Just testing if your mind is a good way to keep track of what movies I watched, it doesn't seem to be, I'm afraid, so I'm gonna try a different system.
No, you’re not testing anything. People with functional brains don’t need multi-variable recall to know what they have and haven’t watched. It’s a simple yes/no proposition.
Basically I would remember the whole movie if I remembered the title, but I was forgetting the titles. Then I thought how would that be in 10 years and decided to write a list of every movie I've watched, and since then I've been updating it. I only started to really get into movies in 2019-2020 (yeah covid) so it was relatively easy.
Yes anon, you’re going to remember most, if not all of the details of the first four or five dozen movies you’ve watched. Then after that they’re going to start bleeding together due to the simple fact your first movies, no matter the quality, got hard passes on everything due to the fact you had no basis to judge them as good or bad. Then you start judging movies based on movies you’ve seen. Then repetition of previously experienced themes/scenes, unless they’re significantly better executed, get overshadowed by your first experiences, and omitted from the record, because they’re simply not as good as your firsts.
By cataloging and forcing yourself to recall every detail of every movie, you’re actively making your memory worse.
>By cataloging and forcing yourself to recall every detail of every movie
I'm not doing this though, I just keep a list, I'm not checking all the movies every time I watch one. I do agree that forgetting and rewatching is part of the experience, it's not "normal" to keep track of this, and I remember being in doubt about making that list before doing it. Maybe one day I'll just ignore it.
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Anonymous
Forgetting and rewatching isn’t a normal experience. You’ll never forget the best movies you’ve watched, and there’s no reason to rewatch movies that failed to make any lasting impression.
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Anonymous
I didn't mean forgetting and rewatching the same movies, I mean it separately, forgetting movies is fine, rewatching movies is fine. I thought about it before making a list because it feels unnatural to do it. I can't imagine a lot of people from 50 years ago doing it. It feels like fighting against a normal tendency of forgetting things. I'm saying this because you made me remember how weird I felt when I started doing it and now it's so normalized for me to do it.
>for books, excel
i use goodreads, but i fricking hate it. it feels like it's 90% women on there when i look for anything new to read and it constantly fricks up moving books to the read category
I use Letterboxd but not the rest of them. I just thought it'd be a good format to write down my thoughts on whatever I watch seeing as I noticed I tend to get more out of a movie when I talk about it regardless of what the other person says about it than if I just watch it and let it be at that.
No, I usually just write something short, but I like it when a movie has left me with enough that I want to write a couple of paragraphs. I never write those ones that are huge essays though, at most I'll just do like three paragraphs.
i do all that unironically simply because i'm not a hoarder
>download anime >watch it >delete
and yes, i NEED to keep track of the stuff but not because otherwise i'd forget, but because i need to know if i'm still missing anything worth consooming or not
i like anilist because it's in cloud. i'm not sure if taiga has web client support that also works on mobile, but regardless i can't be bothered selfhosting
You’re just pretending you accomplished something when all you did was watch a movie. It’s a disgusting hijack of your own brains pathways.
enjoying film and music is an accomplishment. I have had harddrives fail and have to start over all over again from memory and I know that some song I like is lost to the ether. I write them down and every once in awhile browse to be amazed that a song I hadn't listened to.
Hard drives fail.
Letterboxd, but I use it strictly as a diary. Don't follow anyone, don't write public reviews, block anyone that somehow finds my account and follows. Having an option to toggle off the social media aspect of the site would be perfect for me because it's filled with some of the most unsufferable people I've ever witnessed. There should be a 100 word minimum limit on reviews so every other one isn't "could've been gayer" "tell me [X character] is cis and ur lying" or some other stupid thing that'll get 20k updoots from other morons.
I like the UI, Anon. I just wish I could turn off being able to see reviews, everything else about the site is pretty good except for the people on it.
There is nothing good about the website. There is no reason for it to exist or for anyone to use it. Just because you can’t remember what you watched 32 days ago, doesn’t mean you’ve forgotten it. It means the brain doesn’t keep track of information that way. Being unable to recall the 92nd line in a hidden life isn’t important, what’s important is what that movie meant. Constantly reminding yourself of every piece of garbage you’ve watched only strengthens the place of that garbage in your brain. It’s the mental equivalent of hoarding. You’re focused on “keeping” everything while retaining nothing of real value, and actively reducing the quality of any thought you can have, as your thoughts need to navigate narrow pathways through all the garbage to get anywhere in your head. There is no reason to remember any aspect of death on the nile beyond how much of a mistake it was for it to exist at all.
>books
Why would you ever need an app for this? Don't you just put the book in the "completed" section of your personal library after you've finish it?
same, i don't see the use of it. reviews are mostly shit. + you don't really need a recommendation system for books since most authors name-drop their inspirations in interviews etc
You aren't going to be able to remember everything in a book. Taking notes not just on unknown words but lines that you find worthy of being memorable is a good practice to a constant reader.
you are functionally illiterate and have just revealed that you don't read any books. If you did you would come across an unknown word at least once a day. Go to lit and get some recommendation and add some knowledge and culture to your life.
Sorry, never read infinite jest. I also read some pulp books.
An ordinary decent criminal is great book about an excon trying to start a new life and getting involved with the local criminals and police through no fault of his own.
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Anonymous
wow that sounds like something they'd sell in airports
>trackers
Who gives a frick dude, just read what you like, you'll remember if it's actually important I swear, and if you don't, that' what databases are for >quality of reading > quantity of things read
I have been keeping archives of most things I do on my PC from the mid 00s, including Cinemaphile threads I visit even if I just post in them once, all chatlogs and conversations Ive had, all screenshots, etc. etc.
Sometimes I like just browsing and remembering random moments
He said he was browsing here from mid 2000s. By internet standards that IS ancient, hell, so is even the late 2000s. It's fricking 2024 dude, get with the times and just admit it's been a long ass time.
They're not really highlights, its just threads I posted in for the most part, there are archives for shit like that, most of it is pretty inconsequential
Yeah but it is interesting seeing average posts from old Cinemaphile rather than just the biggest things. It's more representative of the actual history of the site.
>HURRR UNLESS YOU CAME HERE THE DAY AFTER M00T LAUNCHED THE SITE YOU WILL ALWAYS BE newbie
Cope, you are old.
1 month ago
Anonymous
>i'll always be a newbie???
... yeah, and its because of how the culture of the site changed with each new infection off newbies. it'll never be what it was, and the people still here that remember what it was can do nothing but watch each new tumor grow, rot from the inside, and be replaced with another.
1 month ago
Anonymous
you're too grown to type all that about a dead site
They're not really highlights, its just threads I posted in for the most part, there are archives for shit like that, most of it is pretty inconsequential
I keep track, rate and add tags to every movie i watch just in case somebody on Cinemaphile says "damn i wish somebody could rec me a good polish found footage about werewolves"
Autism. I don't even use these websites, I have my own folders. But at this point it just feels like a chore. New movie every day or every second day, new album every two days, new book every week. I don't think I even like doing this stuff.
Just testing if your mind is a good way to keep track of what movies I watched, it doesn't seem to be, I'm afraid, so I'm gonna try a different system.
is in every thread. I'd go so far as to say he's the guy who made the site and has been shilling it here since day 1
I only ever did this for anime. I have a myanimelist account that I haven't touched in years because I also haven't really watched anime in years. But looking at the list now there are shows there that I legitimately don't remember anything about. There are also shows that I do remember but I no longer agree with the rating I gave at the time. So I think it can be interesting to log how you feel about a piece of media to see how your opinion changes over time.
I use the Cinemaniac app, but mostly to keep a list of films I want to watch. When I watch one, I can give it a rating out of 5 and that's it. No boring reviews or shitty social media features. It supports tv shows as well.
I've been using a local spreadsheet file for a few years, I consider it a part of my journal. It also serves a good purpose to inform my movie library and what to archive.
with my mind
This. I only keep track of movies I want to watch, seems stupid to keep a log of movies youve watched.
take my upvote. I wish I had gold to give, but alas...
Hey everyone look lil Wayne is posting on Cinemaphile how cool is that
What did you watch on this day in 2023?
Who gives a frick?
Just testing if your mind is a good way to keep track of what movies I watched, it doesn't seem to be, I'm afraid, so I'm gonna try a different system.
>noooo I heckin need to know the precise day I watched something because... Look, it's important, okay?!
They ain't responda that.
No, you’re not testing anything. People with functional brains don’t need multi-variable recall to know what they have and haven’t watched. It’s a simple yes/no proposition.
Tried for some years but realized I was forgetting a lot of stuff so now I have a word document, maybe I'll change for a excel sheet in the future
>forgetting lots of stuff
Such as?
Basically I would remember the whole movie if I remembered the title, but I was forgetting the titles. Then I thought how would that be in 10 years and decided to write a list of every movie I've watched, and since then I've been updating it. I only started to really get into movies in 2019-2020 (yeah covid) so it was relatively easy.
Yes anon, you’re going to remember most, if not all of the details of the first four or five dozen movies you’ve watched. Then after that they’re going to start bleeding together due to the simple fact your first movies, no matter the quality, got hard passes on everything due to the fact you had no basis to judge them as good or bad. Then you start judging movies based on movies you’ve seen. Then repetition of previously experienced themes/scenes, unless they’re significantly better executed, get overshadowed by your first experiences, and omitted from the record, because they’re simply not as good as your firsts.
By cataloging and forcing yourself to recall every detail of every movie, you’re actively making your memory worse.
>By cataloging and forcing yourself to recall every detail of every movie
I'm not doing this though, I just keep a list, I'm not checking all the movies every time I watch one. I do agree that forgetting and rewatching is part of the experience, it's not "normal" to keep track of this, and I remember being in doubt about making that list before doing it. Maybe one day I'll just ignore it.
Forgetting and rewatching isn’t a normal experience. You’ll never forget the best movies you’ve watched, and there’s no reason to rewatch movies that failed to make any lasting impression.
I didn't mean forgetting and rewatching the same movies, I mean it separately, forgetting movies is fine, rewatching movies is fine. I thought about it before making a list because it feels unnatural to do it. I can't imagine a lot of people from 50 years ago doing it. It feels like fighting against a normal tendency of forgetting things. I'm saying this because you made me remember how weird I felt when I started doing it and now it's so normalized for me to do it.
This. I can recall the main characters, runtime (approx) and core conflict of every movie i have seen. go ahead Cinemaphile ask me about any movie
You’ll just Google it if you get stumped though
What about that one you watched a few years ago? Bet you can’t remember that one.
Men don’t remember things based on dates and time passed. Women do because their vegana geysers blood regularly.
It's the best way. You will only remember the movies that made a lasting impression
I don't watch movies
The only correct answer.
I just check my downloads folder
Word. At first it was just to keep a list of movies I wanted to see, but over time it evolved into a record of movies I have seen as well.
if im not supposed to consoom media, then what the frick am i supposed to do with my time? a lot of time in between sleep
I just have a folder of bookmarked imdb pages for movies I want to watch in the future and I move them to an another folder when I've watched them.
Spam offtopic threads on Cinemaphile like OP.
Have you ever tried producing something other than piss, shit, and cum?
kek
...and kek again:
Well played, gentlemen.
Well played, indeed.
for books, excel
for movies letterboxd
for music it doesn't really make any sense to log everything
>for books, excel
i use goodreads, but i fricking hate it. it feels like it's 90% women on there when i look for anything new to read and it constantly fricks up moving books to the read category
you can log these nuts in your mouth lol
got his ass
thanks
I put them in my movies folder.
Cinemaphile doesn’t watch anything, the posters here just post outrage bait and whine about random shit
Cinemaphile has watched 3 things:
>The Dark Knight Rises
>Bladerunner 2049
>Buck Breaking
Sneed
Plex does it for me automatically
>forget everything after a few years
>watch again
unlimited kino
>
But seriously, he should have written down his favorite film for endless entertainment
I finally have in and made a letterboxd.
Was really pissed when i found out they don't have series.
Why the frick?
TV shows are inferior to film
I thought they did? I have several anime logged.
some of them are there, some aren't. lol they have the doc about one show but not the show itself for some reason
wait - there's a movie of My Brilliant Friend??
Lila would have to be played by Alice Pagani, no one else gould do it.
Who the FRICK are those two?
* a show and its pure kino
yea why would anyone want to log their favorite quotations and goings-on?
bravo! parknotes is a philosophy graduate who espouses the virtues of keeping a commonplace notes.
Do people really keep a list of movies they watched, as if the number of goyslop consumed is some kind of an achievement?
> Keep track.
> Movies.
Sorry, my autism is reserved for higher pursuits. If you do this, you need special help.
I use Letterboxd but not the rest of them. I just thought it'd be a good format to write down my thoughts on whatever I watch seeing as I noticed I tend to get more out of a movie when I talk about it regardless of what the other person says about it than if I just watch it and let it be at that.
So you are one of those autists that writes paragraphs upon paragraphs about any stupid movie?
No, I usually just write something short, but I like it when a movie has left me with enough that I want to write a couple of paragraphs. I never write those ones that are huge essays though, at most I'll just do like three paragraphs.
>I thought submitting information to a third party website would be a good format
What the frick is wrong with people like you? Why does ANYONE need shit like this?
>oh no, a corporation will know what movies I watched, what a disaster!!
>you don’t understand, I have to feed every waking thought to giant corporations!
>THE CORPIES ARE IN MY WALLS!! THEYRE SPYING ON ME!!! WALMART KNOWS I WATCHED SPY KIDS AT 3AM NOW THEYRE GONNA GET ME!!!!!!
The point is why exert effort to feed them information about yourself? if they want it, they should have to work for it.
Move the movies I've seen to Copy of New Folder(2) on the desktop
Never failed me
Why are there different sites for movies, series and anime.
Where's the problem in having all in one giving place?
scripting and logging. Check if there has been a process associated with a video file and compare process length and video length.
I use imdb to log movies I want to watch
Lots of anons here seem to use letterboxd. Is it better? Am I missing something?
It has better search and lists and isn't spammed by indian subhumans
Is it spammed by Nihon ubermensch instead?
way better ui
It's imdb but for trannies, women and zoomers. So no, you're not missing anything.
Is serializd good? should i use it instead of trakt?
Rating tv series is mega autistic because then you have to rate every fricking episode
Trakt is better than Serialized because it does movies and TV in 1 account.
I use Letterboxd, RYM and Goodreads. I don't rate or write reviews. It can be a good way to find new movies, books etc.
Who?
pretty much the reason I don't kms
God what a sad existence
i do all that unironically simply because i'm not a hoarder
>download anime
>watch it
>delete
and yes, i NEED to keep track of the stuff but not because otherwise i'd forget, but because i need to know if i'm still missing anything worth consooming or not
You might like taiga.
i like anilist because it's in cloud. i'm not sure if taiga has web client support that also works on mobile, but regardless i can't be bothered selfhosting
I just note down the movies I really enjoyed so I can buy them on used DVDs
I note them down because I'm a goyslop consoomer cuck
???? Am I writing an essay about them? What a stupid question, I can easily remember if I've watched a movie if it's relevant to something I'm doing.
You overestimate you ability to remember. Keeping notes of favorite quotes and references greatly helps you appreciate kino.
You’re creating unnecessary qualifications for “remembering.”
We used to have a printed out document of all of our VHS tapes and DVDs to browse what we wanted to watch
steam backlogs are most gay of all it's like admitting you have a shopping addiction but for drm you don't even own
I have a .txt with a list of films + year and director but I log them on Letterboxd as well.
A big text file.
Completely fair to make fun of that, it’s comically nerdy. But throwing in dying wojak was unnecessary, takes away from how stupid the lists are.
I checked hardcover out of curiosity and it's literally just goodreads tier ratings? What's the point?
I only use Goodreads
For me its lastfm. Also frick the Yankees.
same
In my leather bound Kino-diary
Archiving is just satisfying, it's perfectly natural to backlog what you do. Personally I don't catalog movies but I do vidya and tranime
You’re just pretending you accomplished something when all you did was watch a movie. It’s a disgusting hijack of your own brains pathways.
enjoying film and music is an accomplishment. I have had harddrives fail and have to start over all over again from memory and I know that some song I like is lost to the ether. I write them down and every once in awhile browse to be amazed that a song I hadn't listened to.
Hard drives fail.
Assuming you catalog something important or significant that is, if not, it's just collecting-autism.
I have this thing called a brain. It retains information.
realized i've been watching a movie i already seen and then i kind of didnt want to waste time on forgettable stuff
Letterboxd, but I use it strictly as a diary. Don't follow anyone, don't write public reviews, block anyone that somehow finds my account and follows. Having an option to toggle off the social media aspect of the site would be perfect for me because it's filled with some of the most unsufferable people I've ever witnessed. There should be a 100 word minimum limit on reviews so every other one isn't "could've been gayer" "tell me [X character] is cis and ur lying" or some other stupid thing that'll get 20k updoots from other morons.
Hey, you know how you “toggle off” the social media aspect of a website? You don’t use a fricking website.
I like the UI, Anon. I just wish I could turn off being able to see reviews, everything else about the site is pretty good except for the people on it.
There is nothing good about the website. There is no reason for it to exist or for anyone to use it. Just because you can’t remember what you watched 32 days ago, doesn’t mean you’ve forgotten it. It means the brain doesn’t keep track of information that way. Being unable to recall the 92nd line in a hidden life isn’t important, what’s important is what that movie meant. Constantly reminding yourself of every piece of garbage you’ve watched only strengthens the place of that garbage in your brain. It’s the mental equivalent of hoarding. You’re focused on “keeping” everything while retaining nothing of real value, and actively reducing the quality of any thought you can have, as your thoughts need to navigate narrow pathways through all the garbage to get anywhere in your head. There is no reason to remember any aspect of death on the nile beyond how much of a mistake it was for it to exist at all.
bruh, just use uBlock to block the review section?
I use a spreadsheet offline. Same with books. I don't keep track about anything else.
The irony of calling others autistic while losing your mind screeching about people using a website.
>ctrl+f
>autis
>4 results, none of them calling anyone autistic
You should use a website to catalog all the replies in every one of these threads, as you seem to be confusing past threads with this one.
>books
Why would you ever need an app for this? Don't you just put the book in the "completed" section of your personal library after you've finish it?
same, i don't see the use of it. reviews are mostly shit. + you don't really need a recommendation system for books since most authors name-drop their inspirations in interviews etc
my grandma read so much she would forget she read something until she was halfway through it again
That’s the basis of dean koontz’s career.
i started doing it because i bought a few books i didn't remember i already had
You aren't going to be able to remember everything in a book. Taking notes not just on unknown words but lines that you find worthy of being memorable is a good practice to a constant reader.
I don’t need to be able to recite the entire section of wardeen be cry to understand it.
>unknown words
Lmao what the frick
>unknown words
You've never come across a word you don't know while reading? You must be some kind of mega genius.
Or just not autistic. context alone is usually enough to know what a word means. but autists can't into context.
Generally, sure. I don't keep a notebook full of quotes because I'm not a woman but I have come across words I don't know.
you are functionally illiterate and have just revealed that you don't read any books. If you did you would come across an unknown word at least once a day. Go to lit and get some recommendation and add some knowledge and culture to your life.
>y-you don't read many books
because they need to be at least as dense as infinite jest to hold my interest. ya know, what "wardeen be cry" is a reference to.
Sorry, never read infinite jest. I also read some pulp books.
An ordinary decent criminal is great book about an excon trying to start a new life and getting involved with the local criminals and police through no fault of his own.
wow that sounds like something they'd sell in airports
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH, I'M GONNA LOGGGGGGG!! *BRRAAAAAPP*
in a notepad txt. file
i unironically keep .txt files on my computer desktop
I only log my movies and books and that's because I'm a writer myself. Music, anime aetc is saved in my hard drive and that's it.
I use Imdb. Member for 22 years
I don't watch movies
>trackers
Who gives a frick dude, just read what you like, you'll remember if it's actually important I swear, and if you don't, that' what databases are for
>quality of reading > quantity of things read
I have been keeping archives of most things I do on my PC from the mid 00s, including Cinemaphile threads I visit even if I just post in them once, all chatlogs and conversations Ive had, all screenshots, etc. etc.
Sometimes I like just browsing and remembering random moments
Yes, this thread is getting archived too now.
Post some oldgay highlights from your many years of browsing here, ancient one.
>2009
>ancient
lmao
He said he was browsing here from mid 2000s. By internet standards that IS ancient, hell, so is even the late 2000s. It's fricking 2024 dude, get with the times and just admit it's been a long ass time.
Yeah but it is interesting seeing average posts from old Cinemaphile rather than just the biggest things. It's more representative of the actual history of the site.
you never stop being a newbie
>HURRR UNLESS YOU CAME HERE THE DAY AFTER M00T LAUNCHED THE SITE YOU WILL ALWAYS BE newbie
Cope, you are old.
>i'll always be a newbie???
... yeah, and its because of how the culture of the site changed with each new infection off newbies. it'll never be what it was, and the people still here that remember what it was can do nothing but watch each new tumor grow, rot from the inside, and be replaced with another.
you're too grown to type all that about a dead site
I'm talking about Cinemaphile not letterboxd
They're not really highlights, its just threads I posted in for the most part, there are archives for shit like that, most of it is pretty inconsequential
Stop drinking.
It's probably already too late for you.
>have one dvd pile of movies I haven't watched yet
>have another dvd pile of movies I've already seen
it's really that easy
I use trakt
What the frick is HECKIN?
I use my brain.
mydramalist
memories arent important. stupid little drugs
Why do you need to list every movie, show, book, song you watch/read/listen to? What's the reason behind this psychosis?
It’s the mental equivalent of hoarding.
it is cleaning and organizig
I keep track, rate and add tags to every movie i watch just in case somebody on Cinemaphile says "damn i wish somebody could rec me a good polish found footage about werewolves"
I have a lua script for mpv that logs everything.
I make a thread on Cinemaphile and take a screenshot of it
Autism. I don't even use these websites, I have my own folders. But at this point it just feels like a chore. New movie every day or every second day, new album every two days, new book every week. I don't think I even like doing this stuff.
>posting like this on Twitter
>Screencap Twitter post
>Post it here
What the frick is the point
to advertise the site. this guy
is in every thread. I'd go so far as to say he's the guy who made the site and has been shilling it here since day 1
This is just the past 2 months.
I have an autistic way of selecting my next movie to watch.
dude wtf. I just saw the deer hunter yesterday. weird...
Notepad
I only ever did this for anime. I have a myanimelist account that I haven't touched in years because I also haven't really watched anime in years. But looking at the list now there are shows there that I legitimately don't remember anything about. There are also shows that I do remember but I no longer agree with the rating I gave at the time. So I think it can be interesting to log how you feel about a piece of media to see how your opinion changes over time.
I use the Cinemaniac app, but mostly to keep a list of films I want to watch. When I watch one, I can give it a rating out of 5 and that's it. No boring reviews or shitty social media features. It supports tv shows as well.
I've been using a local spreadsheet file for a few years, I consider it a part of my journal. It also serves a good purpose to inform my movie library and what to archive.
Old fart here
I don't log as such but in the pre-internet era I kept a notebook full of films I'd seen with a rank out of 10