Basically, there are two specialties at the site, box office, which is the main thing here, and Awards talk, something that is growing each year. There are some members here who are only into box office and never venture into here, like Zingaling. There are some members who don't really take box office as anything serious, but are very much into awards season, like loyal, and now me, too, since I don't have time for box office much these days, and there are people like MovieDude, Libs, Dr. Lecter, Shack, and xiayun, who take much pleasure in discussing both.

I prefer Awards discussion to box office discussions, obviously. I find the discussions to have a higher quality that isn't so repetitive like box office talk can be. I find the whole process fascinating. The tracking is more enjoyable.

What do you like best?

I came to BOM because I was obsessing over box office (summer b.o in particular) and needed an outlet. I enjoy talking about both but I'm nutso over the award season. I too find the history of awards more interesting as a whole. Plus with shit movies making far too much money at the box office, I'm generally happier about the outcome of awards.

I'm obsessed with awards. This is about the only forum I really post in.

You are obsessed.

When I come to Japan in November, we're going to have an intervention.

I would probably be more interested in awards talk if the films were of higher quality these days but they just aren't. To me this is the weakest decade for this kind of movie in my lifetime.

Japan in November?! Pm me the details. We'll have to go to karaoke together!

I post here sometimes.

I read a lot of this forum. I just don't post that much.

I think your results are gonna be kinda, yknow, lop-sided, posting this here.

Unless you also psoted it in the Box Office Forum? I wouldnt know, I don't go there. :O :O

nevermind, you're right, cuz most of the people that come here ARE fans of both subjects. :O

I came to BOM mainly in search of box office tracking but quickly became obsessed with Awards.
Then we migrated to WOKJ and I left box office almost completely. All I post here now is mostly TV and Awards.

I love reading this forum. Don't post as much because someone is usually already doing a good job saying what I think...

Awards for me, especially when b.o. is so crappy in September...

..Compared to, say...shit movies winning BP? Interesting....


Tod, what's your favorite song to sing karaoke too? I can so tell its Gloria Gaynor, I can just feel it.

It's Love Shack, baby!

Do you sing Rock Lobster also? That's my favourite B52s song!

I'm heading down the Altlanta (?) highwaaaaaay. Lookin' for the loooove getaway!

Shit movies win BP. But shitter movies or rather, movies composed of shit, tend to earn $$$ at a higher frequency than earn awards.

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How 'bout the rest of you?

I enjoyed the Box Office predictions until I realized that I sucked at making them so I've slowly moved to this forum, but I doubt i'll be as successful. I shall try to do my best to see as many oscar potential movies in order to make a good informed decision as to who might win, though I'm sure that who will win most likely will not correlate to who I think should win as I have more mainstream taste in movies ( i like them dumb.. lol)

It's always box office first to both me, and the REAL world.

If Hollywood didn't have any money coming in, they wouldn't be able to host an Oscars. Even though there are small films always winning, the campaigns often cost alot of money. Thus, box office keeps the awards side going (as there is money to invest in quality), but unfortunately, quality doesn't always equal money in the industry. Thus, box office rules...

Box-Office talk, that's what I came here for (to BOM actually, that is). Now I mostly stay because I like talking to the people here, but between awards and b/o - it's box-office.

Only 17 votes? I know there are more than 17 members that come here. I'm disappointed.

Box office. Cause most of the time, movies I don't care about are nominated for big awards.

I get more excited about awards if a movie I actually like has a good chance, though.

Both. Just that one usually gets preference over the other depending on the time of year. Now offcourse - its awards season so prefer awards talk.

When it comes to BO I prefer the Macro level talk about films in general, patterns and release schedules and not so much into obsessing over one film and its weekend take.

This awards season immore interested in because it lookslike some good films are coming soon and cant wait to see alot of them - unlike late last year - when Geisha, Jarhead and Munich were the only ones i really wanted to see.