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Phil Appreciation Thread

post #1 of 173
2/12/10 at 4:16pm
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I wanted to take a minute to bow in the direction of Phil. When Phil first started posting here he and I butted heads a number of times; usually I'm a better judge of character, but somehow I misjudged him completely. He's not just one of the smartest, best informed posters here, he's really funny and is one of the biggest supporters of real movie discussion. I've since met Phil in real life and can attest that he's even better in the real world.

Show your appreciation of Phil in this thread.

A QUICK NOTE: Please don't start up 600 imitation Appreciation Threads. Do me a favor and let me create a couple over the next few weeks to highlight great posters who contribute in big ways to the real point of the CHUD message boards, movie discussion. I'm going to ask Eileen to close other Appreciation Threads that get made. Thanks for understanding.
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post #2 of 173
2/12/10 at 4:18pm
Uncle Phil is always fun. Specially off the boards.
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post #3 of 173
2/12/10 at 4:19pm
Phil's great.
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post #4 of 173
2/12/10 at 4:19pm
Phil a G.
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post #5 of 173
2/12/10 at 4:20pm
I get chills when quoted by Phil!
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post #6 of 173
2/12/10 at 4:21pm
I've tried to keep my infrequent posting away from posting about posting or posters, but I'll jump in here and add that I know when I come across one of Phil's posts, in almost any context, I won't be wasting my time. He brings some great good stuff.
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post #7 of 173
2/12/10 at 4:21pm
Smart, friendly poster and when I see his name on a thread, I always check it out. One of the people here I wouldn't mind getting a beer with. And then we could get an apartment together.

I...I've said too much.
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post #8 of 173
2/12/10 at 4:21pm
Phil is funny and always very diplomatic'. He's the one of the 20 posters that I recognize beyond his avatar.
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post #9 of 173
2/12/10 at 4:22pm
Phil has always been a class act. Thanks for always being so helpful to me, especially in the PMs that we've exchanged.
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post #10 of 173
2/12/10 at 4:22pm
I've never met Phil, but I'd be lucky to do so. I don't think I've learned as much from a poster so easily as from Phil.

He's also one of the kindest posters. I really do like Phil.
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post #11 of 173
2/12/10 at 4:22pm
I like his William Devane icon. I will forever associate Phil as looking like William Devane.

But yeah - Phil is the kind of poster to emulate.
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post #12 of 173
2/12/10 at 4:24pm
Did I ever tell you about the time Phil took me out to go get a drink with him? We go off looking for a bar and we can't find one. Finally Phil takes me to a vacant lot and says, "Here we are." We sat there for a year and a half and sure enough someone constructs a bar around us. The day they opened we ordered a shot, drank it, and then burned the place to the ground. Phil yelled over the roar of the flames, "Always leave things the way you found em!"
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post #13 of 173
2/12/10 at 4:24pm
I dig Phil a lot. More people, myself included, should have the insight Mr. Nobile has on these boards.
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post #14 of 173
2/12/10 at 4:24pm
Chewer Supastar (That Is What You Are)
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post #15 of 173
2/12/10 at 4:25pm
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Originally Posted by Jake View Post
Did I ever tell you about the time Phil took me out to go get a drink with him? We go off looking for a bar and we can't find one. Finally Phil takes me to a vacant lot and says, "Here we are." We sat there for a year and a half and sure enough someone constructs a bar around us. The day they opened we ordered a shot, drank it, and then burned the place to the ground. Phil yelled over the roar of the flames, "Always leave things the way you found em!"
lol
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post #16 of 173
2/12/10 at 4:26pm
Yeah, Phil is the shit. Remember when everyone was fantasy casting for WATCHMEN and he picked Jackie Earle Haley for Rorschach long before the movie even started casting? Beyond impressive stuff, right there. Great film insight, especially about B 70's shit and movies in general.
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post #17 of 173
2/12/10 at 4:28pm
Man knows his stuff, and is always worth reading.
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post #18 of 173
2/12/10 at 4:31pm
If I ever need someone to help me take out the Texan and Automatic Slim, Phil's my main damie.
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post #19 of 173
2/12/10 at 4:31pm
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Originally Posted by Misfit View Post
when I see his name on a thread, I always check it out.
Absolutely. It's so appropriate Devin would kick off a series of appreciation threads with one about Phil. Dude is great and I hope to be more like him someday.
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post #20 of 173
2/12/10 at 4:34pm
I hope Phil's middle name is 'Awesome', because he deserves it to be. He makes great, informed posts and encourages discussion, and he's one of the posters who, when I see he's posted in a thread, makes me click on it.
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post #21 of 173
2/12/10 at 4:36pm
Phil changed my life!

Seriously, he's a Great poster.
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post #22 of 173
2/12/10 at 4:39pm
He's been one of my favorite posters around here since he was still going by 70sCinema. Just a great guy who actually causes me to reevaluate my stances on specific films and film appreciation with just a simple well reasoned comment or two.
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post #23 of 173
2/12/10 at 4:40pm
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Yeah, Phil is the shit. Remember when everyone was fantasy casting for WATCHMEN and he picked Jackie Earle Haley for Rorschach long before the movie even started casting?
I do! Then I remember Devin bragging about whispering the idea into Snyder's ear and taking all the credit for it. Good times.

I too have met this prolific man of the people when he was gracious enough to visit my table at a low rent indie comic con in the desolate wastelands of Philadelphia. He is a CHUD patriot, through and through. Despite my many overtures to register at the TFL boards, he will not betray this site.

Oh and he knows a lot of cool shit about every obscure movie ever made.
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post #24 of 173
2/12/10 at 4:41pm
Phil's great. Love his various takes on film.
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post #25 of 173
2/12/10 at 4:42pm
Phil's awesome.
A few years ago, I used to just lurk. But part of what convinced me to actually join were the great posts by Phil, along with ton of other folks.
Good to have him here.
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post #26 of 173
2/12/10 at 4:43pm
Phil may be great and all, but the reason he's getting an "Appreciation Thread" right this minute is because he kissed Devin's ass really good in the "redneckjoe" thread.

Masterfully done, Phil. Boys and girls, that is how you get ahead in life.
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post #27 of 173
2/12/10 at 4:45pm
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Originally Posted by BusterG View Post
Phil may be great and all, but the reason he's getting an "Appreciation Thread" right this minute is because he kissed Devin's ass really good in the "redneckjoe" thread.

Masterfully done, Phil. Boys and girls, that is how you get ahead in life.

Fuck off, diggity. This is an appreciation thread. Don't shit it up.
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post #28 of 173
2/12/10 at 4:46pm
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Originally Posted by BusterG View Post
Phil may be great and all, but the reason he's getting an "Appreciation Thread" right this minute is because he kissed Devin's ass really good in the "redneckjoe" thread.

Masterfully done, Phil. Boys and girls, that is how you get ahead in life.
Go die in a fire. Please.

Yeah, Phil's awesome. His threads are always enlightening and interesting, even if some of them die quick, sad deaths.
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post #29 of 173
2/12/10 at 4:47pm
Poor Phil's appreciation thread...
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post #30 of 173
2/12/10 at 4:48pm
BUSTER! You can't do that on the balcony, buddy?
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post #31 of 173
2/12/10 at 4:48pm
Yeah, should have ignored him. Sorry.
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post #32 of 173
2/12/10 at 4:54pm
As much as I tend to talk about other things besides movies here, I usually avoid participating in the threads that are about the message boards, even when they're positive. But making an appreciation thread about Phil serves a really good purpose. Although there are other types of posters who are a valuable part of a message board, Phil is the kind most should be like. He knows his subject, is informative, and seems nice. Solid and without frills. The Robert Duvall of chewers.
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post #33 of 173
2/12/10 at 4:57pm
Phil is one of the best curmudgeonly old, power drinking horror pro's posting in the Creature Corner forums. My favorite quote of his regarding the mention of Whedon in a thread about a Re-Animator television series:


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Yeah, I'm pretty sure I don't want to be in the "grownups who like Buffy and Angel" club, so we're cool.

You sir, will always have my sword.
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post #34 of 173
2/12/10 at 4:57pm
There was a huge gap before Phil.
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post #35 of 173
2/12/10 at 4:58pm
Nothing wrong with throwing some appreciation out. Completely warranted for a fellow like Phil. He's made me chortle like a stunted pokemon more than a few times.
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post #36 of 173
2/12/10 at 5:00pm
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Phil is the kind most should be like. He knows his subject, is informative, and seems nice. Solid and without frills. The Robert Duvall of chewers.
And shares all of the cool stuff he finds around the web. I so appreciate some of the links he's sent me to items that he knows i'd get a kick out of. Plus he owns some of the greatest geeky movie inspired collectibles including ones that I foolishly threw away as I got older and would kill to still own. It's been said before by others but does anyone cause you to hurry to ebay the way Phil can?
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post #37 of 173
2/12/10 at 5:01pm
I would actually love to see a weekly column from Phil on random movie shit.
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post #38 of 173
2/12/10 at 5:02pm
Phil is the finder of cool shit in everything. Plus, he's the only Chewer that impresses me on a consistent basis.
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post #39 of 173
2/12/10 at 5:03pm
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Poor Phil's appreciation thread...
But sadly fitting in light of what has happened to many of his promising, well intended discussion threads in Miscellany
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post #40 of 173
2/12/10 at 5:05pm
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The Robert Duvall of chewers.
I don't know, I'm thinking more Jeff Bridges. Really knows his shit, pretty laid-back, can count on him to bring some quality.
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post #41 of 173
2/12/10 at 5:08pm
I'm thinking Gene Hackman, because he's good in anything. However, he'll always be William Devane, all the way.
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post #42 of 173
2/12/10 at 5:09pm
Good work, y'all, you've managed to start fancasting for a forum poster.
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post #43 of 173
2/12/10 at 5:10pm
Phil is good people, for all the reasons already stated. He's also one of the best drunk posters on the boards.

I kind of miss the exclamation point. If I ever switch to my real name I'm totally using one. In honor of Phil.
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post #44 of 173
2/12/10 at 5:10pm
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Good work, y'all, you've managed to start fancasting for a forum poster.
*obligitory Bruce Campbell suggestion*
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post #45 of 173
2/12/10 at 5:11pm
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Good work, y'all, you've managed to start fancasting for a forum poster.
Movie related discussion!
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post #46 of 173
2/12/10 at 5:11pm
I started out butting heads with Phil too. We exchangd PMs and its all good since. I respect his posts a hell of a lot, though we often do not necessarily agree. That's the best thing you can say about a poster, in my opinion - that you don't agree with them but enjoy their posts more than many of those that you do agree with.
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post #47 of 173
2/12/10 at 5:13pm
I didn't know there was all this HEAD BUTTING during Phil's early days.
I guess he has since traded in his camaro and hung up his rebel badboy leather jacket.
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post #48 of 173
2/12/10 at 5:13pm
My favorite thing about Phil is that never does he try to be/write/act like someone he's not. His stuff is funny and insightful, for sure, but more importantly it comes without affectation. That's becoming an increasingly rare and valuable commodity around these parts.
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post #49 of 173
2/12/10 at 5:18pm
The way he posts, it sounds like he'd sound like a Phil. If that makes any sense.
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post #50 of 173
2/12/10 at 5:27pm
Almost comically timed to be one of the weirder threads to come back from a lunch hour to...

Thanks everyone
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