Dammit. Over on the IMDb's message boards for Revenge Of The Sith, the "Cool scenes that we will never see in Star Wars" post has been deleted.
It's too bad. It was a collective creative work of dozens - maybe hundreds - of Star Wars fans. There were so many posts and responses that it crossed over the "read-only" posting limit - and then quickly "expired" by IMDb rules and was swept away by posts of the "Who's hotter, Padme or Leia?" variety.
My own contributions to this thread have been saved here on my blog - you can jump into them here. A few of the participants probably archived all or most of the posts, although the only ones I can find online cover the first dozen or so - you can find them by Googling "dead tusken raiders buried in the backyard" (the punch line to one of my favorites) or "cerodeus" (one of the contributors and possibly the founder of the thread.) Unfortunately, the IMDb has taken steps to ensure that its message boards cannot be archived by tools like the Wayback Machine - but if you'd like to give it a shot, the URL for the "Cool scenes" thread was http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0121766/board/flat/19530375 .
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Why would they delete it? Taking up too much space?
ReplyDeleteI think that was the case. I checked my posting history and I saw that postings to other message boards from long, long ago are still there. I guess there's only so much space allocated per movie, and once a message board becomes "inactive" (as did this one when it crossed the IMDb "read-only" threshhold of 1200 posts) it goes onto a list for deletion. In reality, this board probably took up about 100 times the space of the typical "active" message board.
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