Mentions (54)
"Reposting this with Omitted names in order to not dox the guy, despite him being a public figure with a decent sized subscriber base on YouTube. I don't want any of you cretins harassing the guy."
"If you people saw a third-person video of yourself having a conversation, your Letterboxd-armchair-psychiatrist-brain would immediately pick up on the idiosyncrasies of your speaking style, mannerism, and neuroses."
"Letterboxd: William Shakesqueer says 'ok but like can we talk about how fight club is lowkey a gay romance also edward norton didn't know how joan of arc felt im sorry what was the question.'"
"I just saw some top Letterboxd review of Eddington (I know, it's Letterboxd) that was like 'White males have moved on from trying to write the Great American Novel to trying to make the Great Provocative American Movie and it's tiring.' Like what?"
"It's essentially a letterboxd for literature, with emphasis on community and personalization. You can set your profile picture, banner image, and username which becomes your URL. I took huge UI inspirations from Substack, Arena, and letterboxd."
"Any time a popular new movie doesn't beat you over the head with overt declarations of 'HEY!!!! THIS IS A BAD PERSON!!! THIS GUY IS A FUCKING PIECE OF SHIT™ AND YOU SHOULDN'T LIKE HIM!!!!' insufferable letterboxd puritans will start writing lengthy thinkpieces about why the movie is bad and if you e"
"This isn't a thing in even other neighboring Asian countries. If you type in 'rape' in Letterboxd, at least 50% of the results are Japanese."
"Like yeah those guys are on Letterboxd too, but it takes about 5 minutes on the app to realize that the tastemakers are film-Twitter EEAAO obsessees."
"Hasn't gotten enshittified or feature creeped too hard. There are ads and occasional notifs to get premium but compared to more popular apps it's fairly innocuous. If I wanna search by a specific studio or producer I can. Yet 99% of popular reviews are one-liners that boil down to wishing the conven"
"I don't know how many more early-30's "d*des rock steely dan david lynch simpsons s1-s10 cormac mccarthy letterboxd" guys I can meet. They're all over the industry I work in, and they're both deeply un-self aware and have a weird superiority complex, mostly connected to a perceived superiority of th"
"my sister wrote a letterboxd review immediately after the movie was over: she enjoyed it because it didn't require as much emotional labor as blue beetle and barbie which left her drained."
"The kind of people who spend the whole runtime thinking of a snarky one-liner they can post on Letterboxd afterwards."
"SHUT THE FUCK UP! YOU DON'T HAVE SPECIAL INSIGHT FOR HAVING A VAGINA / BEING GAY!"
"back in my days you had to watch hundreds of hours of some boring french shit just to act like you know something about the movies, but now everyone thinks they are cinephiles on twitter while they watch some new a24 slop and have a letterboxd account."
"Any site w/ an active userbase has shameless recency bias and capeshit in their top 5. Trying to separate the cream from the crop is becoming a chore. This is what reviews are supposed to be for. Anybody got any good critic recs so I can stop reading shitty one-liners on letterboxd?"
"link to letterboxd film list, 1,000 entries, had a nervous breakdown when entering it all thinking back to idyllic days that will never return... these things happen what's important is that I finished"
"For as easy as it is to shit on letterboxd, RYM, or most other rating sites, if you go through their top 100 lists you'll at least be introduced to some classics/even some real quality stuff."
"People always get criticized for putting "boring" arthouse movies in their top four as being performative, which it can be to an extent, but when someone's top four is entirely Disney movies or similar, it's like cmon, you don't really mean this."
"she is watching increasingly esoteric movies. and that's saying something bc i'm a film student."
"It's beautiful, it's sad, it's life-affirming, and it's FREE ON YOUTUBE! Or as a more pretentious fellow on Letterboxd says: "Her colours, his monochrome. Ōbayashi's tale of one summer and its end with black-and-white dreams, a young guy's foolish fantasies, love and sorrow.""
"I've been making some lists on my letterbox that I'll link for you guys. One list is from a "what is your favorite movie?" post that I found on here, another are movies that were mentioned in the past threads that I have made."
"Like yeah maybe the common man shouldn't be making decisions above the letterboxd pay grade"
"One of those 'Horror Movie Challenge' (challenge being used very loosely, think of it as more of a way to expand your viewing and seek things out you wouldn't otherwise) you see on lb and before that on forums or whatever."
"Letterboxd, Goodreads, RYM - Good for curation but you can't really scroll for hours on end like the others"
"Reading people on Goodreads praising it, on Letterboxd describing its TV adaptation as something deeply profound, and on the back of the book itself calling it 'the best novel of the year' makes me worried at the state of literature and the discourse around it."
"What was once a fun little diary of your own film watching habits and a way to find new movies has been made unbearable by the courting of zoomer, stan, everyone is 'mother' culture in their comms and digital media strategy/advertising. It's possibly the most cringe place on the internet, I dare you"
"https://www.reddit.com/r/redscarepod/comments/112mlov/when_she_blocks_you_on_letteboxd/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf (she linked to this on her post saying it was him)"
"People be going on Letterboxd to write a one sentence review related to sexuality or wanting to fuck an actor. Very reddit coded. You sir have won the oscar for wit!"
"if you look on Letterbox or Twitter you'll see tons of people going 'uhhh did Jonah Hill REALLY need to use that many slurs???'"
"Letterboxed most popular: I was born in 1997, The most queer girl in an upper-middle class private school, ew, men :/, Fight Club is a heckin yikes"
"I wish we could just simply watch movies and ban Letterboxd."
"Barbiehemer, Capeshit 2023, Capeshit but the animation is soooo good and black people are in it, I'm Gay, I'm Gay, I'm Gay, I'm Gay and Chinese), Bottoms, Critically acclaimed movie from 4 years ago. Movies are so back!!!"
"This is copied from my Letterboxd but there's no discussion on there so I wanted to get some thoughts on this."
"Additionally, I saw some of the "this film is dangerous/racist" reviews on Letterboxd and IMDb. I knew this was an argument online but even this aspect of the film didn't feel nearly as excessive or on-the-nose as you might expect from the responses."
"As proposed in the last horror movie rec thread, if there's enough interest was thinking of doing a weekly horror movie club for October or earlier. The idea being for each week to have a classic anchor film then a few more that have similar themes with a discussion thread. Please feel free to make "
"Also I fucking hate Letterboxd so much it's unreal. Every single top review is 'durr hurr privileged spoiled white guy cosplaying poverty.' Like yeah, he was a privileged white guy who could've had anything he wanted and he chose to venture into the Alaskan wilderness where he died alone."
"what sort of pleasure are people getting from constantly collating and capturing all their interests in this format? Comes across as performative and bizarre, if you like something just remember it or at max save it on your notes app why does it need to be like a social media-esque, fully aggregated"
"This is lame but I made a letterboxed list that has nearly 400 likes. It's nice to have a drip feed of serotonin. Ideally I would make something way more creative but my brain doesn't work anymore."
"Just deleted Hinge (sorry fintech asians) and decided this summer the word 'kino' will mean touching women in a perfect choreography like a magician, instead of the adverb I used to describe The Ascent (1977) on letterboxd back when it was only for moviebros."
"I hate that when you check Rififi, you don't see "The best French heists" or similar, the tops lists on it are all "The 5,000 films you must see before you die", "These are all the releases from that decade on Criterion"… Useless crap."
"review 1: *hot male lead* could do *thing from the movie* to me any day
review 2: wow watching this again and i somehow didnt pick up on the homoerotiscim the first time ... crazy
review 3: beautifully written 3000 word review
review 4: *needlessly contrarian take on movie and 200 comments, 3/4 o"
"There will be highly sexualized reviews about an actress and in the end, the reviewer will mention they're a lesbian. And seeing how many like these get I guess it's only okay when girls do it? And I don't see guys making thirst reviews unless they're gay lol."
"They all upvote *Thelma and Louise* because it is a "lesbian" film and then people make stupid jokes (or write a whole thesis) to review *Happy Together*. Is it the worst social media? Perhaps even worse than R*ddit?"
"But the markers of it are so rigid: beanie, mustache, carhartt, realtree, Love's hat, letterboxd and criterion, ironic shrek humor, flash tattoos, boygenius if you're a girl or an other and viagra boys if you're a guy."
"For example I remember going to the cinema with a friend as a kid and after the movie we talked about what we liked and didn't like about it etc. After going to the cinema alone I always want to talk about the movie to someone but I can't. I sometimes post my reviews on letterboxd but I have no foll"
"I was looking at my letterbox ratings and I noticed I mostly give high ratings (my average was four point something) and I though wow I sure have low standards. then I went through my diary and they were all good films very deserving of the high ratings I gave them."
"Someone on here said around 100, but I think I've reached nearly that number and I'm still seeing enough dumb joke reviews to annoy me. It's almost always a white woman or a guy with an overly artistic profile picture featuring his own face in an attractive-enough light that makes it obvious he's op"
"For your next video go to the most popular films on Letterboxd, pick one at random, then go steal notes from other people's writing and give the most agreeable and bland analysis on the film."
"I stared ahead blankly, trying to clue myself in to who they were talking about. Statements like 'derivative' and 'shock value' were thrown around. 'Says nothing new.' I almost wanted to turn to them and ask for their Letterboxd usernames just to see their faces light up."
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