How did you find ComingSoon.net?

[The Hero Boy]

Did you click on an ad? Did a friend tell you? Did you find it via search engine?

Were there forums at the time? Were the forums empty?

Extra question: This question is kinda off-topic but if the webmasters ever check in and see this, I wanted to ask, how exactly did you get started and did you ever do the "link in signature" thing that people do or did you just wait for people to visit the site?

[Handsome Rob]

Well funny as it is, I have been coming to the actual comingsoon.net website for news and what not for years. It wasn't til sometime last year that I even noticed the forums link and decided to start posting.

[Frizzo the Clown]

I saw the name "Coming Soon" and thought I was going to a porn site. Man, I was seriously disappointed.

[Tzarinna]

SuperHeroHype was down one night and I came here. We were so not welcomed, but I'm a pain in the ass and love to stay where I'm not welcome.

[MasterChief117]

Same as Rob, just saw it and said what the hell.

[Frizzo the Clown]

SuperHeroHype was down one night and I came here. We were so not welcomed, but I'm a pain in the ass and love to stay where I'm not welcome.
Hey, I always did my best to try and welcome the lot of you when you were here, there were just a lot of you *****ing and moaning about how horrible this place was compared to the Hype. Lucikly, you weren't one of those people. ;)

[JBond]

I found this place back in 1998 when I was looking for trailers. I kept coming back because there was this "Who said that?" quote game on the front page, so I sent a few in and they were used. Eventually, the forums showed up in 1999, so I went into it.

[IanTheCool]

i wanted to find a place i could ask questions about upcoming DVD releases. and google came up with this place. it took me a long time to post on anything othre than the DVD thread though, but i eventually did.

[Dracula]

I used to go to SHH way way way back when it was still Spider-Man Hype. After that turned into SHH, I sort of lost interest and wandered into the neighboring forum and was impressed. I posted a while under the name SolidSnake for a while then lost interest for a month or so and forgot my password and was to lazy to recover it. I then just made this screenname and the rest is history.

[Tzarinna]

Hey, I always did my best to try and welcome the lot of you when you were here, there were just a lot of you *****ing and moaning about how horrible this place was compared to the Hype. Lucikly, you weren't one of those people. ;)

I try to keep my halo on when I visit my neighbors, it slips every now and then. ;)
There needs to be a *****ing and moaning thread. :meanie:
I would be in there everyday. :angry:

[Ramplate]

1 Oh hai. In teh beginnin Ceiling Cat maded teh skiez An da Urfs, but he did not eated dem.
2 Da Urfs no had shapez An haded dark face, An Ceiling Cat rode invisible bike over teh waterz.
3 At start, no has lyte. An Ceiling Cat sayz, i can haz lite? An lite wuz.
4 An Ceiling Cat sawed teh lite, to seez stuffs, An splitted teh lite from dark but taht wuz ok cuz kittehs can see in teh dark An not tripz over nethin.
5 An Ceiling Cat sayed light Day An dark no Day. It were FURST!!!1
--Genesis 1-5 LOLCAT BIBLE

http://www.lolcatbible.com/images/5/5f/Cieling_cat_creates.jpg
Ceiling Cat creats teh universes and stuffs

[FranklinTard]

yea i remember i went to spiderman hype when i heard it was being made, used those forums for a while and enjoyed the countdown until spiderman was released.

saw this link a while later and then i was bored... made a stupid name and didnt think i would come back...

[Where's my elephant?]

Don't remember. Probably typical trial and error. I did lurk for half a year though before I joined.

[Dracula]

1 Oh hai. In teh beginnin Ceiling Cat maded teh skiez An da Urfs, but he did not eated dem.
2 Da Urfs no had shapez An haded dark face, An Ceiling Cat rode invisible bike over teh waterz.
3 At start, no has lyte. An Ceiling Cat sayz, i can haz lite? An lite wuz.
4 An Ceiling Cat sawed teh lite, to seez stuffs, An splitted teh lite from dark but taht wuz ok cuz kittehs can see in teh dark An not tripz over nethin.
5 An Ceiling Cat sayed light Day An dark no Day. It were FURST!!!1
--Genesis 1-5 LOLCAT BIBLE

http://www.lolcatbible.com/images/5/5f/Cieling_cat_creates.jpg
Ceiling Cat creats teh universes and stuffs

what the ****?

[Fanible]

Back in 2001 I believe, looking for release dates, both old and new.

Sadly, they don't keep the old anymore.

I began browsing the forums shortly after, and eventually joined.
My signature, title, and technically even my avatar, haven't changed since
(although back then, you had to really earn them).

My signature was probably more so true at the time than it is now, but... whatever.

[Tzarinna]

what the ****?

It's the meds.

[Ramplate]

It's the meds.

Actually no - its 100% ME :eek:

[Tzarinna]

Well, if you're not going to take your meds give them to me.

[jbailey84]

i found the site i think by going to a search engine, typed in "Rumored Movies or Upcoming Movies", something like that and it took me here.

the forums where here. c'mon, huge Lord of the Rings buzz as well as Star Wars and Harry Potter.

my first post was asking "Who exactly is Smeagol?" lol. then i read the book afterwards ;)

[shained]

I can't remember exactly how i found the site think it was just a google search when i was back in school looking for sites with new movie info. I thought it was a good site and it kept me updated and i just kept it as my movie site but i never once thought about joining the forum until a year ago when a friend clicked on the forum link and read a few posts and i saw the CS film club and liked the idea so i joined....

[Tolkien]

After leaving JoBlos forums (actually being banned three times that is) I found Cinema Confidential. I met a lot of interesting people there and helped to co-write my first LOTR fanfic there. LOTR: The Last Alliance. After the owner/whore Thomas Chau let the forum go to s**t, we all joined FDF, or FunkDiggityFresh. I had my falling out and by the time I reconnected with most of them, FDF was no more and everyone disappeared. Some went to MovieJustice, others went back to JoBlo, and a couple of them came here to CS! So I came here and found that I had made an account years ago. Yay me, lmao.

[Necross]

I know I was looking for someplace to talk about the LOTR movies. I don't know exactly how I came here, I coulda just found it thru a search engine, link, someone telling me. I honestly can't remember. I just know I came here cause of LOTR.

[Ramplate]

Well, if you're not going to take your meds give them to me.

unfortunately I don't get the fun meds:mad:

[Tzarinna]

Time for an uprising then. :mad:

[iv3rdawG]

Like Fanible I was looking for release dates of upcoming movies so I searched something like "Movies Coming Soon" and CS came up first in Google.

[ZombieMan]

My friend that is an indy film maker told me about it. :)

[chewie]

I think I was searching for a site with movie release dates and this one came up.

[Where's my elephant?]

After leaving JoBlos forums (actually being banned three times that is)

Joblo actually lets people come back? I thought is was one time and that's it. :confused: I was banned last June after one year there as powersauce.

I miss that place though and ironically it was for a post on the news of the front page and not the forums. I've replaced that with rottentomatoes since October where I'm JT Lancer.

edit: Just tried joblo and it still says that I'm restricted and for no reason.

[SouthsideX300]

I didnt realize how many other people on here post on SHH too.

I found it by googling some movie news back in the day. Then after a couple of months i clicked on board and finally joined.

[Tornado]

I posted on the Hype briefly in 2003 before I found CS!, and then registered here shortly after.

[Dan's_Gurl]

i was looking for harry potter message boards...actually, i don't even think i was looking for message boards as i didn't know much about them. i was just looking for fansites. then i came across what used to be the Franchise section of the CS! boards. didn't even leave the HP section for about two years.

[Tolkien]

Joblo actually lets people come back? I thought is was one time and that's it. :confused: I was banned last June after one year there as powersauce.

I miss that place though and ironically it was for a post on the news of the front page and not the forums. I've replaced that with rottentomatoes since October where I'm JT Lancer.

edit: Just tried joblo and it still says that I'm restricted and for no reason.

The first time he banned me was back in 2001. He banned me personally, not one of his mods. But he was kind and told me I could come back in six months if I wanted. So I did. The second time I was banned, it was by that little no good s**t (or, at least at the time he was little, being the youngest mod and all) Quentin. He banned me because he didn't like that I called him a punk, so that was the second time. That time, I was banned for over a year. Luckily for me, within that time I moved, so my IP address changed. And with a changed IP address, one can easily rejoin unnoticed.

Unfortunately for me, by the time I went back, a lot of the faces I once knew and liked chatting with were long gone. Tuukka was still there and I really liked him. So was ak and Cyclonus and Lindsey. Oh, and later on I found out that Cyclonus had a major crush on Lindsey, who actually knew Joshua in real life, who was actually a fellow member along side me on Cinema Confidential now, who is also here with us on CS! as Brock Landers, lmao. Anyways, I was banned again just last year after calling out one of his writers on their pathetic articles. James Thoo I believe his name is. I called him a stupid b***h on the comments section below an article and was banned shortly thereafter.

[Steve from Indy]

Are you kidding? I'm 45, I can hardly remember where I left my keys or if I took medicine 10 minutes ago. But I'm sure it had something to do with movies, of course.

[Freelow]

I'm not Steve's age, but I probably have the same memory that he does. I could not honestly tell you how I found this site.

Nothing perverted like the midget-porn loving freak, but I did find somehow.

[Where's my elephant?]

Are you kidding? I'm 45, I can hardly remember where I left my keys or if I took medicine 10 minutes ago. But I'm sure it had something to do with movies, of course.

I'm not Steve's age, but I probably have the same memory that he does. I could not honestly tell you how I found this site.

Nothing perverted like the midget-porn loving freak, but I did find somehow.

http://img136.imageshack.us/img136/6719/neuralizer2um5.jpg

[Ramplate]

?........where am I?

[PsYkOoOoO]

The Lord of the Rings.

That's how I started here. Too bad that part of the forum is gone.

I do miss the Green Dragon.

[Steve from Indy]

http://img136.imageshack.us/img136/6719/neuralizer2um5.jpg

LOL I think I got one of those in my brain...http://img40.imageshack.us/img40/3444/crazy1no.gif

[Steve from Indy]

?........where am I?

Who are you!?

[Ramplate]

WHO ARE YOU PEOPLE???!?!?!?!
http://www.textfiles.com/artscene/mirrors/GRAPE-DEMO-ARCHIVE/graphism/op/pixel/pixel-scared.png

[Boro]

I think I was talking to Tornado about an RPG I was in over at IGN, and how it was starting to die. He told me about the Star Wars RPG here that had just started so I joined.

[Carnage Escobar]

I was trying to look for some info on The Matrix sequels and I found Comingsoon.net. Loved the sight and and lurked for a while. It wasn't until 5 months after that that I even noticed the forums. Checked it out and loved it. This was during the height of Star Wars, LOTR, Harry Potter, and Matrix popularity so the place was packed all the time. Then I decided to join right after Spider-Man 2 came out. The rest as they say, is history.

[Jack]

Looking for the Scream 3 teaser in 1999.


Yeah...I know.

[Tzarinna]

There, there, it's all in the past. :(

[JBond]

Heh, since it was so long ago when I joined, it'd fun to mention a 90's movie I was looking for, but actually I was looking for classic trailers like Star Wars and the like.

I remember when the Tomorrow Never Dies trailer came out in 97, though.

[Ramplate]

http://www.threadbombing.com/data/media/18/darkside_cat.jpg

[Justin]

Please, stop with the cat pictures. They aren't funny.

[Tzarinna]

I knew someone was on the edge. :lol:

[Ramplate]

Please, stop with the cat pictures. They aren't funny.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v211/ramplate/542537185_84309b02f8.jpg
:P

[Tolkien]

I actually look forward to seeing the lol-cat pictures here. They're a hoot and a half. lol.

[Doomsday]

I was looking specifically for the Gladiator trailer back in the fall of 1999. I looked for days online not even knowing if it was out yet, then I stumbled onto the site for the first time the exact day it was released. Had I been a day earlier, that probably would have been the last time I visited, since this is the only entertainment website I visit.

[JBond]

Oooooo, it's like fate, or something.

[donny]

I was on vacation with my family in 2002. We decided to go to a movie theater near our hotel and see The Road To Perdition. At the concessions stand there was a sheet of paper that had a list of movies "coming soon". I stumbled upon Indiana Jones IV. Unaware that there was even any talk of another one, I just had to remember the site so I could check out more information on it when I returned to the hotel and used the guest computer. I have always been a fan of movies, but I always got information about upcoming ones through the previews before the movies and on t.v. Anyways, I go back to the hotel and read about Indy and a whole bunch of movies coming out in the near future (Spider-Man 2, T3, X2, The Two Towers, Batman, Superman, Superman VS Batman, Star Wars III, The Matrix Reloaded). This site really got me interested in movies and following up on them way before they even came out. It also got me to widen my variety in films(which I am very thankful for) and have a serious interest in learning the process of how a film is made (such as filming, editing, casting, music, and so forth). I began to watch films from all different genres and all different time periods along with researching about the directors and their other films. Like I said, I am very thankful for that.

I have now been going on here for 6 years and did not join the forums until 2004, 2 years after I discovered the site. However, I was a daily viewer of the forums during its height of popularity. The forum was packed with people discussing all the big franchise films. It was cool seeing what other people's thoughts were about them.

I remember the first time seeing the website and checking out the Indy IV page and saying to my brother how awesome it is another one was being made. We were talking about how we couldn't wait until July 4th 2003 to see it (I believe that was once the rumored of many release dates it had). Little did I know at the time that it would not be until 6 years later that it finally comes out :P. Still, I will be there. In closing, before I saw this site I would consider my self a casual movie goer. Now, I am a bigger fan of movies than I ever thought I would be.

[Starwars411]

I used to go to the site Countingdown.com, but I started to look for more good movie sites and found this back in 2002 or 2003. I liked it a lot more than other movie sites and decided to stay here. Then I joined the forums not long after. It's weird that I've been here almost 5 years.

[Ashift30]

I started lurking 3 years ago after googling a movie box office report and it brought me here. 2 years ago I posted a movie review and got blasted out of the water as my first post. I was called a "studio plant." Cracked me up.

I come here to get away from my world of reality.

[Knerys]

I was drunk and a weird guy in a Clown wig lured me in with a midget and animals ballons.

[Fanible]

I think that would scare me even more if I were drunk at the time.

[Diablo]

Back when the first Pirates came out, (Either near release or after release.. can't remember) I was googling about it and I guess I stumbled upon a thread from here. I can't remember what it was about, but yeah, I would only come on maybe once and a while then for whatever reason I started posting more frequently.

And here I am reigning Male poster of the year. ;)

I don't know whether I should be proud, or sad. :(

(BTW, this was a jab at Kane to get the CS awards going, but that's a different thread)

[Darth Bane]

Back in 2003, I was traveling to the restroom when I ran across this fascinating room...and wouldn't you know it, it was filled with great big chamber pots.

Fascinating, I thought.

I lurked for a bit without posting and the conversation level of those chamber pots (you nuts) was worth my while so I stuck around.

Eventually forgot my username's password and email address because I found myself lurking so ruddy much so I re-registered under this one...Ah yes, not enough Darths here at CS. Originality was never my strong suit.

But being entertained by crazies was...Hence my fascination with this place.

[KUsubaruchick]

I found the forums while searching for information on The Rum Diary.... it's been about 3 and a half years and I still haven't found any reliable info about the movie. Thanks CS! :)

[JBond]

Haha, I first came on to the internet to look for movie stuff in 1997-8 after Alien: Resurrection to find news on Alien 5.

Stiiiill waiting, Internet.

[halo7]

I was looking specifically for movie posters. I ran across this site in my travels and I didn't even realize there was a community section for quite some time.

[J1gS4w]

Looking for info on Saw 4 at school and poof here I am!

[Darth Bane]

Haha, I first came on to the internet to look for movie stuff in 1997-8 after Alien: Resurrection to find news on Alien 5.

Stiiiill waiting, Internet.

lol Keep waiting, J.

Since the latest from a fly on the wall over Fox suggests the Strause brothers are getting approved for AvP 3 (to be centered on an alien planet), we still have two or more years before Alien 5.

Man, I really....really.....really...loved that fanboy-started rumor back in 2004 that said Ridley Scott and James Cameron were collaborating on an Alien 5. Alas, the fanboys who start the rumors sometimes have the right idea but the directors never agree with it.

[HaDoKen]

Through Superherohype .... and I was visiting for a while until I noticed the forums link

[UnicornBlood3]

Well it was right after the fifth Harry Potter book came out and I was looking for stuff about and I ended up here somehow.