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Sep 29, 2019 20:52
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Here's mine. It's very hard for a movie to get a half-star or five-star rating from me.
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Sep 29, 2019 21:17
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 3, 3.5 and 4 are perfectly tied with 56 movies each. 1.5 usually means "this movie was horrible, but there was at least one interesting idea or performance" and 4.5 is "this movie would probably be a 5 for anybody else but I have one little nitpick." Movies often "graduate" from 4.5 to 5 after I reevaluate them later. Lester Shy fucked around with this message at 21:36 on Sep 29, 2019 |
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Sep 29, 2019 21:33
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 I think my spread essentially comes down to: (5) A drat masterpiece (4) Generally excellent but not "holy poo poo" excellent (3) Flawed, but salvaged by a few good ideas, performances, etc. (2) Most definitely Not Good, but one or two redeeming elements (1) poo poo for the toliet
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Sep 30, 2019 01:00
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 No real hard and fast rules on how I rate (50% because I tend to review when I'm tired as poo poo, 50% cuz an impulse score is usually better than overthinking it), because I can generally find something I don't like in a movie I love or vice versa. My hardest thing, really, is the "it's okay, I guess?" range of 2-and-a-half to 3 stars.
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Sep 30, 2019 05:14
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 For context, I have 2,478 movies logged, but only reviews for 754, because I only give star ratings to films I've seen since joining Letterboxd, and I also usually don't give star ratings to short films (I adopted K. Waste's 'Likes' system for that). Even for only accounting for 30% of films I've logged, I'm a little surprised with 4 stars being my most common score. I watch a lot of good movies. I save 5 stars for movies I love and would consider an all-time. I don't give out 5 Star reviews for films I watch for the first time, the highest they can get is 4.5.
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Sep 30, 2019 13:48
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Cross post from the October Challenge, but it's cool news worth posting twice: Letterboxd just announced a partnership with JustWatch.com Premium members can go in their settings and choose a Preferred Streaming Services. You can then sort any list, including your watch list, by what's available on any of your Preferred Services or specific ones.    You can still sort by genre, decade, and other qualifiers:  This is immensely handy. Especially for streaming services that have bad interfaces or infinite choices, like Hulu or Tubi.
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Sep 30, 2019 14:02
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Holy poo poo this is gonna change my life
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Sep 30, 2019 15:22
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I can finally see what's available on Netflix! And I can use the Letterboxd watchlist as my watchlist without needing a secondary website to check what's available where! This is amazing, I'm going to get a subscription right away. Edit: But I thought this was already available for the US, what changed for you guys?
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Sep 30, 2019 15:39
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My relationship with the like button is this: the star ratings are for how objectively good I think it is, but the like button is for how much I enjoyed it. So there’s a considerable amount of extremely low rated movies that have a heart next to them, and a handful of five star movies that I just didn’t connect with emotionally.
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Sep 30, 2019 15:43
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cebrail posted:Edit: But I thought this was already available for the US, what changed for you guys? It didn't work, and had maybe 1/8th of the options.
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Sep 30, 2019 15:44
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Hopefully they can get this to work so I can finally pull the trigger on a paid membership. Like they admit in the announcement, some of their features have been janky at best.
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Sep 30, 2019 15:45
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Franchescanado posted:It didn't work, and had maybe 1/8th of the options. yeah I think they used "gowatchit" instead and it wasn't nearly as good
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Sep 30, 2019 15:46
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 I'm probably a bit more generous with films since I'm fairly picky. 5 - loved it, among the best I've seen 4 - Really enjoyed it, just not a masterpiece 2.5 - Not half bad, but not half good either   2 - Actively disliked, but found enough to sort of like 1 - Trash, only thing between .5 and 1 is that I might like one scene or something Egbert Souse fucked around with this message at 17:03 on Sep 30, 2019 |
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Sep 30, 2019 16:58
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I keep forgetting to write actual reviews for movies on this but making stupid lists is incredibly fun, and probably my favourite feature of the site. Here is my latest: https://letterboxd.com/foskoff/list/movies-seen-with-my-guide-dog-puppy/ After Thursday I can add The Joker to this. Can't wait to see what the dog thinks of it.
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Oct 5, 2019 10:03
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Is there any way to block reviews from a specific user? I'd be so happy if I never came across another one of Todd Gaines' 'Here's a sentence fragment of a scene. Here's another scene fragment. An item was there. Someone did thing. Haircut,' entries.
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Oct 7, 2019 23:49
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Gonna change my Letterboxd top four in honor of this shirt https://twitter.com/nightpromoting/status/1181329980409688064?s=21
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Oct 8, 2019 07:01
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Darthemed posted:Is there any way to block reviews from a specific user? I'd be so happy if I never came across another one of Todd Gaines' 'Here's a sentence fragment of a scene. Here's another scene fragment. An item was there. Someone did thing. Haircut,' entries.
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Oct 8, 2019 10:11
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Darthemed posted:Is there any way to block reviews from a specific user? I'd be so happy if I never came across another one of Todd Gaines' 'Here's a sentence fragment of a scene. Here's another scene fragment. An item was there. Someone did thing. Haircut,' entries. I try to use mental powers to make block work like this all the time. Someone (hopefully not one of y’all) likes the absolute shittiest performative woke reviews by some rear end in a top hat and that means they stay in the “reviews your friends like” bottom of the home page for days.
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Oct 11, 2019 14:33
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Are we still posting our rating distributions? I use Criticker so I don't know if I'm technically invited, but: Like a lot of people my ratings skew kind of high because I try to only watch movies I'm going to enjoy. If you want to know why I have 100 movies rated 87 and about half that many (51) rated 85, or why I have 82 movies rated 82 and half that many rated 81, well, join the club. My brain works weirdly I guess.
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Oct 12, 2019 11:46
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 Surprisingly positive on average
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Oct 12, 2019 13:45
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When you guys rate movies, do you use 50/100 as "an average movie", or "a mediocre/bad movie"?
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Oct 12, 2019 21:24
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piratepilates posted:When you guys rate movies, do you use 50/100 as "an average movie", or "a mediocre/bad movie"? 3 stars is my "yeah it's fine. Nothing really stood out", 4 is "I really enjoyed this" and 2 is "this is noticeably weak". I try to keep the center point actually on the center
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Oct 12, 2019 22:13
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piratepilates posted:When you guys rate movies, do you use 50/100 as "an average movie", or "a mediocre/bad movie"? I generally reserve two-and-a-halfs-out-of-five for movies that I'm actively ambivalent about. If my internal view boils down to a whole lot of "I liked this, but that? Eh", it gets a middle grade, with a Like or not if it skews slightly one way or another. Usually that rating is a lowkey reminder to re-watch it when I feel like it, because a non-zero percentage of the time I've watched it when I'm tired or otherwise not super into the film-watching experience, which isn't the best frame of mind to review stuff. MisterBibs fucked around with this message at 22:42 on Oct 12, 2019 |
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Oct 12, 2019 22:40
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On Criticker (though I haven't used it in forever), 50 is awful, because a 50% grade is an F in every school I went to. On a 5 star scale, though, 2.5 is just mediocre- like a C+, can't quite recommend. Yes this makes no sense.
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Oct 12, 2019 23:38
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I pretty much use the wrestling star system scale: * - not good ** - average *** - good **** - excellent ***** - amazing, movie of the year contenders Then there’s half star increments as well.
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Oct 13, 2019 00:02
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Above 50%: I liked this movie Below 50%: I did not like this movie
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Oct 13, 2019 00:58
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piratepilates posted:When you guys rate movies, do you use 50/100 as "an average movie", or "a mediocre/bad movie"? Three stars for me is “It’s fine.” 3.5 It’s fine with one or two stand-out aspects. 2.5 I didn’t like it but there’s some things I appreciate.
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Oct 13, 2019 02:26
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0 stars - absolute garbage 1/2 star - barely a movie 1 star - bad 1 1/2 stars - bad but maybe had a good idea/scene or an actor who stood out 2 stars - okay 2 1/2 stars - good 3 stars - pretty good 3 1/2 stars - really good 4 stars - great 4 1/2 stars - really great 5 stars - the best
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Oct 13, 2019 03:03
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1/2 Star - Shameful 1 Star - Absolute Garbage 2 Star - Bad 2 1/2 Star - Below Average. Still enjoyable to some. 3 Star - Average/Fine 3 1/2 Star - Above Average, Notable 4 Star - Fantastic, Memorable 4 1/2 Star - All time favorite material. Absolutely great. 5 Star - Masterpiece I'm only really, really stingy with my 5 Stars. And I'm also probably really unreliable with my own ranking system as a fan of bad movies. Where the hell do you rank Troll 2, Miami Connection, or Blood Beat? They're awful, awful films that I love dearly. The perfectionist in me wants to score them low for consistency, but they're 5 stars in my heart. 
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Oct 13, 2019 13:51
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Several Goblins posted:Where the hell do you rank Troll 2, Miami Connection, or Blood Beat? They're awful, awful films that I love dearly. The perfectionist in me wants to score them low for consistency, but they're 5 stars in my heart. That's easy for me: I just give a film like Blood Beat 3 stars (because it's not an amazing 5 star movie) but I mash the like button and in my narrative review I make a note that a guy is attacked by a pantry and knocked out by a can of Tab. If I or anybody looking at my profile wants to find good cult films, the best way to do that is to find movies with three stars or lower that still have the like button activated. Three stars and no like? It's probably a very average slog. Three stars AND a like? It's probably got a sex scene involving a can of V8 and fun to watch despite its many flaws. The Like button is important! InfiniteZero fucked around with this message at 16:44 on Oct 13, 2019 |
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Oct 13, 2019 16:41
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for the case of bad movies that you like, i rate it what it deserves with stars and give it a heart if i'd willingly watch it again
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Oct 13, 2019 17:15
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InfiniteZero posted:That's easy for me: I just give a film like Blood Beat 3 stars (because it's not an amazing 5 star movie) but I mash the like button and in my narrative review I make a note that a guy is attacked by a pantry and knocked out by a can of Tab. You are absolutely correct and I need to utilize the Like button far more. I only started using the diary button this year.  I treated Letterboxd like Criticker for too long and only ever rated stuff. Didn't bother with the extra fluff till I signed up for Pro.
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Oct 13, 2019 17:40
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If Miami Connection was truly a bad movie you wouldn't be thinking of giving it 5 stars, if your heart gives it 5 stars then why not your brain too?
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Oct 13, 2019 18:57
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How enjoyable/interesting something is is king. Competency isn't that important.
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Oct 13, 2019 19:07
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jivjov posted:I try to keep the center point actually on the center Me too.  Teenage Fansub posted:How enjoyable/interesting something is is king. Competency isn't that important. I feel the same way. I'm not a film critic. I'm just evaluating how engrossed I was in what I watched.
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Oct 14, 2019 04:04
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Servoret posted:Me too. Alright Thanos
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Oct 14, 2019 04:28
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This is RYM's film section rather than Letterboxd, but I always loved this random guy's commitment to keeping his ratings distribution as uniform as possible: At one point I'm pretty sure he had exactly 200 for each
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Oct 14, 2019 04:51
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Allyn posted:This is RYM's film section rather than Letterboxd, but I always loved this random guy's commitment to keeping his ratings distribution as uniform as possible: this is some serial killer poo poo do you think he gets really mad when he watches a good movie because it means his OCD will force him to watch some garbage made for TV Lifetime movie to balance out his scores?
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Several Goblins posted:You are absolutely correct and I need to utilize the Like button far more. I only started using the diary button this year. For sure. There's plenty of movies I have seen that are objectively Good movies that I just don't want to see again. This year I gave Fighting With My Family 4 stars because it's really good at what it wants to be--a coming-of-age underdog sports film that deals heavily with family--but those types of movies, in general, rank low on my interest. So it doesn't get a Like Heart, and it's low on my 2019 Ranked list. Servoret posted:Me too. This doesn't insinuate that you're objective. It insinuates you mostly watch films you find average. My ratings gravitates towards 4 star reviews, but I also stream most of my movies from Criterion Channel, which is curated, and has a higher quality ratio of films available. Franchescanado fucked around with this message at 13:28 on Oct 14, 2019 |
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Oct 14, 2019 13:25
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