Letterboxd - Proof that not everyone can be a film critic.

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Of course you can find the shippers on this site too (Archive)
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Any film dealing with race has self-hating white people in the reviews (Archive)
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Letterboxd feels like an entire website built upon generating the level of insight you would get in RYM comment boxes
 
A lot of websites like Letterboxd source from public databases like iMDB or TMDB, which is why you'll find random YouTube videos on there sometimes. I'd say they're not really in the business of determining what is and isn't a movie, but I guess they are since they seem to ban things they don't like. I had no idea they did that.

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I only use letterboxd to track which movies I’ve watched. I’m surprised people use it for anything else.
 
It has many echoes of the general Tumblr community from pre porn ban, same mental illnesses and all. Much more so than even twitter, and I sort of attribute it to the long form no punctuation cutesy styling that people on tumblr used. Just like that site - there's a lot of accounts with gimmicks you think are Poe's law in action but are the real deal - https://letterboxd.com/masteroblong/ - an actual pajeet immensely triggered by western culture, yet when there's a movie he actually likes, all of those qualms go away.

I could go through the various screenshots of reviews or even the ones i didn't cap but its just not worth it in the end for me - there's something really depressing about reading a few pages of reviews - especially the top rated ones. Its not like I don't like dissenting opinions - I'm actually addicted to reading stuff that disagrees with me, but there's a mix of art school pretentiousness and banal self importance that hurts the soul. Also sometimes the horny on main fangirl reviewers can get grating - I wonder how much of a nightmare if a more male oriented site (MAL maybe) would be if straight guys horny posted the entirety of reviews - might even be funny at first.

These user based review sites suffer from all sorts of populism but enough people give an honest rating and thus serves a better shot in the dark if a movie is worth watching than RT or any individual critic - and I'll admit some reviews had me audibly laughing. Letterbox just has a much more terminally online userbase, lots of film school rejects or worse, actual film students with a bone to pick. Enough normies are flocking to it that checking out the recent reviews shows some pretty accurate or funny stuff from normal people.

I follow a few friends but also this guy - https://letterboxd.com/vinnycenzo/. He might be too deep into the family/children's genre, but has really balanced optimistic reviews, no sky is falling rants or left wing manifestos, can seem to articulate why he loves something. I much prefer the community and wider selection of TV and online content of Trakt.com as Ged! pointed out - but sometimes filling in bullshit for the "exact time watched" section gets grating, and the easy fix of "watched at release" can make a timeline messy.
 
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Hey fellow white socialist women, how do you do?

This thread brought back memories, I used to be quite active on Letterboxd before it turned into the leftist cesspool it is. Sure, Lucy was still there but when you browsed reviews there were definitely less hornyposting and one-liners. Some people actually liked to give their opinions about the technical aspects of a film, which was nice. I remember nobody on Letterboxd liking Lucy or bratpitt because their 'joke' reviews made the format really popular and since they had lots of followers, other people coming from Twitter tried to emulate their reviews to get popular, so now LB reviews are just Twitter posts.

I particularly loathe bratpitt; anyone who says Tumblr is dead just needs to log onto LB. I guess she just calls herself BRAT now? Username checks out.
First thing I hate about brat is that she never reviews without her precious tags:
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The second is her ratings frequently include the Bechdel test for some godforsaken reason. The Bechdel test, for those of you lucky enough to never have been around social justice types, is a test created by a lesbian named Bechdel who wanted to gauge whether women in media are represented enough. If a piece of media passes a Bechdel test, it will have two female characters in it that have a conversation about something other than men. If it fails, vice versa.
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She's a mom therefore Nolan is sexist. Ok...?
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Not every movie needs to have women in it, brat.

There's probably some very egregious things she's said over the years but the Bechdel test and her stupid tags are the most annoying for me.
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I particularly loathe bratpitt; anyone who says Tumblr is dead just needs to log onto LB. I guess she just calls herself BRAT now? Username checks out.
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I can't confirm, but I remember reading somewhere she dropped the Pitt part of he name because of some allegations made against Brad Pitt by Angelina Jolie in their divorce or whatever.
 
Defecation of a website for Gen Z, millennials, zoomers, whatever you call them. It's a shame when real introspection has devolved to one sentence quips for the intellectually retarded.

Some i've found:

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At least some people have good taste.
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