Classic Film : NO LONGER STRESSED - NO NEED TO HELP.

Oh dear.

I am the generally genial and cool poster you guys know and love (well some of you anyway, I hope) as JeffersonCody.

Logged in and posting under my longtime user name of Jefferson Cody, I was posting on Film General and rating the movies I saw today, when I clicked onto a poll to vote on the films which were nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay this year. I noticed that while I was logged in on my profile page and on the forums (ie. Classic Film and Film General), I was not logged in on the poll page, or on the IMDB home page. So I tried to log in again. I couldn't remember my password and asked IMDB to reset it, which didn't work.

To cut a long, stressful story short I somehow created a new account. And now I cannot access my JeffersonCody account - on which I have rated over 9,500 films and which was (thanks to long ago advice from former CFB regular) rollotreadawy is set in the old IMDB format. Nor can I change my user name.

I am extremely stressed about having to re-rate over 9,500 films. Obviously I would appreciate some advice. Could one of you guys or girls provide it.

What can I do to get my account and user name back.

http://www.imdb.com/user/ur20231458/

Go to Hell, you damned troll!

Up yours you silly, simple-minded, snaggle-toothed old bag. I realize you are not very bright and are a heinous old woman, but this is a genuine request for help and advice on how to solve a problem.

(smile emoticon) Hope you got my heartfelt PM snurrie!

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Go to Hell, you damned troll!

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Good one! LMAO!

Don't you have the email address the account was registered with? Where do your notifications go? The new password email should have gone to the same place if it was reset. You could also try contacting the helpdesk and tell them you are locked out of your old account.

* I am a bit dazed and confused right now farne (and I haven't been smoking weed). I have changed my e-mail address in the last few years, but I had it cloned so any e-mails going to the old address would automatically be sent to my new address. I think I do need to contact the help desk rather urgently, but I can't find the address. I would be most appreciative if you could provide a link to it. I haven't even logged out of the IMDB for years. Thank you for your help.

* It appears the hideous old poster snsurone (the one who wished death on Vanessa Redgrave recently) - who seems to think I am a troll, has reported me - for what I don't know, and I now have the red letters on top of this post. What sort of person would pop up and say that sort of thing to someone who is obviously anxious and distressed. And then report me.

It looks like the helpdesk has been replaced by that Getsatisfaction thing. You can log in through Facebook if you have an account.

https://getsatisfaction.com/imdb

Reported as troll

Kijii - it is me JeffersonCody, we had a conversation about HIDDEN FIGURES the other day, in which I also mentioned films such as CAPTAIN FANTASTIC - we both enjoyed it thoroughly and loved Viggo's performance, MOONLIGHT, FENCES, MANCHESTER BY THE SEA and other Oscar nominated films. A month or so back i disagreed with you about your opinion of FLORENCE FOSTER JENKINS - which I enjoyed and found compassionate toward the Meryl Streep character, and you did not.

If I was a troll what on earth would I benefit from posting a thread such as this? Please don't be silly. I honestly expected more from a decent poster as yourself.

I shall try and put my original real-life photograph in my avatar. Will that convince you of my sincerity and genuine despair?

JeffersonCody was a troll also. I don't know which is worse.

So says one of Film General's most empty-headed trolls.

I clicked on your ID on Get Satisfaction. It said you joined on September 13, 2016.

Your ID here says you joined on February 2017.

Not to be rude but why wouldn't your Get Satisfaction question avatar say 'February 2017'?

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To cut a long, stressful story short I somehow created a new account.

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Hi Boomer - I don't know what the hell is happening, but it's me the one and only Jefferson Cody (Grant). The same dude who said some sweet, sincere things about you when I said goodbye to you this this morning (SA time) and has exchanged PMs with you in the past. And thank you for that story about Philip Seymour Hoffman and Miles Davis. I enjoyed it very much.

Like I say, I have no idea what is happening or what I have done. But it is a surreal situation. How do you think I was able to post my picture. I'll tell you what, I will post my daughter's picture in my avatar for a few minutes, then I will change it back to my picture. I don't know what I have to do to convince you, but surely you realize it is me? On the plus side (and it's the only plus - I want my ratings back), my posting limit has suddenly gone back to normal. I never really talk about my sweet, gentle lovely daughter on the CFB, so if being a proud dad for a moment proves I am the one and only Jefferson Cody, I am going to be a proud dad for a moment. Here is my baby girl Boomer, my Robin-Lee.

PS. Click on my (new) getsatisfaction profile if you can, and you will see an enquiry I made about Oscar badges not showing up on my profile yonks ago.

Just realized that posting Robin's pic probably only makes this only seem weirder. Hope you can see the resemblance. Anxiously awating your reply, so I can change back to my photo.

Your daughter is very lovely. I'm sure you are very proud.

Yeah, I would have thought your GS date would have gone back to when you had all that trouble with Spike though..

On the other hand it would be silly for a troll to mess with Get Satisfaction. You have to always look at subject matter from more than one side.

Hopefully these people will be able to solve your problems. Yes, no one wants to come this far & see all their hard work go for naught.

That is an old picture of Lee Lee Sobieski.

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You daughter is very lovely. I'm sure you are proud.

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She's a sweet, dear precious person Boomer, and I love her dearly, but oh Lord the heartbreak and pain her mother has caused me (well, not anymore - she has has just had a double mastectomy and bravely survived cancer, so it is time to stop fighting). And the damage my affair with her did to my relationship with my longtime partner - took a while to fix that; but all is good now. Robin will be chuffed when I tell her some dude on the IMDB thinks she looks like a young Lee Lee Sobieski (not that she knows who Lee Lee Sobieski is, but I'll show her a photograph on the net). 'Course, the actress she really adores is Kristin Stewart - when she first came back into my life after years of legal battles we bonded over the TWILIGHT movies (the things we do for our kids; I told her I loved them). Truth be told, they were pretty damn awful.

Kristin Stewart hosted Saturday Night Live last night! I came in late, but what I saw it looked like she did a fine job. I'd read during the week that she was dreading it.

I'm sorry but I didn't pay much attention to it as I was copying threads last night, you might want to preview it first, and then show it to your daughter. Kristin did have a make out scene with another female performer, during their fake commercial. You know what's best for your daughter.

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as I was copying threads last night, you might want to preview it first, and then show it to your daughter. Kristin did have a make out scene with another female performer, during their fake commercial. You know what's best for your daughter.

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Robin is not as young as she looks Boomer, we have both been through a lot in our lives and I don't say no to much - she had to grow up fast in the time she lived with her mother - who was a high end escort for a few years. We have both had hard lives, but we have survived.

When she asked me to buy her a DVD of BLUE IS THE WARMEST COLOUR I did, because she wanted to watch it. She watched it and then phoned me to tell me she enjoyed it, but thought it was "a bit rough". I said no ways, it was beautiful, and then we debated its merits. Although I did say no to her watching Lars von Trier's NYMPHOMANIAC, I certainly won't have a problem with her watching Kristen Stewart making out with a female performer on Saturday Night Live.

She's very big on Japanese anime flicks, and her Greek boyfriemd is studying animation. Both of them draw wonderfully well - a talent she inherited from her mother's alcoholic father, Willie. Now there was a character.

Have fun with your imaginary daughter. She was hot in in The Wicker Man remake.

Oh my Glory Boomer. I just realized why you were warning me about the the content on SNL. Robin was 17 in that picture and looked very young for her age. She is four years older now, but this was the only picture of her I had on my computer. I don't know to put a picture from my phone into my avatar (although I suppose I could load it from the phone onto the computer, even though I am not very tech savvy).

Now do you recognize me kijii.

You're not gonna like this. Someone else had a similar problem:

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Please know that for the safety and protection of our customers, we can only send passwords to the email address that is registered with the account. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause if you can no longer access that email address. Unless you can remember the password, it is our suggestion that you register for a new account

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https://getsatisfaction.com/imdb/topics/help-9h4pyweac6c4t

Are you sure you didn't get a password reset email? Is it not in your spam folder? Maybe you didn't actually reset it. You could try doing the lost password thing again and see if the email comes through.

Thank you for your kindness and concern farne. I fear I have cocked up monumentally, because I did get a password reset - at the same address I have been getting e-mail notifications from the IMDB for all the years I have been here. The strange thing is I can't even change my user name - that's my real name up there, on this "new' account. It's a surreal situation - what with people thinking I am a troll and all - and I fear I will have to start my ratings all over again. I'm gutted, but I'm going to let it go unti the morning (it's 12.30AM here in South Africa. Then I will start what is sure to be a long and arduous battle with the IMDB to get my original account back.

Be well, take care and may life without the forums treat you with kindness.

Man, oh, man! This is just awful. I don't know whether to laugh or to cry at how this has been received. I don't know what to suggest but at least know that I am thinking of your travails in these dying days.

Loved reading your incredibly personal and fascinating thoughts on 'Lifeguard'. Haven't seen it but I dearly want to now. You certainly have a way with words and an ability to evoke feelings and associations that makes for observations shot through with pathos and humanity.

I hope that you won't disappear completely in a few short days!

Good luck with the attempts to get back to your original outpost in this soon to be arid wasteland.


That's all, folks!

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Man, oh, man! This is just awful. I don't know whether to laugh or to cry at how this has been received.

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It is roger. No need for tears, but the reception - particularly from kijii; with whom I was having a pleasant exchange about HIDDEN FIGURES just a few short days ago - is truly sad. These are obviously people so paranoid they expect lies and subterfuge at every turn and are blind to the sincerity of a genuinely open and honest human being totally lacking in guile.

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I don't know what to suggest but at least know that I am thinking of your travails in these dying days.

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You empathy is much appreciated. You are a good man.

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Loved reading your incredibly personal and fascinating thoughts on 'Lifeguard'. Haven't seen it but I dearly want to now. You certainly have a way with words and an ability to evoke feelings and associations that makes for observations shot through with pathos and humanity.

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Thank you roger. It is so cool of you to say such kind and generous things about me.

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I hope that you won't disappear completely in a few short days!

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We'll Meet Again Some Sunny Day

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Good luck with the attempts to get back to your original outpost in this soon to be arid wasteland.

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Sadly, I have just finished a final failed desperate attempt to get back to my "original outpost". It's officially over. I can never go home again.



and the late, achingly human, Townes Van Zandt with PANCHO AND LEFTY

Oh, my heart dropped when I saw the saddening news. It's a real kick in the guts, dude. That's quite some repair job you have in front of you. The chassis is on the floor and both axles are broken.

Stay strong, my friend. Your ratings can, I hope, come roaring back. And thank you for the music. The second one in particular is a great personal favourite and I loved hearing it playing once more.

Here's! to all the things that are good in life!

Oh, and I was happy to hear of the drugs-related happenings a few short days ago (although I am a non-user myself).




That's all, folks!

I reported you, little fool

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I reported you, little fool

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For what little schmeckle?

sh!t happensdeal with it!!!

I am dealing with it kos. And, having had a bit of a sleep and a monster spliff before arriving on the boards tonight, I'm certainly less stressed out.

Kill yoursell miserable worthless dumbass dog turd wanker

I mean it.

I really hate the misfortune that has happened to you, but, before I go any further, give me a small clue that this is really you. It shouldn't be too hard to do.

It's a shame that the CFB has become such an evil dwelling for demons and that I should even have to question/test you, but surely you understand.




An audience should not be conscious of technique - David Lean

Hi Boo - I assure you it is me JeffersonCody.

Clue 1: You never did reply to my last PM to you. My PM thanked you for your PM saying some wonderful things about me and - if memory serves - celebrating your 10 year anniversary on the IMDB.

Clue 2: I am sure you remember when I sarted a thread entitled CONFESSIONS OF A MOVIE ADDICT listing films I had been watching. You popped up to note how similar our tastes were. One of the films I mentioned in my O/P was Jeff Nichols' (MUD, LOVING) indie gem SHOTGUN STORIES - with Michael Shannon.

Clue 3: We both feel the same way about the infrequent poster/troll known as Sprockets - who Addie always props up. We were both hellishly amused when a poster whose user name eludes me suggested that the perfect Christmas DVD for Sprockets' (eternally) "12-year-old nephew" was GROUNDHOG DAY. The perfect present for a kid who was going to stay 12 forever on sprockets' annual thread asking for "recommendations for my 12-year-old nephew", and then gleefully shooting them down as the CFB regulars - the one who couldn't see through her act - responded.

B.T.W. Have you seen LOVING yet, and if so what did you think of it?

regards

Grant (aka the poster formally known as Jefferson Cody)

JC

I am truly sorry about your account issues.

My good friend spiderwort convinced me to join the IMDB v2, and I really hope you consider joining as well.
Would really love to continue to read your wonderful and heartfelt opinions about films.




An audience should not be conscious of technique - David Lean

I am not sure I will be joining anymore forums in the immediate future Boo. Working and watching films takes up a lot of my time, and I have started writing again - which is hugely time consuming. Not to mention dealing with the quotidium, which is always a bugger.

I just thought I would do some serious last posts now because the CFB isn't going to be around for much longer, and I can't deny there's a nostalgia factor.

It was really great having you show up here on my thread. You are the one of the posters on the IMDB it has truly been a pleasure to interact with.

All this posting is taking its toll, though. I'm exhausted from trying to burn the candle at both ends, and tomorrow is my 57th birtday so I have a big family bash at my cousin's nerdy middle aged computer whizz boyfriend's (he hit it really big with his IT business) ridiculously luxurious beachfront penthouse tomorrow morning (when one sits on the huge, sun drenched wrap-around balcony and looks over the sea one can see schools of dolphins frolicking in the bay, and sometimes even whales out there. The penthouse is like something from the movies - as is the interior of the building, and some of my oldest relatives (in their eighties and nineties) will also be there, so I am looking forward to catching up them. Then, Friday night I have another get together with a rather special group of friends. All of which is a long-winded way of saying I gotta get more than two hours sleep tonight.

Hopefully I'll manage to pop out a few heartfelt opinions and/or mini-reviews of some of the movies I have been watching lately before the last round is served and this place shuts down for good.

Right now I'm feeling a little burned out. Also, I just noticed a self pitying, hopelessly misguided and rather disingenuous post about me from ole Dirty Byrdz - who contininues to viciously quote me out of context on his profile page and thinks that my use of the word Prurient in "The Prim, The Prissy & The Prurient" is meant as a synonym and therefore dubs me a "fool', that I want to respond to in the next day or so. I note that he is already dreading my response, but he might be surprised by what I have to say. With me, they love to ignore the fact and print the legend around here. I know my comments can often be carnally tinted or sexually exuberant at times, but this bewildered buffoon says I have an obsession with "bodily functions". I certainly don't, or ever have, talked about pissing and pooing on these forums, and if he thinks lovemaking is a "bodily function" I feel sorry for him.

Well, I wish you the best with your writings, and hopefully we'll see you pop in over on the IMDB V2 when ever you get a chance.

Take care and happy viewings !




An audience should not be conscious of technique - David Lean

I know how to save your ratings.

Go to this page: http://www.imdb.com/user/ur20231458/ratings and below Frank & Lola you will see this:

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Export this list

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If you click "Export this list", it will download a copy of your ratings into an excel-like spreadsheet.

As for how to then import those ratings into a new IMDb account, you might need to investigate further.

What you can do with the exported list though is import it into http://www.icheckmovies.com if you register an account there. Not the best option perhaps, but I have found iCM to be a pretty nifty site in the days since jumping off the IMDb sinking ship.

Most people think I'm mad. At least I know I'm mad.

Thanks sol, I have started looking into that option.

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As for how to then import those ratings into a new IMDb account, you might need to investigate further.

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That's the kicker.

If none of these thing work I have a plan in which I can do 200 ratings a day - which will take me 25 minutes a session (calling up my old account and then clicking on to the star rating on the old Jefferson Cody account - that sounded clumsy but I hope you get my meaning; it works, I did the first 100 re-ratings that way and gauged the time/concentration/energy required factors etc.). So it would take me about 48 days at 25-minutes a day. It would also give me a chance to revise some of my ratings. That 25-minutes might be fun from a reflective point of view as I whorl through the the movies of my life (well, the ones I have rated anyway: my memories of a movie (good or bad) I saw 40-years ago have to be sharp before I will rate it. And on weekends I could do 50-minute sessions a day (25 minutes morning, 25 minnings night). Whatever, I will work it out. At maximum concentration and focus I can take that 25-minutes-for-200 equation down to between 21 and 23 minutes. So I am not stressed anymore. All is good.

It's all good now.

Glad to hear. Can I (belatedly?) wish you a happy birthday. Be well, Jefferson/Grant.



p.s. Interesting to see the chaotic scenes in the South African parliament today. I haven't yet seen TDs in our own nation's Dáil resort to such fisticuffs and scuffles. Hehe Three cheers for Julius Malema. He seems like the kind of guy I could root for.


That's all, folks!

Thanks Roger - 57-years-old, still standing, still love the movies with a passion deep and true; saw a terrific Annette Bening and a wonderful ensemble in the excellent, seventies-set 20th CENTURY WOMEN yesterday.



PS: SA's hopelessly corrupt president Jacob Zuma gave the State of the Nation Address in parliament last night.

Not interested in watching, I'm working on the computer in the back room, my lady is sitting down to watch one of her favorite TV series' BLINDSPOT. She flicks over to ETV, and immediately calls me trhough to the lounge.

Zuma is about to give his speech, the huge parliamentary gallery is filled with dignitaries and invited guests from SA, Africa, Europe and other countries. The address is live on two national TV stations. It's a big moment for the ANC - who are preparing to roll out the new improved minimum wage - the eyes of the world are on them.

But the official opposition are prepared, the fiery worker's party, The EFF - dressed in their orange overalls and maid's outfits are prepared, COPE are prepared, and like most decent, honest South African they have have had enough of Zuma's antics, his defiance of the Constitutional Court and his party propping him up.

A DA member stands up, calls for a Point of Order, siting his Constitutional rights as an MP in SA, demanding 60 seconds of silence for the 94 mentally ill citizens who died tragic, unneccessary deaths due to ANC incompetance and financial greed, dubbing it a "massacre."

From here, one MP after another right across the house stands up, The dignified Struggle veteran and hero, COPE Leader Patrick "Terror" Lekota calls Zuma a "scoundrel.". EFF leader Julius Malema calls him a whole lot more than a scoundrel, This goes on for well over an hour until the EFF are violently rdemoved from parliament by the notorious "white shirts" - blows are traded.

After the EFF are forcibly removed, the DA stand as one and walk out of of parliament in protest. The audience in the galleries, some affected by teargas, leave parliamet by a side interest. Chaos in Parliament, but Zuma finally gives his speech. Da leader Mmusi Maimane addresses the media outside Parliament as, in the backround riot police must protect the EFf from angry ANC supporters.

Yesterday morning, concerned South Africans from across the racial spectrum, including many one time top ranking ANC officials - like legendary, nuch loved and respected former SA Minister of Finance Trevor Manuel, call a media briefing and deliver the Alternative State of the Nation Address. We're not going to take it anymore.

http://www.timeslive.co.za/politics/2017/02/09/WATCH-SONA-erupts-in-chaos-as-EFF-and-security-trade-blows1 _ Government spooks in the building managed to jam the sound at times, so this footage is silent.

http://www.enca.com/south-africa/da-vows-to-approach-courts-after-parly-walkout

http://www.heraldlive.co.za/news/2017/02/09/prepared-leave-parliament-coffin-malema/

Wow, thanks. Although I have a dear aunt in Cape Town, I must admit to something of a lack of familiarity with much of the country's current political system. I'll look through those links that you so thoughtfully provided with great interest.

And, yes, I'm really looking forward to seeing Annette Bening in '20th Century Women'. Read an awful lot of good things about that one. Truly a dazzling actress!




That's all, folks!