Does anyone else get pissed off at the fact that the internet's most popular movie """review""" website is essentially just twitter 2.0?If you scroll through the """reviews""" on Letterboxd, you'll recognise very quickly that they aren't fucking reviews. It's just people with their Instagram's linked to their profile spamming retarded one liners and TikTok memes to get likes and attention.
>>215130220If you scroll popular reviews for any given title a few pages you will usually find at least a few actual reviews. Also I'm pretty sure that letterbox markets itself as a social media or network first and foremost, its not supposed to be a platform exclusively for serious film analysis.
>>215130220The whole fucking internet is twitter 2.0 now
>>215130220i dont need other people to tell me if a movie is good.
>>215130387Do you voluntarily waste hours of your life watching terrible movies because you don't check review scores?
anyone remotely intelligent dismissed it as such day 1.shit the purpose of the website is to help you keep track of what you've watched. ya know, the thing your brain is supposed to do if it isn't damaged.
>check top rated review from any random movie>"fuck drumpfh and free palestine!"
"Your favorite movie is actually about why my politically ideology is correct and yours is incorrect. Crazy coincidence, huh?"
>"Haha this movie is so fucking gay and chuds don't even realize it. Slay queeen."Every fucking movie
>>215130220if you want som indepth movie reviews i gotchu senpai. don't forget to drop a like and a follow.https://letterboxd.com/dingoatemybabi/films/reviews/by/added/
>>215131099bro gave the phantom menace five stars…
>>215131381david tattersall lensed it, it's a masterpiece
>>215131099i think you don't actually like watching movies
>>2151314041 means don't watch, 2+ means watch. 3+ is over 500 movies, so it's just to give you an idea of which movies to watch first.
>>215130411Yeah and you're a pussy if you don't do this
Letterboxd, for whatever reason, is comically left wing and the top reviews are always very political for no reason.
>>215131519It is genuinely difficult to find any movie on that website where the top review isn’t about Trump or feminism.
>>215131404>>215131442lmao. this is some wild shit
always had a feeling this site is a magnet for insufferable pretentious twats.
>>215131609absolutely nothing in that image is controversial
>>2151316622 stars for 12 angry men…
>>215130220I completely ignore all the social aspects because they are worthless. It's too bad the recent android update is complete ass because it's caused me to not even want to browse the site anymore, which is how I've discovered all sorts of kinos over the years
>>215131690you're right, should be one star. it's literally 12 angry men in one room for an hour and a half. now heat, that has kickass gunfights and pacino and de niro squaring off against one another. it's thematic and visual dynamite
>>215131662>animeslop for braindamaged kindergarteners>5 stars
>>215131609Swap the ratings of Heat and Persona and it'd be pretty accurate.
>>215131835spirited away is a masterpiece for all ages with a beautiful, melancholy tone. i think it's you who's got some growing up to do
>>215131662what being your average /tv/ contrarian does to a mfer...according to your ratings:contagion > rosemary's babygirl with a dragon tattoo > fargo district 9 > mulholland driveand avatar way of the water is a flawless 5 star masterpiece. i kneel anon
>>215131099will you keep watching stuff if I follow you? everytime i follow someone they stop watching
>>215131892bergman made one good film and it isn't persona.>>215131908>contagion > rosemary's babyyeah it looks fnatastic, soderbergh at his finest.>girl with a dragon tattoo > fargo some of jeff cronenweth's finest work vs some of deakins' worst. i've always preferred his big budget work like air america and the siege.>district 9 > mulholland drivelynch is a hack and i'm emotionally attached to blomkampf's work. i have elysium at 4 stars.>and avatar way of the water is a flawless 5 star masterpiece.it is. it's number 29 in my list of the greatest movies of all time;https://letterboxd.com/dingoatemybabi/list/the-top-50-movies-of-all-time/>>215131910yeah i'm about to upload reviews for him and city of lost children
>>215131404is this an appropriate ratings curve?
>>215131910don't follow dingo. he doesn't actually watch films. he just plays them in the background as he shitposts here. he is a /film/ lolcow
>>215130220>>marxist websitewhat else did you expect??
why are men like this?
>>215132085this is a lie and i am not a lolcow, like two of you just tell me to kill myself whenever i post.
>>215132063yes my fellow movie enjoyer
>>215131099>phantom menace five starsfucking hell lmao
>>215132145see;>>215131395
>go on Letterboxd>see a movie is 3.0-3.5>”ok”>see a movie is 4.0 or higher>”there must be something wrong with this movie”Also>watch a movie>score it>go to reviews and sort only by ones with the same score as mine>”heh..they get it!”
>>215132022>yeah i'm about to upload reviews for him and city of lost childrenfollowing
>>215131898Babby's first bedtime story for people raised by neglectful autists
>>215132099How is that a joke? What’s the joke?
>>215132209and a follow back for you>>215132218i don't think the parents are autistic in spirited away
>>215130220I do like the site, but the popular reviews do suck 99% of the time. Without fail its always just the same clique of people with their reviews on top no matter what they say, but I don't use the website to engage with the community so its not much more than a minor annoyance to me, even if it would be nice to see something interesting for a change when I feel like looking through other reviews.
>>215131404Based distribution.
r8/h8
>>215132335>drums along the mohawkbased>captain bloodunbased, watch dodge city if you want a good errol flynn joint
>movie is ACTUALLY 100% GAY because two male characters are friends
I use imdb, cba to switch the userbase on letterboxd is gay
>>215130220Interesting perspective. I'd have to get some input from ConnorEatsPants, DirkH, James (Schaffrillas), zoë rose bryant, davidehrlich, Sally Jane Black, Patrick Willems, jonathan fujii, eddyburback, Karsten Runquist, Joe A, Lucy, Josh Lewis, matt lynch, Sydney, Framesofnick, Silent Dawn, Jake (also known as Man Carrying Thing), fran hoepfner, Todd Gaines, Matt Singer, #1 gizmo fan, maria, mia lee vicino (formerly known as brat pitt), Iman Vellani, Kit Lazer, Will Sloan, demi adejuyigbe, comrade_yui, Eli Hayes (formerly alive), Logan Kenny, ScreeningNotes, karen h., esther and nathaxnne [goodbye <3] before I could form my own opinion on it though.
>>215132520KEKYPOW!
>>215130364it really is
I just use it to keep track of what I have/want to watch, most of the people I follow I either know irl or are internet racists, and my blocklist is like 500 people because the community is full of women and fags. The only problem that fact causes is that if you sort stuff by "popular" then it's full of fucking romcoms.
https://letterboxd.com/supremelemon/
>>215130220Only idiots use letterboxd when IMDB does the exact same thing and has a user base 10 million times larger already.
>>215133410>nd has a user base 10 million times larger alreadyit doesn't, only reason it still overperforms letterboxd by a bit is because it has TV shows while letterboxd has a retarded thing where they technically don't allowe TV shows but if the moderation feels like it they will add a pagecompare the amount of ratings on imdb on feature films to the amount of ratings on letterboxd on feature films and realize that if Letterboxd added tv series proper IMDb would go defunct
>>215132063your ratings curve should follow a skewed normal distribution, direction of the skew depends on how much you actually enjoy watching movies or how much normieslop you put yourself through
>>215133252this fucking faggot
>>215130220Zoomers are narcissists no shit
>>215130220>Does anyone else get pissed off lol it's just a website, the reviews are terrible but how can that shit make you mad? grow up
>>215133529You seem like a risk-averse kind of person.
>>215133529I try to rate films based on their quality, not on my personal enjoyment of them.
>>215133680Maybe I am. 4 stars is my baseline of "i enjoyed it" and I do usually skip movies when I see they have a sub 3-star average
curve autists are the worst, a normal person's curve should naturally skew right if you have any level of discernment about what you like and dislike when deciding what movies to watch.
>>215131609Incel coded. This guy is a KHV.
>>215133725Oof. Don't let the opinion of others determine your personal taste. You will watch a bunch of crap, but you also have a chance to find a new director whose style you like open your cinematic vocabulary to appreciate and enjoy even more things.
>>215130364imdb still has proper reviews
>>215131609this nigga gave 22 jump street and hot fuzz 2 stars but vertigo and dr strangelove (1 star moves) 3 stars lol. you're a fucking joke and your shits all retarded.
>>215132099>i was just pretending!Everytime.
>>215132475There are so many of these. Crazy
>>215131662chinatown being a 3, amadeus being a 2, 12 monkeys a 2, that's just at a quick glance and it's not looking good. the lynch rankings look like trolling, i understand not everyone likes his style which is really the only critique you could give, but then what's the point of watching his films if you fundamentally don't like what he tries to do
>watch a movie>log it on letterboxd>look at first page of reviews>block every joke review and any review less than a full paragraph
>>215134080see;>>215131442>what's the point of watching his films if you fundamentally don't like what he tries to doi didn't like bergman until i saw fanny and alexander. i was hoping he would win me over. also holy shit the dune entry on letterboxd makes the eye blue, what a shit site.
>>215134112you could just scroll past instead of getting so buttmad lmao
>>215131442More people need to understand this. On a scale of 1-10, 5 is average, watchable but nothing special. 4 is watch if you enjoy the genre. 6 is decent, try it. 7+ is watch even if you think you might not like it.
>>215133792Dongo's also a self-admitted porn addict.
>>215130220Wow I got so tilted by reading Letterboxd just now that I didn't even realize someone already made a thread.It's a fucking tumor on the Internet and proof that we unironically need to instill some values or spirituality, SOMETHING in people because right now it's just one big race to the bottom.
>>215133792those are just the movies i've seen that that guy has watched you tard. my real taste is this;https://letterboxd.com/dingoatemybabi/films/by/entry-rating/>>215135034obsessed
>>215134993so could you have
>>215133990(You)
>>215135159>have*of
>>215131099Not enough trigger warnings for you, snowflake?
>>215135431it's a shit movie, like the expendables but everyone looks 90
/ourgal/
>>215133709Very misguided way to rate movies in my opinion.
>>215130473these people think about drumpf more often than their actual fucking spouses
>someone gives an insane dogshit take on an amazing movie>It's a trannyKek
>>215131519Most social media is like this and has been for a decade. Did you just turn 13?
>>215132238They're not, but judging by your reading ability, your parents might be.
>>215136287These people congratulate themselves for being smart and yet they can't talk about a film for more than two sentences.
>>215136484i just assumed you meant it was for people raised by neglectful autists because they could relate to the story
>>215130220>>215130364>>215134112every movie is plagued with memefuckers trying to post the most quippy shit to get fake internet pointswhat drives faggots to do this shit? It's also the same with fucking Steam reviews
>>215132099put black in front of men and she's right
>>215136287Letterboxd is a colony for Gay Millennial Race Communism, all the potential of the website is squandered by this fact and that the owners consistently amplify these fucking people on there
>>215131442Why are you ratings autists all like this?
>>215136985what the fuck do you even mean by this
>>215131404>>215132063>>215132128>>215133529>>215133709>is this an appropriate ratings curve?No such thing. The process of review/rating is inherently subjective, so there can be no objective frame of reference by which even 2 people would ever be able to agree what constitutes the differences between a 1-star and a 1.5 star film. The only reliable method is RANKING, putting all the films you have ever seen onto 1 giant list where you can say "True Stories is better than Swamp Thing is better than Jet Li's The One is better than Batman V Superman is better than The Wackness" and people immediately understand your taste, your criteria, and whether or not they agree with your judgement.>But you just listed 5 films, wouldn't those correspond to each star rating?No.>...Are you gonna elaborate on why?Fuck you. I am explicitly denying the premise of the star system, I'm not gonna explain how ranking works using its framework.>Don't tiers match up with stars anyway? 1-5, F-A?Tiers are just a method to reach pure ranking more easily. You generalize which films are better, you rank them internally, you compare the tiers against their neighbors, and finally merge as needed. The lowest A-Rank is not immediately followed by the highest B-Rank much in the same way the last Millennial wasn't born the day before the first Zoomer. Not to mention the existence of S tier and Z tier.There are even people who use star numbering and think "since it's out of 5 stars but includes half stars, that means it's really out of 10" and consider a 3.5/5 to be the same as a 7/10 - which is the logical conclusion, don't get me wrong, but then there are others who consider the scales entirely separate and would say 3/10 is the same as 1/5 or 9/10 is the same as 5/5, because these nimrods don't know their fractions.It's just a mess. I think Siskel & Ebert got it right when they just went with a Thumbs Up or Thumbs down, even if that may be seen as TOO reductive.
>"people" unironically admitting to using trannyboxed>sharing their profilesAnd the normalfag-ification of 4chan continues.
* = hate** = dislike*** = like**** = love***** = favorites or greatest movies everno half stars. simple as
>>215137232you do understand if it wasn't for /tv/, letterboxd probably would have died off by the mid 2010s like all these other sites that popped up at the same time right
>>215137331that reminds me, everyone should start using Serializd for TV show review. it's better than trakt or imdb.
a buggy site for bugmen.pass.
>>215137402he said, reddit spacing his post
""quirky"" white women
>>215130220Everyone ITT (except me) should be banned
>>215130220The most popular movie review website is imdb.
>>215130220Adam Cook should have never retired.
>>215137641Not anymore
>>215136707Attention craving whores, they just want the likes to feel seen. That's also why they transition, to get attention and feel something in their shitty life.>>215136287To be fair, this first review is funny because Trump went against cinema a few days after this was released.
>>215138023It'd be a funny comment to see a tweet of, but on a film review site it's annoying and clogs up the space that should be full of thought provoking analysis or something that actually tells us how good the film itself is. "Don't Look Up" would be something that makes Trump ban movies or kill himself too, but it's fucking garbage.
