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Debbie Does Dagon posted:That guy has quite the filmography. I like the sharp transition from cute Universal style monster features, into horny orgy movies. We should all be so lucky 
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Mine is a short film from 1968 that was used as a teaching tool for class discussion in high schools in America, called I Walk Away In The Rain. It's about a high school student that has no ambition, being confronted by a teacher about why he is able to score high on cognitive and performative tests, but doesn't excel with his grades. He says he is happier just living every day without ambition. The title is a song the boy sings and plays on guitar for his friends. The film only exists on original 16mm prints, and was shown as part of a showcase of 16mm films used in high schools from the 1960s-1970s , along with Barbara Loden's The Boy Who Liked Deer, The Fur Coat Club, Silent Snow Secret Snow, and The Bike. The idea of the films was to provide a story that involved moral ambiguity and not-so-clear lessons, so kids could talk and discuss them. The audience was given copies of the actual supplemental material students would have in class while watching the film, including some questions, essay prompts, etc. This was a showcase in my city's film festival. I wish the movies were more readily available to share. You can apparently rent the 16mm prints from some colleges for show.
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Jul 13, 2020 15:32
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My least seen thing is a shot on video movie called Rap Quest. I bought it at a run down grocery store like 12 years ago from a wire rack, buy 2 for a dollar (the other movie I bought was The Exterminator). It looked like something terrible to put on at the party I was going to, and it was fuckin awful in the best way.
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Jul 13, 2020 15:37
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It looks like this is my least popular film on my LB. https://letterboxd.com/film/erotic-scary-stories-vol2-poltergeist/ I'm the only person on the site that's watched it. IIRC it was neither as scary not as erotic as it should've been to be entertaining.
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Jul 20, 2020 18:43
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Now I can't watch any more movies.
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Teenage Fansub posted:Now I can't watch any more movies. 
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This app is a blessing and a curse. I love writing reviews (that I try to tailor to a general audience to hopefully help them decide if they want to watch a movie or not) but then I start looking at the average rating and the popular reviews and I just get depressed, like there’s something wrong with me, I dunno.
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Aug 23, 2020 15:36
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I mean, it's a great reminder of how subjective taste is and how many people want and expect different things out of films than you. If you're reading reviews to get a deeper understanding of a film then you're probably looking in the wrong place. If you're reading reviews to see whether or not you'd enjoy a film, then reading average reviews isn't really the way to go. Like with Amazon product reviews, I find that Letterboxd reviews are the most useful if you read a couple low-star reviews and a couple high-star reviews and see which parts of each resonate with you.
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Aug 23, 2020 18:41
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I use Letterboxd less as a way to find film recommendations based on reviews and more a space to keep a film journal where I can jot down general thoughts and follow friends and critics I'm interested in. When I find stuff via Letterboxd it's either trawling through lists or just seeing what the people I choose to follow (and whose taste I'm intrigued by) watch.
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Aug 23, 2020 18:48
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Like I guess in a weird fantasy way I wanna be a sort of Roger Ebert of action movies - can I set your expectations of what this movie is trying to be and how to maximize your entertainment of it, and can I stop you from watching a movie you probably wouldn’t like. I feel like that’s something’s that been lost in cinema reviews that should come back.
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I feel you. I constantly feel the urge to get mad at people's bad opinions, but the average curve of most movies winding up weighted at a 3 helps me understand that most people on the site are incapable of feeling any real joy about anything, across any genre. I always try to follow the How Did This Get Made model and read the 5 star reviews, especially for outright terrible movies. I'd rather learn about what makes people feel joy than people trying to Rex Reed their way through life saying everything sucks. Going to echo all of the other people here that say I just rate movies purely on my own enjoyment of them, not by how I think it would be definitively ranked in some cinematic museum. If that makes some nerd mad that I consider Venom a 5 star movie because I had a great time watching it on an edible, it is what it is.
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I find average letterboxd ratings aren't crazy off from my own, in a lot of cases. There are a few that are baffling, but it's whatever. The only thing that really irks me is the deluge of gimmick reviews that get boosted to the top, whether it's a poor creative writing project or somebody workshopping their one-liner twitter comedy.
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Aug 23, 2020 21:11
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The ratings distribution for Showgirls will always be my favorite thing about the site. 
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Origami Dali posted:I find average letterboxd ratings aren't crazy off from my own, in a lot of cases. There are a few that are baffling, but it's whatever. The only thing that really irks me is the deluge of gimmick reviews that get boosted to the top, whether it's a poor creative writing project or somebody workshopping their one-liner twitter comedy. What I find annoying are the youtubers with (relatively) large followings that get their reviews boosted to the top, even when they're barely reviews at all. Whenever I get tired of seeing them I end up blocking their accounts.
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I wish there was a script extension or something to auto-block one-word reviews like "Rifftrax" or "2/5".
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Aug 23, 2020 21:44
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I think letterboxd just needs a different way of figuring out the top anything that they display. The top lists this movie is in or whatever it's called could be a fun thing, but it's always just "List Of Literally All Movies" or "1000 Movies That Have The Letter E In The Title".
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I think there’s a lot of Film Tumblr refugees on Letterboxd, which would explain why most of the top reviews are just “mmmmmM daddy gyllenHALL yes 👌😫”
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cebrail posted:I think letterboxd just needs a different way of figuring out the top anything that they display. The top lists this movie is in or whatever it's called could be a fun thing, but it's always just "List Of Literally All Movies" or "1000 Movies That Have The Letter E In The Title". Yeah it's rough. My biggest complaint by far is using the search function to find a list, though. The vast majority of my searches are that same garbage and I have to scroll for pages and pages to find what I'm looking for. I think the simplest thing is allowing an option for a title-only option. I also wish you could sort and filter your search results by likes, number of movies on a list, etc.
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cebrail posted:I think letterboxd just needs a different way of figuring out the top anything that they display. The top lists this movie is in or whatever it's called could be a fun thing, but it's always just "List Of Literally All Movies" or "1000 Movies That Have The Letter E In The Title". The lists function can be so valuable for finding new movies on specific topics sometimes (I've used it as a resource on everything from labor and political history films to cybertronic exploitation cinema). But yeah, it's a giant loving eyeroll whenever I go to a Horror movie and see "Every Horror Movie Ever" or the drat ones where they organize 2,000 movies by poster color. Or the worst of them all: Random Movie Roulette.
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Being able to hide lists from search/etc would be nice, I really don't need to know CoolKidDom has heard of this movie.
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https://letterboxd.com/film/tenet/ Keep scrolling.
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FWIW if you want better list functionality, less bullshit, etc. I find Criticker is a lot better for this sort of thing.
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TrixRabbi posted:The lists function can be so valuable for finding new movies on specific topics sometimes (I've used it as a resource on everything from labor and political history films to cybertronic exploitation cinema). But yeah, it's a giant loving eyeroll whenever I go to a Horror movie and see "Every Horror Movie Ever" or the drat ones where they organize 2,000 movies by poster color. Or the worst of them all: Random Movie Roulette. https://letterboxd.com/nerdfighter8842/list/cinefix-rule-breaking-films/ https://letterboxd.com/bdlowe/list/vulture-50-essential-movies-on-criterion/ https://letterboxd.com/lindercrest/list/bong-joon-hos-favorites/
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TychoCelchuuu posted:FWIW if you want better list functionality, less bullshit, etc. I find Criticker is a lot better for this sort of thing. Criticker needs an app
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I still use Criticker in addition to Letterboxd but I'm waiting for the day that site calls it quits and just shuts down. What even is the active userbase there these days?
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If Criticker just got a bit of a visual facelift without changing any functionality it would attract/win back a lot more users. I use a browser extension with some custom CSS to pretty it up a bit and it makes a world of difference when it looks like a modern website rather than something out of 1998.
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feedmyleg posted:If Criticker just got a bit of a visual facelift without changing any functionality it would attract/win back a lot more users. I use a browser extension with some custom CSS to pretty it up a bit and it makes a world of difference when it looks like a modern website rather than something out of 1998. I figure that they make more in ads than the site costs to run and they don't give a poo poo about much else, and of course a redesign would be a huge pain in the rear end and expensive, so why bother?
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Criticker is beautiful and you are all hypnotized by the siren of boring modern web design.
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I dunno, man. I just hacked it together, but I'll take this boring: over this eyesore:  any day. Now if it had spinning GIFs and patterned backgrounds it'd have some 90s camp appeal. But alas, it's just ugly.
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TrixRabbi posted:cybertronic exploitation cinema
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I deleted my Criticker when I switched over to Letterboxd because gently caress logging stuff twice, and at the time I was wiping like 7 years of reviews. No way am I ever going back
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Shrecknet posted:I'm sorry, are Rumble, Frenzy and Soundwave running a loving grindhouse studio under Megatron's moon base? https://letterboxd.com/evanhusney/list/films-that-could-have-been-rad-sega-cd-games/ https://letterboxd.com/holliehorror/list/deep-dark-web-of-horror/ https://letterboxd.com/sternwise/list/cybertronic-movies/ https://letterboxd.com/topictag/list/hacker-movies-history-of-how-hackers-were/
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Cat Machine posted:I think there’s a lot of Film Tumblr refugees on Letterboxd, which would explain why most of the top reviews are just “mmmmmM daddy gyllenHALL yes 👌😫” Yeah the real worst reviews are the Harley Quinn avatars with the tired twitter memes in all caps.
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I'm gonna add all of you and watch all your favorite movies. mwahaha https://letterboxd.com/EatTheRich/
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hi ya’ll add me https://boxd.it/yB99
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Now that October is coming to a close and I've burned myself out on horror, I'm switching it up and trying to watch all 40 of the new Hallmark movies for Christmas that have already started airing. Each formulaic movie gets a formulaic review, a horniness rating, and a drinking game to make it tolerable/hospitalize yourself. Here's hoping by the time that real Christmas comes around and is a massive bummer, I'll be so sick of it I won't want to see another Christmas tree or white person anyway. https://letterboxd.com/jayx/list/hallmark-channel-christmas-season-2020/
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godspeed you maniac
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EL BROMANCE posted:Now that October is coming to a close and I've burned myself out on horror, I'm switching it up and trying to watch all 40 of the new Hallmark movies for Christmas that have already started airing. Each formulaic movie gets a formulaic review, a horniness rating, and a drinking game to make it tolerable/hospitalize yourself. I will be stickying the Holiday Movies thread again in November, so I would recommend you posting the reviews in there for your convenience, because that's what the thread was made for! (The thread is open, so you can start posting now if you want). I highly recommend you watch A Christmas Movie Christmas after you've watched a handful. It's a legit Hallmark Christmas movie from a Hallmark veteran director, but the premise is obviously meta. I started it out of irony and ended up just genuinely enjoying it. Also, Ryan Merriman is in it, and it's strange seeing Ryan Merriman in a film that wasn't made in 2000 for the Disney Channel.
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Oh fun, I was hoping there was a Christmas thread too, have bookmarked and I'll copy my opening reviews over. One last week of terror to get through! Hadn't heard of that Christmas Movie Christmas but it's definitely on the watchlist, and I'll suggest it as a watchparty thing with some friends who I know who like these films if they haven't seen, thanks. I love delving through the previous work of the cast and crew, as it kind of makes a weird sense to go from low budget horror to low budget (but guaranteed salary) TVM work. The moment I realised I could start my opening review with 'From the director of 'I Spit On Your Grave' ' I knew I would have some fun.
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EL BROMANCE posted:Oh fun, I was hoping there was a Christmas thread too, have bookmarked and I'll copy my opening reviews over. One last week of terror to get through! The past two years, my friend organized Hallmark Christmas Movie Parties where we would do something festive (gingerbread house or something), have Christmas-y drinks like loaded eggnog or whatever, and then play Hallmark Movie Bingo. Each person gets a blank Bingo card and fills it out with Hallmark Christmas Movie tropes of their choosing--"Helpful old man is actually Santa" , "Kiss under mistletoe", "Main Character cares more about Career than Christmas", you get the idea. Whoever gets Bingo is crowned the winner and gets some silly prize. It's very fun, and I'm kinda sad we probably won't get to do something like that this year, unless it's over zoom. Feel free to steal that idea.
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