The Best Years of Our Lives : Yearning for the good old BEST YEARS glory days.

Yearning for the good old BEST YEARS glory days.

It's been quite some time since my BEST YEARS imdb mates occupied these boards. I'm talking about folks with names like Cairo-5, cwente2, turtletommy, the ubiquitous jackboot, hobnob53, homer_parrish, hilaryjrp, and all the others (you know who you are). We used to populate this board with deep and provocative conversations, which put more modern movie boards to shame ("Which is better, THE DARK KNIGHT or MAN OF STEEL?), while containing some of the the best writing imdb had to offer. But thanks to imdb discarding threads after a a couple of years, many of us have given up. What's the point of spending a 1/2 hour bringing your A-game and burnishing your argument if it's going to be trashed in the near future? What are we, newspaperman?

I miss those days. I miss coming home from work and seeing what my fellow fans had to contribute, especially to some provocative idea I posted ("Clarence Merkel, the film's real hero" or "Yes, Mr. Milton"). Even more, I loved going back and re-reading four year old threads. That never failed to re-ignite my memory and imagination. I didn't even mind going back and cleaning up a grammatical mistake or a sloppy thought, even if the "Post edited" sign marked it as such (of course, jackboot busting me for using "bespeckled" when I meant "bespectacled" had to be left to posterity - Actually, I respect the writer more when I see "Post edited," it shows the writer is conscientious).

These days when I post a message on a board, it's usually a marginal idea I can cover in a paragraph; and maybe or maybe not, I'll check in on it the following day. On occasion, I go to one of the old gang's profiles to see where they're posting, but for me, this board was where the action started.

Now I come back here once every couple of months to see what's going on, but, unfortunately, the thrill is gone. Maybe I'll post something next month, maybe I won't. Maybe it's a case of "life goes on," so we must move on, too, but I loved the BYOOL boards, or as I tried to get fans to call it, 3JRHFTW. Maybe it's suffering from hardening of the arteries.

Thanks, gang, it was great while it lasted. And, thanks, imdb, you've turned your site into something the internet is quickly becoming: Disposable information.

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Even more, I loved going back and re-reading a four year old thread.

Hello wrfarley. I appreciate what you are saying about the deleted threads, but there is a way to see them again. Just click on your profile and go to your posting history. I was able to follow yours back 31 pages to June 20, 2005. At that point, there is no more history but I would bet that it may be somewhere, just not on these boards. I saw that you posted a lot on the movie Moby Dick and that is one of my favorite movies too.

Anyway, check out these links that I copied and pasted from yester-year from your posting history. I hope this may be useful to you should you want to revisit the past, at least back to 2005 anyway.



http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036868/board/thread/194269583?d=202147257#202147257

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049513/board/thread/5294701?d=21078512#21078512

Re: Yearning for the good old BEST YEARS glory days.

Well, that sure is news. I'm going to do that right now. Thanks, kbarada. This may deserve its own thread.

Unfortunately, I just checked, and you're right some of my posts go back to 2005, but not THE BEST YEARS stuff.Not only that, I'm sure we've got great threads from 2003-4, if not before. It would be better if there were some sort of quality control that allowed threads with the most posts to remain for posterity, but imdb is an equal opportunity deleter.

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Hey wrfarley old pal I concur about IMDb's practice of deleting threads especially all the brilliant ones we and our co-conspirators have participated in. A lot of the fun and interest went away for me as well with that stoopid decision. Merkels, Commies, Robs and many other TBYOOL subjects we devoted much time and energy and may I say some serious as well as silly discussion to are apparently in some sort of void not always easily accessible.

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Re: Yearning for the good old BEST YEARS glory days.

wrfarley! How did I ever miss the original post!

BYOOL3JRHFTW is the first in my Favorites. Every morning I check for new posts. You are *so* right about the glory days of the late Oughts/early Teens. I've been watching "Homeland" for the first time and also watching documentaries about the Afghan and Iraq veterans. I keep wanting to post here about PTSD-related issues and to compare and contrast "shell shock" with what we now call PTSD.

cwente2 appeared briefly on my IMDB-turf ("Perry Mason"), and I hoped to read more from him. But now you're back...with the *best* avatar in IMDB history. Ha, we should all get 3JRHFTW out and rewatch in preparation for Veterans' Day, 2015.

Sixty years, my friends. It's a big anniversary.

Re: Yearning for the good old BEST YEARS glory days.

I think I'll bump this thread every day until Veterans' Day.

It's the 70th anniversary of 1945.

Re: Yearning for the good old BEST YEARS glory days.

hilaryjrp, how it warms my heart to see the new title extolled on your post. Let's get to work on turtletommy.

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Ha, yes, Snoozemaster . I spent a day in heaven here in the autumn Northeast and thought how the next holiday is Veterans' Day, and no one except you and me are talking about the film. So we have to start re-watching it now and making new comments. cwente2, you are now officially awol, marine.

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hilary,

Shhhhhh! Not really AWOL . . . just marching under an assumed name (an electronics explosion disfigured the original). Temporarily invisible perhaps, but right beside you (and Farley) just as before. . . Present and accounted for, maam!

Re: Yearning for the good old BEST YEARS glory days………

Why not try to discuss other films?

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Jim Hutton (1934-79) & Ellery Queen 🎇

Re: Yearning for the good old BEST YEARS glory days.

I will never leave this board altogether. The MOVIE makes sure of that. Great, great movie, produced by a much better generation of human beings than we are a part of.

Re: Yearning for G Old B Years O Lives G Days.

Agreement

B Years of O Lives
set in wonderful years
when times were
much better than
ever since
they did away
with the H Code

B Years of O Lives
has more talent
in its cast
H Carmichael
T Wright
V Mayo
G George
M Loy
F March
and the Rest
than anything since

What wonderful years
those
B Years of O Lives
had to have been
with all that great talent
and B Years of Anybodys' Lives

This is good
this is a good thing

And that is all because
that was the Greatest Generation
since Jacob and the Boys
so you just know
that this one's
going to be long remembered
for a while anyhow

Jacob and the Boys
have the edge for certain
but B Years of O Lives
has to rank up there somewhere

And that is all because
that was the Greatest Generation
as told in Hwood History class
and also told
miles and miles away

And you just know
from the quality of the film
and with
H Carmichael
T Wright
V Mayo
G George
M Loy
F March
and the Rest

that you just cannot
go wrong
because that cast
never did either
as far as Hwood can tell

Okay so there were
many more bars
back in those days
than they have ever since

But there must have been
some pretty good reasons
why that bunch
would hit the bottle

while especially
G George and
D Andrews
could have told you as much
even from the sound
of their voices

[harp] 🎻 [saint] [candle] [piano]

♪ Not even Mad Scientists
get it right every time
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