Month trial of new rules: Movie Recommendations and Movie Scene submissions must be text-posts now. New trailers remain unchanged. Film analysis YT channel submissions are unchanged.
If you're a regular basement mutant /r/movies denizen who hasn't seen the sun in a while, you'll know that we've been plagued by a swell of link-posts recommending movies and showcasing scenes from old movies here.
Of course a movie subreddit should foster movie recommendations and random scenes. However when they become lazy karma-grabs it becomes a nuisance to the regular users and the prevalence of lazy posts pushes away other discussion topics like news & actual analysis of movies. For example, yesterday morning 40% of our front page was just movie scenes and old trailers.
We strive for a balance, and based on feedback from the userbase we're not alone in thinking that they're getting a bit problematic.
So in an effort to curb their torrential saturation while simultaneously improving them:
For one month (Gregorian calendar, not that Julian Sextilis shit) we require that all Movie Recommendations (A Movie Recommendation is defined by a submission addressing the existence of, and encouragement to view, a movie that is not coming to theaters soon but already established a release on home video or similar market) be in the form of a text post. Not a link post.
This requires them all to adhere to the 300-character clause. To make a movie recommendation, we want some thought put into it, some discussion. Not just "Andrei Tarkovsky's Kitten Chomp Chomp is the best movie I've ever seen about eating kittens." That's a terrible summation of a movie. Explain why the movie is so good at showing the kittens being eaten. Were the kittens shot well? Was there tension during a dinner scene that perhaps influenced another film like A Cavalcade of Canine Crunch Crunch III, and was maybe directly ripped of by It's a People Eat Dog World?
A great way to make recommendations is to refer to other movies. /u/AnonymousUserNumber5000000000 saying "this is the best movie I've seen" means next to nothing, since for all we know you've only watched 9 movies.
Examples of how easy it is to write some things about a movie you're recommending:
Submission title: [Recommendation] The Sweet Smell of Success - Burt Lancaster & Tony Curtis 1957. If you dig 12 Angry Men you'll probably like this
Text Body: The Sweet Smell of Success - if you like older films like 12 Angry Men & Touch of Evil you might like this one. Burt Lancaster and Tony Curtis are phenomenal. I don't recommend reading too much about the movie before watching it but here's Ebert's 4-star review for more context.
Submission title: [Recommendation] Children of Paradise - France's Citizen Kane, wonderful movie about the French theater during the 1820s
Text Body: Children of Paradise - I rented this via Netflix DVD without knowing what it was and let me tell you how much I groaned seeing two discs for a 1940s French movie. Luckily this movie is really accessible, you get into it quickly and it becomes something pretty amazing. Funfact: It's Robocop's Peter Weller's favorite movie.
Examples of how easy it is to showcase a movie scene:
Submission title: They Live - the scene where WWF wrestler Rowdy Roddy Piper learns the truth of the world
Text Body: You might've seen a few "obey" and "fear" presidential posters from last year and wondered wtf that was all about. It's from They Live, where Rowdy Roddy Piper finds some magical sunglasses that let him see through to the subliminal forces at work in the world.
Also, if you somehow don't know, this movie contains one of the most popular movie fights of all time. He just wants to get his buddy to put on the glasses.
Submission title: The Deer Hunter - the famous Russian roulette scene (spoilers) with Robert de Niro and Christopher Walken
Text Body: The setup- De Niro & Walken have been forced to play Russian roulette by the NVA as prisoners of war. Right before this scene, de Niro asks for 3 more bullets to be put in the 6-chamber revolver. So there are only two empty chambers when they start this round of gameplay.
tl;dr - For one month, movie recommendations & scene analysis needs to be made in text-posts. New trailers are unchanged, they're considered "news." Film analysis youtube channels are still allowed as link posts.
These, and all of the other rules, apply to every user here except /u/OfficialValKilmer
Submitted July 07, 2017 at 09:59PM by girafa http://ift.tt/2uSAMr6
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