Is Letterboxd the worst website ever made?
>>219828911Second worst4chan.org
>>219828911White men badStraight men badBrown men goodBrown women bestWhite women badTrans folk goodGays good Blacks best
>>219828911Was the site always this bad or did tumblr and twitter overtake it?
>>219828911Film equivalent of aoty.com
Letterboxd is modern liberalism encapsulated. Hopefully people will all laugh about it in the future.
Here's the top-rated review of all time for Ingmar Bergman's landmark 1957 film, "The Seventh Seal".Get it? Pretty clever!
>>219828911It's disgusting
>>219828958It was decent at the beginning, for movie lovers. Now it's made for memes.
>>219828989It's sad that Soldier of Fortune stop publishing and you can't hire dime store hitmen out of the personals anymore.
>>219828911Any website designed for mobile will have the lowest IQ people imaginable. It's pretty obvious smartphones ruined the internet by giving people 24/7 access and lowering the barrier to entry to nothing.
>>219829084Pc is literally incel : the device
>>219828911Yeah. I watched Ravenous 1999 (an absolute kino gem) and I looked at the reviews and they were all like >Oh my god these dudes were about to fuck!>I could feel them wanting to cream each others hairy shitholes every moment! Like what?? Also generation kill or any other military drama is like that too with the reviews on that website
>>219829167The reviews are just people trying to get likes
>>219829167The top pulp fiction review is someone calling the film homoerotic
>>219829167Two male characters being friends (or enemies) means they're gay. Also any attractive female character is exclusively for lesbians and gays. Also a male director putting rape in his film is his personal endorsement of rape.
>>219829237Fight club*** sorry got my dude kinos mixed up. But I'm sure they say the same about pulp fiction too
>>219828958It's literally r*ddit, just like imgur.
>>219829106Point?
>>219828911I miss sending that "good shit" copypasta to people, it's perfectly obnoxious.The answer is: probably not the worst website, but pretty damn close. Thank you very much.
>>219829315This is the only person I have blocked on Letterboxd. Even wokies think this dude is nuts.
>>219828911Nope. The rankings are: Reddit, Reddit mods, Reddit posters, Tumblr, Twitter, 4chan,
Just use it log movies and nothing else.
>>219829239Exactly. Especially with villains too lmao they love to make them gay.
>>219829315>How do I know I'm trans?>If you have to ask, you probably are.
>>219828958tumblr took over
>>219829315This has literally every red flag it’s nuts>If you have to ask, you probably are.Fucking insidious
It makes you wonder about the legitimacy of the review scores if the written ""reviews"" are that bad. How do you moderate this so the scores are not out of whack?
>>219828989Considering how highly it's rated on lbd this confirms it's a slop movie for midwits
Everytime i look up an animated movie I know it's going to be over 4 stars
>>219829339I have blocked so many I can't open the blocked page anymore because the server isn't able to handle it. And it's still not enough.
no idea how people even get recommendations from this site when its userbase is really terrible, just get a diary if you're into logging what you watch
>>219829515Somehow #JusticeForAmberHeard is the most unhinged one on here
My favorite is the vegan alert lady
>>219829668The similar films feature is pretty good. You can also find movies based on themes or nanogenres.
>>219829633According to letterboxd the greatest director of all time is Hayao Miyazaki
>reading the reviews on LetterboxdI just use it to catalogue what I've seen. Only occasionally do I hate-read review sections.
>>219828911https://letterboxd.com/film/christmas-perfection/no
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>>219828911Protip: If you block someone it removes all their reviews and lists from displaying. There's really only a couple dozen people who post useless shit like that on a bunch of movies so it wont take long to remove them the vast majority.Although a better tip is never read the review section in the first place, why the fuck do you wanna know what these dumb cunts think of a movie?
>>219830178Yeah I just follow a few people from here & irl, much better than going to the review section. It's insane that they banned Stav of all people. With that & their standards for what counts as a film, the site is ran quite poorly. Like they allow straight up porn but will randomly remove things like the gothic king cobra documentary
>>219830178>never read the review section in the first place, why the fuck do you wanna know what these dumb cunts think of a movie?Wow, it's almost as if a major point of the website is reviews, how come people would want to read good reviews??? That's crazy bro!!!!
>>219831521Letterboxd is only good for keeping a digital diary of the movies you’ve seen the reviews are dogshit and rarely informing
>>219831566So people should not expect quality from a major portion of the website but just use it for something you can use a pen and paper for? You're a dumb retard and you should kill yourself.
You now remember PTAbro
god i hate the french
>>219828911It's a great website, just unfortunately hit with a terrible userbase.
>>219831721It being a diary is literally what Letterboxd was made for???? Why do you think it catalogues the date and years for your logged in films you retard
>>219829600No, that's a dumb take. It's one of the 2-3 Bergman movies that Letterbox has seen and of course they will rate it highly to appear 'film literate' while ignore that he made 40 other movies.
>>219828921fpbp
>>219832004It's a lame midwit pseudo-philosophical flick
>>219828931>>219828958For those that use both is the userbase even worse than Rateyourmusic?
>>219831994>It being a diary is literally what Letterboxd was made forNo it wasn't.
>>219832035It was modeled off Goodreads which people use to catalogue books in the same way, most people don’t post reviews on both
>>219828911any social media is shit
>>219831902A website is only as good as it's userbase.
>>219832190Exactly. A country is only as good as its people.
>>219828931But enough about the voices inside your head, we’re meant to talk about a movie social media platform
>>219829237There’s literally a segment taking place inside a gay sex dungeon.
Mandatory to post this one.Guees which movie it was.
>>219832248But enough about the voices inside your head, this is an anonymous board, maybe stop pretending to be a retard.
>>219831521The major point is to keep track what you’ve watched and find new movies
>>219832058Wrong.
>>219832190So what does it say about this website?
>>219832317Nigger.
>>219832278Blade Runner obv
>>219832190they enable the worst, its the same plebbit system which makes 'le funny' and 'correct politics' shit float to the top and I dont even need to ever visit it to know they insta ban anything not aligning with wokies same as plebbit>>219832320whole internet is shit
>>219828958>Was the site always this bad or did tumblr and twitter overtake it?it was a nice change of pace compared to IMDB. Niche, users were more serious about movies, better reviews, social media aspects were decent and created new ways to discover movies. Then a funny review went viral and it was over. Now its 90% people trying to make the funniest 3 line reviewStill ok if you curate the fuck out of it, find some active users who share your tastes and follow them and ignore the rest.
>>219832341>obvDo not give them the right
>>219832440Huh?
>>219832021As I said letterboxd is more comparable to aoty.comrateyourmusic is closer to imdb imoBut yeah the userbase is way worse
>>219832021rym's userbase has enshittified terrifically over the past few years but you can still find plenty of good users from before troons infested the mainpage culture. aoty on the other hand is just comprised of entry level hipsters who think they are out there when in reality they just listen to radiohead and kendrick like everyother fagtano dr0ne. rym's film section is still pretty lowkey and again you can find plenty of good users from looking at more obscure films and their raters
>ITT /tv/ posters acting elitist snobs when they think they’re better than your average letterboxd userThe lack of self-awareness is stunning
>>219832320Mostly shitty but people make it that way on purpose.Rebbit is shitty just because how the userbase naturally is.Kiwifarms is the only place I've heard genuine conversation online that didn't immediately turn into people calling each other nigger. It happens but it's not a hair trigger reaction. But not to say it doesn't have it's problems.
>>219832908>the only place where I can have a “normal” conversation is a website dedicated to harassment, doxxing and other trolling Oh dear
it used to be quite good when it was a true hobbyist site but what's happened now as it became another "social" colony is people just try to make their friends laughthat said, block liberally, watch actually good film and follow a few insightful people and it's still quite useful especially for it's database surfing and lists functionality
>>219828911I raise you 1 backloggd.https://backloggd.com/
>>219832478Aren't you aligning with the same thought?
It’s very ironic how people here say 4chan is the only real place for free speech anymore and then endlessly rant about how much they need to block people they don’t like on letterboxd because it hurts so much their feelings to occasionally see reviews they can’t agree with
>>219833131>It’s very ironic how people here say 4chan is the only real place for free speech anymoreNo one has ever said that>then endlessly rant about how much they need to block people they don’t like on letterboxd because it hurts so much their feelings to occasionally see reviews they can’t agree withHas nothing to do with free speechGo back, troon
>>219833131Are you stupid? On letterboxd there are power users that have their garbage pushed to the top so you can't avoid it without blocking. Here everyone's posts are treated the same.
Absolutely the worst for movie reviews, yes. IMDB Forums at their lowest were never this bad.>>219828958I remember years ago there was a starter pack meme that would float around that specified the 4 or 5 accounts that you have to block on day one. But now it’s like every account is one of those. Not sure quite when the change happened but I felt like there was a significant drop off in quality when they decided Squid Game was eligible to be logged on their movie app. Anyway, picrel should explain a lot about the watch habits of the average user.
>>219829707I genuinely wonder what her stance on the Aquaman movies are
>>219833326>I can’t scroll past a review!
>>219833487Oh no, why are people watching popular current movies?!!
>>219833544Fuck me for thinking that the most popular movie app would have a good base of users that watch and review classics and don’t only review the hottest new slop.
>>219828989punners did it again
>>219828911>Block retard>Never see retard's reviews againIt's that easy. For me, Letterboxd has no transgender users.The real issue is that they have to pretend Breathless is a good movie but can't think of anything to support that lie.
>>219833544Because they are retarded.
>>219833626>Don't let other people have opinions Pathetic
>>219833617Why would most users ever watch Gone With the Wind instead of Sinners?
>>219828989Better joke than what you see posted on this board
>>219828931>white menkill>Straight men jail>Brown men ok>Brown womenworship her >White women worship her>Trans folk worship them>Gays good>Blacks worship them
>>219833617>Everyone has to be as pretentious as me!
>>219833675it's not just a joke, it's a wholesome pun that deserves my updoot
>>219828931what about straight white trans men? good or bad?
>>219833657If you want to chop your dick off or are otherwise unfunny or retarded, I don't want to hear from you.
Letterboxd is good in that it is less indian and boomer than IMDB, whether or not the popular reviews are insufferable and ironic does not matter a great deal to me, I don't worship the site, nor am I invested in its community, I just know as a matter of that that it is a better tool for finding good movies than IMDB is.
They need to fix imdb and ban non hollywood stuff from the front page.It needs the OG retro ui. It would be the best shit ever
>>219833742>ban non hollywood stuff from the front page.nooo, this indian show is 10/10 it shows how indians are actually the coolest guys
>>219833696>>219833664The Wizard of Oz has 136k reviewsHow to Train Your Dragon (2025) has 381k and scores on par with SuspiriaConsidering the general consensus is that 3.5/5 is the average ‘Good’ movie score:>The Mask, Chasing Amy, The Suicide Squad, Tron, Hard Target, The Naked Gun, Malignant All miss the mark based on reviews, even Pacific Rim just made the cut. Hardly pretentious picks. It’s just that the userbase is allergic to almost anything pre-2010.
>>219833955>Why are most people watching new movies instead of stuff that is 80 years old?!??!Because that is how most operate, dummy. We don’t live in a world that appreciates old films. Most people only care about new things because everyone else is watching and talking about them. Look at this fucking board, it’s nonstop talking about new movies and shows and whining about how relatively new movie “ruined” a decades old franchise
>>219834031If it was any other old movie I’d agree but The Wizard of Oz? Who tf hasn’t watched The Wizard of Oz?
>>219834085I know people who were in their thirties and hadn’t seen any of the star wars movies. And some people don’t rate films on letterboxd because it’s been so long they saw something that they don’t remember how they feel about it
>>219834085No one cares about Wizard of Oz outside the US
>>219833131Down syndrome tier post. If you block someone on letterboxd, everyone else can still read their posts. That's not suppressing anyone's free speech. By that same logic you're against free speech if you refuse to buy the New York Times every day.
I'm usually not a snob but we do need to come back to times when you had to prove you actually know a lot about cinema and are capable writer to be a movie reviewer.
>>219833691Indian men are so easy to manipulate
It's a good website to catalogue your movies and watch list but the reviews are terrible as all the top reviewers just want to reduce every movie into a dumb meme
>>219834278Better yet, we need to come back to times when any kind of participation in public discourse was a priveledge for the select few, such as myself.
>>219828911>Is Letterboxd the worst website ever made?Hell no. But it is pretty bad. It seems to have attracted all the worst secondaries from tumblr and twitter and there's basically been no growth in users in raw numbers who rate or write thoughtfully. It's all ironic shitposting for updoots mostly from people who didn't actually watch the movie themselves and are just copying takes other people have made. It's pretty fucking terrible.
>>219828931
>>219828911Letterboxd is media for womenThat's why all the highest rated movies on the website are romcom slop and why every review is about roasties making sex jokes about how they want to fuck this actorAnd why every movie made for men has reviews with women saying it's an incel propaganda It's not a website for men even though 4chan is the reason why letterboxd got popular
>>219833657Blocking is not stifling
>>219828958It was good but then normalfags.
>>219832020What's pseudo about it? Its pretty straight forward to me and I tend to hate pseudo shit in movies.
>>219829167It's because straight white women are making these reviews
>>219834264You are hardly a free speech absolutist if you in the same breathe constantly whine about how much effort you have to put on blocking certain views from showing up simply when looking at hundreds/thousands reviews on any given movie
>>219833487Gone with the wind is considered racist All the highest rated old movies are japanese movies because non whites can't be racist
>>219834522nah you need to get with current year firmware update nips are now considered white adjacent and apart of le evil imperial races like the english french etc. a lot of lefty weebs moved their stock into china because they're communist and a victim of oppression which is an invaluable quality apparently, same reason you'll see people worship the irish as angels on bluesky or reddit. victim = good and white = bad always
>>219828989thats actually kinda funny
>>219834522>All the highest rated old movies are japanese moviesExcept they’re not
>>219834595Harakiri is literally the highest rated movie on letterboxd
>>219834582On letterboxd all the highest rated old movies are japanese films like Harakiri or Kurosawa films
>>219834615One movie is not all movies
>>219834615Is it actually that good? I'm fed up with nippon samurai slop.
>>219834615Plus: Seven Samurai, High and Low and two parts of the Human Condition trilogy are in the top 10.
>>219834648no it's like all the others.
>>219834663Again, that doesn’t mean ALL old high rated movies are Japanese. Wait & See, 12 Angry Men, Godfather part 2, Cinema Paradiso, Shawshank Redemption, the Good the Bad and the Ugly are there too. The fact that Kurosawa and Kobayashi have some of the best rated films has nothing to do with “muh wacism” or “waaah they hate white people”. It’s because they’re legitimately some of cinema history’s greatest masterpieces and so many people keep recommending them so it drives more people to see them and they’re so universal in appeal people love them.
Amélie
>>219834209Never premiered in Mumbai I guess, Ranjesh?
>>219834743Ah, Uwe Boll. What a fuckin' peculiar character he is...
>>219829345still pointless, and with this AIDS community there's nobody sane to share it with anyway
>>219834778It’s not a cultural landmark filmthat regularly got aired on TV every year like in the US. People know about wizard of Oz but most people haven’t actually seen it because they watched something newer and more relevant as kids
>>219834278But if we do that, how will someone be able to tell me that The Elephant Man absolutely SERVED and ATE and how he [emoji spam] is giving us raw bisexual, unproblematic vibes?
>>219834743Uwe Boll, criticising with all the gusto of a bitter single woman.
>>219834801>It’s not a cultural landmark filmThis simply has to be bait
>>219834500It seems you have completely misunderstood the concept of free speech. It doesn't mean that you're obligated to consume everyone else's speech, just that you're not impeding them from expressing themselves. Again, you are not suppressing people's ability to express themselves by blocking them. It's the difference between>You're not allowed to say that.and>I am not going to listen to you.
>>219828921basado
>>219829211and they get them in droves, I wonder why
>>219832278How the fuck can you watch Blade Runner and say it's just visuals without substance
>>219834978You fundamentally don’t value free speech and instead demand a safe space for your sensitive eyeballs when you keep complaining that you have to go out of your way to block seeing old passive posts when browsing reviews. Nobody was arguing about suppression, it’s about the inherent fragility of people who bitch about how they can’t say anything anymore and then act like thin skinned bitches themselves when they cry that a platform is ruined when too many people don’t think in the way they approve of. Your “appreciation” of free speech is only about wanting to exist in a bubble where you see no push back and never face any form of consequences for your speech no matter how much you act like an asshole
>>219828958Like most things it's popularity killed it's heat. Once the normies find out about something they instantly start shitting it up. It's basically like when a good spot gets ruined by tourists.
>>219828911what even made people switch over from imdb in the first place?
>>219835279imdb shut their discussion forums down.
>>219835279I see. I never really got much out of those discussions. I stopped cataloguing movies and ratings because I realized I was becoming a robot who wouldn't watch anything below a certain rating and got so far away from the ideal of discovering movies and just watching it without knowing opinions beforehand. It's a constant struggle though as I absolutely despise having my time wasted. but no approach is perfect I suppose.
>>219835336>I absolutely despise having my time wastedSaid Anon while browsing 4chan
>>219828958It was one of the sites people fled to after Elon Musk bought Twitter. All of a sudden Twitter was satan, but truth is Twitter has always been a massive fucking hell hole.
>>219835210NTA but you are literally retarded if you still didnt get the point. the anon, the one you ve been replying to, has explained it so well.
>>219832732Rym's film section is great cause you can click on a genre and it'll show you every single movie in that genre. Go to your desired decade and it's a great way to look for some gems. Shame about the userbase though.
>>219835358never said it was rational, different types of time wasting aren't created equal, sitting down to watch a painfully mediocre movie for 2h leaves one endlessly more regretful than being stuck scrolling or browsing for the same amount of time, I wouldn't create the world that way, but God did so here we are
>>219833075No, dumdum
>>219835370nah early on like 2010-11 it was fun. now liek everything though it's overrun by bots and the clinically insane.
>>219835370Musk implemented ton of horrible changes and it’s why nobody wants to advertise on or personally use Twitter anymore.
>>219829315Today I will remind them
>>219836333you ever wonder if that energy of writing their schizo fanfiction would be directed into a more based direction we'd have several Michael Kirkbride-tier settings and legit good leftist stories
>>219831147Stav's back but he only reviewed Bugonia, One Battle After Another and Marty Supreme so far
>>219832883go back
>>219836333S. CHAD Zahler totally mindbroke this freak
>>219834522Japanese movies are overrated in general by internet nerds.So much absolute crap gets rated highly. Linda Linda Linda, Woman in the Dunes, About Lily Chou-Chou, Audition, Love Exposure, every Makoto Shinkai flick, every TV anime flick, Hausu (and Obayashi in general)...
>>219833057It's been going down the same trajectory as Letterboxd for quite a while unfortunately
>>219837206>Woman in the DunesParts of this were kino but it was overall too long and rambling
>>219828911These are the zoomers who complain about "millennial writing" btw
>>219835279>what even made people switch over from imdbBut it didn't. People who say this were never active on imdb to begin with.
>>219837383Are you trying to imply so-called "millenial writing" is anything but trash?
>>219828911way better than /tv/
>>219829167>>219829239I love this film and hate this kind of parasexual interpretation in general (e.g. Frodo&Sam), but you're deluding yourself if you think Ravenous isn't more than a little homoerotic
>>219829339Xer is a mad tankie who's is like a /pol/tard simping for Russia and North Korea.
>>219837206>About Lily Chou-Chouooooh that one is such bullshit. I just know people just like the aesthetics of it.
>>219838217Some films are about aesthetics tho and that's okay.
>>219833131using 4chan without filters is retarded
>>219828911it's just faggy snark website that is botted to hell, basically a recreation of twitter 10 years ago only for z-listers
Loud House bros...
>>219835288And now you can't even see the user reviews without an account.
>>219834911Outside the US it isn't.
Have you tried just not reading the "reviews"? The site works perfectly fine for logging and rating movies. There's no need following other people than your friends.
>>219838847Where are you from?
>>219828911Just use IMDb instead
>>219838686For me, it's Lucy.
>>219828989yikes sweaty this is actually funny!
>>219834031Well most people are retarded
>uhmm actually it's your problem that the site fucking sucks
tell me what the best new /tv/ approved Letterboxed site should look like / features it needs and ill AIsloppa design it.
There are three types of popular reviews on Letterboxd: 1. Some incredibly lame attempt at a joke2. Long political rambling about how problematic the movie is3. "This character is gay"
>>219839102>no women allowed>100 minimum word limit for reviews>interview that tests your knowledge of film is required for posting reviews
>>219834648Yes
>>219839146I wanna smash their fucking skulls in (metaphorically speaking in a simulated gameplay environment)
>>219828911letterboxd reviews are genuinely the worst fucking thing i've ever seen online, they're pain-inducing
>>219836333>I wonder what they think about immigration policy for instance and I can’t stop thinking about thatKeks me every time
>>219828911I like using Letterboxd for logging and rating the movies I watch. The watchlist is a good feature too. I rarely ever look at the reviews, but they're no worse than /tv/. Both are obnoxious and predictable in what they'll praise and what they'll hate about movies. One thing Letterboxd has over /tv/ is that users there do actually watch the movies they post about.What I really miss is message boards. We need something like the IMDB forums back. There is no where good to discuss movies on the internet.
>>219839315>There is no where good to discuss movies on the internet.Make a good thread and people will discuss it with you.
>>219839146you forgot generic womanposting like "i want to have sex with [male character]" or "i want to wear the outfit of [female character]."
>>219839315You haven't found the right ppl to follow. The stuff on my watchlist is diverse thanks to them.
>>219833713This. The userbase isn't even that woke anymore, y'all are stuck in 2018.
i dont know i havent used it
>>219839369https://letterboxd.com/film/the-last-tycoon/Lol just look at this one. All the top comments are thirsting over Robert De Niro and the rest are crying about Elia Kazan ratting out people to the HUAC (yeah I get it, but you need to get over it sweetie, also the man was one of the biggest kino machines in history). I just find it hilarious this relatively obscure 70s film is still infested with this shit.
>>219838980Western Europe, I agree with anon
>>219839349>Make a good thread and people will discuss it with you.It's very hit or miss for good threads to actually get traction on here. Most get just a handful of replies and die. And good luck discussing newer releases on here unless it's a major blockbuster because /tv/ anons are poor shut ins that don't leave the house.>>219839431I don't follow anyone on there. I've never really gotten the social media aspect of the site.
found this little gem recently looking up "my cousin vinny"
>>219829315jesus christ
>>219839544Make better threads.
>>219839588Crazy what 6 years of brainrot can do to a nigga.
>>219829315i love this guy. no matter what i watch i know he'll be there to amuse me with something deranged
>>219839588>>219839702AGP is a helluva drug. She probably gooned to pics of herself in backless catsuits, disturbing stuff
Would someone really go on the internet just to tell lies like that?
>>219839349This pretty much never happens anymore. Everything just turns into rambling about jews and trannies.
>>219839781Doesn't look too bad for a recent troon out tbdesu
>>219839146>2. Long political rambling about how problematic the movie isI dare anyone to read the top review of Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
>>219839707Interesting language usage.>it's all set carefully to make meAs if the movie from 41 years ago had trannies in mind at any point, even remotely by a single soul, during its production. It's the movie's fault, it's a designed jab at them personally, and all trannies. It was crafted to give them gender discomfort. Nothing at all is wrong on their end, it's the movie attacking them."Sally" is so close to a breakthrough, here, but instead it seems the victim mindset (and possibly sunk cost fallacy) has one yet again. The self-inflicted torture, misdiagnosed, continues.
>>219840063Well they can't go back now. Only way out is...
>>219839369Because letterboxd is a website for women
>>219840224There truly isn't anything more vile and evil on this earth than a lonely white guy...
>good letterbox reviews don't exi-
>>219840995Nah it's kino as it is.
>>219840995if black rain was about your mom's college days it would be "black train"
>>219828911whenever I see these crappy tweets in the top 3 liked reviews, I go block the account and forget they ever existed. anyone who doesn't simply wants to be mad.
>>219840995You will find the occasional good one. This is one of my favorites.
https://letterboxd.com/notarmondwhite/ the only account worth following
>>219840995>claire
>>219831521reddit
>>219839521I’m a Bong and would say Wizard of Oz is definitely a cultural landmark. It’s maybe slightly less popular than Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (Wilder version) these days with younger people but it’s definitely still a staple.
>>219839854That absolutely didn’t happen. I flat out refuse to accept it.
>>219828989updooted!
>>219833131thats not what ironic means but ok
>>219828931Mostly accurate but yt girls are worshipped too
>>219828989I fucking hate this shit
