In case you hadn't noticed: Comments are working, and some good discussions have been started -- annotations to particular Opening Shots and (especially stimulating) various reactions to my diatribes against the Slate writer who bashed "The Searchers" for his own anti-intellectual, anti-"film geek" reasons that have little or nothing to do with the movie. (And will somebody please respond to Kevin's questions about the character of Debbie?) I've set it up so that the newest comments are at the top bottom -- like the blog itself (or an e-mail thread). Let me know how that works for you.
I've got LOTS of Opening Shots contributions backed up, but not to worry: I plan to work through them for as long as it takes. Some people have written asking if it's too late to submit something. Hell, no! It will never be too late. Even if everybody else stops sending them in, I'm going to continue indefinitely. This is an inexhaustible subject; I can't imagine I'll ever run out of opening shots to think about, write about, and savor.
Because you have invited the opinions of your readership, I will weigh in and say that I dislike the fact that the newest comments are at the top.
It violates the normal instinct to read from top to bottom, it requires a great deal of scrolling up and down when there are longer comments, and there's no particular benefit to it (because the number of comments in parenthesis changes we know when there are new comments before clicking on the Permalink, so putting the newer comments at the top doesn't fulfill that function).
This is a wonderful site, by the way, and you're doing some great things here!
JE: I think you make a good point, Andy. In some ways it's intuitive (you want to read the newest stuff first), but in other ways it violates the sense of continuity you need in a threaded discussion. So, you've convinced me! I'll change it.
I just noticed on my TiVo that it claims that Comedy Central will air "Trapped in the Closet" on July 19, in their usual "new" episode timeslot, at 10 and 12 PM Eastern. Go, Freedom! (I think)
I know this doesn't apply to this post, per se, but the original post was quite far down. But I read your site enough to know that it was far down, so I suppose that's a good thing.
Just chiming in on this -- it doesn't seem to be working yet. New comments are still appearing at the top, at least as of the Tom Cruise post currently at the top of the page.
JE: Guess that last "rebuild" didn't take. I think it's working now. Thanks for the heads-up...
Well, it looks like they're going from top (old) to bottom (new) now. I like that much much much better, with the most recent comments at the bottom.