What beautiful thoughts you are all writing here. I wanted to give you a newbies perspective on this forum so far and BBM.
I sort of feel like I want to explain why I came so late to BBM and this forum, because I wish so much I was here so much sooner. I really am not a newbie in spirit even though I just saw it first a month ago on HBO. I am not a theater goer (I wait till movies are on cable so I can watch them late at night with no distractions) but when I started seeing the trailers and reading about BBM I knew that I would love it. I saved every review from every newspaper in my area the day it came out and I read and watched everthing about it. I was so upset when it didn't win best picture even though I hadn't seen it yet. I was going to see it in the theater last February when I was on vacation , but I didn't and I don't know why. I really don't and I so regret it now, not having the experience of seeing it in the theater for the first time. That is driving me crazy now.
I did think about BBM all year though and I don't know why I was so passive to wait till it was right in front of me on tv. Maybe I was afraid of being disappointed but probably I knew that I would get obsessed and I was in the first year of a new career and I don't think I could have handled both last year. Of course now I can say nothing else ever affected me so much.
I have never been on a forum before and spending a lot of time here the past few days I already know how special and wonderful it is and I so wish I was here sooner.
I think I know why it is so great and why it will and should continue beyond just BBM discussion
Phillip in his wisdom has made this a place that's gone beyond the film to become a kind of warm social club that has no exclusions and no limits. I treasure it, and I hope all the newbies come to appreciate that aspect of it, too, as they get used to posting and moving around through the forums.
So true,
A long time ago in the 80's when I was a totally sheltered and not very worldly young girl just out of college I got a job in a store in Greenwich Villiage because I was totally into new- wave and punk music and I wanted to be around that atmosphere. I only stayed there for about four months till I was basically forced to go to grad school, but those were the best months and best time of my life. In that store the people who worked there were a total mix of men and women, both gay and straight, but everyone was open minded, tolerant of all others and non judgemental of anyone as long as one was tolerant of them. I never before and never since felt so totally accepted by by a group of people as I did then.
That is what makes this forum so great, at least in my life I do not encounter such a great mix of people, who at least in my experience, do not normally get together. But BBM has brought together a mix of people who are nonjudgemental, not petty, and are so accepting of others. I hope that I am expressing myself in a way that makes sense. I just wanted to explain it, and I do so wish I had joined this little world sooner because I can tell it truly is wonderful.
I hope I am making sense to you.
(And as a newbie, if any of you ever still want to discuss why TS2 is the most increible few minutes of film ever, well here I am)