Do you keep track of the films you watch?

[Shit Good Nose]

I like making extremely specific lists:

https://letterboxd.com/famous_mortimer/list/movies-about-bikini-carwashes-with-bikini/

I keep meaning to make a list of films that feature a car going over a cliff or rolling down a hill, that DOESN'T explode.

[non capisco]

https://letterboxd.com/IsThisRossco/ if anyone fancies giving me a follow so I can leech off your cinematic knowledge!

[Jerzy Bondov]

Love Letterboxd, so much so that I actually pay for membership so I can see my stats. https://boxd.it/h0XH Here's me anyway, I don't write very thoughtful reviews but I watch a lot of films

[Goldentony]

You should definitely be able to hide lists - there's a couple of them which are little more than "here's every single thing on Letterboxd". I like making extremely specific lists:

https://letterboxd.com/famous_mortimer/list/movies-about-bikini-carwashes-with-bikini/

ah yes, this is exactly what im after. Anything along those lines.

If anyone fancies following - letterboxd.com/CannibalMan/

[Dex Sawash]

You should definitely be able to hide lists - there's a couple of them which are little more than "here's every single thing on Letterboxd". I like making extremely specific lists:

https://letterboxd.com/famous_mortimer/list/movies-about-bikini-carwashes-with-bikini/

Pretty sure there is some car washing in Gas Pump Girls but not rewatching it to see.

[beanheadmcginty]

Always thought it was a bit shit that my Cineworld Unlimited card didn't keep track of all the films I'd watched. Seems like a really easy function to include.

[Endicott]

My effort is slightly more retro than your Letterboxds and online databases - I have a yearly Word doc on the go, comprising separate lists of films, documentaries, and TV series/serials.

As mentioned somewhere in a recent thread, this can lead to profound agonising over whether a production qualifies as a fully fledged film, a TV film, or a TV serial.

I do vaguely remember that coming up. But since the objective isn't actually categorisation, did anyone suggest that you just put the production on more than one list? It's just an aide-mémoire.

[Dex Sawash]

Working on a mnemonic system right now

[Famous Mortimer]

Pretty sure there is some car washing in Gas Pump Girls but not rewatching it to see.

I found it on Dailymotion and from a quick glance at the thumbnails as I scanned along the bottom, there's a bit where they wash cars in very small tops, but they're more tied-up cut off things than bikinis, and therefore "Gas Pump Girls" does not qualify. They do wear bikinis at one point, but they only do so to trick the evil gas station across the road.

I discovered, while looking for that, a sex comedy called "Six Swedish Girls At A Pump", which may qualify for my list too. EDIT: three minutes in, and it's just a full-on not-that-softcore porno. I'd be very surprised if these lasses wear anything at all when they're washing cars. There's a ripped Charles Bronson lookalike going conkers deep in one of our starlets at one point.

Sorry for derailing the thread. Please create your own extremely specific lists and I'll try and help add entries to it.

[touchingcloth]

My effort is slightly more retro than your Letterboxds and online databases - I have a yearly Word doc on the go, comprising separate lists of films, documentaries, and TV series/serials.

As mentioned somewhere in a recent thread, this can lead to profound agonising over whether a production qualifies as a fully fledged film, a TV film, or a TV serial.

Same with the "high" tech approach. Letterboxd is mainly films but there are some TV series on there, so I use trakt.tv for that and have a bit of agonising to do over the series which are listed in both databases.

[purlieu]

Got myself one of those letterboxd things here: https://letterboxd.com/enofa/

[jobotic]

I keep track of the films you watch.

You should be ashamed.

[sutin]

My Letterboxd is http://letterboxd.com/timahall

[jsgibble]

The 'diary' feature on letterboxd is good, I like the way you can keep track of what you've watched like that. And rewatches, too.

I used to use RYM in a similar way for music but with that you're just giving star ratings (which I wasn't confident doing).

[Small Man Big Horse]

The 'diary' feature on letterboxd is good, I like the way you can keep track of what you've watched like that. And rewatches, too.

I used to use RYM in a similar way for music but with that you're just giving star ratings (which I wasn't confident doing).

Sometimes I find myself mulling over my rating for a ridiculous amount of time, struggling to decide if something deserves three or three and a half stars, until something clicks in my brain and I realise no one gives a fuck and I should just rate it however I feel at that very second.

[touchingcloth]

You can enter your username on this site and it will give you recommendations based on the rankings you have given to films - https://letterboxd.samlearner.com/.

[Phoenix Lazarus]

I keep track of the films you watch.

You should be ashamed.

They were shot on her sixteenth, I promise.

[MoreauVasz]

Letterboxd seems to be creating a new iteration of film criticism: One wherein klout is derived from seeing and writing about impossibly obscure films. I genuinely see these people as canaries in the mines of cinematic monoculture.

Today they're writing about documentaries about Japanese war crimes in which massacres are re-created using actual dead bodies. In five years time they'll be using those same discovery skills for writing about literally anything that isn't owned by Disney.

[Famous Mortimer]

You can enter your username on this site and it will give you recommendations based on the rankings you have given to films - https://letterboxd.samlearner.com/.

That's lovely but two of my top 10 recommendations are "Shoah" and "Come And See". This website perhaps wants me to slit my wrists?

[chveik]

not bad, most recommendations are already in my watchlist

[purlieu]

The first recommendation it gave to me was Singin' in the Rain, which... isn't like anything else I've listed, so I'm a little baffled by it.

[touchingcloth]

That's lovely but two of my top 10 recommendations are "Shoah" and "Come And See". This website perhaps wants me to slit my wrists?

Yeah, whichever settings I use it suggests I should watch Shoah. Maybe I'll give Shoah a downmark just to stop it popping up as a recommendation. 0.5/5 - too much holocausting.

[GoblinAhFuckScary]

i find a lot of the culture on letterbxd to be annoyingly performative and contrived, but i do often catch a lot of insight and genuinely appreciated recs too. can get myself into a weird mindset with these things where before the movie's even finished i'm thinking of what i could write and what score to a decimal it deserves, so been trying less to bother thinking in that way and appreciating cinema for the textural and weird art form that it is

been a lil more slack in my movie watching this year, but you can find me here if you want to be "friends": letterboxd.com/GreenGoitt

Today they're writing about documentaries about Japanese war crimes in which massacres are re-created using actual dead bodies.

is this men behind the sun?? that's a weird coincidence if so, because i just watched that after a friend recommending it ten years ago and finding it at the very bottom of my imdb watchlist. first movie in ages i actually held my hands in front of my face ugh

[chveik]

some of the mubi 'community' is ridiculously pretentious, they try to include the most complicated words in their mini reviews, it just ends up being pure gibberish. there is used to be some great film discussion on forum/blogs but they're pretty much all gone now. the monopolies have won

[GoblinAhFuckScary]

i can hardly stand looking at the reviews on letterbxd because the top voted review is always some weasel fucking smart-ass meme-posting twitter z-list e-celeb cunt with some dreadful eye-roll one-sentence under 240 characters blue tick quip cue 2000 upvotes

just to look at some random movies here

A bunch of idiots go to South America and pack the wrong clothes. Loved it.

the only horror film brave enough to ask the chilling question: "what if you had to hang out with Australians."

If someone offers you milk with dinner like that's an acceptable beverage you can automatically assume they are mentally ill.

just like that sink, i was NOT braced

they seem to be very good friends

Peter Parker had it easy.

me, getting murdered in a neon house of horrors: wow i love this aesthetic :)

[touchingcloth]

some weasel fucking smart-ass meme-posting twitter z-list e-celeb cunt with some dreadful eye-roll one-sentence under 240 characters blue tick quip cue 2000 upvotes

I understand every individual word here and yet the whole baffles me. Internet.

[Famous Mortimer]

i can hardly stand looking at the reviews on letterbxd because the top voted review is always some weasel fucking smart-ass meme-posting twitter z-list e-celeb cunt with some dreadful eye-roll one-sentence under 240 characters blue tick quip cue 2000 upvotes

You can block those people.

[MoreauVasz]

is this men behind the sun?? that's a weird coincidence if so, because i just watched that after a friend recommending it ten years ago and finding it at the very bottom of my imdb watchlist. first movie in ages i actually held my hands in front of my face ugh

I was thinking of that precise film! Black Sun 731. Though I think it may have blurred with another weird film in which a Japanese bloke obsessively tracks down aging Japanese war criminals and yells at them.

[GoblinAhFuckScary]

you can block them but there are always more like the wise-cracking roaches they are

[chveik]

i don't really see what's wrong with people reviewing the most obscure stuff, i can sympathize with cinema obsessives, it's a weird addiction and the clout is almost non-existent. and they can be useful when you want to track down a hard-to-find film