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I was looking at my post count...and noticed I just passed 5000! Dang. That's a lot of yakkin',considering I've only been on the board since June of 1996. Tara Sue bought a computer...and I had no idea how to use one....but I naturally started looking up horror movie sites. I joined one called MONSTERS AMONG US (registered under Spike the Chongo)but it crashed,one called In the Balcony...which focused on real obscure 1940's films  a guy I saw on the PSYCHOTRONIC mail site -Laughing Gravy-ran it,I think...and the BMMB through Stomp Tokyo,....but no one ever talked to me...and I found Andrews site about the same time...it had CLIPS! ( I didn't even know about youtube! I was real green.) Then I started to post...I think my first one was in response to a 'What was that film?"...it was the old 1930's CHILD BRIDE.

Just curious...when did you join? Do you belong to other forums?  :question:

I joined this forum back in 2000. 
It was in the middle of summer and was reading Andrew's reviews when I noticed this forum.
Been posting here ever since.  Hard to believe that was almost 10 years ago!   :buggedout:

I've been here since my family got a computer I imagine, in about 2001. One of the first forums I've known of. :P

For quite a while I couldn't post thanks to guests not being able to, just lurking... Then I registered back in 2006 (Around the same time RC did I believe, one of my first memories is of him calling me a 13-year old Bruce-Willis fanboy X) ) and been pretty regular.

Gosh...I'm sorry!I was such a drunk then...even more so than now....I've mellowed out a lot....gee...I don't remeber saying that...whatta shmuck I am...

Don't get upset over it, we made up like two posts later X)

I still feel like a shmuck. Geez....Bruce Willis? How's come I said that? Gawd....My memory is about as long as my peter...not too big... :bluesad:

Geez, don't turn this into something big... :bluesad: I was talking about getting my b-film info from the Internet, and mentioned how I thought Nosferatu was boring. You didn't know me as well at the time and figured I was a littler kid than I was, and I believe you said "What, if something doesn't have Bruce Willis or exploding cars it's boring?" something to that ring :P . You were just standing your ground on older movies, I got where you were coming from then and I still do

You are like-one of the originals. Who that are still on the bord then are still now? I dunno...I think Trek Gezzer,Scott,Andy C,Menard, Peter...but I'm just guessing.
Garsh....that sounds like me,alright....

I'm pretty sure Trekgeezer, Peter Johnson and AndyC were around then.
I used the Wayback machine (archive.org) to look at some of the old forum pages.
Some other people who I was surprised were on back then were Lester 1/2, Flangepart, Scott and Mofo Rising.

Here's one of the old forum pages.
http://web.archive.org/web/20020104080448/www.badmovies.org/bbs2/list.php?f=2&t=9230&a=2

I first found the site and forum in the summer of 2004. I lurked for a few months and then registered, but made very, very few posts until late 2006 or so. Since then I've been sporadic.

November 22, 2006, 09:43:25 AM

For some reason I thought I was on here longer than that.  

December 01, 2006, 03:43:15 PM

I had actually been checking out reviews on this site for a bit longer than that.  Favorite site on the net.

I joined on June 12, 2007, and I already have over 1800 posts!

This is the only movie forum I belong to - I mean, when you find the best first, why go elsewhere?

I do belong to four separate Indian Artifact Forums, though!

 :teddyr:

November of 2006, but I may have registered a while before I started using the forum.

My first post: March 09, 2007, 05:55:46 PM on the Movie Guessing Game thread:



RC gave me my very first 'karma' (and instantly became my very first buddy here) because, naturally, I got it right.  :teddyr:

I would have sworn my first post was about CANE TOADS, the movie that first drew me here long, long ago.

Sorry, RC but that made me laugh.  :bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle: :teddyr: :thumbup:

I joined in February 2007 if I remember correctly after a quest for info on the film Billy Jack led me here.

I came, I saw, I gained a family and I stayed.  :teddyr:

I first started posting on badmovies back in 1998 or 1999. I clearly remember this being one of the first sites that had actual video clips from the movies reviewed, an uncommon thing back in those early days of the internet. (10 years is a long, long time in internet years.)

I'm not a prolific poster, even less so these days. But this site has remained one of my constants over all this time.

The reason I keep coming back is because Andrew has managed to create a meeting place for some very erudite minds, from all walks of life, that actually care about all the crappy movies that have ever been made. I still hold that the community here is the greatest database of forgotten (oftentimes rightfully so) cinema that has yet existed.

If you take a look around, you will find a group of people who have very, very different outlooks on life, and yet it is still a functioning community that very rarely devolves into pointless flame wars. Even now, when the forums have expanded into non-movie topics that include serious discussions of politics and religion, we can still all come together and talk about what is truly important: goofy ass movies.

I don't think it's said often enough (and I don't picture Andrew being the type to seek out praise), but the group he's managed to oversee here is something special. Whenever I think my life is busy (and it is), I think of all the hats Andrew wears, including full-time marine and father, and the fact that he still keeps this site in tip-top shape. That's a lot of work, folks.

Plus, his reviews are funny as s**t. That's not something you can learn, and I should know.

This is my favorite site. So, yeah, I've been here a while.

I will give you a heartfelt amen to that, Mofo.  :smile: :cheers:

I joined when I discovered it existed.

I think I joined about 8 years ago.  When I started, I used a different name ("Joe", my real name).  After awhile, I changed (transformed?) to The Burgomaster.

Methinks it was sometime in 2003.  Came looking for wave clips of interesting movies and read the reviews and laughed my ass off.

After trawling through the reviews I stopped looking but then discovered the forums and laughed my ass off.  Joined up eventually and started posting.  Don't have enough time to trawl as I once had, and I have a list of reviews I want to do that I just can't at the moment, but hopefully soon.

Anyways, only forum I go to, since I have no need to go elsewhere: badmovies and the occasional off topic fun times.

Good peeps and good [bad] movies. 

Joined in 2006 - thought it had been longer than that.  I read a lot of movie reviews online, so I found Badmovies.org, and it was just the sort of stuff I love  :teddyr:  With video clips even!

Don't really post anywhere else, I go to the AV Science forum (home theater equipment) occasionally, but hardly ever post.  Used to go to Horror DVD's, but I dunno, got bored there I guess. 

This site really has the best group of people of anyplace I've found on the web.  Everyone seems very comfortable with the idea that we've all got different tastes in movies, and nobody has to write long essays about how this is good, that is bad, if you don't agree, you are wrong and have questionable intelligence.  That's why I quit posting at some other sites, I think they're movies, just for entertainment.  Other people seem to base their entire manhood on the idea that their tastes are perfectly in line with what is considered elitist opinion or whatever.  Just bores me  :teddyr:

I think I joined around 1998 or 1999. I had been reading the reviews and enjoying them, noticed the forum but didn't join right away--I'm not much for joining forums (I get online to get away from people, not to try to meet new people). I looked at the forum, and after a while reading it decided to post. I acted like a bit of a jerk then, not intentionally, but when I went back later and looked at some of my older posts, it was how I came across. I hope I've mellowed a bit. This is the only movie forum I post on, though I did join a couple of music forums for some specific information, though I rarely go to them any more.

Like Mofo Rising, I don't post here a lot, but I still visit every day. And I see that I must not post very memorable stuff, since no one citing old-timers mentioned me.  :bluesad: :tongueout:

Mofo said it for me too:  :thumbup:  This place is outstanding.

My oldest posts seem to go back to 2002 (?).  I think I was on here a good bit before that, but I have never had much to say.

I remember you as an 'old-timer' Derf; along with Mofo, Flange, Ash and others.

(Edited to add:  LOL! I put 'Badmovies.org history' into the search on here and it asked me if I wanted to search for 'Badmovies ORGY history' -  is there something going on that you guys have not told me about?  Hmmm?   :buggedout:  :bouncegiggle:)

I lurked around here for 3 or 4 years (had it bookmarked) reading Andrew's reviews.  I think it was about 2003 before I actually started using the Phorum (that's what the software Andrew was using at the time was called).

The old forum was just an ever scrolling list of posts. You really had to use the search to find things.

I finally joined the board after reading a lot of the posts and decided to give it a try. I think the first thing I posted was asking about the age of the members.

I was really surprised when one time that Andrew had to be away for several months he made me a moderator!   

I have to say that this is the most civilized board on the net (or damned close). 

We have a real community here folks.

This is a fun community and although I'm sure Andrew never intended it originally to be central hub, it has become a the focal point for discussion in our counter film culture. 

I did come to the site frequently before joining up in the forum.  I did a few guest reviews which inspired me to start my site.  Andrew, who remains one of the most humble guys I know, has left the world a legacy.   :thumbup:

After lurking for a few months, I registered on October 04, 2007, 05:30:27 PM.  I would have registered at 5:27:15 PM, but I was interrupted by a phone call.

My first post was on METROPOLIS.  The first member to welcome me was Scott (now Wolfgang, sadly MIA).  RC also responded to my first post and welcomed me, looked at my avatar and mentioned that he had the words "LOVE" and "BEER" tattooed on his fingers.  I was hooked immediately.   :smile:

Somewhere around 1999.


vhs to dvd switch was getting into full swing. 

I was on hiatus for a while then came back in early 07 when I got netflix

There was one guy who loved "lair of the white worm" and always talked about how great it was

Uhhh... Last Friday.  :wink:

Welcome, MilkMan - - I just gave you your first karma. 

Thanks!  :smile:

November 30, 2005, 10:55:58 PM.

I read one of Andrew's reviews, and I was laughing to myself, and reading more, laughing... reading reviews out loud to my wife.
I am not as deep into the seriously obscure stuff as many here, but I really enjoy the sentiment, and I think this is the best forum around.  There are some true characters here.  Susan appears now and again and posts some absolutely horrifying youtube link... RC manages to post obscure stuff with his sunny point of view (even though he lives in MICHIGAN which I know all about =)        Just a place full of great people.

99% of my posts don't have any badmovie street cred, but I enjoy the ambience nonetheless.

August 2008, according to my profile. I forget how I got here. Probably it was a google search that brought me to me to one of Andrew's reviews. Then I forgot about it for a few months, then registered when I discovered the forum.

It might have been my search for a particular bad movie involving a housecat that brought me here, a movie which I still haven't found. My first message to the board was about that movie. I remember browsing the alphabetical list of reviews seeing which movies I knew were on the list.

It seems to me that the first time I came here I found "West Side Story" on the list of bad movies and I was heartily offended. Either that got deleted, or that was on another forum. At any rate, searching for that to try to confirm my memory eventually got me to this forum.

My computer literally caught fire awhile back, so there have been some huge gaps in my posting & reading here, plus I got very very angry once upon a time with a major annoyance -- no, not Menard -- who would take umbrage at ANYTHING anyone said to him even remotely negative (Squishy the Squid), so I dropped out for the better part of a year.  I think my first post would have been around '98 or '99, certainly not before.  My post count was lost about the time the hard drive fried, so I believe it may be twice what shows "officially" --

The old timer I miss the most is Oscar Goff, aka Vermin, who had his own Firesign-like comedy troupe and made CD's, etc.  Man, that guy could be as funny as Andrew on a good day!

Yeah, I too used to post over at Jobutu and Stomp Tokyo, but as has been said here, when you're already at the best, why go anywhere else?  Plus, I discovered that the folks who hang around the other sites are really only looking for a good flame-war or insult session, rather than sharing information and opinion.  I like a good insult as well as the next person, but when funny degenerates to nasty . . . well, life is short & why bother?

Re.  The "peter" reference:  I used to open my standup comedy act with the following:  "Yes, that's right, you heard right, my name really is "peter johnson", and that's very unfortunate because I grew up in a part of the South where both the word "peter" and the word "johnson' were synonymous for the same organ!  I grew up with things like "Peter Johnson?!?!?  Your name is Peter Johnson?!?!  Well sheeeett, boy, why didn't yo' mama call you "Dick Dick"!! -- (Makes hitting motions & ducking) -- "Aw c'mon Dad, cut it out!" . . . .


peter johnson denny the crane

January 8th, 2007: came over here after Gerry closed down scifilm.org's film forum and really most of the site (Dave Sindelar's classic movie of the day can still be found there though as well as on the Classic Horror Film Board). It was strange when I first came here but I did see a few familiar names I knew from Scifilm including Andrew himself, Menard, allhallowsday who also came from scifilm, BoyScoutKevin, Gerry himself and prolly a few others too (sorry if I've forgotten you). Honestly though I had been reading reviews and lurking on the old forum for years before I joined up here. Once I even posted on the old fourm but didn't stick around at that time as Scifilm and even the IMDB Horror board (now it's just awful) was pretty good at the time. I joined Stomp Tokyo too but like RC no one talked to me so I didn't stick around. I posted at Sinister Cinema and lurk at the Classic Horror Film Board and I have to give kudos to Dr. Abner Mality's Wormwood Chronicles (www.wormwoodchronicles.com) which is really a great site (highly recommended for metalheads and fans of the strange in general) and is run by probably my oldest internet buddy in the good Doctor himself.

I think I was a bit too ultra-serious when I first came here but I've mellowed and relaxed quite a bit and very much enjoy the fun atmosphere of this site. Like Andrew's reviews, this site makes me laugh daily and that's always a good thing.

I remember Squishy!
That dude had some serious anger management issues.
I got into it with him once or twice over some stupid petty thing that he took offense to.  Don't remember what it was.  All I remember was that it took next to nothing to set that guy off.

And Vermin...
That guy has completely abandoned Badmovies.org.  He's on my Myspace friends list and I know that he checks his Myspace regularly.
I've sent him a few messages asking him to come back and he just ignores me.
He doesn't seem to care.  That's too bad.  He was a fun person here on this board.

December last year.

I know I came here because Menard suggested us SCIFILM board members check it out.  Soon, Scifilm was gone, and a few stragglers found a home here.  I still miss the old SCIFILM board, but BADMOVIES is much more liberal, frankly.   :smile:  Spring 2007...? My 2 year anniversary!   :smile:

Not sure when I exactly joined. Ive had a couple screen names, but its probably been 5 years since I first started coming here. I love this site all people with as bad of taste in movies as me.

December 2007.

I came across the site randomly while looking for information on  a film. Since then I've grown to care about a great deal of the members here. I have taken several leaves of absences from the site this year, always during circumstances and never by choice. I'm not sure if you would ever meet a closer group of people anywhere else on the web.

I don't really remember when I joined, but I remember what the first thread I responded to was.  It was Kester Pekagius asking about who we would cast in big budget remakes of b-moives.  I had been visiting this sight for years prior, and finally decided to join in.

I found the website... I suppose about in 2003 when I was in 5th or 6th grade.  I was just doing some random searching for the movie Squirm (I saw footage of it was being used in The Most Extreme and I got curious to see what the film was about) and I ended up here.  I liked most of the movies I found here because they were so unusal and different.  Then sadly I lost track of the website and I wouldn't find it again until the end of 2007 when Andrew redid his review on The Being.

Since then, I been watching for new reviews and enjoying them ever since.  I finally got interested enough when I found the forum in August of 2008.  I decided to join near the end of the month when he first put out his review of Shark Attack 3.  I believe that was the first thing I ever posted on.  Everything else is history.

P.S.

An interest in bad movies sure start young.

You can't get rid of me..muahahaha

If you want to see horrifying you should see my obsession with making twilight trailers in my attempt to get a million views..LOL  Yeah it's worse than a rickroll

I started posting in around 2003. Been here every since.

July of last year. Been nearly a year at this madhouse!  :twirl:

i joined 20 years ago when i was only 3

Your my hero!   :cheers: I'm in love!