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Letterboxd thread: post profiles and discuss what you have recently watched

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i hope this thread doesn't 404 immediately like the last few

If There's a Hell Below was better than i expected, glad i decided to watch it

certainly better than most other shoestring budget debut flicks, even if it's no Primer.

that feel when the long hair of death broke my 9-strong heart streak

truly gothic horror is the worst of all genres

Recommend me something from 2016, I haven't seen much. My top 3 in alphabetical order so far this year have been Hail, Caesar, Little Sister and Sing Street.

Tarantino is a saint. He's both dudebro and auteur.

He's broteur.

kys steakshit

Stop being mean to steakbro

>3 stars to SW: A Cash Grab
back to re_dit

your rating scale fucking sucks

>809 films

fuck off embryo

american hustle > casino

Scorsese is shit anyways.

>tfw you organise New Year's Eve plans as a front to actually have somebody to go watch Silence with on New Year's Day

can you believe the best film of 2017 will hit in day one

not even jackieray likes American Hustle

false

jackieray's taste is completely arbitrary so I don't know what you mean by this

he loves David O. Russell, I Heart Huckabees is one of his favorite movies

Youtube > series > movies

do you know why he doesn't like it? and why don't you like it?

It's a 2016 film though

letterboxd.com/samtlx/
Tokyo Drift gets an extra half star because i'm a weeb. Also the short was obviously directed by Vin Diesel because he has a boner for family and South American countries.

i don't want to speak for him any more than i already have in case i don't remember his reasoning correctly

but as far as my opinion goes, i dislike it because it's a bunch of directorial showboating with nothing to back it up. performances are weak and hammy, and feel like caricatures of seventies stereotypes.

why don't you write reviews mane?

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go aawayy u have the worst account

???

holy shit, that's my favorite porn star, nice dude

They're hard to do

letterboxd.com/machill54/

Italian horror week wahoo
not going to to be able to watch much though, in fact possibly no more.
Interesting with the ones I watched today being from three different decades being able to see how distinctly the 'feel' of each decade is

don't be a puss and do it, just write what you think of the movie, doesn't need to be long boring reviews, write a paragraph or two, I would like to see your thoughts and opinions instead of just a rating

oh baby, tell me you're watching/rewatching the Three mothers trilogy

letterboxd.com/Spiral_Mountain/

>he fell for the "if I screencap my profile instead of linking it that makes me less of a retarded pleb" meme
>he fell for the "using my real name so people will forget I'm the pleb formerly known as steakbro"
>he fell for the "if I use obscure films instead of the popular ones I used to have in my favorites people will forget I was a pleb" meme
>he fell for the "i need to watch a lot of shitty films to balance out my rating curvature so people will think I'm a patrician" meme
your entire persona is based on impressing retarded strangers on the internet. kys.

why on earth would i care what people on a mongolian poop-sculpting imageboard think of me

there are plenty of depressing things about my life but none of those are on the mark

How did this eternal pleb get 201 followers? Are so interested in the man who thinks BvS is a perfect film?

letterboxd.com/robertopancake/

Anyone see Rogue One? What a pile of trash.

Also, what are some great adventure movies? I watched The African Queen by Huston the other day and I was blown away. I want more genuinely engaging and fun adventure movies.

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facts
>doesn't link profile in posts
>used to not have real name on profile
>used to have favorites littered with pleb shit
>last 4 movies watched you liked none of them, except for mildly liking rogue one
you're try hard af

I am not, is mothers of tears even worth watching?
I did have Demons (+ demons 2), man from deep river, alien 2 Sulla terra and possibly Night Child lined up for a pretty hella f***ing epic few days but I'll be restricted to pretty much normie stuff now until the week changes to something else

dunno what you're talking about, i've always had my real name on my profile

also, i liked all 4 of those movies

not the guy, but he's right, you're just a try hard attention seeking pleb. your rating scale is just so retarded that it gets kind of funny to watch you post your profile in here everyday

>have other things in life
>posts lb profile in image board seeking for attention

>rates movies 1-2 stars
>likes them
kill yourself

steakbro's taste circa Apr 10 2016

The Hidden Fortress, The Man Who Would be King, Romancing the Stone

goodreads>>>

>why on earth would i care what people on a mongolian poop-sculpting imageboard think of me
Because you're always one of the the first 5 posts in every /lbg/. If you didn't care you wouldn't post your profile at all.

yes i still love all of those movies

what is your point

i actually agree that it's pretty much entirely retarded

>the try hard sofia coppola
>the try hard mann
>the try hard wachowski

I KNOW RIGHT! HIS FUCKING RATING SCALE IS SO FUCKING DISGUSTING FFS

goodreads fucking blows

quality=/=enjoyment

>enjoying films of low quality
kill yourself

not as much as lesserbox

what's the point in cataloging how many times you stare at a screen for 2 hours?

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>likes being fed shit

You need to strike a balance between the two. Ultimately your emotional response to a film is more important to the rating than how many "objective" aspects of quality you noticed.

Leave steakfaggot no friends. Couldn't have said it better myself.

Mother of tears isn't great (it's bad, actually) but it's fun to watch for the sake of competing the trilogy. It's bizarre to see such a campy film style + modern production.

Suspiria and Inferno are great though.

This is the day /lbg/ gets tired of Jacob Smith awful profile and his try hard attention seeking, finally

wtf I love Judge Dredd.

you can love shitty movies user. it's okay, nobody is looking

Still better than Letterboxd. This site just gets some unironical safe-space updates and nothing else.

We need to make /lbg/ great again.

kek
nice community you got there, nerds

Best Books Ever
The best books ever, as voted on by the general Goodreads community.

Note to librarians: do not edit this list's description.

>1. The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
>2. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)
>3. To Kill a Mockingbird (To Kill a Mockingbird #1)
>4. Pride and Prejudice
>5. Twilight (Twilight, #1)
>6. The Chronicles of Narnia (Chronicles of Narnia, #1-7)
>7. The Book Thief
>8. Animal Farm
>9. Gone with the Wind
>10. The Giving Tree

This should give you a general idea of what the community is like

Thank you for the recs, friend.

amen brother

>this beautiful sinchronicity

goodreads forever BTFO

>that taste
wew

what do you like so much about brakhage

I spend more time reading than watching movies but I refuse to rate books.

There's something vile about it. I know this is a double standard, but i don't care. I mean, it isn't like anyone worth anything is reading shitty books; it isn't like a shitty movie, where you can get some enjoyment out of it and kill two hours.

A book is an investment and, if i can I help it, I'm restricting my time to authors of merit. No sense in systematically giving 4 - 5 stars every time I read something.

What are you guys reading by the way? I'm cruising through some Nathaneal West.

Top 10 films of ALL TIME as per Letterboxd

1. Fury Road
2. The Force Awakens
3. Interstellar
4. Grand Budapest Hotel
5. Whiplash
6. Gone Girl
7. Guardians of the Galaxy
8. Django Unchained
9. Her
10. Birdman

I don't care about some shit lists the site has and Letterboxd itself is filled with those.

GR actually has nice features like the groups, the way commenting is setup, favorites, "my quotes" (I don't use it but example could be just "Screenshots" in a film site)

letterboxd.com/films/by/rating/

it's not great but it's better than GR

that's not the actual list, retard
go back to reading YAshit or whatever

Haven't read a novel in two years. Do comic books count? Finished reading Scalped and was sad because the characters were interesting and I wanted more.

Most recent novel I read was The Thicket by Joe R. Lansdale. Quick, enjoyable read.

with a large enough community, it's obvious that list of best books = list of most popular books. they're useless. custom lists made by people you share a taste with are always a better choice.

i only use goodreads as a database, same with imdb. they're useful. letterboxd is trash in any respect.

You're welcome

>letterboxd is trash in any respect.
+

Faust: Part One, I picked up a cheap copy of Daisy Miller/Washington Square as I want to get into Henry James. I also have Anna Karenina on the way as my comfy winter read

>doesn't read
>reads comic books at all
You're the reason why people don't take film and cinephiles seriously

>all these non-arguments
your site is shitty and has a stupid community filled with teenagers
letterboxd is plebeian as fuck too, but we at least are self-aware enough to admit it
now go back and never leak again

>non-argument.
>actual, useful community features over "teehee I don't want the person I blocked to read this" updates of Letterboxd.

end your life shill

I don't exactly know how to articulate what captivates me in his films, but they're extremely engrossing. It's almost meditative and it makes me explore that inbetween space of consciousness and unconsciousness.

I totally understand that it's just pointless images and seems pretentious if you're not into it, but for some reason it sucks me in.

been stuck with horror so far this winter. some old ligotti i haven't read before, fanu, grabinski, some russian guy i don't even remember the name. no sure what to read next, i normally don't read much during christmas but i haven't read james ellroy and i could get into some crime novels right now.

i just see it as a waste of time but whatever floats your boat i guess.

Oh, that's great. Read part II if you get time or if you're interested in the details of the Faustian progression.

Also, if you really enjoyed it:
Dr. Faustus - Marlowe
--- original play (Goethe claims not to have read it, I call BS)
The Master and Margarita - Bulgakov
---modern/soviet retelling, was banned in Russia. Recommend this highly
Dr. Faustus - Mann
---since its Mann, it's dense as fuck. A difficult read if you don't read or care about music.

There was another book I read recently with hard allusions to the Faustian legend, maybe Zeno's Conscience. It kills me that I can't remember it.

Also I'm sporadically reading Tarkovsky's Sculpting in Time, if anyone has read that. Pretty incredible. I'm also finding Deleuze's On Cinema to be unbearable.

The only Ligotti I've read is The Conspiracy Against the Human Race, which I found pretty fucking edgy. Also too depressing for me to finish; I set that one aside

Being and Time

Okay.

Also, if you like crime novels, I rec The Postman Always Rings Twice; it's probably my favorite crime novel of all time. It's also hugely important to American Modernism.

music = books > paintings > film.

I waiting for Michael Mann Books' first releases to start reading novels again, tb.h.

Nah don't listen to him man, read what you want.

I still haven't tackled Heidegger. I made it through most of the Germans though (even the horrifically disorganized Phenomenology). How are you liking it?

>God Tier
Literature
Music
Film
Painting

>High Tier
Fashion design
Sculpture
Photography
Architecture
Industrial design
Textiles

>Mid Tier
Theater
Calligraphy
Dance
Cuisine
Interior design (as a concept)
Conceptual art
Graphic design

>Useless Shit Tier
Television
Ceramics
Glassware
Woodworking
Printmaking
Jewelry
Fretwork
Metal work
Ivory Carving

>Not Even Art Tier
Videogames

pls no respond. here is your (you). Just be satisfied with this

i haven't read that one but it got very popular here back then s1 of true detectives was on. ligotti himself has said he's edgy as fuck and basically has no emotions, but i like his horror, maybe for that purpose.

If you want some good novels I recommend Thomas Mann. Buddenbrooks and The Magic Mountain botth very enjoyable.

It certainly is if you aren't locked into the right mental state. It's definitely a fine line between it being pointless and being profound.

architecture is above god tier though.

>Nah don't listen to him man, read what you want.
Okay.

I've heard Part Two is pretty radically different from Part One, but that probably shouldn't be surprising considering how long it took Goethe to produce the epic haha. A letterboxd friend of mine actually prefers Marlowe's Dr. Faustus to Goethe's Faust, although he was impressed by both. I had no idea that The Master and Margarita was a redressing of Faust! It's been on my radar for about a year or so but somehow I never stumbled across that particular piece of information. I haven't read any Mann, I was actually considering The Magic Mountain as my doorstopper Christmas read until I finally settled on AK.

What's your lboxd account?

Film is shit.