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I'm clubstoic on this if anyone wants to add me

i gave ya a follow. Lol your take on Joker is spot-on and super funny.

that sounds incredibly novel

I think I follow mostly discerning folks with quite specialized tastes on letterboxd and yet the "popular with friends" section always ends up being just a boring selection of mainstream releases that are in cinemas now.

Not really 'popular' - just if you're a letterboxd regular you're probably going to be watching recent new stuff a lot along with your obscure curios

Also why be discerning at all? Embrace everything

I'll be dead some day.

Also if I'm embracing a hugely popular mainstream release I don't really need letterboxd to tell me of its existence.

does imgur still work? let's find out
https://i.imgur.com/QYhILmH.png

yeah, i'm not sure how Popular With Friends works. but i have enough friends on there who watch enough mainstream movies in between all their arthouse releases and 80s direct-to-video genre exercises, that if the algorithm is looking for anything at all they had in common, 2 people who logged Eternals two weeks ago, even though it go totally buried in the feed, might be enough to push that to 'popular with friends.'

i see some ILXors at work there!

nun titty

Glad to see my William Powell marathon is having an impact somewhere.

abanana, that's more like it!

my "popular with friends" tab is currently Power Of The Dog, Benedetta, Last Duel, Spencer, House Of Gucci and The Beatles Get Back. again, really not stuff I need letterboxd to keep me posted on.

https://imgur.com/flzVqMx

https://i.imgur.com/flzVqMx.jpg

I don't know how useful (or accurate) the 'popular with friends' feature really is. Everyone I follow has pretty interesting and diverse tastes. Maybe that's just a representation of the rare points where everyone's tastes intersect, an exercise which (imo) will almost always take the form of a completely boring list.

yeah I think that's prob right

Because of her expertise in silent cinema, I can nearly always spot what j.lu has been watching in my Popular With Friends list.

Eric's review of The Red Shoes is a tearjerker: https://letterboxd.com/ephender/film/the-red-shoes/1/

I wish you could have some kind of control over the reviews. Half the time the most popular review is like this, really makes me want to delete my account:

dude did you notice the incest vibes? this bitch wanted to straight up fuck her uncle! dude, it was 1943! hitchcock was so ahead of his time, he literally invented cersei x jamie. if this was made today, they would have banged

you can, simply click "like" on my reviews and if enough of us do this they will become the most popular instead

I'm looking at Hanzo the Razor and it looks like you didn't review it :(

lol rob, great review there

The worst part about those kinds of reviews is that some irrepressible part of my brain wants to argue with what is basically a shitpost (yes, no work explored the concept of incest prior to Game of Thrones, etc). otoh I have no idea why you'd want to write shitpost reviews on letterboxd

There seems to be something about Hitchcock that makes people think they're being v clever pointing out the subtext people have been commenting on since the film's release, e.g.:

This is so gay. I mean, this is SO gay. Maybe you think you know how gay this is. Maybe you thought, "Oh, this is a lil gay" or "Oh, I'm sensing some undertones of homo-eroticism." Except you were wrong because this is perhaps the gayest movie in the history of gay movies and I loved every single second of it.

Oh yeah, good long takes, too.

(that one is at least a little funnier)

i think these read better if you assume they're not trying to be clever, but to convey enthusiasm/delight. contemporary youth chill/fun twitter/insta speak.

You just gotta use your block

when you know a movie is gonna suck ass pic.twitter.com/npRa6ZQVWR

— dream song 4 (@chickenpaprika) November 3, 2021

As a critic, David E. is a great year-end montage video editor.

thank you, Whiney, I didn't realize you could block reviewers, that is v useful

Doc C: yeah that's clearly the case with the Rope review. I guess I just fundamentally dislike the twitter/insta voice, though I think it's a more specific horny subgenre, which is more like "meta-horny," that I truly hate

Sometimes you want to watch a deep, meaningful Ghibli film and then sometimes you wanna watch one about a girl who thinks "yeah man, I'd have sex with that cat".

BECAUSE WE WOULD ALL HAVE SEX WITH THAT CAT.

This review may contain spoilers.

she wanted to fuck a cat, lets just sit with what we heard

it's really the dead obviousness that gets me

xpost ppl say this, but I have no idea why anyone would watch like "an oscar montage but titane"

i've only partially watched one of his year-end montages... it wasn't good

Finally finished up matching everything in my movie log db with its imdb id so something like importing the last sixteen years of movie watching Letterboxd is super-easy.

https://letterboxd.com/quartzcity/

I'm doing March Around The World this year, trying to focus on films I've not seen a single movie from. Basic idea is for users to watch 30 films in the month from 30 different countries (each year also has one obligatory entry - this year it's Denmark, so I've included a film by Riders Of Justice guy because I loved that one, despite having seen Danish films.=

My list:

https://letterboxd.com/reifferschizzle/list/march-around-the-world-2022/

Further to that, the challenge has a spreadsheet which is a pretty cool resource for those wanting to explore movies from less well known areas:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vSux4XMP-nKjVh22Qcx148aDalBauYH_u3bJ4flO6tnRbUxfsZ2CZt0Eydyh0RD2WrDg-jyNCYqAMcg/pubhtml#

lmao

I enjoy this interpretation of the film, since it makes the girls feel more like the anarchic heroes of the piece. However, I think that it is better to read the film in a way that paints Marie I and Marie II as Lenin and Stalin. The girls are incredibly selfish and steal from both the rich and poor, leading people on and lying so that they can get everything they want. Their indulgences are the disgusting consumption of the Soviet Union and its expansion at the cost of human life and resources. The two Maries destroy and consume the entire bourgeois feast at the end (right after taking corn from working-class farmers) and this stands in for the Soviet goal of eating the West. At the end they have eaten everything, and feel regret for the first time, only because they have nothing else to eat. The film ends by punishing them for their indulgence, holding the belief that a system like the Soviet Union cannot last forever, and that eventually those in power will be punished for their wrongdoings.

(re: Daisies)

otoh this looks potentially super useful: https://letterboxd.com/oldfilmsflicker/list/classic-films-1910s-1980s-on-paramount/

Haha: https://letterboxd.com/jazzvampire/list/noir-westerns-with-titles-that-sound-like/

https://letterboxd.com/schlockvalue/list/100-essential-all-male-films/

(NSFW.)

xp Lol too easy

This queer film student whose into silent comedy, classic animation, Hitchcock, Kate Bush, Twin Peaks, and the absolute dregs of holiday-themed TV specials is perhaps my fave letterboxr: https://letterboxd.com/kissthem4me/

Recommended list: https://letterboxd.com/kissthem4me/list/1-film-1-year/

Added!

I only got into films during lockdown after decades of just not being interested so my tastes might be a bit 18 years of age discovering films but I like what I like and if anyone would like to follow me then please do. https://letterboxd.com/pfunkboy/

You can be reassured that I don't review many films.

I might get a wild hair to review on a rare occasion but I just log 90% of the time. Thanks for linking up!

I'm doing March Around The World this year, trying to focus on films I've not seen a single movie from. Basic idea is for users to watch 30 films in the month from 30 different countries (each year also has one obligatory entry - this year it's Denmark, so I've included a film by Riders Of Justice guy because I loved that one, despite having seen Danish films.

Prepping for this again, once more trying to get 29 blank countries filled in green. This year's obligatory country is Egypt - there's a lot of classic Egyptian films on YT but alas few of them with subtitles.

http://letterboxd.com/reifferschizzle/list/matw-2023/

xxp TSI, you are definitely underselling how much you've caught up since lockdown.

I only got into films during lockdown after decades of just not being interested

Feel you. I got back into films during lockdown and have been going ham ever since. LB suggests that nearly a third of the films I've seen in my life were watched over the course of the few years that I've been on LB. Which can't be right. But which might not be far off.

Kinda want to start a Letterboxd account. It looks fun.

It is as long as you don't worry too much about ratings. There's some users who frown if you give anything 4 stars or over. Thankfully its nowhere near as bad as RYM.
I just decided to use my own system for my own use. If there's a lot of 4.5 or 5 reviews and people dont like it - then tough. One review by me will not in anyway change the overall ratings of any film.

The ratings do come in handy for some lists though such as "Official Top 50 Narrative Feature Films Under 5,000 Ratings"

https://letterboxd.com/offensivename/list/official-top-50-narrative-feature-films-under/

Found a lot of gems in that list over the past year (and subsequently those films passed the 5000 mark) this one https://letterboxd.com/film/anantaram/ has become one of my favourite films. It really deserves to be seen by more people.

In the interests of accuracy I've made sure my diary includes films watched with the my daughter

https://i.imgur.com/wI7MRCl.png

There's some users who frown if you give anything 4 stars or over.

Anything that's less fusty and involved than the g-d 100-point scale is fine by me