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It's a shame Criticker seems to have fallen out of favor. I like Letterboxd for a better focus on community and also collecting movie posters like trading cards is fun. But Criticker is super useful for sorting movies (like when I want to know what I've seen from 1975 specifically) and for creating a remembered films list. I keep both going since they've got their advantages and disadvantages, but I'm worried about Criticker going under.
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Zogo posted:I'm not on any of these review sites but the idea of having only four top films is unique in the era where some have a top 100 by year. He's overstating it. You can change them at will and it's just a sort of profile icon to throw up to give people a sense for your taste. You can always use the lists feature to make aforementioned Top 100 by Year collections.
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Nov 6, 2016 00:25
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K. Waste posted:I'm pretty sure you can sort films by date, or are you guys talkin' about something else? I find this format much more efficient for that type of thing.   The predicted scores are nice too.
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Nov 6, 2016 16:19
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Spatulater bro! posted:The Worst Movies I've Ever Seen. It's all of my 1/2 star movies. It is 2017, we can all admit Freddy Got Fingered is phenomenal. We don't have to pretend anymore.
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Mar 17, 2017 16:36
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friendo55 posted:I frequently forget that movie ever existed.. 100%. Hollywood gave Tom Green the keys to the car and he took it for a joyride and Thelma & Louise'd it over a cliff. It owns.
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Mar 17, 2017 23:32
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Spatulater bro! posted:I've seen it only once, in the theater, and I hated it so much I nearly walked out. Should I give it another chance? It can't hurt. Whether you like it or not, I think it's important to recognize that it is not an unintelligent movie, it's very deliberate in what it's doing. Which given the comedies that were popular at the time, I don't know that most people viewed it that way.
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Mar 18, 2017 06:21
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zenintrude posted:Please don't log stand up specials on LB... you are a terrible person if you do. Given that they're audio-visual productions made with cameras and presented in a feature-length format, I'll do whatever the hell I drat well please.
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Jun 17, 2017 15:54
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Lester Shy posted:Discounting shorts, documentaries, and MST3K movies, my least popular film is How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman, a Tupi language black comedy about cannibalism in 16th century Brazil from 1971, with 314 viewers. This is a good movie. edit: My least popular movie is the film Hacks (1997) which I am the only person to rank. It's good though and y'all should seek it out. TrixRabbi fucked around with this message at 13:38 on Sep 8, 2017 |
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Sep 8, 2017 13:29
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Raxivace posted:Ignoring like, DVD special features and things like that, I've decided my pick for this will be Casino Royale, even though it has relatively a lot of views at 212. No not that Daniel Craig movie. Not even the 1967 parody version. Before even that, there was a made-for-TV version in 1954 where Bond was played by Barry Nelson. Don't remember who Barry Nelson is? How the hell have I never heard of this?
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Feb 6, 2018 21:35
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My letterboxd only has movies I've watched dating back to October 2014 so I can't tell how many exactly but I've currently got 48 (12%) but have def seen way more than that. edit: Manual count shows a flat 200. 
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Aug 7, 2018 17:21
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I've done it this way for four years I can't change now.
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Aug 7, 2018 19:47
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I already did it twice with Criticker and iCheckMovies and just didn't want to do it again so I decided my Letterboxd would just be a diary of everything I've watched since registration. I made a personal list of everything I'd watched before Letterboxd based on my Criticker, but I dunno, adding them all now feels like I'm writing a massive list in the margin of my carefully kept journal if that makes sense. I do mark rewatches as such though.
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Aug 7, 2018 22:20
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To be fair they're in that movie because Jim Carrey is a huge fan and lobbied to have them.
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Sep 14, 2018 20:19
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Teenage Fansub posted:Not really metal, but I always thought Alice Cooper and Aerosmith were really lame choices of bands for Wayne and Garth to pine over. Gotta consider that in the 70's they were the coolest. Alice Cooper was considered to be a truly dangerous performer before he became a chill radio DJ/restaurant owner. And Aerosmith used to have Rolling Stones level of sex appeal. By the early 90's they were hitting middle age, yeah, but when Wayne and Garth were growing up these dudes were living legends.
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Sep 20, 2018 15:32
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Basebf555 posted:Yea for a 90's kid who's first real exposure to Aerosmith was the Armageddon soundtrack, it's hard to see them the same way Wayne and Garth do. Yup. Even in my classic rock phase I was never big on them, but I get that there was a time where they were kings. Also Wayne's World rules; both movies. No one knock Wayne's World.
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Sep 20, 2018 15:38
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The weirdest thing is Aerosmith's last album of new material came out in loving 2012.
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Sep 21, 2018 15:36
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I get the complaints about the lists, but I will say Letterboxd has been one of the best discovery tools I've ever found online. It's not hard to just pull back the layer of noise and find some actually great, niche, well-curated lists of films on particular subjects. I've been slowly researching films about hackers and the internet for about a year now and there were several great lists with different hooks that turned up a ton of obscure films I would likely never have heard of (or would have taken much longer to find) without. Typically I just start with a film that fits my criteria, see what lists its included in, and usually only have to dig a couple pages in before I find a solid one. I don't think I ever just go to the general Lists tab on the site.
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Nov 19, 2018 16:27
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Shelled out $12 for Pro and enjoying seeing my stats. I liked that it tells me how many films from my Watchlist I actually watched this year (60) and how many I added (over 400). One thing I'd love for them to add though is an ability to see what those 60 movies I watched were. Obviously I can go back and look at my diary but I usually don't remember what was on my Watchlist and what wasn't. Also, this gives me a challenge for next year: Watch more films off my list than I add.
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Nov 26, 2018 21:58
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I think it’s more for personal diary keeping than anything. I don’t see the point in logging format though, just strikes me as obsessive.
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Nov 29, 2018 06:00
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- 355 diary entry (mostly features, but maybe 30 or so shorts as well) - 527.4 hours - 311 new-to-me, 44 rewatches Stars: Tom Cruise - 24 films Forest Whitaker, Steve Buscemi, Tim Curry, Willem Dafoe, Nicole Kidman, and Paul Rudd - 4 films Director: Steven Spielberg - 5 films
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Jan 2, 2019 20:24
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My girlfriend and I are watching his filmography. Going in order, left off on Eyes Wide Shut and got Magnolia up next. Also before we started this I had watched a couple other Cruise movies by chance earlier in the year so those got counted as well.
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Jan 2, 2019 20:48
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Jan 2, 2019 21:11
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Yeah, because the site doesn't notify on likes for reviews I'll go back and see reviews I wrote years ago have since had people read and comment on them. So you'll get followers that way.
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Feb 6, 2019 20:31
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I log MST3K. It’s just a different cut of the film IMO
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Mar 8, 2019 20:38
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I usually do a star rating based on the quality of the movie and then in the review field include a separate star rating as a MST3K episode (i.e. if Manos is a 5/5 then Avalanche is like a 2/5). Obviously it's a different experience than if I just watched the movie on its own, so my rating will be skewed by that, but it's really not worth getting too into the weeds about.
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Mar 11, 2019 20:36
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Presumably they were taking notes during the whole film to document all anti-vegan behavior?
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Apr 8, 2019 16:10
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CopywrightMMXI posted:Someone made a list of Letterbox’s top 250 best reviewed, narrative films. It has some problems but it’s definitely better than the IMDb 250. This is world's better than IMDb. More teens just getting into film should have to prioritize Harakiri.
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Jun 19, 2019 19:17
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They're all made with cameras. It's just semantics about mode of distribution.
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Jun 20, 2019 18:49
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I do find the question of "What is a film?" interesting, and how resistant people are to muddying the TV/Cinema dichotomy. Casablanca -- 1h42m, made with 35mm film stock, distributed through cinemas: A film The Honeymooners -- 39 episodes produced over two years and distributed via television: Not a film The Crimson Ghost -- Republic film serial totaling 2h47m in 12 episodes released to cinemas in parts over the course of a year: A film The Twilight Zone -- Standalone short stories produced by networks and distributed as a television series: Not a film La Jetee -- A 20 minute short composed mostly of still images and screened in cinemas: A film Avengers: Endgame -- A digitally recorded 3h2m culmination of a 20+ part series distributed via cinemas: A film Twin Peaks: The Return -- 18hr series digitally recorded but broadcast over cable television in individual episodes: Not a film, until it was aired concurrently in cinemas in special screenings at which point it became a film Dekalog -- 10-part television mini-series written and directed by a respected auteur: A film Girls Just Want to Have Fun -- 3m music video: Not a film Mothlight -- 3m experimental short made without the use of a camera, only by gluing moth wings to a film strip: A film It (1990) -- 2-part miniseries aired on television but produced as a single 4h piece: A film, I guess Homestar Runner -- Internet released flash animation series: Not a film edit: I could keep going forever like this. We've discussed in this thread before something like Mystery Science Theater 3000 or stand up comedy specials. How do we address experimental filmmakers like James Benning who have created films that are effectively slideshows of still images? We consider early cinema like Edison and Lumiere shorts as films, but what about animated GIFs? What about that animated GIF that was the entirety of Terminator 2 in full at original framerate? TrixRabbi fucked around with this message at 16:21 on Jul 8, 2019 |
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Jul 8, 2019 16:15
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Alright since we're all sharing
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Oct 14, 2019 15:09
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Yeah, when I made Letterboxd I decided not to import everything from Criticker. So on one hand it's frustrating that my log only goes back to October 2014 and there's nearly 2,000 movies I've seen not featured on my account (I've seen Taxi Driver! Just not in 5+ years). On the other hand it's kind of nice to just look at it as a journal of my immediate thoughts and feelings for movies I've seen since graduating college. If I added them all now it would feel wrong.
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E.G.G.S. posted:I splurged on a Pro account and changed my user name which also came with some sweet, sweet end of year stats that got totalyl skewed by me watching all the James Bond films. It's cool to just admit you're a giant Lois Maxwell fan.
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Jan 3, 2020 17:05
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I've definitely been the first person to watch some movies, or even went so far as to add them to The Movie Database so I could log them, such as this Turkish Django knockoff: https://letterboxd.com/film/django-fearless-man/ I think I was also the first or second person to log Hacks (1997) and managed to get K. Waste to watch it too lol: https://letterboxd.com/film/hacks-1997/
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Mar 12, 2020 19:40
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Is there a browser script or something I can use to restore the Films gallery to its original format, without the stars below each poster?
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May 12, 2020 15:16
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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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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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Aug 24, 2020 14:23
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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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Aug 26, 2020 18:01
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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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Aug 28, 2020 23:20
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I had to unfollow the vegan alerts lady cause it started seeping into my brain and I'd be clocking vegan violations myself while watching movies.
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My secret to rating movies is this: Just vibe it. Vibe it. Does this movie feel like a 3? A 4? Is it a full blown 5? Maybe that extra half star is meaningful. Just roll with it. Vibe. It's all meaningless.
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