Forums are less 'chatroom'. You can have sub forums like requests, discussion of films in cinemas, requests, off topic etc etc. it would also bump threads which have been interacted with recently. You know like a classic phpBB forum.

It would also be a forum-client which was topic-focused and perhaps appeal to people outside of the bitcointwitter chatroom bubble.

It's just an idea.

Alternatively: You could also have a sidebar of Latest Comments maybe? Just another idea.

But mostly thinking a reskinnwed archive films with better UI, ability to discuss, rate films, add to watchlist etc ect. Could have fairly wide appeal.

That's my thinking. Perhaps mixture of aolarmovies and letterboxd. But yeah, I suppose a forum isn't essential for this.