Movies, previews and threads

[helen]

My post above seems so out of place, doesn't it ? It used to be on the Transformers thread, when there was a discussion about trailers that were seen during the movie. I guess Megatron thought I was threadjacking the post about his movie.

Yes it was on the Transformer thread, but the content of your post was more about the previews you saw than the movie itself so when the Cloverfield thread got generated your post got moved to that thread. However your post made mention of a second preview, since there was no thread for that second preview no action was taken on it. However to do a followup on the second preview within the Cloverfield thread might cause further thread drift.

What to do? Here is one suggestion. You attend movie A and you see previews for movie X, movie Y and movie Z. You post stuff about movie A to the movie A thread. If you wish to talk about the previews for movie X, movie Y and movie Z, first check to see if a thread about movie X, movie Y or movie Z exist. If a thread does exist for one or more of those movies discuss it there. If they don't exist create a thread for them. Now if all three movies don't exist don't create one thread to discuss these 3 movies you need to create 3 seperate threads.

This might seem to be a waste, but it's not. Keep in mind that (a) previews are not tied to a movie presentation and (b) previews tend to have anywhere from 1 month to a year before they are actually released (assuming the movie doesn't get delayed).

So if someone attends movie B around the same time movie A is running and movie B is showing previews for movie Y, movie Z and movie W. That person can followup on the threads for movie Y and movie Z, create a new thread for movie W and may ignore the thread for movie X.

Some time later another person attends movie C and there are previews for movie X, movie W and movie V. That person can followup for existing threads movie X and movie W and start a new thread about movie V.

Another example would be a person attending movie D where previews for movie X, movie Z and movie U are shown. However this person only wishes to comment on movie Z only and does not want to start a new thread for movie U because they have nothing to say about it, which is okay.

The main thing is that each movie should have it's own thread.

Questions, comments, suggestions, complaints?

[ploal5333]

Re: Movies, previews and threads...

Yes it was on the Transformer thread, but the content of your post was more about the previews you saw than the movie itself so when the Cloverfield thread got generated your post got moved to that thread. However your post made mention of a second preview, since there was no thread for that second preview no action was taken on it. However to do a followup on the second preview within the Cloverfield thread might cause further thread drift.

What to do? Here is one suggestion. You attend movie A and you see previews for movie X, movie Y and movie Z. You post stuff about movie A to the movie A thread. If you wish to talk about the previews for movie X, movie Y and movie Z, first check to see if a thread about movie X, movie Y or movie Z exist. If a thread does exist for one or more of those movies discuss it there. If they don't exist create a thread for them. Now if all three movies don't exist don't create one thread to discuss these 3 movies you need to create 3 seperate threads.

This might seem to be a waste, but it's not. Keep in mind that (a) previews are not tied to a movie presentation and (b) previews tend to have anywhere from 1 month to a year before they are actually released (assuming the movie doesn't get delayed).

So if someone attends movie B around the same time movie A is running and movie B is showing previews for movie Y, movie Z and movie W. That person can followup on the threads for movie Y and movie Z, create a new thread for movie W and may ignore the thread for movie X.

Some time later another person attends movie C and there are previews for movie X, movie W and movie V. That person can followup for existing threads movie X and movie W and start a new thread about movie V.

Another example would be a person attending movie D where previews for movie X, movie Z and movie U are shown. However this person only wishes to comment on movie Z only and does not want to start a new thread for movie U because they have nothing to say about it, which is okay.

The main thing is that each movie should have it's own thread.

Questions, comments, suggestions, complaints?

That whole mouthful could've been said in the one sentence:
"The main thing is that each movie should have it's own thread."