My star system:
5 Transcendental. They speak to your soul. 4.5 Masterpieces. Everything works. Examples of the genre.4 A few moments of brilliance or sustained brilliant elements3.5 Pretty good all round, or one thing really stood out.3 I was enjoying myself more often than not2.5 That one thing was egregious but it was okay I guess2 Mostly bad but a few things worked1.5 One thing worked, otherwise so bad1 No redeemable features. A wholly bad movie0.5 Actively dislike. Just a horrorshow.
― I have no couch and I must stream (NotEnough), Friday, 12 February 2021 10:40 (three years ago) link
seconding cajunsunday's recommendation of punq, dude just does endless work sifting through b movies and serials from the 30's. I think at one point he talked about this being some sort of chronological project, because he had hit the last film featuring a specific actor. This cannot in truth be a project of watching all cinema from the begining of the artform, but it sure looks like it sometimes - dude even has reviews for Portuguese silent films I assume no one outside the country would have much interest in.
― Daniel_Rf, Friday, 12 February 2021 12:06 (three years ago) link
another underrated use of this app: if you turn on the setting that slightly grays/fades out the posters for movies you've seen, it becomes pretty useful as a "wait, what all have i seen that person in...?" type of thing. much faster than scrolling through their entire IMDB or w/e. i just wish it did its seen/unseen count in real numbers rather than percentages - i don't really care that i've seen 2% of the filmography of some hardworking hollywood guy who was in 180 movies plus 47 retrospective clip-show documentaries.
― honk honk honkin' on Bobo's door (Doctor Casino), Friday, 12 February 2021 13:37 (three years ago) link
It might not be on the phone app, but on the desktop version of the site, it does list it in numbers--like I could go to John Ford's page and it says how many of his movies I've seen, or Frederic March, or Michael Ballhaus, etc. I didn't have the app until a couple months ago, the desktop UI is much better.
― flappy bird, Friday, 12 February 2021 20:11 (three years ago) link
didn't realize that, thanks! but yeah have def noticed other lacking areas on the Android version.
― honk honk honkin' on Bobo's door (Doctor Casino), Friday, 12 February 2021 20:14 (three years ago) link
I don't really belong on there (or here) because, being generous to myself, my film knowledge is kind of patchy but I find it useful for logging stuff and getting recommendations.
https://letterboxd.com/MattPoacher/
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Friday, 12 February 2021 20:38 (three years ago) link
TIL what letterboxd's word limit looks like
https://letterboxd.com/louferrigno/film/twin-peaks/1/
― stimmy stimmy yah (Simon H.), Friday, 26 February 2021 17:21 (three years ago) link
oh god fuck that shit
― Nhex, Friday, 26 February 2021 18:23 (three years ago) link
get a blog!
― Canon in Deez (silby), Friday, 26 February 2021 19:28 (three years ago) link
there's more than one website duder
In the 70's and 80's, Mark Frost was just one writer in an ocean of people trying to keep that same employment, with his earliest attempts vague towards his actual involvement and primarily eaten up by his involvement Minneapolis' Guthrie Theater as a literary assistant.
riveting, go on
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 26 February 2021 19:31 (three years ago) link
are the rest of the sentences difficult to parse
I literally zoned out immediately so I have no idea
I really just linked it to note yet one more way people choose to use this particular webbed site
― stimmy stimmy yah (Simon H.), Friday, 26 February 2021 19:34 (three years ago) link
there are long boring incoherent reviews on every website
― flappy bird, Saturday, 27 February 2021 06:38 (three years ago) link
what are some good accounts flappy
― flopson, Saturday, 27 February 2021 06:47 (three years ago) link
https://letterboxd.com/bennash/https://letterboxd.com/violasmoustache/https://letterboxd.com/criterions/https://letterboxd.com/eugeugeug/https://letterboxd.com/lilfilm/
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 2 March 2021 20:02 (three years ago) link
i like letterboxd a lot. my main gripe is that i wish more of my friends were on it and i wish there was an ability to find your friends or have recommendations for people to follow based on your connections like every other social media app. basically it's hard to find people you know to connect with. i'm also confused by the various ways to log movies, some of which lead to them showing up in your diary and some of which don't. but i enjoy going on there and seeing what people are watching and what they're saying about it. the core concept is good.
― na (NA), Tuesday, 2 March 2021 20:08 (three years ago) link
I think you have to enter the exact date you watched the movie for it to show up in your diary
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 2 March 2021 20:46 (three years ago) link
Yeah, you have to actually log a movie for it to show up in your diary. It won't show up there if you just review or rate it.
― Chokeslamming A Memory (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 2 March 2021 21:03 (three years ago) link
This is super geeky but I kind of wish they'd bring back the YMDB functionality ... the style feature where you can compile a list and cross-index it against who else shares similar picks: http://web.archive.org/web/20060316065629/http://www.ymdb.com:80/ephender/l3984_frfr.html
― avatar of a kind of respectability homosexual culture (Eric H.), Tuesday, 2 March 2021 21:20 (three years ago) link
― Chokeslamming A Memory (Old Lunch), Tuesday, March 2, 2021 3:03 PM (eighteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
i understand, but ... why
― na (NA), Tuesday, 2 March 2021 21:23 (three years ago) link
In the 70's and 80's, Mark Frost was just one writer in an ocean of people trying to keep that same employment, with his earliest attempts vague towards his actual involvement and primarily eaten up by his involvement Minneapolis' Guthrie Theater as a literary assistant.riveting, go on
hey, I only made it maybe 200 words in, but this led me to wiki Frost and learn that his nephew Lucas Giolito pitches for the White Sox and his father played the father of George's fiancée, Susan, on Seinfeld (and also was in Slaughterhouse-Five (& obv. Twin Peaks)).
― bulb after bulb, Tuesday, 2 March 2021 22:39 (three years ago) link
and thanks, Flappy, for the good recommendations. I like finding people whose favorites include a couple of mine and the one film I absolutely hate.
― bulb after bulb, Tuesday, 2 March 2021 22:44 (three years ago) link
xxp because a diary is useless without dates?
― Nhex, Tuesday, 2 March 2021 23:16 (three years ago) link
and his father played the father of George's fiancée, Susan, on Seinfeld
ha i'd never realized this, even tho i recently realized who played her mother.
― difficult listening hour, Tuesday, 2 March 2021 23:23 (three years ago) link
― na (NA), Tuesday, March 2, 2021 3:08 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
Otm
― flopson, Wednesday, 3 March 2021 15:31 (three years ago) link
i like that letterboxd is fairly unaggressive about pushing you onto more "friends"!it's bad enough that every other social network has to pull your real name/data to sell to our evil overlords
― Nhex, Wednesday, 3 March 2021 15:35 (three years ago) link
FYI for list dorks like me, they've updated the app sometime in the past week (for Apple, at least) with functionality to add a movie to multiple lists at once while greying out any lists that already include the movie in question. I tend to get stupidly granular with my lists (such that I can, for instance, see at a glance all of the post-apocalyptic movies I own) so this is a lifesaver. Literally, my life has been saved. It was almost over and done.
― Stefan Twerkelle (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 3 March 2021 15:38 (three years ago) link
Feed clogged up with ppl logging fucking Wandavision, hope you include TV ppl are happy :(
― Daniel_Rf, Wednesday, 10 March 2021 11:10 (three years ago) link
man there's a lot of stuff that's not even vaguely edge-case-y:https://letterboxd.com/eddiebergman/list/tv-shows-that-are-on-letterboxd-for-some/
they should definitely have the option to "hide" anything that's regular serial television!
― armoured van, Holden (sic), Wednesday, 10 March 2021 11:18 (three years ago) link
every episode of Black Mirror is on there? individually? (with fan art for posters?!) look out if anyone ever tells them about Twilight Zone or Alfred Hitchcock Presents.
― armoured van, Holden (sic), Wednesday, 10 March 2021 11:21 (three years ago) link
Letterboxd Top 100 Documentary Miniseries
Letterboxd 50 Anime Miniseries
The Letterboxd Top 100 TV Narrative Miniseries, based on the average weighted rating of all Letterboxd users, excluding documentaries, and cutting everything with under 250 views logged
― armoured van, Holden (sic), Wednesday, 10 March 2021 11:25 (three years ago) link
if the New York Post's youtube dis track about the Pussy Posse's improvised and suppressed movie Don's Plum is cinema, why not include every single "here's what's WRONG with The Last Jedi (PS it's women)" video
― armoured van, Holden (sic), Wednesday, 10 March 2021 11:34 (three years ago) link
https://boxd.it/1Isi7p
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Thursday, 11 March 2021 20:20 (three years ago) link
I recommend nathaxnne's review of Transformers: The Movie, which I read the other day and which is very good.
― Stefan Twerkelle (Old Lunch), Thursday, 11 March 2021 21:13 (three years ago) link
ok, which ilxor is that
― this honking's on a bobo (Doctor Casino), Friday, 12 March 2021 01:20 (three years ago) link
hell yeah
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Friday, 12 March 2021 04:57 (three years ago) link
I enjoyed nathaxnne's takedown of richard stanley
― intern at pepe le pew research (Simon H.), Tuesday, 23 March 2021 13:21 (three years ago) link
very much appreciate the change from "no likes" to "no likes yet", let us down easy letterboxd
― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 23 March 2021 13:34 (three years ago) link
I've started compiling an 'Acid Horror' film list for my own amusement/reference. Any additional suggestions would be welcome - you'll see the kind of thing I'm after:
https://letterboxd.com/wardfowler/list/acid-horror/
― Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 23 March 2021 14:16 (three years ago) link
Neat list!
Hausu feels like it should fit. I'm not well versed in psych-horror but House seems kind of ultimate
https://letterboxd.com/film/house/
― davey, Tuesday, 23 March 2021 14:26 (three years ago) link
xpost!
God Told Me To? Death Bed? Hausu? Feel like I need a bigger sample size to know what fits and what don't.
― Clem McFlannery's Clam Phlegm Cannery (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 23 March 2021 14:26 (three years ago) link
So clearly Hausu, then.
― Clem McFlannery's Clam Phlegm Cannery (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 23 March 2021 14:27 (three years ago) link
The Virgin Sacrifice (J.X. Williams)
― avatar of a kind of respectability homosexual culture (Eric H.), Tuesday, 23 March 2021 14:34 (three years ago) link
would Alucarda count?
― intern at pepe le pew research (Simon H.), Tuesday, 23 March 2021 14:38 (three years ago) link
Don't know how strictly you're hewing to that particular early-to-mid-'70s era but Possession (1981), perhaps?
― Clem McFlannery's Clam Phlegm Cannery (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 23 March 2021 14:47 (three years ago) link
If we're allowing more modern, Mandy and Black Rainbow seem like good ones. Possessor from last year has a similar vibe.
― I have no couch and I must stream (NotEnough), Tuesday, 23 March 2021 14:56 (three years ago) link
Thank you for all your suggestion - I will update! Other contenders: El Topo (though that could fit on an Acid Western list), I Drink Your Blood. I don't especially want to set limits, but I guess I'm particularly looking for films where the overall vibe is that the cast and crew could well have been tripping while they made it.
― Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 23 March 2021 15:11 (three years ago) link
It's still sitting in my ever-growing stack of unwatched movies but Simon King of the Witches seems like a contender:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fax1uhZxvEA
― Clem McFlannery's Clam Phlegm Cannery (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 23 March 2021 15:16 (three years ago) link
Do you have a copy of Nightmare USA, Ward? I'm sure that's filled to the brim with what you're looking for.
― Clem McFlannery's Clam Phlegm Cannery (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 23 March 2021 15:17 (three years ago) link