rod, and singled out by Baffy on that introduction thread - but it's already a huge earner in votes for both Yukon and I for different films. I think it's going to be inevitable that good ideas inevitably resurface from time to time... like an eel... |
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Conan The Westy
"Father, Faithful Friend, Fwiffer"
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Posted - 06/24/2007 : 07:20:36
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ChocolateLady
"500 Chocolate Delights"
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Posted - 06/24/2007 : 07:25:18
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Originally posted by Salopian
I'm in.
Loved your Bourne Ultimatum review - "Bourne Three".
(Voted for everyone so far. I'll probably not be joining in the next two rounds since I'm going away on Wednesday and won't be back until Sunday evening. Milan and Lake Como, if you must ask.)
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BaftaBaby
"Always entranced by cinema."
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Posted - 06/24/2007 : 08:31:07
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Originally posted by ChocolateLady
I'm going away on Wednesday and won't be back until Sunday evening. Milan and Lake Como, if you must ask.)
Como - one of the most beautiful spots on earth!! Have a wonderful time!
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thefoxboy
"Four your eyes only."
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Posted - 06/24/2007 : 09:26:22
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Originally posted by BaftaBabe
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Originally posted by ChocolateLady
I'm going away on Wednesday and won't be back until Sunday evening. Milan and Lake Como, if you must ask.)
Como - one of the most beautiful spots on earth!! Have a wonderful time!
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ChocolateLady
"500 Chocolate Delights"
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Posted - 06/24/2007 : 10:04:46
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Originally posted by thefoxboy
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Originally posted by BaftaBabe
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Originally posted by ChocolateLady
I'm going away on Wednesday and won't be back until Sunday evening. Milan and Lake Como, if you must ask.)
Como - one of the most beautiful spots on earth!! Have a wonderful time!
I'll second, third and fourth that.
Thanks guys. It is my husband's birthday gift to me (I turn 50 on Tuesday, and we fly out on Wednesday morning, early) and while we're in Milan, we're going to see an opera in La Scalla - the ultimate in opera experiences (yes, we both love opera), but that's partially an anniversary present (27 years on Thursday). Still, the opera is one I've been wanting to see forever - Candide by Leonard Bernstein! Then we're renting a car to go to Como and will probably visit Lake Majore as well. I only wish we could stay longer, but I have to get back home for work. So, I'll be able to join again for round #314.
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Whippersnapper.
"A fourword thinking guy."
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Posted - 06/24/2007 : 10:44:46
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Originally posted by BaftaBabe
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Originally posted by demonic
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Originally posted by zulu
OMG! Even my wife laughed at it!
I take that to be the highest of compliments Zulu.
Seen 'em all to here.
Hi Demonic
I loved your review, too ... but am assuming you haven't seen this
Or this?
Have to take issue with Dem on the impossibility of knowing bit - just google fwfr "[review]" and if its there it will usually pop up. However, the site could easily do this for us either by letting us know our submission is a duplicate and/or allowing us to search by review. 
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randall
"I like to watch."
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Posted - 06/24/2007 : 12:06:06
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demonic
"Cinemaniac"
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Posted - 06/24/2007 : 12:43:58
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Have to take issue with Dem on the impossibility of knowing bit - just google fwfr "[review]" and if its there it will usually pop up. However, the site could easily do this for us either by letting us know our submission is a duplicate and/or allowing us to search by review.
Oh, I didn't know that. But do you really do that for every single review you write?
What's the reference to your link Whipper? I can't work it out. |
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Whippersnapper.
"A fourword thinking guy."
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Posted - 06/24/2007 : 14:37:23
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Sorry Dem, wrong link - now corrected.
I think the checking should be done where the review is a phrase or manipulation of a phrase. Its not so unlikely that someone else might have thought of the same twist but found a different film for it. For example, when I thought of "Long time no sea" I thought it would fit well on Free Willy, but I felt obliged to check that someone else hadn't thought of the joke first but attached it to another film. In that case, fortunately for me, it hadn't been used before.
The problem here, as I see it, is NOT that a lot of fwfrs are going around copying others reviews but that those people who take the trouble to check out prior authorship are disadvantaged compared with people who honestly independently think of a review but don't check it. It irks a bit when I have rejected writing a review because I've found someone has already written it, and then someone else comes along and publishes it and gets a bucketful of votes. On principle that cannot be right.
This problem seems to be occurring with greater frequency, and the best solution, and I believe a technically fairly easy one, is for the site to advise when an identical review has already been used, and then leave it to the writer's discretion as to whether he/she considers it to be sufficiently different or more appropriate to justify the duplication.
Of course, all of this is just my opinion but I think it is broadly shared by several others too.
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aahaa, muahaha 
"Optimistic altruist, incurable romantic"
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Posted - 06/24/2007 : 15:52:43
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VV to here.
And for the most underrated reviews of the round, IMHO:
* Sean's lady in the water (clever wordplay)
* Beanmimo's Bruce Almighty (this had me cracking up)
* Salopian's The man who knew infinity (this had me perplexed, b4 I got it. Gr8!)
* aahaa muahaha's the incredibles (this was 99 parts perspiration, 1 part inspiration) |
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Demisemicenturian
"Four ever European"
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Posted - 06/24/2007 : 16:38:15
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Originally posted by ChocolateLady
Loved your Bourne Ultimatum review - "Bourne Three".
Thanks, although I think it's one of those quite obvious ones where it just comes down to whoever gets it first.
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I'll probably not be joining in the next two rounds since I'm going away on Wednesday and won't be back until Sunday evening.
You may as well enter anyway. When I enter late (e.g. Wednesday), I accept that some people may not look at my link.
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Milan and Lake Como, if you must ask.)
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Seán's FYCTH #311
