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Im gonna  this page with a link straight to the big goon list for everyone to click on so you have a straight link to the most important collection of letterboxing names on the internetTell me if you need to be added!
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Letterboxd has spurred a level of compulsion I never knew I had, I'm digging through old keepsake chests for movie stubs just to properly log stuff. I'm remembering I had garbage loving taste in the 2000's.
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Apr 25, 2023 20:40
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The 2000s had garbage taste
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Apr 25, 2023 20:41
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MacheteZombie posted:The 2000s had garbage taste  The few years after 9/11 were probably the worst ever period for American films
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Apr 25, 2023 20:45
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Not just films. Music, fashion, all american culture sucked poo poo til at least somewhere in the 07-09 ballpark
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Apr 25, 2023 21:09
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Imagine, there are goons who barely were around in the 2000s! I was a kid, too and I definitely had terrible loving taste. And still have! Good thing to keep stuff from your earliest childhood.
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Apr 27, 2023 23:35
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Realized that all my ratings were bunching up between 3 and 4, with the most being 3.5, when 3s could be 2s and 3.5s could be threes. Contemplating re-rating my entire review catalog Sorry about this, it’s another sleepless night
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Apr 28, 2023 06:18
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Ramrod Hotshot posted:Realized that all my ratings were bunching up between 3 and 4, with the most being 3.5, when 3s could be 2s and 3.5s could be threes. Contemplating re-rating my entire review catalog by definition most movies are average 
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Apr 28, 2023 06:32
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Ramrod Hotshot posted:Realized that all my ratings were bunching up between 3 and 4, with the most being 3.5, when 3s could be 2s and 3.5s could be threes. Contemplating re-rating my entire review catalog 3.5-4 is a pretty normal average rating, that's where mine is too. When I pick a movie to watch it's because it's something I'm interested in and I'm more likely to enjoy it than if I were watching just anything at random.
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Apr 28, 2023 13:57
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Yeah it doesn’t seem bad to mostly enjoy the movies you like. Maybe if you’re getting a lot of 3s you want to be more selective to find better films. Or maybe you want to expand your comfort zone to spread the selections around more. But like you ending up right around the middle on most do the films you select to watch just means you’re watching movies you more or less enjoy with slight variations in how much. Which seems healthy than having extreme reactions to everything.
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Apr 28, 2023 21:05
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Time is limited, we are going to watch movies that interest us mostly. That being said I did a conjuring universe marathon last year before I was on Letterboxd, but I don’t really want to go back and watch those for logging now.
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Apr 29, 2023 04:56
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Hey the account in the big list isn't me anymore, I changed my account to be under my IRL name. I'm not going to post it for privacy reasons and that appears to be an entirely different person also using the handle Mantis.
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Apr 29, 2023 05:07
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STAC Goat posted:Yeah it doesn’t seem bad to mostly enjoy the movies you like. Maybe if you’re getting a lot of 3s you want to be more selective to find better films. As a counter, 5s often need more concentration and investment. Sometimes after work, a solid 3 is the right call.
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Apr 29, 2023 05:08
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zer0spunk posted:It's the only review site where I'll watch a thing, come up with my own 1-5 rating and then see how it stacks up to the average. Usually, it's pretty close, but there's no way I care about the RT rating or whatever the imdb score is in the same way. Yeah I can't even remember the last time I looked at RT. IMDB is still good to very quickly look up trivia or whatever cast info but Letterboxd has been my only source for ratings for a while now. I didn't realize there was a goon list or/and didn't follow people on it, this is me: https://letterboxd.com/chrisrasa/
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Apr 29, 2023 05:34
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Your average should never be below 5 stars because you're not an idiot and therefore watch nothing but perfect excellent movies as nothing less deserves your attention 
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Apr 29, 2023 09:35
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Apr 29, 2023 09:53
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Goatse and Gallant posted:Your average should never be below 5 stars because you're not an idiot and therefore watch nothing but perfect excellent movies as nothing less deserves your attention I only give things heart or not-heart. Thumbs up or thumbs down. Waste of my time or not.
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Apr 29, 2023 10:53
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The best movies are 1/2 Star rated shitfests that still get a like. Lovely, terrible, objectively bad movies that you just have to like and enjoy despite or because of how bad it is Enjoy the bad things
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Apr 29, 2023 11:20
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Ah, I'm not a believer in 'so bad it's good'. Strict dichotomy, I enjoyed it or I didn't. I may have made a video about this.
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Apr 29, 2023 11:25
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Yeah, my ratings reflect how much I enjoyed a movie, not how objectively good I thought it was. I've given plenty of absolute trash 4 or occasionally even 5 stars because I had a ton of fun watching them.
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Apr 29, 2023 13:57
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Good point! I can totally see that. How or in which situation would you use the Like button, if your rating already reflects how much you like something? Just as an extra or not at all or? I guess the entire concept of this reflects on the threat title, I think about this a lot.
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Apr 29, 2023 14:31
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I put my scale in my profile bio for context (aka i'm tough on things)quote:5 stars: a must see, rewatchable
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Apr 29, 2023 15:07
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Goatse and Gallant posted:How or in which situation would you use the Like button, if your rating already reflects how much you like something? Just as an extra or not at all or? I don't! Favoriting and Like are useless to me. If I dig a movie I'll give it a good rating. My ratings are just for me and my reference. I'll leave a review if I think a piece of trash is great for a particular type of person to let them know what's up, though.
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Apr 29, 2023 17:53
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I don't have a strict standard for my ratings and am constantly adjusting my ratings up and down by half a star for up to a week after watching them.
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Apr 29, 2023 21:07
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I only “like” for things I don’t give star ratings to - usually shorts, miniseries, etc.
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Apr 29, 2023 23:09
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I use 2.5 stars for “weird but good” or things I’m really mixed on. Everything below that is bad, everything above that is fine to great. I’d rather watch a 2.5 than a 3.5.
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Apr 30, 2023 01:59
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i don't rate with stars, it's either like or not like for me
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Apr 30, 2023 08:06
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Stars are fun but no reason to take them too seriously. I assume I have at least a 1-1.5 star variance depending on my mood or timing when I watch something.
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Apr 30, 2023 15:43
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I make myself write at least something for every film I watch, so throwing a rating on it too made sense to me. It's all in service of my stoner memory, the reviews are for me when I forget I did in fact watch said thing
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Apr 30, 2023 15:52
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Stars involve squashing various things together to make an overall rating. It's one reason why I try to write something for every film I watch: the reasons I gave four stars to Seijun Suzuki's Branded to Kill are very different to the reasons I gave four stars to Neil Breen's Double Down.
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Apr 30, 2023 17:55
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pssh, that's nothing 
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Apr 30, 2023 20:35
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Not Letterboxd, but there's someone on RateYourMusic's film section with this ratings distribution: Legitimately impressive imo. At one point they had exactly the same number in each
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Apr 30, 2023 20:46
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For as many sorting and filtering controls as they give us, I can't believe that there's still no "at least 20 reviews" option I can select. I hate clicking into a film and seeing that it has no details attached and nobody has ever rated or reviewed it. Or that it played at one film festival 5 years ago and was never otherwise released. "Hide Unreleased Titles" feels like it should catch those, but I think it's just for future films.
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May 3, 2023 23:55
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feedmyleg posted:For as many sorting and filtering controls as they give us, I can't believe that there's still no "at least 20 reviews" option I can select. I hate clicking into a film and seeing that it has no details attached and nobody has ever rated or reviewed it. Or that it played at one film festival 5 years ago and was never otherwise released. "Hide Unreleased Titles" feels like it should catch those, but I think it's just for future films. Yeah, something like that would definitely make the 'sort by highest rating feature' usable, instead of giving you a thousand movies with two five-star ratings from the director
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May 4, 2023 19:20
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Agree that without a significance filter the ratings ones aren't very useful. Sort by popularity ends up being close enough for me. My letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/space_goats/
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May 15, 2023 08:12
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Added! Edit: I'm considering doing a clean up in the big goon list and, for now!, remove anyone who neither posts when asked (which would be this post??) after a solid waiting time, nor logged any movie this (and maybe additionally the past?) year, just so we make sure we have active goons on the list and keep it clean. There also, however, are good reasons to just leave it as it is and only remove those who might have gone 404 by now, after disabling or deleting an account. Obviously anyone requesting to be re-added ITT would get in immediately regardless at any time later. I don't know if we have anyone or any number of people who, for example, never log things or never use a (recent) date when doing so, in that case a clean up could be based on other things, too. So, some questions to ask! So I'll ask the thread, what do you think? An idea to do in practise or is it me being too German on paperwork and databases? After a quick look into the list, this would only affect a low number of goons, still, I'll let the thread tell me what might be a good idea or not! Goons Are Gifts fucked around with this message at 09:25 on May 15, 2023 |
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May 15, 2023 09:15
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Goatse and Gallant posted:Added! imo it doesn't really matter, I doubt anyone's going through the list and systematically adding everyone. I just clicked on a few random people and followed, and use it as a reference if someone posts an interesting take in CineD. I have added a bunch of films to my watchlist though as a result of seeing people's fav'd or reviewed films from that list, so thanks for making it!
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May 15, 2023 15:09
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distortion park posted:I doubt anyone's going through the list and systematically adding everyone. 
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May 15, 2023 16:56
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Goatse and Gallant posted:Yeah no that's true, no one would do that nerdy thing, it'd be insane! 
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I started my account after doing a big ol' horror binge in 2020 because I wanted a place to just keep track of all the movies I was watching and since then I've really been using it to log horror movies basically exclusively. It's a fun website! https://letterboxd.com/HardLuckErin for mine. I keep a few all-genre lists for first-time watches and all-time favorites, but ratings and reviews are horror-only because I truly do not feel like going back and diving into a rabbit hole out of which I know I will never escape. My hearts/likes are given out if a movie gives me that fluttering intangible feeling while watching it. There are plenty of well-made movies that get high ratings because I respect the craft, but a movie with a heart means I want to grab someone and tell them all about it, even if it's not particularly "good".
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