Leslie, thanks for writing that. A little more historical perspective -
I found the BBM board on IMDb by following a favorite poster on the Games section to it (he chose not to make the trip here to BetterMost). That was in October 2005, 2 months before the movie came out (the first time I have EVER been on the early side of a trend). When I got there, Victoria, delalluvia, The_Chris, and a couple of other current BetterMostians were already going strong. We discussed the short story we all were reading and re-rereading, and what we could of the movie most of us had never seen. We discussed the journey the short story took to get made into the movie. There was much more talk of Gustavo the Composer, Larry and Diana the Screenwriters, Rodrigo the DP than there is now.
About three people on the board had seen the film in special previews and they were our messiahs who benevolently answered people's endless questions. Then we started getting waves and waves of new people as the movie opened in major US cities, then medium US cities, then in more theaters in those cities, then everywhere in the US, then Canada, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Asia. Then more waves as it came out on DVD.
So to people who have joined us recently and to people yet to come - welcome, bienvenudo, wilkommen, bienvenue. We're all varying degrees of new, and we all can welcome each other. As of today, none of us have been here much longer than you. New people who stick around a while become old-timers. Three years from now, the people joining this week will all be seen as ancient-timers.
Clarissa
Elle
Ellemeno