Nice job people! Where's my coffee? :D
A very expansive site. The emoticon panel is a great idea. It's very easy to interpret the wrong tone in a sentence, and not everyone is savvy to emoticons. Having them available from a pannel will make it that much easier, and thus a better forum.
I would urge caution in being too organized in creating forum sections though. There is such a thing as disorder in too much order.
Imagine a house party, if you will, with many guests. Invariably, people splinter off into groups in the kitchen, rec room, living room, etc. Heck, even within these rooms people form subgroups. At the end of the party all go home, hopefully happy, but with only a tunneled experience of the whole party.
This analogy could be argued as a good thing, as well as a bad thing. But I believe, as web designers of this site, it is something you may want to keep in mind.
Looking forward to many great and illuminating times here at muvipix. It was well worth the wait!