Not sure brickfilming has been around long enough to have a golden era...

A lot of people have referred to the time before 2008-ish (if I remember) as the golden age, as that was around the time we started getting a lot of dynamic-duos and just seeing an overall decrease in the effort put into films as at that point more people just decided to go for short one-joke flicks rather than memorable long ones.

It's probably just because people seem to look back at the older days of brickfilms wearing extremely thick nostalgia goggles, not realizing that brickfilming hasn't changed all too much apart from the dramatic increase in popularity, obviously increasing the chance of more short flicks.

We don't have nearly as many dynamic-duos and cliches now as we used to so I'm guessing you were reading quite an old review, as most people don't look on brickfilming today with the same bias as they used to.

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How dare you, JK, how dare you deny our holocaust--I mean Golden Days.  We lived through it.  It happened.  Many of us have even survived the Exodus from Brickfilms.com and the 1000 millisec journey to BricksinMotion.com.  You have no right to say it never happened because you were there too!

Apologize to the Brickfilmian people!

You're lying and you know it! Not only did the "golden days" and the "exodus" never happen, Lechnology here is secretly a ROBOT! THAT'S RIGHT! A ROBOT!

THE REAL LECHNOLOGY IS BEING HIDDEN IN BERTL'S BASEMENT AND BEING STARVED TO DEATH

Been wondering why BertL hasn't been around in so long? HE HASN'T BEEN AROUND BECAUSE HE'S TOO PREOCCUPIED WITH STARVING INNOCENT PEOPLE! TO DEATH!

SMEAGOL WAS IN KAHOOTS WITH THICKASABRICK THE ENTIRE TIME

THEY'RE PLANNING TO PUT US ALL IN BERTL'S BASEMENT AND STARVE US TO DEATH

they're coming for me next. any post i make from here on out will be a robot impersonating me

get out while you still have the chance

Mod edit: Haha! I sure was silly.

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Like some people have already said, as the group of people who make brickfilms has gone up, a much higher percentage of those are young kids who don't take the hobby seriously. With youtube the all end up on the internet, and they pop up all over the place, many of them here. I didn't post anything on BiM or even join for awhile because I saw it as a community for serious brickfilmers and the only videos released here were films of at least decent length and quality, stuff that was worth watching. The reason the film directory failed was because of tons of submissions of 30 second shorts that the creators didn't put much effort into; so yes, the community has gone down hill, starting before I joined, that's for sure. I also believe that most of the people here who post other places beside putting a film in the release forum really are trying to improve their film making, I know I am. It's not that there arn't still good brickfilms coming out, just look at the amount of work the BuilderBrothers are putting into The Squire and the Scroll; it's just that there are a lot more, lets face it, bad brickfilms being spewed all over youtube in between the good ones. (I myself have been guilty of this in my earlier stages in brickfilming).

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Wow, thanks for all of the great insight everyone! Some very good points have been made here. I suppose people could be being a bit too nostalgic. Then again, the community did seem to be tighter back then, with more professional work being dished out. And it is harder to find a truly stunning brickfilm nowadays. When I've been on this site, I do find there are several releases a day, and usually a majority of them are fairly poorly thought out. I don't really have a problem with younger kids getting in to brickfilming, and they tend to not know any better than to make what they make, which is generally not great work. Just maybe when they get older we might start to see better films from them? The fact that they join this site might be because they think that they are actually very good brickfilmers. I know that when I was 10 and started to get in to brickfilming, I thought all of my films were really impressive; amazing pieces of art. Of course, they were not that... at all. Some of the brickfilmers from this 'golden era' are still around (Smeagol, MindGame...), but it seems like others have been drifting away (Nathan Wells, Nosniborus...). I wonder if that's because of the changes that have happened over time in the community? Or, merely a loss of interest... I love hearing everyone's thoughts, this is a really intriguing subject for me. Keep 'em coming!

Just wondering, what happened to Brickfilms.com in the first place, that it became inactive and everyone migrated here?

Wow.

Wow. I just read that entire article, and it was extremely interesting. I knew there was controversy surrounding Brickfilms.com (vs. BricksinMotion.com) but I had no idea all of the juicy details. Thanks for posting that, Realm of the Unreel. It's really cool learning the history of this hobby. It seems that in the olden days of Brickfilms.com, brickfilming was more authentic. There were more thought-out works being distributed. I think that the reason for brickfilming becoming more popular, for better or for worse, is the evolution of the internet. YouTube makes it easier for people to find brickfilms, learn about it, and make them, whether they're 9 years old or 20 years old. That article was written in 2008, so it would be cool if someone would write an updated version, with that same information and then more info on the years that followed, up until now. I know I read somewhere in the forums that people were starting an official brickfilming wiki, so I'd like to see where that goes.