Is Twitter/Letterboxd the worse place in the internet to talk about movies? I swear 90% of the people from "Film Twitter" seem to be in some kind of cult or circlejerk, always following the same accounts, repeating the same opinions, making the same jokes and talking the same way, blocking every time you give an argument on why they're wrong or just replying with an smug or sarcastic joke, or calling their friends so they can act like some sort of bully gang from high school. Even IMDb forums weren't this bad.
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Welcome to normie invaded internet.
They don't like things because they intrinsically enjoy it. They just want to use it as a platform for cliques and shoving in their social hierarchies. God forbid you violate their version of things or their egos. They'll get on their mod account and give you a ban.
>he thinks it’s normies
Like another guy said, twitter is where a large bulk of tumblr users migrated to after the porn-ban. The ex-tumblrgays would go to other sites and forums but twitter would receive the most cancerous ones because it was where most of the art/porn guys went.
What others don’t bring up is that goons from SA had also begun colonizing twitter years ago with weird twitter and other le antihumor corncob irony type shit being the work of various goons from fyad.
When the tumblrites moved in, they found out about goon-humor and that’s why twitter is so shit.
This is why people who say tumblr is the biggest cancer of the internet are wrong. It’s actually somethingawful, with tumblr coming in second.
Fair point, I think I did get a little carried away.
I’m talking about the projection of “objective artistic quality” onto whatever isn’t trash in theaters. A pretentious film student mindset stuck in the body of someone who doesn’t understand when they’re being fed slop. Nothing has been worth going to the theater for over two years, yet they always preach how “*THIS ONE* IS SAVING CINEMAAAA!” every few months. Rinse and repeat. They want to feel like they’re a part of something, and it’s easier to take part when everyone else is already aware of something in public media. This is the embrace of the arthouse circle jerk by those that only care if it’s popular. Similar to A24 becoming a brand over a production company. They don’t actually understand anything about why we analyze. They just want to feel smart and capable. If you don’t go along with it, you’re automatically seen as fringe. I probably am insecure about the whole thing because it feels like we can’t actually connect on experiences with art. We have to connect on what the “culture” is pushing.
You really wanna defend this behavior?? I think you just felt called out because you probably use these sites. If you don’t, then it’s even worse.
>They don't like things because they intrinsically enjoy it
I think about this a lot and I think it's something literally nobody is immune to. How large a percentage of say the "Stalker" fanbase by Tarkovsky would even finish that movie if it wasn't for its reputation?
That's not me saying it's a bad movie by the way, I'm saying what is the true percentage of people that genuinely love that movie for the movie that it is, and not for the cultural importance it holds?
I think no doubt there would be people that love it but I think a majority of even Cinemaphile users wouldn't even have finished watching it if they didn't go into it knowing its an important film. I know I wouldn't have, and maybe thats a total admission of me just projecting here but I don't know. I think nobody is immune to this shit.
I watched it to see what the Room/Monolit was like and to see if it was in any way comparable to eponymous video game
Ah, Cinemaphile, the only place where you can call twittergays "normies" and it fits comparatively
>Ah
>Is Twitter/Letterboxd the worse place in the internet to talk about movies?
no, Cinemaphile is
Cinemaphile is full of contrarians, /misc/cels, homosexuals and losers, but it's still better than Twitter. Twitter is a hivemind. Truly horrific stuff.
The nature of following creates serious echo chambers, possibly worse than reddit's up/downvoting and heavy sub moderation
Cinemaphile wants to be a hivemind so bad. That’s why anyone who likes something others don’t like gets accused of being a shill
Was about to post this. Cinemaphile will talk about the same 5-6 movies/shows for years. The rest are just threads where morons hate on the current thing to virtue signal to everyone that they're cool enough to post on Cinemaphile.
I don't with discussing anything for that reason. I come here to shitpost.
Tumblr ruined Twitter forever.
If you think that's bad, check out Black Twitter.
You're talking to him.
Internet truly did ruin friendships forever.
Twitter effectively became nu-Tumblr years ago after the latter downsized considerably, similar to when TikTok rose from the ashes of Vine; the audience migrated & spread like a cancer.
Twitter is nothing but nazis and porn bots now/
sounds like pol
This.
All the feminist and trannies went to Twitter after the Tumblr porn ban and killed the site.
FINALLY SOMEONE ELSE FRICKING SAID IT.
I’ve hated the hive-mind of “film culture” they’ve built in those places for years now. It’s like a bunch of pretentious film students repeating the same opinions and praising the same masters without any actual thought themselves. Movies are about your personal experience, but they can’t comprehend that because they need to feel smarter than everyone else by understanding specific culture that never mattered to the art form anyway. The sarcasm/bullying is legitimately all they know because they all believe in a simple black-and-white understanding of the world. They already said what they should for the newest theater slop, so why should they think any deeper? If you call it out, of course the tribe feels threatened.
TL;DR: They don’t watch movies. They comment on film.
we get it buddy, you have never been able to properly analyze a film…theres no need to attack others for your insecurities
>people from twitter are idiots unable to argue and only are able to reply with irony and sarcasm because they lack individuality
>butrhurt homosexual does exactly that
Go back and stay there. You just proved that anon right, stupid idiot.
You really wanna defend this behavior?? I think you just felt called out because you probably use these sites. If you don’t, then it’s even worse.
>theater slop
>pretentious film students
Elaborate, please, I'm just making sure this is about arthouse circlejerks and not your own personal insecurities
>so triggered he's samegayging now
Anon hit a nerve, huh?
This has to be projection, never seen a more obvious samegay ever than (you)
Also which of my words denote samegayging? Insecurities? That might be because you sound very insecure to the point that both me and the other anon used the same word to describe your writing style
NTA. You are coping. Dilate.
Your point? Go have a nice day you whiteknight of insecure gays
You know how to use paint. Nice.
>HURRR DURRR DURR YOU USED LE HECKING MS PAINT!!!! troony!!!!
seriously you are a waist of oxygen and should be enslaved
Seethe
shut the frick up you homosexual ass Black person…I hope a semi truck blindsides you and turns you into a moronic pants-shitting vegetable that your parents begrudgingly have to take care of until they cannot financially bear the burden any more, pulling the plug on your pathetic life
Holy shit you are so mad
How is this what you got from what he said? Have you ever tried to talk to someone in Letterboxd or Twitter? We aren't talking about pseuds or even snobs, but inmature mentally ill idiots that are unable to form any opinion of their own. You can identify them by their use of words like:
>unironically
>ironically
>literally
>mid
>cinema omg
And shit like that.
Don't forget
>this is fire
>cooking
>actually
>bro
>bussing ngl
He explicitly said pretentious film students who praise the same masters, not Twitter/letterboxd le girlies that love Mean Girls and only review old films if they think the male lead is hot, so I'm asking again, who exactly are these people anon's complaining about?
pretentious film students are those kind of people nowadays. Not all, but at least the big majority of those that use Twitter are. Mostly because they're zoomers and zoomers were raised by the internet, which has destroyed their brains and individuality beyond repair.
Original anon here. This guy is exactly correct ^
Fair point, I think I did get a little carried away.
I’m talking about the projection of “objective artistic quality” onto whatever isn’t trash in theaters. A pretentious film student mindset stuck in the body of someone who doesn’t understand when they’re being fed slop. Nothing has been worth going to the theater for over two years, yet they always preach how “*THIS ONE* IS SAVING CINEMAAAA!” every few months. Rinse and repeat. They want to feel like they’re a part of something, and it’s easier to take part when everyone else is already aware of something in public media. This is the embrace of the arthouse circle jerk by those that only care if it’s popular. Similar to A24 becoming a brand over a production company. They don’t actually understand anything about why we analyze. They just want to feel smart and capable. If you don’t go along with it, you’re automatically seen as fringe. I probably am insecure about the whole thing because it feels like we can’t actually connect on experiences with art. We have to connect on what the “culture” is pushing.
lmao like here is any better? A lot of threads are the exact i've seen on film twitter. like the dan schneider stuff has been wildfire there.
Nobody here actually uses twitter, right?
i use it to get entertainment from trannies who cry about politics all day
Failed filmmakers from Twitter may be the worse. I see tweets from "filmmakers" with 50k likes and stuff, talking pretentious shit ALWAYS, giving tips or trying to shit in a popular movie or pretending to be "experts" and then you search their names and they're literal nobodies and losers, their projects and shorts are pure garbage, and just do podcasts and tweet shit all day, and it makes me wonder if Twitter is some sort of alternate reality or something.
Xitter is terrible. It's just a bunch of mentally ill zoomers/alphies, tumblr migrants, liberals and wanna be trad Muskies. Name a bigger shithole. You can't.
I've been using Xitter a lot lately since it switched to a video platform more or less. I just get fed a bunch of videos and memes by the algorithm and its pretty alright. Reddit got sanitized after 2016 and is now literally just bots shilling garbage, its a useless site even from an entertainment point of view, like its not even good for just watching videos anymore. Cinemaphile is too mentally ill to ever evolve past the trump era, its completely stagnated, what used to be the internet getting all their memes from Cinemaphile is now a thing of the past, now its discord and I refuse to hang in discords with a bunch of zoomers.
You know its bad when xitter videos are unironically more fun than the extremely mentally ill fricking YLYL threads on gif and wsg that have just been invaded by one mentally ill moron spamming his shit forever. I would never create a tiktok account, but tiktok has a lot of fun unhinged shit, which is something youtube doesn't allow and hasn't promoted or encouraged for over 10 years now so its just a sanitized boring site you go to to watch produced content now, basically tv-lite.
Yes.
Cinemaphile is no better. Same discussions from what I can see. Remember the whole media literacy moronation that was going on about Dune? People were arguing about whether Paul was based and redpilled or le heckin hitlerino as if there can be any moral judgement in a world where prescience exists. I have had zero luck finding worthwhile conversations over the internet.
While I find the site/app is easiest to use and also the rating system is easiest to interpret personally, the Letterboxd written reviews are the worst by far because of the massive skew towards females and the extremely high % of libtarded/LGBTQ """people""" and allies who are obsessed with identity politics. All the top reviews are filled with commentary on how the movie was great "but gets knocked down 2 stars because of ["problematic" thing]" or pointing out how despite the movie not being gay, the movie was totally gay and that's a good thing, here's why, or women/beta man just thirsting over [male character] and either wanting to be with him or get cucked by him. Old Tumblr is living stronger than ever in the Letterboxd review section.
>All the top reviews are filled with commentary on how the movie was great "but gets knocked down 2 stars because of ["problematic" thing]"
I only see floods of 'critics' trying to be comedians. morons trying to always be fricking funny everywhere on the internet is played out and i wish it would die
Both of you are right
Why do you read reviews if they trigger you so much?
>the Letterboxd written reviews are the worst by far because of the massive skew towards females and the extremely high % of libtarded/LGBTQ """people""" and allies who are obsessed with identity politics.
All this really does is expose you to have absolutely horribly pleb taste in movies if these are the reviews you keep seeing everywhere.
nta, I only use letterboxd to catalog shit, take a look at the Plein Soleil reviews there, I think that's a more than decent movie, letterboxd users are just idiots
post your letterboxd rating and we will judge you anon.
i ignored Mark Kermode on the radio because he seemed like a snooty Guardian type (for lack of a better phrase). now he's the only commentary on film i care about: he's a 'real' film critic.
in the actual Guardian there's Peter Bradshaw who is so universally disagreeable i know i enjoy the films he doesn't and vice versa. at least it all goes through editing and some kind of thought. this is what message boards and YouTube (mostly) are lacking.
cringe
I really don’t fricking understand why you dumbasses expect insightful and snobby reviews from a social media platform just because it’s focused on movies.
And you’re more than likely watching popular shit anyway instead of anything obscure so there’s going to be 5k reviews anyway. So constantly whining about how seeing reviews that hurt your feelings just makes you look pathetic child who can’t handle seeing opinions they don’t agree with.
>NOOOO YOU CAN'T MAKE FUN OF MY HIVEMIND YOU EVIL CHUUDS SAVE ME REDDIT
Frick off
>baaawwwww why can’t reviews be my hivemind??!?!?
Talk about being a sheltered little b***h.
You cant even give a proper defense but "stop being so mean!". You don't even deny you're part of a hivemind, as if you think that's some kind "gotcha". It makes me wonder, how did people get this pathetic? How did it get this bad?
>just replying with an smug or sarcastic joke, or calling their friends so they can act like some sort of bully gang
I had some b***h try to do this with me, but I ended up BTFOing her and her gay friend so hard she deleted her comments out of shame and embarrassment
Let’s see your reviews then.
Letterboxd is for cataloging your kino and setting goals. What the absolute frick are you doing discussing movies on it you complete moron? Get some real friends.
>real friends
Real people don't give a frick about movies beyond the most recent blockbuster. They're too busy having a life.
>twitter
>drones of 'film criticism' youtubers like RLM, critical grifter and others
>this board
>polgays and edgelords
Where’s the lie?
I was all for gay rights and marriage 15 years ago but man, I'm really starting to hate homosexuals
>you know what broke the camel’s back for me? Random people on the internet calling a 19 year old comedy homophobic. Now I unironically want to kill all gays. This is too much.
>Cinemaphile users complaining about discourse on other sites
is this a fricking joke or are you people really this far down the rabbit hole?
Letterboxd threads exist solely to whine unironically about how full of wrongthink the reviews are
>unironically
Go back.
Being serious, why the frick do homosexuals from Twitter use this word so much? That and "literally".
>noooOooOoOoOoOoOoOoOooooo you aren’t allowed to use those words!!!!
Well well well well…. Look who suddenly decided to become the language police.
frfr bro is literally unironically actually ironically no bussin frfr