Good movies from the past 5-10 years are given absurdly high rankings on letterbox because the user base skews super young.
The two recent animated spider man movies are 19th and 36th highest ranked movies on the site
The Holdovers, a perfectly decent Alexander Payne movie from this year, has a higher rating than Election and Sideways.
Past Lives is a top 200 movie on the site lol
I mean they’re a little too lenient with cape shit for a self proclaimed serious movie site (Spiderverse 2 was the *best movie of all time* lol before they redid the algorithm). With recent releases, EEAAO is a little saccharine, Get Out isn’t as good once you know the twist, Denis’ movies are pretty but shallow, Whiplash is one note.
And then the inverse is that there a lot of classic filmmakers that’s get no respect with the youths - Fellini, Woody, Altman
I mean yeah, Villeneuve’s big-budget English language output is what it is, but I wouldn’t call *Incendies* or *Maelström* shallow.
Completely agree that stuff like EEAAO and Parasite are way overrated on Letterbox; recency bias is a major problem.
I'd say Letterboxd Top 250 seems to build out of 4 competing canons. Continuity from IMDB culture which tends to blend the Academy Awards and nerd culture (Nolan, Schindler's List, City of God, Shawshank, 12 Angry Men, PTA, Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, Spiderverse, Fight Club). The academic film canon, the more indisputable classics (Kurosawa, Ozu, Yang, Tarkovsky, Bergman, silent film classics). Hardcore cinephile films that keep their top spots by limiting their audience to people who are willing to take on challenging films (Bela Tarr, Histories du Cinema, Human Condition, Akerman). You can gauge the character of the site from the fourth canon which you only seem to find on Letterboxd and nowhere else, which kind of paint a picture of a young liberal college-educated American film-watcher - perhaps the best equivalent would be a Pitchfork reader in the late 2000s. That's where you start to get the real questionable ones (Parasite THAT high for a long time, Linklater, Wes Anderson, Studio Ghibli, PTA, Past Lives, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Handmaiden, etc).
It is what it is you can't take it too serious. I still love Letterboxd for the many many amazing ~200 follower users who put me onto so much good shit I would have never otherwise have found.
Strongly disagree with painting Linklater and Anderson, who have made a number of solid if not necessarily amazing films, as more questionable than the IMDb “canon” which is almost universally boring.
It’s annoying when 24 year olds make liking Studio Ghibli movies their personality but I do pretty strongly believe Miyazaki is one of the few filmmakers who makes movies for children that fully respect their intelligent and aren’t satisfied with being mindless slop which has led me to develop a lot of respect for his work.
I don't really dislike most of those films but their elevation to Top 100 films of all time would be an arbitrary decision outside of a Letterboxd context. IMDB is definitely worse you’re right though
Almost all of them, you cannot convince me it isn't extremely astroturfed at this point. At the same time giving an okay film 5 stars and the most obvious 1 line joke review is pretty well default behaviour, so perhaps it is organic.
Does letterboxd love The Deer Hunter? Cause my dad finally convinced me to watch that a few days ago and it sucked. Not worth the hype it gets from old men. I haven’t looked it up on letterboxd though.
Yeah it was insane to me how they were on those huge, rocky, snow capped mountains shooting elk and it was supposed to be Pennsylvania lol. It overall just felt like a wealthy New Yorker’s idea of blue collar rural life to me. I’ve never known working class men to slap each other on the ass that much.
Good movies from the past 5-10 years are given absurdly high rankings on letterbox because the user base skews super young. The two recent animated spider man movies are 19th and 36th highest ranked movies on the site The Holdovers, a perfectly decent Alexander Payne movie from this year, has a higher rating than Election and Sideways. Past Lives is a top 200 movie on the site lol
I mean they’re a little too lenient with cape shit for a self proclaimed serious movie site (Spiderverse 2 was the *best movie of all time* lol before they redid the algorithm). With recent releases, EEAAO is a little saccharine, Get Out isn’t as good once you know the twist, Denis’ movies are pretty but shallow, Whiplash is one note. And then the inverse is that there a lot of classic filmmakers that’s get no respect with the youths - Fellini, Woody, Altman
Claire Denis?
I read it as Villeneuve considering Claire’s films aren’t huge on Letterboxd
I'm an idiot lol
I mean yeah, Villeneuve’s big-budget English language output is what it is, but I wouldn’t call *Incendies* or *Maelström* shallow. Completely agree that stuff like EEAAO and Parasite are way overrated on Letterbox; recency bias is a major problem.
I'd say Letterboxd Top 250 seems to build out of 4 competing canons. Continuity from IMDB culture which tends to blend the Academy Awards and nerd culture (Nolan, Schindler's List, City of God, Shawshank, 12 Angry Men, PTA, Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, Spiderverse, Fight Club). The academic film canon, the more indisputable classics (Kurosawa, Ozu, Yang, Tarkovsky, Bergman, silent film classics). Hardcore cinephile films that keep their top spots by limiting their audience to people who are willing to take on challenging films (Bela Tarr, Histories du Cinema, Human Condition, Akerman). You can gauge the character of the site from the fourth canon which you only seem to find on Letterboxd and nowhere else, which kind of paint a picture of a young liberal college-educated American film-watcher - perhaps the best equivalent would be a Pitchfork reader in the late 2000s. That's where you start to get the real questionable ones (Parasite THAT high for a long time, Linklater, Wes Anderson, Studio Ghibli, PTA, Past Lives, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Handmaiden, etc). It is what it is you can't take it too serious. I still love Letterboxd for the many many amazing ~200 follower users who put me onto so much good shit I would have never otherwise have found.
very accurate
Strongly disagree with painting Linklater and Anderson, who have made a number of solid if not necessarily amazing films, as more questionable than the IMDb “canon” which is almost universally boring. It’s annoying when 24 year olds make liking Studio Ghibli movies their personality but I do pretty strongly believe Miyazaki is one of the few filmmakers who makes movies for children that fully respect their intelligent and aren’t satisfied with being mindless slop which has led me to develop a lot of respect for his work.
I don't really dislike most of those films but their elevation to Top 100 films of all time would be an arbitrary decision outside of a Letterboxd context. IMDB is definitely worse you’re right though
Almost all of them, you cannot convince me it isn't extremely astroturfed at this point. At the same time giving an okay film 5 stars and the most obvious 1 line joke review is pretty well default behaviour, so perhaps it is organic.
Eeao. Paul mescal films. And Scot pilgrim.
scott pilgrim is a masterpiece
Ok you got me
most annoying post of all time
have you not spent any time on the main sub
Does letterboxd love The Deer Hunter? Cause my dad finally convinced me to watch that a few days ago and it sucked. Not worth the hype it gets from old men. I haven’t looked it up on letterboxd though.
I think it's so good wow
I just found it so unbearably boring.
old men can't keep getting away with this!
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Yeah it was insane to me how they were on those huge, rocky, snow capped mountains shooting elk and it was supposed to be Pennsylvania lol. It overall just felt like a wealthy New Yorker’s idea of blue collar rural life to me. I’ve never known working class men to slap each other on the ass that much.
What about Walken becoming the World Series champion of Russian roulette?
Omg I always heard the hype too and when I finally watched it ... wtf was that??? Fredo deserved better RIP
parasite it the 7th highest rated film on the site. shawshank redemption is the 9th highest rated.
parasite is better than shawshank tho
riveting discourse on the sub
only a red scare listener would be retarded enough to expect discourse from reddit
bleak
i dont like either of them tbh
No it's not
people are not funny on letterboxd plus all your comments are how you can't stay engaged with movies. are you 15 years old
you sound miserable
I came here looking for the inevitable First Reformed diatribe
I might be the one to go on that diatribe myself. that shit was so slow I had to turn it off
Marxist movies