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Thursday, Jun 19, 2008

As you may have already noticed, at the top and bottom of the whichever site you're on Movietome is no longer listed. I'm gonna take a shot in the dark and say that's a sign that CNET has called Hospice on Movietome.

Not much of a pulse anymore. Sleepin with the fishes. Kicked the bucket. Bought the farm. Facing the firing squad. Aaaah...burnt the toast? Traded on margins for too long? Dropped out of college? Road the wooden roller-coaster? Didn't bet on black in a Wesley Snipes film? Went the way of the buffalo! Got trumped. Took a dive. Went in the red. Bet on the wrong horse. Went to that big blogosphere in the sky. Went skydiving without a parachute. Went scubadiving without an oxygen tank. Went traveling abroad without a VISA? Got traded to the Royals. Got traded to the Dolphins! (sorry Dolphins fans, not sorry Royals fans!) Broke down on the ol' information superhighway. Worked at Enron! Went the way of HD DVD! (its downfall was that it sounded stupid when you said it...) It said that Matrix II & III couldn't possibly be worse than the first! Didn't like the smell of freshly cut grass? Worked in an office building that was insulated with asbsetos? It fought the law and the law won. Played the bad guy in any Bond film ever made... Played any father on Law & Order SVU. Didn't store nuts for the winter. Stored too many nuts on an episode of Law & Order SVU. Played a side character on Star Trek and went down to the planet with Kirk and the gang! (big mistake) The pots came back empty on Deadliest Catch. It followed Lock on Lost. You faced the monster on lost and you weren't Lock or dreaming... It was boring as Season 2 of Lost. It yelled back at Chef Ramsey on Hell's Kitchen. It didn't have a six-pack on Shot at Love II. It slept with Bret too early in the show on Rock of Love II. It had a raspy voice in any cartoon during the 70s or 80s or 90s. Donald Trump wasn't attracted to your power on The Apprentice. Your partner was attracted to you on Beauty & the Geek. It couldn't let go of your quest for power at the end of any Indiana Jones movie. It was a quarterback for the Minnesota Vikings! Its dead in the water! The water in any horror movie its in just turned to blood and you're not the attractive but intelligent blonde main character. You have carnal relations with anyone early on in any horror movie. Takashi Miike is directing the film its in. (You're bound to die no matter who you are...) It has anything to do with any film Uwe Boll has ever made ever. It was a clever sitcom and the network its on is Fox. It is its last day on the force and it has a wife and two kids. Its getting too old for this... Vin Diesel thought it sounded like it was good idea for a movie. It was a sports car in a Michael Bay movie and it didn't transform into anything else!

Goodbye my old friend. Good luck in that big blogosphere in the sky. I'm sure whatever God is runnin this fiasco watches movies too...

Posted by BoredMark, 12:21pm
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Haha!

I think it was about time it "died"!
Posted Jun 19, 2008 12:26 pm PT
Hahaha! "It stored too many nuts on an episode of Law and Order SVU" was the funniest! Poor Movie Tome!
Posted Jun 19, 2008 12:43 pm PT
Cripes; I gotta go copy my movie reviews out while I can! (Some of them are funny. At least, I think they are.)
Posted Jun 19, 2008 12:59 pm PT
I don't like metacritic.
Posted Jun 19, 2008 1:04 pm PT
metacritic FTW!
Posted Jun 19, 2008 1:29 pm PT
Bye, bye movietome I hardly knew yee.
Posted Jun 19, 2008 1:41 pm PT
Yeah, I went to make a correction on a movie's cast and I can no longer do it. Does that mean the movie credits on the people guides will remain incorrect or vanish completely?
Posted Jun 19, 2008 1:43 pm PT
I still wonder if the site is going to go away completely. But - Metacritic does seem to be taking its place.
Posted Jun 19, 2008 1:59 pm PT
Perhaps MetaCritic and MovieTome will be combined?! No? Ok - well still goodbye then...
Posted Jun 19, 2008 2:00 pm PT
I am not surprised. With the way are econ is going and the fact that the movie industry continues to loose ground to the video game industry every year I would not be surprised one bit. Gas cost too much to drive three point five miles to see a summer 'blockbuster' and I don't feel much like walking just to pay fifteen dollars for two hours of entertainment. Why do that when I could sit inside and watch tv or surf on the internet. I can buy a video game for 60 bucks and get forty hours of entertainment out of it as long as its not a shooter !
Posted Jun 19, 2008 2:13 pm PT
Is the link dead? Oh well. There's always TV.com and there's still the blog feature for movie reviews and things pertaining to cinema.
Posted Jun 19, 2008 2:31 pm PT
Not surprised. Haven't gone active at all at Movie Tome so I don't really care much about Movie Tome being closed.
Posted Jun 19, 2008 3:05 pm PT
I liked MovieTome.. It's a Shame if they remove it... I have like over 100 Reviews .

You should start using Gamespot or Tv.com though. They are pretty good
Posted Jun 19, 2008 3:41 pm PT
the site is still active, but guessing it's going bye-bye... Sad day for you Mark I know you've been trying to rally the site for a bit now

You going to still stick around TV.com?
Posted Jun 19, 2008 3:49 pm PT
Yeah - I've been lurking around Tv.com more and more for a while now - preparing for the apocalypse... I think its kinda my new home now.

Nice to here from you btw. Long time, no type?
Posted Jun 19, 2008 3:54 pm PT
Oh :/ What a pitty. I need my list to remember the films I like.
Posted Jun 19, 2008 4:29 pm PT
But I noticed Metacritic has a place for TV and Music too. Does this mean that their eventual goal is to consolodate everything into one site? I'm curious and dissapointed that some sort of announcement has not been made letting everyone know what's going on.
Posted Jun 20, 2008 6:41 am PT
Me too! I wish they would at least say something! They don't tell us anything. It just sorta happens one day. Its like we're in some hole in the ground and they're tossing us emblems and rankings every once in a while just to barely keep us alive. I'm going to call it an e-pit...

Metacritic has always been like that though. It doesn't really parallel the other sites very well. I imagine they may end up changing it somehow down the road.

My one thought was that they may turn Metacritic into Movietome a little bit because it already has somewhat of a loyal following. If the transferred the rankings and reviews to MetaCritic and adjusted how MetaCritic was set up a bit - that would kinda make sense...You think?
Posted Jun 20, 2008 9:41 am PT
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