Jimmy, Great point! I always find it funny when people decide that somehow liking something makes others into snobs. That tells us much more about the ignorance of the commenter than the subject of the comment. Being proud of our ignorance and narrow-mindedness, and especially being self-righteous about it, is nothing anyone should respect.

I love foreign films because of the different perspective they give. I like seeing the different points of view and the quirky bits that fill these films.

Everything you list is great. In terms of some of my favorites: Tampopo (Japanese), anything by Kurosawa -- especially High and Low, Das Boot (German), Run Lola Run (German), Diagolique (French), Hero (Chinese), Breaker Morant and Strictly Ballroom (if you count Australian films as foreign), My Sassy Girl (Korean), The Grudge (Japanese), Shall We Dance (Japanese), and many more.

I'll second that!

P.S. I forgot to mention, we think we've solved all the buggy problems -- we did extensive testing. But you never can tell until it gets started. And if proves to be a problem, we can always go back to blogger.

Happy Birthday Patti!!!!!

Scott, I'm honestly not a fan of the thumbing up/down system either. We're not really in a competition to generate good comments or bad, we'd rather people just spoke their minds no matter how others feel about it.

All in all though, we think that the benefits outweigh the problems. Still, if there is a problem, we can always re-evaluate.

Jed, That was part of our reasoning -- it makes ir easier for a lot of people to not have to switch accounts to comment at our place. Also, this system does let you correct typos and the such until someone responds to you.

Please feel free to leave comments to test the system!

And you can reply to this too.

This comment was a reply to the comment above, it starts a whole new branch of the thread.

Give people a thumbs up when you agree or you like the comments. That shows people you read their comments and it's kind of nice.