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Shiva baby blows ass

that means it's great right?

I'll watch anything with Toronto & Reform Jews but Shiva Baby was pretty dire. Not much of Toronto (it's all indoors, moreorless, from ten minutes in) and the Jewishness was shticky and stereotyped. Reminded me of a bad fringe festival show that gets lucky with a good cast.

i liked Shiva Baby a lot!

in terms of (self-hating) Jewishness how does it rank compared to Uncut Gems

There’s nothing self-hating in Uncut Gems!!

Perfect Passover movie

There’s not enough insight about Jewishness in it to even begin self-hating

I didn't mind Shiva Baby, but I would have been just as happy watching Appropriate Behaviour again.

There’s nothing self-hating in Uncut Gems!!

Appropriate Behavior's a good one!

Unless you think sleeping with goyim is self-hating behavior which idk dude!

Appropriate Behavior is probably my favourite comedy of the previous decade.

well that's a high bar then! let's throw in tiny furniture too.

https://letterboxd.com/demiadejuyigbe/film/space-jam-a-new-legacy/

i was asked to do punch up on this movie and repeatedly pitched a bit in which lebron james goes through the sisterhood of the traveling pants franchise. “he and bugs could wear the pants” i said. “maybe they run into america ferrera and say something like ‘hey, nice pants’.” after an hour of interrupting pauses in the conversation by mentioning scenes from the franchise that lebron could travel through i was told to “cool it with the fucking pants shit.” they asked me to focus on rewriting porky’s rap and i wrote the bar “team is known around the world from seattle to france / we’re gonna pass you on the board like some traveling pants” and malcolm d. lee screamed at me. as an apology he agreed to put two characters from the sisterhood as extras in the crowd. look closely and you might see them. they just look like normal girls but they’re really excited about their pants. only you can decide how much of this anecdote is real

lol, yeah I saw that the other day. I'm often tempted to similarly 'review' movies. Maybe I need a second account.

wow https://letterboxd.com/estheronfilm/film/dear-evan-hansen/

Letterboxd is great imho

review is harsh. but come on, use some damn Capital Letters!

i looked up the trailer and yikes. how did they make a 26yo look like he's 35?

among the most misguided, disastrous decisions in cinema history, right around "john landis telling vic morrow and the kids to stand there".

old guy playing evan hansen comparable to manslaughter got it

that line is Problematic (tm) yes but also i laughed which probably makes me a bad person idc

All people are bad. All people deserve to laugh.

Esther Rosenfield is a terrible writer

who?

she did the olive garden story

the whatnow

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 :(