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QOTT: Why do you watch film?
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Is it worth going to Letterboxd if I've been using Trakt for everything?
Not really, no. Letterboxd has more reviews, but if you're only interested in logging, Trakt is sufficient and even better because you can log tv.
I watch because my family likes watching film. We were the type a family that went to Blockbuster every Friday and picked 4 things at a time.
ty, I think I'll start to use both because Trakts reviewing system is fucking trash
>Why do you watch film?
No one here watches film. We all just pretend.
Q: Are we not men?
A: We are KINO!
What are you guys getting from avistaz freeleech?
Trakt has a higher honest to dishonest review ration than Tumblrboxd.
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Every so often, some person—wait, let me start over...
Every so often, some total dick will start going on about how Edward Yang isn’t that good or is overrated or whatever other contrarian bullshit he wants to say about Yang to get a rise out of people. And all I can say is: Shut up. Shut your stupid, idiot mouth, you dumb idiot.
I get what you’re doing. Really, I do. You’re trying to shit on people’s cinematic tastes to either appear more well-versed in film than them or you just want to see the shocked look on people’s faces as you besmirch their favorite filmmaker. And listen, I don’t blame you for either. They’re both fun activities that I partake in on the reg. If you name me a director you like, I will find a hundred different ways to judge you on your taste. If the director happens to be a British guy named Nolan, make it three hundred. But Edward Yang, dude? Edward fucking Yang? You are really scraping the barrel if you are knocking people for liking Edward Yang, you moron.
Really, I don’t want to hear your half-cocked, grasping-at-straws theories about how Edward Yang wasn'’t even a talented director or how he stole his style from other directors or how Hou Hsiao-Hsien was the only talented one. What I want you to do is shut your stupid-ass face, you stupid assface.
I’m not even defending Edward Yang, per se. He's not my favorite director or anything. But he's...he is...what’s the word I’m looking for here? Oh right. HE'S FUCKING EDWARD YANG, the cinematic foundation on which just about everything you watch was probably built. Does that even need to be said? Being a movie fan who shits on Edward Yang is like standing in the comfort of your warm house and being like, “Yeah, wood is way overrated, dude. When you think about it, wood’s not really that great.” Just take your mouth and shut it up, you fucking dummy.
It’s hard to tell through that stupid, shit-eating grin, but are you trying to be funny or do you genuinely not like Edward Yang? Because I’ll bet if we sat you down in a room and started showing “A Brighter Summer Day” or “Yi Yi,” you’d probably start crying and piss your stupid pants from pretending not to have all the emotions in the world. If we played “A Confucian Confusion” when you’re having a bad day, chances are 10,000% that you’d outright shit yourself as a result of the overwhelming melange of joyful optimism and unbridled awe, you pants-pissing pants-pisser.
If you need other ways to torment people that make you come off as less of a pretentious asshole than shitting on Edward Yang, here are some activities to keep you busy...
Inform small children there’s no Santa Claus.
Go to the Holocaust Museum and tell patrons that Hitler had some pretty good ideas.
Stand outside the window at Curves eating a McRib.
Guys: Tell a woman that childbirth isn’t really a big deal.
Ladies: Tell a guy that getting kicked in the junk isn’t all that painful.
Go to the Million Man March and say Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech ran a little long.
For Christ’s sake, the man has made more great films and has had more masterpieces than any director ever. He is the most praised director in the history of fucking cinema. This is the one direct we as a society could all be able to unanimously agree on as a model for… Wait, no. NO. This is exactly what you want. This is the game you want me to play. You want me to get all riled up and start defending Edward Yang. Well I’m not gonna give you the satisfaction.
Instead, I’m gonna go the higher route and take a page from Mr. Yang when I say: "Every citizen in Taiwan has to face a question: what are we going to do in the future -- reunification or independence? No one wants to face it. A Brighter Summer Day is the background for what's going to happen in the future. I hope it helped." And go fuck yourself, idiot
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Why do you make this ridiculous professional-like OP? This kind is literally advertising, literally shilling.
or are we dancer?
Wow, what a wise OP!
In this spirit,
CURRENT THREAD!!: This is very, very important
To gain lots of followers to feel good about myself.
French new wave thread
who tf cares bout that shit
You do.
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You're alone in a room with machill, you're both naked. You try to open the door but it's closed. What do you do?
Might as well fuck the little faggot
Be scared that I met my doppelgänger that I am assured imminent death
>tfw a secret /lbg/ admirer
how exciting
sterling thread as always
> Why do you watch film?
I really enjoy it as an artform. I like the acting and the singing.
Me too. My family always loved a lot of the classic Hollywood stuff like Astaire and Rogers.
I watch film because it's fun and interesting
True
Bad OP
Lucky you. My parents only cared about new movies and never showed me any classics. Closest I got to having taste was my brother loving foreign fighting movies.
>mfw my Dad showed me all the Chaplin films, Metropolis and 2001 before I was 5 or 6
MEME MEME MEME
This is the only good thread on this board.
Hope you thank him every day
unfortunately this is true
lol
Emily Jean is amazing
>/lbg/ thread
>only one profile posted so far
let's change that
letterboxd.com
Why is Letterboxd such jews with changing usernames?
Kind of sad how they realize that's the only "worthwhile" feature and they hide it behind a pay wall.
>choosing a shitty username in the first place
not nice fuckface why is coffee spelled backwards
not nice fuckface why is coffee spelled backwards
reminder
>Smoothhands is a nice guy with a good sense of humor and seems to predict things perfectly
>Acid is alpha
>Healey is nice if you're nice to him
>Jackieray is full of useful information about film
>nosaj is pleasant to be around
>steakbro is up at 5am if you need someone to talk to
>myrmician knows plenty about screencapping
>slept is good if you need an invite to a private tracker
>Miranna is a nice girl if you're not American
>winstonne is funny 1/10000 of the time
>aeltbx deserves much better than what you guys do to him
>bel has good bants and I miss him terribly
>dropout_bear is my best friend
>machill54 is sweet
>pupkin only called me schmuck once
taking my coffee without cream or sugar for a week and i want to tell everybody
coffee spelled forwards was taken. only good thing about patriots day is kevin bacon
Randomly got a new follower today after perhaps a year of inactivity. Look at their profile and they're following a 100,000 people.
Why?
dropout_cuck
>get a new follower.
>it's some dude that watches weird obscure stuff
>i can't figure out how he even found my profile.
must've been a misclick desu
That's how I take it now. Took a day or so to get used to, now I can't drink it any other way.
>kevin bacon
mfw
w-was it me?
Answer that question yourself.
>Silence
>as catholic in japan im literally shaking rn
>3.44 MB of bacon
What were the best films of 2016 ? Recommend .I am gonna start torrenting them.
redpill me on Cinemassacre
weird, I was just about to watch The Vanishing. you like it?
Knight of Cups, Manchester by the Sea, 13 Hours, Elle.
Pick one and (articulately) express why:
L'avventura or La dolce vita?
>le paul ws anderson is a secret genius meme
Right Now, Wrong Then
The Wailing
The Bride of Rip Van Winkle
Love & Friendship
Certain Women
La La Land
Hacksaw Ridge
Mountains May Depart
The Witch
Right Now Wrong Then
Yourself and Yours
Joshy
Everybody Wants Some
Kaili Blues
13 Hours
Three
The Salesman
Happy Hours
Silence
The Eyes of My Mother
Manchester by the Sea
Knight of Cups
La Dolce Vita.
>Why.
Idklol
It's pretty good.The ending is fucked up, really made me uncomfortable.
welp, turns out my version is the newer one. gotta download the 88 one now
Never watched a Terrence Malick movie . What to expect?
my wife's son has the Batman logo in his front teeth
The american remake is shit.
grass
invitation to accept the light in your life.
If these turn out to be shit, you will be sorry.
Bring it, beeeatch
Knight of Cups has a sweet soundtrack, with beautiful wide angle cinematography
You're welcome for going out of my way to give you movies to watch
Good soundtrack is my kryptonite.
What is your /lbg/ account?
What's the deal with Sally Jane Black and why do people hate her ? Are her reviews and taste any good ?
every time i see the title of the vanishing it keeps reminding me of vanishing point which is an excellent movie
Her reviews, such as they are, get a lot of likes as such a lot of her writing have a tendency to show up on the front page for everyone because of their popularity. Hence to the kind of people Sup Forums appeals to this can be aggravating and even to some people infuriating.
As much as I can understand seeing their profile pic on the front page a lot can be annoying. People get far too emotional about it as far as I'm concerned. Sure, you see their pic, that doesn't mean you necessarily have to read whatever they've written.
But what do I know
This is going to get a bunch of
>her
comments now
Haven't watched it . What can I expect?
this
>her
a man driving a car, he's also chased by police
What do you mean ? Google confirms it.
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who are you? do you post your profile here often?
happens to me once in a while, figure they just look at lists or reviews and decided to follow to inflate their numbers
Is this actually sjb or
facebook photo
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id like a sjb bj
ldv bc its by the same guy who did satyricon
>expect a trashy action film
>get a really well crafted psychological thriller
cool
Also planning to watch All the colors of the dark, seven deaths in the cats eye, the dead are alive this week for giallo week. Maybe some Bava too since I've actually not seen that many of them
who remembers
ahh the glory days
I miss myrmician screenshots
>glory days
yikes