Letterboxd: "A well made movie doesn't mean I enjoyed it!"

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Hat Thoughts: Jul 27, 2012

This is mine, although I haven't put much time into it yet
http://letterboxd.com/havelava/

# ¿ Nov 6, 2016 00:07

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# ¿ May 12, 2024 06:35

Hat Thoughts: Jul 27, 2012

K. Waste posted:

This is exactly why I don't do star ratings.

Ya but now your feelings on Sing Street are ambiguous

# ¿ Nov 13, 2016 15:26

Hat Thoughts: Jul 27, 2012

K. Waste posted:

On the other hand, me even putting in 15-seconds of thought to decide precisely how many stars out of five I'd give Sing Street is entirely too much time spent on thinking about Sing Street.

This is how I feel about clicking through Adam Sandler's actor page to mark films as seen.

# ¿ Nov 13, 2016 15:40

Hat Thoughts: Jul 27, 2012

Is there a way to like save/bookmark other people's lists? That'd be nice

Also I really just want this because the sorting stuff is already so robust but since you can set other people's lists to show movies you've seen it'd be cool if you could then organize it by the date you watched them.

# ¿ Nov 29, 2016 17:55

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Silver Brushes posted:

This is a great tool for me as I try to learn my film history, see what's popular today in past years and decades, and keep a watchlist instead of a list of films on Notepad.

https://letterboxd.com/IdiotBear/

Perpetual list in notepad ftw though

# ¿ Nov 29, 2016 19:20

Hat Thoughts: Jul 27, 2012

Cat Machine posted:

Please help me if you can think of any other movies for my list

https://letterboxd.com/letshugbro/list/films-set-in-2016-that-werent-made-in-2016/

This is an important one

# ¿ Dec 7, 2016 05:12

Hat Thoughts: Jul 27, 2012

K. Waste posted:

Here's a list of what I would program if I could program a film festival:

Bambi meets Godzilla was very influential in my growth

# ¿ Dec 9, 2016 05:43

Hat Thoughts: Jul 27, 2012

K. Waste posted:

It was on that old Scimitar VHS with Godzilla: King of the Monsters and the trailer-comp Sci-Fi Monsters, circa 1998. That was an artifact from my childhood I wish I could still find.

Yesssss rented from my local VIDEO EXPERIENCE (rip)

# ¿ Dec 9, 2016 05:49

Hat Thoughts: Jul 27, 2012

Just an incredible review of The Muppet Christmas Carol I found on letterboxd that really seems like it deserves some larger exposure
https://letterboxd.com/ryandeel/film/the-muppet-christmas-carol/

# ¿ Jan 8, 2017 10:58

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MacheteZombie posted:

help me with my list please

https://letterboxd.com/machetez/list/movies-with-coffee-pots-mugs-breaking/

Really admire your hustle on this one

# ¿ Feb 24, 2017 01:48

Hat Thoughts: Jul 27, 2012

lol

# ¿ Feb 26, 2017 14:18

Hat Thoughts: Jul 27, 2012

im mad that tati's sparks movie never happened

# ¿ Mar 2, 2017 07:56

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DC Murderverse posted:

also it could open the website up to a whole new world of hilarity: people who review porn. Like, actually review it, not just 'good stuff i came'

Any opportunity to post this link, I'll post it
http://www.imdb.com/user/ur1287548/comments

e: lmao I hadn't seen this new one

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Richard Mailer's "Classical Romance" is Porno Chic, shot on the film at the end of the theatrical era and all the better for it. It has exactly the same theme as the horribly overrated clunker "La La Land", but was far more entertaining for me.

That's because "La La", touted by sycophantic critics as "for people who love movies" was phony as a 3 dollar bill. I sat through at least a thousand movie musicals, mostly in theaters (revival houses) and appreciated the artistry of the form when directed by the likes of Busby Berkeley, Mark Sandrich, Minnelli and Donen, but that latest pastiche from the "jazz for dummies" creep who made "Whiplash" (in whose universe the giants of jazz are white guys) severely bungled the durable theme pitting selling out vs. sticking true to one's artistic goals.

Yet a lifelong pornographer, Mailer, handled that theme of a pianist sticking to his guns with aplomb, and no hokey John Legend character to tempt him to commercialism. That alone is quite a feat, given that commercialism is God in the Adult Cinema world.

Paul Thomas, soon to become perhaps Adult's finest director of all, is well-cast as the classically trained pianist stuck playing organ music of the Roller Rink style (no Jimmy McGriff or Jimmy Smith he) at an outdoor bar, while studying for a possible audition to get into a top conservatory. He lacks self-confidence, and when the invitation to try out comes his way, he's too chicken to take the opportunity.

Instead, his beautiful girlfriend Desiree Lane submits her pipe dream of their becoming big stars with a record contract by bringing their rock band to play at a new club. She is later forced to face reality, as when she meets with the sleazeball owner of that new enterprise he demands sex with her in return for a booking.

But by that time PT is tired of Desiree (the least convincing aspect of the production, as Lane fans can attest to) and has pledged his troth to married lady Jacqueline Lorians. Plenty of soap operatics flow under the bridge en route to a happy ending, with Herschel Savage rather one-note this outing as Jacky's workaholic, unfaithful and mean hubby.

This is quality Couples Romance, low impact but clearly designed to appeal to the fairer sex out there in a porn consumer universe always dominated by men (to whom product is clearly aimed). No feminist streak here, as the Lane character does not get her point-of-view in edgewise. But it still is far more truthful and clearly more erotic than the Ryan/Emma clunker that had fans of pastiche so mesmerized last year.

Hat Thoughts fucked around with this message at 05:43 on Jun 17, 2017

# ¿ Jun 17, 2017 05:35

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# ¿ May 12, 2024 06:35

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Teenage Fansub posted:

Logging short films is cheating.

i log ones i think r interesting enough 2 keep in memory, i figure thats the point of a diary

# ¿ Aug 13, 2018 04:41

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