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[astrovanman]

ILB on IMDB?

[CoffeeJedi]

that sucks, i wondered why i couldn't link to it from the VA's bios

probably just as well, the message board would be filled with the following:

THIS SUCKS!

this film is rascist!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

X-Men was better than this crap!

IMDB message boards: we're never met a movie that our core group of angry fourteen year olds actually liked

[thebruce]

is there like a radio drama category or something? technically, the acting talent was in the audio, and technically the audio drama isn't a video game... if it's entered as an audio-only style media, such as radio drama, it might be accepted.

[astrovanman]

I thought about that too, but I entered pretty much all of the info from the MIA page because I didn't want to leave anyone out. There's no question that ILB can be placed in more than one catagory. It may be that IMDB sees ILB as just a marketing thing or a commercial, so it's not 'worthy' of being listed on IMDB. I hate that, but there's not much I do now.

Edit: IMDB doesn't have a place for audio-only, or radio dramas that I know of.

[Anton P. Nym]

Well, it is the Internet Movie Data Base after all.... ILB is many things, but without a video component I suspect it'll never be considered a "movie".

-- Steve's kinda surprised that they accept VG submissions, but guesses that the cinematics give them a fig-leaf to hide behind.

[Astald]

I tried this too, awhile ago. Still got no responce on my end, but I am sure it will be a rejection like you got astrovanman. The closest option they had for what to consider the title was a video game. The only other options I believe were movie and tv show. Hopefully they will send me my rejection soon, so I can try again. I will fight to the end...

[WhiteGulls]

I will join you in your epic battle...

...thingy.

Maybee if we all annoy them enough, they'll give into our demands, and start up either an ARG section, or put ILB into the credits!

[Astald]

I doubt they will begin an entire ARG section of IMDb, but it is possible that they would add an audio catagory. But that doesn't matter, no one can stop the Beekeepers! (except for those giant wasps... and maybe sunlight, yeah, sunlight may hurt us)

[tgirl]

IMdB addition criteria...and getting rejected

[astrovanman]

Well, I thought about putting all of the info with Halo 2 also, but I'm worried that with the way IMDb is set up, it will be hard to discern Halo 2 cast and crew from ILB cast and crew.

I'm not very familiar with how the Beast was done, but looking at the IMDb credits for A.I. I really couldn't tell you who worked on the Beast; except for Sean Stewart - pupper master; Stan Winston Studio.

So my vote is for a separate entry for ILB, but with many references to Halo 2 of course.

[tgirl]

Thanks.

Yeah, I agree too, but with the reaction we're getting from imdb, it doesn't seem they want to get it up on there as a work unto itself.

My thought re: piggybacking would be to list the actor's/crew names and jobs/character names as ILB Durga, ILB Kamal, ILB audio recorder, etc. so it would be very easy to id the ILB crew.

Just a thought. Of course, it would be best if it were accepted on it's own merits, but who knows what they want.

Anyway, if anyone wants to give that a whirl, that might be the way to do it. I won't be able to do that for a while.

Be well.

Tara

www.taraplatt.com

[astrovanman]

You're right, they probably won't list ILB on it's own. I'm gonna try later on today(after I get back from class) to post all of the cast/crew on Halo 2 with the ILB: etc... format.

I think it's at least important that you all get recognized for your hard work.

[krystyn]

Good call on that, Tara! I hope this idea works - esp. if it worked for the Beast.

Rock!

[astrovanman]

Alrighty, I just sent all the credits to IMDb, except for the special thanks part, most of those names were already on the Halo2 credits and I just ran out of steam. I forgot how long it took me to enter all those names in the first time. I will add them later assuming IMDb accepts the rest of the credits I sent them.

*fingers crossed*

I will post back here when I learn anything from IMDb.

[thebruce]

PS welcome to the forums Tara since no one else mentioned it yet