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What will be the worst big movie of the year? Ghostbusters 2016, independence day resurgence, london had fallen, something else?

>watching modern movies

You might as well be asking "which movie is the worst of the worst?"

zoolander 2? who cares tho

Independence Day: Resurgence tried to be fun at least

London Was Fallen was pretty fun trash, it was like the best Cannon movie I've seen in ages. easily better than any capeshit this year. only plebs hated it because muh racism.

can't bin the tim lii jons

been listening to film junk these last days. their taste is boring but they have great chemistry and are just really pleasant to listen to. you guys follow any fim podcast?

what else to add

letterboxd.com/ciaociao/list/sand-core/

there was racism in it? I hated it because of terrible dialog, chars and even worse cgi. Did you get some laughs out of the dialog?

>letterboxd

“Go back to Fuckheadistan,” is easily the best line of 2016

>there was racism in it?
Kerart Putler quotes Nazis in it

Why are these threads so dead now?
Is it because there's like 3 irc chats and 3 discords?

whats the /lbg/ irc chat?

#lbxd but I dunno if its still active
There are so many splinter groups

The shitposts drew the "serious" posters away, and since there are fewer posters it means less shitpost

>"Review" is a funny quote from the movie
>Five stars

What are some "letterboxd general"-core movies?

t. Jackieray's gay boyfriend from the IRC

>jackie will never gently penetrate your anus while talking passionately about de palma

Never heard of this site but it seems interesting. Is it worth joining for recommendations alone? I don't think any of my friends use this.

Well, when you don't have any friends to begin with, of course none of them are going to use this site.

Yeah if you follow at least like 5 people into obscure film/arthouse/video art it'll help a ton as it's kinda hard to just jump into that stuff
That said if you don't have a KG/PTP account it'll be hard to find the films although RuTracker is pretty good

absolutely, you can find a lot of good shit on lb

I think it is. You can find some people with genuinely good taste and insightful reviews. Unfortunately, there's also SJW's, edgy teenagers and plebs

Thanks I just signed up. Feels like I'm gonna be here all night typing in the good movies I've seen.

what's your account we need to judge you

Can you recommend some of those 5 such people?

I just logged in the films I've seen after making the acc. Too much hustle.

depends on what you're into. if you're into HK action/martial arts movies follow this guy letterboxd.com/theendofcinema/

>obscure film/arthouse/video art
I'm into all of that.

tsar
sexualambulance
bel
aeltbx
gundenspand
brotherdeacon
Can't stress enough how hard it is to find obscure film without private trackers though

>Can't stress enough how hard it is to find obscure film without private trackers though

>he doesn't buy obscure movies on VHS
>he needs to pirate them
what a fucking pleb

I'm so so so sorry
Are we still friends?
pls respond

letterboxd.com/jrosenbaum2002/ (this is actually JRo, for real)
letterboxd.com/murdermystery/
letterboxd.com/dirtylaundri/
letterboxd.com/nrh/
letterboxd.com/neilbahadur/
letterboxd.com/cani/
letterboxd.com/fernandofcroce/ (this guy probably writes the best reviews on the site)

nice list.

there's some good sand action in the beginning of the master, but maybe not enough to warrant it a place on that list.
pic related, grains of sand in pretty 70mm.

Thanks bros, will check them out.

three of these users are good eggs, three are shit-tier memesters. Can /lbg/ sort them correctly?

Anyone got a good snowcore list?

You could have. Who are the good eggs?

here you go, fám.

letterboxd.com/ciaociao/list/snow-core/

You can just search 'snow' and filter 'lists'.

letterboxd.com/colonelmortimer/
letterboxd.com/jacobknight/

Is District 9 a leftist shitfest like Elysium?

No, it's actually very good. You'll like it.

>Is District 9 a leftist shitfest like Elysium?

m'lady

Elysium shows the devastating effects of third world immigration a la Camp of the Saints, while District 9 is about the aftermath of ending apartheid. Is that leftist?

what are some good kino which are basically just porn

i wrote a review about bicycle thieves but it's not bringing the hands together

letterboxd.com/cakewalker/

>user needs film to have same political views as himself to be able to enjoy it

form>content

eyes wide shut

>Bicycle Thieves is still being discussed as if it were a tragedy about unemployment in postwar Italy - that problem isn't really addressed in this beautiful film. It's an Arabic tale about a man who must find his bicycle.

>The bicycle is the star. When it was stolen, that wasn't symbolism, but a story element called chance, it killed Socrates.

>De Sica's greatness lies in his writing. You and I know the theory that words are secondary in film, but I think a literary mind is essential, to move a film from the blind alley it's driven into by technicians. A true film is a story, and it's a combination of human factors and basic ideas that makes it worth putting on the screen.

>Not interested in exploring films own rules, Bicycle Thieves has bad cinematography, inadequate cutting, and some happenings told rather than shown, but it's set of amateur actors are beyond criticsm; an amateur is a lover, the word comes from 'love' (with all the caprices and difficulties of love). Performance is the essence of this film, which is why it contrasts Eisenstein's overrated work with montage so well you know.

>Bicycle Thieves isn't the manifesto the jabroni letterboxd reviewers make it out to be. De Sica didn't sacrifice art for the needs of the moment, but his films did make easy promises (and deliver on them).

Shit, pretentious review. kys

its the opposite. the content should be more important than the ingenuity of the director.

i cant talk to you when you get like this

White Sun of the Desert
Kin-dza-dza!
Jarhead

Remove There Will Be Blood, No Country for Old Men, Mad Max 1 and A Fistful of Dollars. They're not particularly sandy.

I don't really understand what you mean by that. The film clearly sides with the 'immigrants'. Can't comment on District 9

No that's not it at all. I enjoy the Straubs, Eisenstein, Godard etc.

It's just a bad movie, almost like propaganda. The bad guys are extremely one dimensional, the film doesn't even remotely try to raise questions about immigration and they have a machine that 'just heals' without consequence.

People often say this about Elysium, but was it really?

They fucked the Earth 100x harder by the end of the movie than it was at the start.
Ungrateful unwashed illegal immigrants ruined a utopian society they weren't entitled to, how is that a positive leftist message?

Leave

The Beast (1988)

You might see it that way, but that's not the image that was conveyed to most people.

I left the theater feeling like I had been mugged and dragged into a two hour indoctrination meeting for the leftists.

EVIL RICH PPL

no Ford?

it's not *what* happens in a film, it's *how* it happens. it obviously celebrates what the protagonist is doing

by your logic, Luke Skywalker should be impeached for mass murder

Yeah they were selfish and morally questionable, that doesn't give anybody the right to invade and destroy their utopia.
Ultimately if his goal was to make a leftist movie it was a massive failure because it conveyed the exact opposite to many people.

It was a mediocre movie anyway, District 9 is much better and I doubt you could find an overt and disagreeable political message there, unless you're triggered by "dur big evil corporations".

Beau Travail

>it obviously celebrates what the protagonist is doing
How? Just because it showed it? You can make something about people who aren't morally right and still have all the musical flourishes and emotional moments as other movies.

I don't know though, him and the writers could just be retarded.

please enlighten us user

No, District 9 is actually pretty good. Neil Blompkamp is a one trick pony though.

Don't tell me you motherfuckers hate based Chappie?

I personally didn't watch it but it looks dull, those morons die antwoord are in them and it wasn't received by critics so i'm not gonna bother watching it unless it's on netflix or something.

Didn't everyone?

I'm not sure what to respond. What movies are about people 'who aren't morally right' and doesn't stop to question the morality of what they're doing?

Of course, you can musical flourishes and whatnot but my point was that Elysium doesn't have any moral ambiguity at all. The people on the Elysium thing are portrayed as evil and even the gangster on earth suddenly becomes some sort of freedom rebel saint.

It's dumb fun, but those Antwoord guys (and girl) were kinda annoying.

>What movies are about people 'who aren't morally right' and doesn't stop to question the morality of what they're doing?
Warriors of the Rainbow.

They can be portrayed negatively but still be morally right. It's for the audience to interpret even if the filmmaker is trying to spin it one way. It's still (a presumably unintentional) problem of the film that its front-and-center politics are either stupid or muddled.

It's shit, doesn't even have basic recommendation system

But he would try to spin it a certain way because he had those politics wouldn't he? And that would, to me, make it a political film with that director's political views. It's always up for the audience to interpret a film but if he just unambiguously spins it one way there's not much to interpret.

I think in Elysium the onesidedness is too prevalent for it to be accounted to stupidity. I do think you are correct in some cases though.

>needing a site to find good movies
it sure feels pleb in here

Pronouns and e-mails about SJWs are the true cornerstone of any proper film site, I agree unironically.

Letterboxd is really only for circlejerking and pretense.

>letterboxd reviews

How about you find people you like and find new films through them? You know, organically.

Better than most Sally Jane Black reviews 2bh

Why is this meme review everywhere?

>160 likes

How the fuck is this allowed?

That's actually pretty funny, so it automatically goes to the top 1% of reviews

That's what his general is for.

how do I block users so I don't have to see there? i actually like to read the "popular reviews this week" pages every week since sometimes I find good shit there but lately it's just been filled with shit like this

I started rating my shit even though I hate trying to rate shit

letterboxd.com/Eleo/

p.s. not following me back is racist fyi btw

You can't. Blocking only prevents the blocked user from following you and commenting on your reviews and lists.
But apparently they're gonna add that, it'll probably take years though.

Is "The Fall" not sand-core though

Fear and Loathing is also sandy in some parts.

/pastafrola

Woman in the Dunes (1964)
Desert Heat (1999)

Canon covers a lot of "classics", but the hosts will probably piss you off. Fthismovie covers more trash and every October they marathon a horror franchise. The only other movie podcast I've heard is SlashFilm who covers mainly new releases which I don't care for and the hosts are stuffy hipster goofs.

I haven't listened to them for about a month, but I generally like that show. That said Frank gets on my nerves quite a bit.

We Hate Movies is my other go-to.

>crush blacks
>push contrast and brightness to blinding levels
>bleach out colors so it's practically black and white now
>squeeze picture vertically for literally no reason

welp, Artificial Eye completely fucked up their Tarkovsky restorations.

what's the next step of their masterplan??

ew

What's up guys

Rec me a comedy like Blazing Saddles that's completely off the rails for the whole runtime pls

I only recently started watching movies instead of doing nothing and listening to music.

I love wall of sound sounding music about depression, solitude, detachment, general emptiness like shoegaze, but I handle some classic emo very well and enjoy it.

I like slow pacing in a movie and don't really care about much else, but I enjoy a strong character brought to life by good acting like Three colors: Blue. Any reccs?

sounds like you need the world cinema starter pack. Tarkovsky is your friend.