At 5/9/17 12:32 PM, sumidiotdude wrote:
Also some girl on Letterboxd blocked me from commenting on her reviews yesterday because she posted a review for Logan saying "having the same first name as the main character makes this even more empowering" and i commented "whoaaaaa your name is wolverine????" and she deleted the comment and has blocked me altogether
Lmao, so many people on letterboxd are absolute nutcases who will get offended or block you for nearly anything. It's almost impressive how they can interpret any statement as being aggressive. The email updates I get from the site make it very clear that they're very left-wing and open to SJW types, which has honestly really impacted my enjoyment of the site over the last year.
Not that I'm right-wing or even overly political at all but it's just exhausting when every single movie has to be scrutinised and every discussion is about sexism, racism, transphobia etc. etc. etc., not to mention people who are openly, overtly hateful toward anyone who happens to be a white male gets a free pass on there and anyone who speaks against it is liable to be deleted or banned.
Then there's the shit show of the top lists, it's gotten better but for several months all they would consist of is inflammatory bullshit like "Films the bigot in my class keeps talking about" with a bunch of ultra-popular movies like Pulp Fiction on there or "Films on which men's opinions are worthless." And of course they get hundreds of likes and comments of praise. It's just a massive political circle jerk on a fucking website where literally your only method of communication is to post reviews and lists of films.
I used to love interacting with the community on there but now I stay away from it. I still like logging films and keeping up with a few of the people I follow though.
Anyway, here's my profile: https://letterboxd.com/jackho/
I haven't been very active this year but I'll probably get back into it at some point.
At 5/11/17 02:52 AM, lumiorfo wrote:
Do I or do I not go and see Alien: Covenant?
I'm obviously too late to answer but they did release two scenes (one, two) a little while back that did a good job getting me hyped. It'll be a while still before I can see it but I hope the film is much more like the second clip than the first. The dialogue seems significantly better than Prometheus but I hate how it looks like the same old slasher film re-tread, and the trailers made it look that way too. The second clip is a far more interesting concept, and follows off the best parts of Prometheus.
At 5/21/17 05:38 PM, TheQuietGamer wrote:
Ouija: Origin of Evil - Hearkens back to the great horror movies of yesteryear.
Well that's certainly a surprise. I watched the original as well and honestly don't remember much other than hating it. I gave it a 1/5 at the time which is a rare score from me. Will have to put this new one on the watch list.
Oh also I watched Get Out a couple weeks back, thought it was excellent & would highly recommend. It's more of a horror film than I was expecting, but with significantly better writing and acting than you usually get from the genre.
Also also (also) I binged through 13 Reasons Why in a couple days since apparently I'm a teenage girl. Thought it was pretty good, but nothing special. Largely because I never felt invested in Hannah or her story. Clay was a bit of a blando too but got more interesting as it went on.
I actually thought this was going to be like a one-season self-contained series so the ending left me mildly annoyed (it leaves a lot unanswered, in a sequel-hook kind of way and not an 'open for interpretation' way). Not sure if I'd recommend it but everyone else who thought it looked interesting has probably seen it by now anyway.