The orgin of -fin-

A few people have wondered why I sign my posts with -Fin-. Questions include, "Why do you call yourself Fin?" and "Are you swedish?".

Here is the explanation.

In the beginning of cinema, there was no sound. Only live music played along with the films. Thus, dialogue was conveyed with cards with words on it. These cards were interspersed throughout the film to propel the narrative. They were called intertitles.


Anyway, at the end of the film there would appear an intertitle with the word -Fin- on it. The interesting thing was that intertitles with dialogue in it would be changed for different country's languages. All of the intertitles would be changed except for the last one. Thus -Fin- was the global intertitle for the end of a film.

That's about all the patronising lecturing about film I'll give today :-)

Oh by the way:

LISA MADE ME PUT THIS POST UP. SHE LIKES DUCKS.

-Fin-

For clarification

Hmm... Okay here's a clarification of what's on the right hand side of the screen.

There's a list of recently watched movies - followed by a rating. My ratings loosely follow this legend:

0 - This is so awful that I would rate watching grass grow more interesting.

0.5 - Watching grass grow.

1 - Not worthy to be stepped on.

1.5 - If you watched this, I hope it was by accident.

2 - Getting there. Missed the mark in too many places though.

2.5 - A pass. Would see it once, but perhaps not again, depends on your personality.

3 - Good. Worth seeing once or twice, maybe even buying it.

3.5 - I didn't mind it at all. Nice movie, worth quite a few watches.

4 - Very good. See this.

4.5 - If you don't see this you're silly.

5 - If you haven't seen this I'm not sure we can be friends.

So there you have it - my rating system. Hope this clears a few things up.

-Fin-