Letterboxd?
 

Is anyone here on Letterboxd? It's vastly superior to this site, it doesn't offer forum style posting, but I never cared about that anyway. I just wanted a good mix of movies and social media. If anyone is on there, or creates an account, you can follow me and I'd love to follow back. Username is the same as it is here, "thekgproject"

Nothing is "superior to this site". This is the best site on the Internet. :)

You've never been on letterboxd than

I don't need to go there. The people here are great, and I can get everything I want to know about movies right here. :D

The problem is there's about 10 active users on this site. Don't be so closed minded and at least check it out.

There might be ten active users on the site right now at this moment, but in general there are a lot more than that.

I don't know where you are in the world, but here in New York, it's about 1:15 AM on a Sunday morning.

Try coming here during normal business hours when this site is busier. There are WAY more than 10 active users on this site.

Yeah, now is like the dead hours of every community/forum. It's 7 am in Spain and around the same or 1-2 hours difference in all EU. Also it's sunday. Deadhour as I said.

Not really. I was on here quite often all summer, kept seeing posts from the same people. Felt like a small town of a movie community, where I want to be in a city.

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Some prefer small town :)

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I use Letterboxd. My username is jackshrout.

followed

That is a pretty weird comparison, considering Letterboxd is a website for ratings films and keeping track of what you've seen during a year, whereas Movieforums is a place where you can actually discuss about film

Dude, people come here because it is a FORUM. I'm familiar with Letterboxd, but so what? It's not even close to being the same thing as this place. What an obnoxious post. Oh, sure, guy makes obnoxious post, so now I feel compelled to follow him on some other site. Makes sense. I'm there.

You can also comment and like reviews where you can discuss the movie. Any other open discussion can be done here. No one said you have to only use one site.

Your reply is the obnoxious post. I never said they were the same. And I never said you only have to use one site. Also, this makes no sense, "Oh, sure, guy makes obnoxious post, so now I feel compelled to follow him on some other site. Makes sense. I'm there."

Sarcasm. I guess it flew over your head. Anyhow, your original post would have been fine, but you just had to add this part: " It's vastly superior to this site." And then whine about how there's not enough active users here, when of course there are dozens. So, yes, you were being obnoxious and I called you out on it.

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I'm on Letterboxd but you couldn't pay me to follow you.

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Because I'm nice, it's nearly Christmas and you're probably not a bot I'll not nuke this thread as Spam.

It's not good form to advertise a site while slagging off the one you're posting on.

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Yeah well, despite being somewhat annoyed by your blunt advertising I decided to check that website out and while it is pretty nice, I remain unconvinced by the social media aspect of it.

In my opinion, the view that social media are the best way to bring people together is an illusion. Think back a few years. People were using mostly instant messaging. In my country the most popular service was Gadu-Gadu, an equivalent of Messenger. At the time I disliked the idea because there were tons of teenage girls writing to random people LiKe THiisSsSs AnD ThInKinG tHaT MaDe ThEEm CuUuUtE anD SwEEeT.

However, you could block random people talking to you with a single click and you always had a list of your friends. Those friend lists didn't go into thousands like they do today on Facebook, because people didn't collect "friends" and "likes". It was all about communication. If your computer was on, you were available. So were other people and if you needed to talk to them, they would respond immediately, because they didn't need to have the browser open all the time and it wasn't eating away a lot of their RAM.

The point is, instant messaging is pretty much dead nowadays due to Facebook. People just open their browser every now and then and answer to whatever messages people sent them, at their convenience. Luckily there is one remnant of that non-deluded era of actual communication: forums. Yeah, we are not just a bunch of profile pages around here. We are actually sharing opinions, discussing them and commenting all in the same space. We are not just simply leaving comments for other people to glance over and forget about our existence right afterwards. Facebook employees would probably call this a mess. I would call this the closest thing to actually meeting a bunch of people in real life, and that's why, to me, websites with forums will always be better than Facebook-like things.

If you just want to be a profile that nobody cares about, suit yourself, but don't impose it on us as a "superior" thing. Thank you.

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Supiriority is subjective. People who post here are active because they enjoy this place the best. That statement of yours won't work here, or anyplace else. Stop advertising and if ya don't like it here I suggest you go back to Lettetboxd.

I have tried Letterboxd. I am interested on the aspect of being able to find and rate movies, list them and read reviews rather than the socialization AKA giving 'likes' and accumulating followers. My views are not about as extreme as Yasashii's, I think that anybody can choose how to use a social website, and if somebody tries to get attention I'm fine if it doesn't interfere with the way I use it.

My experience with this page is not too positive, however. First and firemost the layout looks incredibly overloaded to me. I think it tries to bring too much information in every single page, and while it looks nice, it is not intuitive to me -maybe I am too used to older layout styles.

On the other hand, about the actual content... Letterboxd has a problem there. Let's look at the three applications it lists in the home page:

-Keep a film diary. This is probably the most well-known of them and I remember that at least at the beginning it was treated as the main novelty. It is a really good idea, a great one considering that the main competitors (such as IMDb) don't have anything similar to that. However I have been rating for more than seven years in a Spanish website (FilmAffinity) which makes the film diary better, and more simple, than Letterboxd. Just by voting you have the date of your rating in your profile. Compare that to having to manually choose the day you watched and/or voted a movie, just to keep track of a diary.

-Create & share lists. The only essentially new thing it offers compared to IMDb is the aesthetics. The process is exactly the same. And here is where the simpler layout takes advantage. You can do things there much easier and much faster than in Letterboxd. The aspect of sharing them is nice, but you can do this in other forms in most social websites.

-Follow your friends. This is funny because the site doesn't have yet basic interaction tools such as forums or chat rooms that older sites do have, or the option to keep easy conversations with users that any of the networks it links have. So basically this "follow your friends" thing is a very minor thing, what many similar sites already have, in another guise. I admire the effort put on connecting Letterboxd with social networks but it doesn't serve to build a solid and proactive community inside of the page. And for one reason: it does not promote discussion. It is more about being well-known than knowing. I admit that many forums from similar film-related sites are not that good and some of them are quite a mess, but this still helps a lot more to building a community than the lack of.

Finally there's some other aspects that bug me. Letterboxd PRO is the biggest one of them. Why should I pay for importing my ratings and lists from an external web? Many rating sites do this for free. Criticker, Icheckmovies... or in anime form, since I use these a lot: Anilist, Hummingbird, etc.

The search tool. And it has improved a lot from the time when I used it regularly (filled with duplicates, names in cyrillic (?????) that were impossible to search with a latin keyboard, different entries for different DVD packages of the same film), but still, I think it needs to filter better the information that appears in the list of results. IMDb or FilmAffinity do that automatically, as the results appear ordered in categories in the list, while Letterboxd does that in two steps, meaning that you have to pick an option and wait for the page to load again. I can't say that this is an advantage.

And the database. It is no doubt a good one, and it grows consistantly, but if I remember correctly it depends on an external web (TMDb) and that kills it, because it will never be able to exceed the limits of its source. For instance one of the movies I watched this year, Lessons at the end of spring, is not there (which is quite outstanding because, despite it is not a well-known movie, it originally premiered internationally in two festivals, one of them being category A). What can I do to solve this problem? Register in TMDb and add it there. So in the end, what advantage does Letterboxd bring in terms of its database? None. If I want a database I'll go to the original source, the one I can edit or help to grow.

In the end (sorry for the long rant), what is left in Letterboxd? Just a fine place with many applications that doesn't put effort on making any of them actually great and competitive (to me at least, because the site seems to be quite popular). They just work and make a nice experience, but not enough to justify it as a replacement of sites that, through the years, have built similar interfaces and tools and have done it significantly better.

Yep

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Letterboxd is a nice site. As a web developer I admire it. But the other people here are right, it satisfies a very different desire. You might as well say eBay is superior to Facebook; it depends almost entirely on what you're looking for.

In my experience, you don't get to know people there. People track things and write reviews but it's mostly people trying to build their profiles, as opposed to building a community. There's not a lot of conversation; it's mostly the rote cataloging of isolated opinions. People talk at each other more than to them, it feels like. If someone wants that, more power to them. They come here if they want to really talk to people. Not for everyone, but it's clearly for a lot of people, so I'm happy with that. :)

Thanks for the feedback anyway, though.

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Hey man, you ever had an orange? It's vastly superior to that apple you're eating.

Seriously, can we please not make the two best sites on the net enemies here.

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The problem with a larger user base is that trolls come to be fed. You ever try to have a serious discussion on, lets say, Screen Rant or a prime example, Youtube?

The advantage here is, real discussion.

Mr. Spam, you might show some respect for the people here.

Hopefully this was directed at the OP and not me. :indifferent:

It was, I was agreeing with you. :)

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I use letterboxd frequently and love to use it for keeping a diary, making and viewing lists, reading reviews and searching the database for films.

However, as a community, it's not very tight. The lack of a forum hurts it as a social aspect, and that's why I came searching for a place like this. I doubt that my name is recognised here yet, but I already recognise the names of several users and I like that. It's good to have a forum with a community feel, where everyone likes to discuss film.

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I thought there really wasn't a reason to create a whole new thread, so... How many MoFos are on Letterboxd?

Personally, I use it a lot. I use the same name as on here, so if anybody wants to follow me on there, you are welcome to do so. :D

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Wait - is someone in here trying to claim SOCIAL MEDIA builds better community than MoFo?


BUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!! NO.

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I personally quite prefer Letterboxd, but I do like the forums too.

Here I am
http://letterboxd.com/KeeganEatsPie/

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Seriously though - MoFo isn't just forums, either - we have lists, tournaments, games, music discussions, a chill room, and last but not least, the best damn community on the web, and I have tried many.

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Lmao, I really shouldn't have bumped this haha. I should have made a new thread instead.

All I wanted to know was if people were on Letterboxd. Instead I start a war which was already put to rest a long time ago. YES it's completely stupid to compare Letterboxd to MoFo if I really has to answer to this obviously stupid question. :D

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I started an account over there - seems very different so far!

Name is Sedai on the site, of course.

What I personally like about it is the fact that it seems like a more social and user-friendly version of IMDb. I love to use the diary function to keep track of what I watch, when I watch it, and if my rating changes over time (as it keeps the first rating you gave it, and all the following ones).

It's a great site to do reviews, make personal lists, look up others movie taste in detail, and so on... But it is NOT comparable to MoFo in any way imo. This forum is, well, a forum in its purest form with a lot more freedom and interaction and personality and so on... But I like Letterboxd a lot for what it is, and what it can do. ;)

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I like letterboxd a lot as a diary. I go there to log and keep track of my lists in a more organized way. I come here to talk movies. Letterboxd is terrible for what I really care about doing. For that I need my MoFo.

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How do we link up?

It's like twitter, so you can "follow" people on there...

If you search for my username on letterboxd, which is the same as here, you can click in and click on "follow" right beside the username. ;)

I found you, you have your first follower.

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Aaah, found you as well now!

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Back at ya!

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aaand you have another new follower

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I'm on there too. Same username.

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Gotcha guys!

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Cool, already had Blue, got you now as well justin! :up:

Anybody else wanna share their username?? :)

I'm there with the same username as well. My list is incomplete, though, I'm transcribing votes to the diary from the point I started to keep track (2007) and just started with 2012. It will be a long way, but hopefully I'll be able to make a better use of the site when I'm up to date.

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I have my top 100 animated films list there, but only that:
http://letterboxd.com/guaporense/lis...ion-buff-test/

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Well, my respect for the people running this site plummeted when, earlier today, they RT'd something that spoiled a major plot point in Star Wars. I expect that kind of thing from random people, maybe, but the official Twitter of a site that's supposed to be by and for movie lovers? It's hard enough avoiding them from the people who don't know better without worrying about the ones who definitely should.

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Shouldn't you be mad at the person in charge of the Twitter? That's likely a one person job.

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If anyone wants to add me


http://letterboxd.com/moviegal/

It's probably a less than one person job, so I'm assuming whoever does it probably does other things, too. I don't think it's a massive team.

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Really Yoda? At this point you should know the twist that Kylo Ren is secretly Jar Jar Binks. It's your own fault, really.

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I am on Letterboxd.

http://letterboxd.com/RhysBelding/

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Anybody here uses icheckmovies? Is it comparable to Letterbox?

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Here is mine:
https://letterboxd.com/MovieGuyisMe/

You guys are tempting me to join as well.....

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I made my Letterboxd account after joining this forum, so I have the same nick in there: https://letterboxd.com/pahaK/. It's mostly just the films from the time I've been here, plus some random films I'd rated on IMDb earlier. I'm pretty sure the actual number of films seen is several thousand, but I haven't logged them anywhere.

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Gotta admit it's funny to read that OP talk about how great Letterboxd is and negatively compare MoFo against it because of an alleged lack of active users then go to his profile and realise he's got like a handful of followers and his reviews only get like 2-3 likes max (and a good chunk of them seem to consist of him linking to his podcast). I'm pretty sure I get that many off the average "Rate the Last Movie You Saw" post, and I'm not even that popular on here.

My 2022 leaderboard

I take it you need to be subscribed to PRO or PATRON to have access to the end of year stats.

I think so. Before I went "Pro", I used to get an email at the end of the year that told me who my #1s were but I couldn't look that up on my own.

Here are my most watched actors and directors of 2022:

I’m breaking into Lenzi this year. As I’ve been going through Giallo the last few years, I came across some of his I hadn’t gotten around to and a lot of his other films look interesting,

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Gonna try and use it more regularly so started a new account and used the import ratings feature which is currently free.

If anyone wants to give me a follow: https://letterboxd.com/DanMetcalfFilms/

I'm here.

Not very active there... not really sure what can be done in Letterbox.

This.

https://letterboxd.com/theanalyzer/l...detail/page/1/

My account: https://letterboxd.com/StuSmallz/

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My name there is 13Moons, i just use it to keep track of what i watch, not very sociable these days.

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My year-end all star team. I bought some Betty Boop blurays which explains the two leaders.

Feel free to follow me on there, I'm on there a lot. It's such good site to keep track of watched movies and make lists also.

https://letterboxd.com/MovieFan1988/

It's nice to see some MOFOS on here that already have letterboxd :D

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I started using it recently

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Another bump in an attempt to link up with some more MoFos on letterboxd...

Here I am!

Followed. Here is mine:

https://letterboxd.com/MovieGuyisMe/

Followed!

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Here is my profile, for anyone interested...

https://letterboxd.com/Thief12/

Took me way too long to figure out that was you yesterday.

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Finally went full patreon a while ago just to play around with those nice posters.

https://letterboxd.com/Nikan_/

Yea, If I put my handle as Sedai, anyone not MoFo is like "wtf is this?"

If I use my real name, all the MoFos are like "Wtf is this?"

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I love how @Thief is like "I have two favorite films. That's it." ;)

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:laugh: I think I did the same here. Those two are always set in stone. After that, is a toss up.

We are friends on there already.

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Here is mine

My profile on Letterboxd https://boxd.it/7LAv

:rotfl:

I try to change mine up from time to time, but like you, the ones near the top and pretty much a lock.

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I've added a bunch of you today.

Thank you!

Someone took my name. Bastids.


https://boxd.it/bpjlH

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I go by my full birth name on there. Should be able to find me.

That site sucks. Too many thingys and pop ups when trying to do them. No forum? Buhbye

Tongo think like me! I took a look at Letterboxd long ago but it seems so isolated, no forums, no message system and I sure didn't need to spend every morning logging last nights movie watches into a database so they can profit from it. I'll stick with MoFo!

I am him.

https://boxd.it/6ME7

As far as Letterboxd goes, I really don't care about it not having a strong social angle. Personally, I love the ease with which I can browse what I've seen, what I haven't, filter by actors, crew, genres, decades, etc. and the stats page is great as well.

Yeah, that part in bold appeals to me...but I don't want to feel the need to log every movie I watch, not to mention where would I start? Films I've seen within a year? Or 5 years? or 20? Yes I've actually thought about doing letterboxd for the stats and info but just the idea of all the effort to log all my movie watches keeps me from doing it. Besides let's face it not many care about the type of films I watch, I'm outlier.

The logging might become a bit obsessive, but I love it. I've always had a thing for lists and records, so having that applied to movies is like the perfect combination for me.


It might seem daunting, but I remember having fun at first just browsing random lists and marking them as "watched", "watched", etc. You kinda get caught up in it.

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My profile, same name: https://letterboxd.com/jal90/