Nitrateville was SO concerned about us.......
Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2023 8:11 am
https://www.nitrateville.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=34128
You know, I find it touching that Nitwitvile, whose denizens dare not speak my name, and hate all talk and manifestations of the mafia, were so concerned when we were offline for several hours a week or so ago. Considering it was a server glitch that took ------what---literally two minutes to fix once it came to our attention, there seemed to be much babble and talk over at that silly little newsgroup about us. Of course it gave one of those cine-whiner clowns an opportunity to attempt to bash us and spread crap, saying we have little or no content and only widdle ol’ me posts here, but that is pretty much what those cine-whiner clowns do; diss those whose work makes them feel threatened rather than try to improve their own to better standards, yawn (if you don’t know or remember the cine-whiners, we shined a light on them a few years ago: viewtopic.php?f=5&t=2297&p=8604&hilit=cinewhiners#p8604).
The Silent Comedy Mafia is doing just fine folks, we’ve always believed in quality over quantity, and in Nitwitviles case, that is quantity of blather, which is most of what passes for activity at that sorry little site. Let’s see what some of the most recent bon-mots of wisdom from Nitwitville entail:
Another cine-whiner got on to say how dare that Grapevine Video put out a public domain movie like SO THIS IS PARIS when the company that made it has a nice restoration that they have not put out on home video and are unlikely to. To their credit, a number of Nitwitvile denizens came to Jack and Jason Hardy’s defense, a nice idea considering that Jack Hardy has done more to get silent films out to the public to be seen than all the cine-whiners combined have or will ever do. If said cine-whiner doesn’t want to buy the Grapevine version, no one’s forcing anyone to own it, but to get on a public forum to make noise about it shows nothing but how much time cine-whiners spend in pointless posting, and perhaps some envy or self-interest in dissing someone else they may feel threatened by. If they only spent that much time actually preserving and presenting films.
Someone who calls themselves “sethb” (I think this was the guy who wanted us to completely re-do the restored DVD of WHEN COMEDY WAS KING because he was bothered by the matte-balloon in the opening titles that had been there in that film since the day it was released) was incensed and disturbed because he watched a TV series on the making of THE GODFATHER (they make movies about making movies now, gad, they have run out of ideas) and they showed an exec flying with some 35mm film cans to indicate a special shipping of a print for a private screening and it wasn’t enough film cans. To begin with Sethb, 35mm shipping cans held more than two reels, they also held up to three and four reels, and secondly, who the hell cares, it’s props to illustrate a minor point, you obviously have gotten no further in getting a life since you whined about WHEN COMEDY WAS KING. There is no discovery of a major “blooper” here, and I figure that if you contact the Producers of the show and demand they re-shoot that scene and re-edit the film and send out corrected copies for broadcast you will get the same reaction you got from us when you requested we re-do WCWK; a laugh and a circle-filing of your letter.
Oh yes, and Maggie Smith is not dead, not that any of us thought she was, but one of the Nitrateville Nameless Ninnies thought you might want to know.
Like we said, pointless blather, and they spent a bit more time on their recent post about us blathering something about Canadian Viagra ads popping up when they go to our site. No idea folks, never seen them, my browsers bring up the mafia when I go to it no problem and apparently not many others are having the problem since our hit numbers are doing just fine, in fact, better that Nitwitviles. Perhaps some of those NNN’s of a certain age have had their personal shopping proclivities pick up a bug or two that has hacked their browsing capabilities.
And that’s enough of my time wasted on NItwitvile, though it’s been nostalgic to point out a few of their regular sillinesses again, and our audience seems to enjoy it when I do, the truth is I spend little time at the site these days, it’s still in my morning coffee rotation, but thirty seconds usually does the trick to see what the new blather is and that there’s nothing of substance or import to keep my attentions there further. I don’t know why Gebert lets the cine-whiners ramble on over there----oh wait, that’s right, he’s one of them, but I guess they do fit in with the other general level of blather. In any event, back to much more important things.
RICHARD M ROBERTS
You know, I find it touching that Nitwitvile, whose denizens dare not speak my name, and hate all talk and manifestations of the mafia, were so concerned when we were offline for several hours a week or so ago. Considering it was a server glitch that took ------what---literally two minutes to fix once it came to our attention, there seemed to be much babble and talk over at that silly little newsgroup about us. Of course it gave one of those cine-whiner clowns an opportunity to attempt to bash us and spread crap, saying we have little or no content and only widdle ol’ me posts here, but that is pretty much what those cine-whiner clowns do; diss those whose work makes them feel threatened rather than try to improve their own to better standards, yawn (if you don’t know or remember the cine-whiners, we shined a light on them a few years ago: viewtopic.php?f=5&t=2297&p=8604&hilit=cinewhiners#p8604).
The Silent Comedy Mafia is doing just fine folks, we’ve always believed in quality over quantity, and in Nitwitviles case, that is quantity of blather, which is most of what passes for activity at that sorry little site. Let’s see what some of the most recent bon-mots of wisdom from Nitwitville entail:
Another cine-whiner got on to say how dare that Grapevine Video put out a public domain movie like SO THIS IS PARIS when the company that made it has a nice restoration that they have not put out on home video and are unlikely to. To their credit, a number of Nitwitvile denizens came to Jack and Jason Hardy’s defense, a nice idea considering that Jack Hardy has done more to get silent films out to the public to be seen than all the cine-whiners combined have or will ever do. If said cine-whiner doesn’t want to buy the Grapevine version, no one’s forcing anyone to own it, but to get on a public forum to make noise about it shows nothing but how much time cine-whiners spend in pointless posting, and perhaps some envy or self-interest in dissing someone else they may feel threatened by. If they only spent that much time actually preserving and presenting films.
Someone who calls themselves “sethb” (I think this was the guy who wanted us to completely re-do the restored DVD of WHEN COMEDY WAS KING because he was bothered by the matte-balloon in the opening titles that had been there in that film since the day it was released) was incensed and disturbed because he watched a TV series on the making of THE GODFATHER (they make movies about making movies now, gad, they have run out of ideas) and they showed an exec flying with some 35mm film cans to indicate a special shipping of a print for a private screening and it wasn’t enough film cans. To begin with Sethb, 35mm shipping cans held more than two reels, they also held up to three and four reels, and secondly, who the hell cares, it’s props to illustrate a minor point, you obviously have gotten no further in getting a life since you whined about WHEN COMEDY WAS KING. There is no discovery of a major “blooper” here, and I figure that if you contact the Producers of the show and demand they re-shoot that scene and re-edit the film and send out corrected copies for broadcast you will get the same reaction you got from us when you requested we re-do WCWK; a laugh and a circle-filing of your letter.
Oh yes, and Maggie Smith is not dead, not that any of us thought she was, but one of the Nitrateville Nameless Ninnies thought you might want to know.
Like we said, pointless blather, and they spent a bit more time on their recent post about us blathering something about Canadian Viagra ads popping up when they go to our site. No idea folks, never seen them, my browsers bring up the mafia when I go to it no problem and apparently not many others are having the problem since our hit numbers are doing just fine, in fact, better that Nitwitviles. Perhaps some of those NNN’s of a certain age have had their personal shopping proclivities pick up a bug or two that has hacked their browsing capabilities.
And that’s enough of my time wasted on NItwitvile, though it’s been nostalgic to point out a few of their regular sillinesses again, and our audience seems to enjoy it when I do, the truth is I spend little time at the site these days, it’s still in my morning coffee rotation, but thirty seconds usually does the trick to see what the new blather is and that there’s nothing of substance or import to keep my attentions there further. I don’t know why Gebert lets the cine-whiners ramble on over there----oh wait, that’s right, he’s one of them, but I guess they do fit in with the other general level of blather. In any event, back to much more important things.
RICHARD M ROBERTS