Top Letterboxd Reviews are USELESS

tbf nobody is reading an essay review on letterboxd, its literally a race to make the most obvious observation
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Stream date: 06-26-2024
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[@lukapitkanen3333]

Letterboxd needs a ”boo” button next to the like button on reviews

[@SLokutaR]

boooo

[@DrZaiusDrZaius-xp5fw]

+ skip

[@weedtea9983]

reddit but worse

[@Maelthorn1337]

It wouldn't do anything, unfortunately.

[@mr.dirtydan3338]

I mean come on. If you need a real review of a movie just go read Roger Ebert. I love how not serious the reviews are on letterboxd

[@Robofussin]

The best part is, you know these people are workshopping their "hilarious" reviews during the whole runtime.

[@ParagonDerp]

2 hours to come up with "my pussy cried when Ryan Gosling cunted the whole function"

[@gungy_vt]

"Stop being so glib, we already did that in the 90s" -- Guy who's repeatedly claimed he's 90smaxxing

[@Exarian]

the baby shit *does* go out with the bathwater.

[@verkhvo]

Glorp

[@freakcree6218]

read any letterboxd reviews where the main character is flawed and you get the dumbest reviews ever

[@gingertrash64]

thee billboards was mentioned in the video but theres one review that's the stupidest thing ever made that I constantly get updates for, i hate that you can get notifications for interactions with other people's reviews

[@T--------]

Woow God forbid a little guy has hobbies and gets silly with it from time to time am I right? 😛 - 3500 likes for some reason

[@EverythingisGoodieBud]

@@T--------yeah and it’s for Apocalypse Now

[@faaaaario]

​@@gingertrash64You can turn the notifications off in the comments section of the review, at least

[@aureus79]

I watched a horror movie about 1700s england where a cult kidnaps a woman and the comment was like "ehy bad thing happen to woman :( director sexist?"

[@rosyrose2112]

Glad someone pointed this out, I don’t have a problem with short comments as reviews but when ALL of the top comments are sarcastic jokes, jokes about the actor and not the movie itself, observational jokes, it gets old very fast

[@mr.dirtydan3338]

I know this doesn't make the letterboxd reviews okay, but just swing my metacritic. You will see actually reviews from people that know what they are talking about about.

[@ayayay16]

95% of my reviews are my genuine feelings, and the one that's a top review? My one line shitpost on a mid anime movie nobody has seen. And I'm mad about it every time I get a like on it

[@reganverses3003]

felt this

[@TheDsLeet]

What was the movie?

[@ayayay16]

@@TheDsLeet The Tunnel to Summer, the Exit of Goodbyes

[@demujo]

@@ayayay16 gonna go like it

[@sleep5778]

​@@demujo kingshit

[@Me-ui1zy]

Yeah, I like Letterboxd as a service, but the top reviews are written by the most miserable people ever, I swear

[@eamonndevlin5889]

They're not miserable just trying too hard to be funny

[@t19040]

As someone who's been on the site for nearly 10 years, the joke review aspect of the site as only gotten worse. Yes, it's a great service but the only way to use it regularly without wanting to blow your brains out is to curate your experience by following people whose writing you like and completely ignoring the rest of the reviews.

[@bigpostnet]

i just dont follow anyone and post reviews to myself, only use it so i remember what movies ive watched lol

[@ParagonDerp]

When they finally made blocking do something I thought I'd finally be able to stop seeing that type of review but after blocking a bunch of the main culprits they somehow got replaced by even more insufferable people

[@suvelmuttreja786]

@@ParagonDerp It's because the top ones have enough followers that they don't have to try too hard to be the """funniest""". The lower ones wanna be the ones at the top so they're extra tryhards

[@meowsicle7463]

Letterboxd neds the RYM comment box i cant handle these short joke reviews anymore

[@thatcynicalbastard6636]

Whats the RYM comment box?

[@tonyloafpoundstone]

RIP the RYM comment box. Home to people reposting the same shit comment for the whole box [7]

[@Sauceman10_]

@@tonyloafpoundstone Bro what do you mean RIP, that shit still breathing [2]

[@littlemonztergaming8665]

​@@Sauceman10_what the hecc do the numbers mean?

[@Sauceman10_]

@@littlemonztergaming8665 thing in Rateyourmusic comment boxes that is a sort of "this" type reaction to a previous comment. Like one guy says "X" and another guy puts "X [2]" like as a show of agreement or just general highlighting and it can become a chain of comments, "X [3]", "X [4]" etc

[@greenoftreeblackofblue6625]

Maybe I should review "The social Network" and make the comment, "this is just like Letterbox Reviews" and get 20 thousand likes instead of writing a good review but I have integrity, I only do that on youtube videos.

[@OSDisco]

I felt guilty when I liked this comment, but I didn't stop, I too am a monster.

[@Heatranoveryou]

It's timing based. If you post it now literally no one will see it

[@EverythingisGoodieBud]

Based on

[@sethhurley5281]

we're librarian guys, of course we watch the new video 14 seconds after its posted

[@DukeChameleon]

Librarian gang 📚

[@RatPyromaniac]

I’m a simple man. I see daddy pig, I click

[@timothymark]

An inconvenient truth

[@bfhtom]

My KZbin only gives me upload notifs hours after it's been uploaded:(

[@sethhurley5281]

@@bfhtom im built different 😎

[@lichsYT]

this sounds like how steam reviews devolved

[@redacted9280]

Steam reviews are at least functional in that there's a big thumbs up or thumbs down recommending if you should buy the game or not, even if there's an unfunny quip attached to it. On letterboxd it'll be a quip attached to a 3.5 star rating conveying literally 0 information.

[@OrangeVision]

@@redacted9280 yeah but on steam there are these people posting negative reviews with 7000 hours played being like why did you nerf hanzo

[@froggin-zp4nr]

It's true but thankfully you don't have to scroll far to get to actual thoughtful comments that don't immediately belong in the bin. With letterboxd it's pages of brain dead one liners like people think they are in a WhatsApp group chat

[@richardsmith3021]

The children yearn for React Court.

[@KayPeeOpee]

I just want him to read letterboxd reviews bro

[@aaronj1172]

Three stars for Uncut Gems is bad but three stars for The Lighthouse is fucking crazy

[@joelburgers4934]

i'm glad people are pushing back on these kinds of glib reviews, because you see them and this behavior so often in so many different spaces and it's really exhausting. review and comment sections, even for humorless media with a lot of room for continued discussion, keep just using that media as the theme for their comedy club where these internet guys are going to fight to be the funniest person in the room. it creates an atmosphere that affects the people who still do want to share their earnest thoughts and makes them second guess themselves. that's how we get stuff like what we see at 2:40-a review that fails to say anything meaningful because they decided to be funny instead, and fails to be funny because they didn't actually have a joke to tell. i'd rather steam reviews be as sincere and passionate as that one for karryn's prison he read on stream than how detached and lifeless they usually are. stop writing reviews for stuff you have nothing to say about, stop making jokes just for the sake of making them, let yourself say what you think and let that reflect whatever parts of you that it may, and be real.

[@mr.dirtydan3338]

Go to metacritic

[@Flamerunner451]

Chib yelling for him to stop in the chat got me chucklin

[@sophiaoconnell1927]

Letterbox isn’t a place for people who actually enjoy movies, it’s a place for people to feel dominion over movies. Making lists about “movies where specific thing happens starring this actor” has nothing to do with appreciating movies, it’s just showing you know what happens in a lot of them. I always thought Greg Turkington from on cinema was a ridiculous caricature but that’s literally how all letterboxed fans act. People can tell you who composed every soundtrack ever made but they can’t tell you how any of it made them feel.

[@PhantomThiefXI]

Beautiful post

[@Heatranoveryou]

Suggesting you know art better than them is ironic.

[@sophiaoconnell1927]

@@Heatranoveryou youre conflating quality of knowledge with quantity of knowledge. If I were just quoting different art critiques that’d be one thing but believing that an emotions first relationship with art is better than an intellectual one is not ironic at all, it’s just having a thesis lol.

[@Heatranoveryou]

@@sophiaoconnell1927 yikes

[@sophiaoconnell1927]

@@Heatranoveryou ur that key and peele skit about that guy in the lunch table who just says “okaaaay” after anyone says anything because you don’t actually have anything interesting to say so you just act like your above it lol. But that describes half of NLs audience so… yikes

[@frost_6836]

Letterboxd died the moment the "lol I'm so quirky" reviews went viral

[@artiIIerycrusader]

Meh, you can just scroll down and find reviews you agree with then check out those people's reviews.

[@vincenttorrijos9680]

God this has so many good takes on media

[@GamerUntouch]

When tumblr died, the funny part of the site moved to twitter (temporarily) and the unfunny part of the site moved to letterboxd (permanently).

[@papabaddad]

tumblr is still alive and the funny people never left

[@peace_n_love]

@@papabaddad real

[@RobotnikPlngas]

You meant to say that the porn addicts moved to Twitter

[@mrpseudonym893]

@@papabaddadtumblr “died” without ever being dead. Like Euron Greyjoy or React Court.

[@GamerUntouch]

@@RobotnikPlngas Yeah in other words, all of tumblr.

[@hectordavidhernandezgonzal9356]

People that watch a movie as a second monitor activity are a wild breed to me. Like bro, youtube videos exist, movies should be the prime first monitor content.

[@user-uq4gr5nl5o]

Those people are subhuman

[@ComfortableTool86]

Depends on the movie tbh. There are def some that are fine for 2nd monitor, like comedy or some action. If I was genuinely interested in a movie I'd never watch it 2nd monitor tho

[@artiIIerycrusader]

I watch it during my workout and while playing games. I don't necessarily claim to have a 100% understanding of a movie and it's not every movie I watch this way, but certain movies are definitely first monitor content. Some movies make perfect audio books. Especially ones that are not too high budget; like direct to TV movies often are just a bit lower quality on the visual side; yet still contain interesting stories; maybe even true ones. I don't see the problem; I'm watching them for my own satisfaction; not to win some award. At the end of the day I'm watching the same amount of movies as I would have. It's just a movie.

[@TheGreatMaou]

@@user-uq4gr5nl5o that's a bit much

[@T--------]

Normalize clockwork orange-ing anyone that checks their phone more than three times throughout a movie ❗❗

[@mauvemus5810]

those letterboxd reviews are about 1:1 to librarian comment section so what does that tell us

[@86pp73]

It tells us that we're librarian guys, we're doing the same godforsaken joke and over and over until the universe goes dim and cold

[@LanceCola]

i feel like im reading "funny" reddit comments when reading the top letterboxd reviews

[@peace_n_love]

5:24 wtf he’s dripped tf out

[@peace_n_love]

Oh wait that’s his wedding ring idk why I thought he was iced out

[@RobotnikPlngas]

A wedding ring is drip maxxing

[@Brosefinho]

THE COLOR OF MONEY IS WAY BETTER THAN 2 AND A HALF STARS IM GOING CRAZY

[@maximalist5038]

Do I think top reviews are annoying? Yes. Do I also think it’s not that deep? Yes. Maybe there should be a way to filter out reviews that are less than a certain word count or a dislike button. But that’s what happens when you let people do what they want, they usually do dumb shit. It is not a big deal.

[@froggin-zp4nr]

Have a section with a minimum 300 character count or something. Then have another section for brain rot people with no more than a single thought after watching a movie.

[@faker1144]

@@froggin-zp4nr I don't get this holier than thou mindset from this guys fans. Like props for writing more than 300 words bro you would totally be the next fucking Roger Ebert if only people actually engaged with movies like you instead of writing "brainrot". You sound like a redditor dude.

[@mr.dirtydan3338]

​@@froggin-zp4nrbut then you would get "movie sucks, hahahahahahahaha hahahahahah ha ha ha ha hahahahaha ha ha ha ha ha ha hahahahaha hahahahaha".

[@ryanwingfield6092]

Letterboxd literally just needs a separate “comments” section and this problem would be fixed. It’s been requested so much but it still hasn’t been added.

[@nicolasvidal92]

I love that there's only one highlight because the rest of the stream was pure Chained Together

[@TheLibraryofLetourneau]

honestly that segment to end it off saved me

[@ComfortableTool86]

Letterboxd is so trash. Literally no earnest reviews just people trying their hardest to circlejerk over unfunny irreverent jokes

[@spyczech]

Northernlion is mad for 13 minutes, 4 stars

[@jordantaylor1680]

Bro really be out here bragging about not skipping songs on his own playlist icant

[@micahglesener3978]

When you’re coping because your reviews can’t win in the marketplace of ideas on Letterboxd

[@aR0ttenBANANA]

It’s almost like you shouldn’t trust laymen posing as experts on the internet.

[@dewhi100]

WOW northern Ryan looked so good compared to Chiblee in that hypothetical that he, northern Ryan, created.

[@BenPutnamDX]

I have to Google the video of the lady huffing duster myself? Librarian…

[@adoor3712]

I have never put a single ounce of effort into any of my Letterboxd movies. I review them simply to catalog the movies I watch and so they actually show up in my Diary tab.

[@daegoe]

I missed it live but Chib’s titanic review ain’t wrong

[@ParagonDerp]

Yeah but "This happened to my buddy Eric" is one of the best reviews ever writen

[@ColorOfPomegranatesEnjoyer]

the guy who wrote it is our generation's oppenheimer

[@chuckbatmangaming]

The chatter that he roasted the fuck out of for his review of Three Billboards...that review looks like something you'd write drunk LMAO

[@boredomes]

I deleted all my media logging stuff at one point. I realized it was something I was only doing for my ego.

[@ALMOSTMACROSWAG]

Top Letterboxd reviews are often gag-worthy. The worst is when the top review is soemthing like shitting all over Citizen Kane, and it has 3000 likes. 2/5. Drives me crazy.

[@andros1486]

6:18 listen, I need that little bit of dopamine every time I log a movie, boardgame, videogame, song, wine, whisky or beer. let me enjoy my million apps for cataloging

[@T--------]

I just think about it as a replacement for storing all of those things you enjoy physically, like some people can afford to have massive bookshelves mostly just to stare at them I think it's neat to get a similar ish experience with those websites

[@Ruby-eq1qg]

11:50 that’s exactly what went through my head and i caught myself realizing how silly it was when he pointed it out 😭

[@Asmodeul]

70% of letterbox is people in the reviews trying to gaslight you into thinking you're gay

[@twincherries6698]

This is unbelievably real

[@oliviapg]

joke's on them I already know I'm gay

[@froggin-zp4nr]

*Man has a man friend who he doesn't outwardly hate* clearly gay coded

[@spiregg]

What do you mean there is no Monsters Inc. reference in Scott Pilgrim? 😢

[@BribableBuffalo]

I like genuine earnest reviews on Letterboxd but they’re hard to find because everyone is trying to make the next funny hahah review

[@thirdhandlv4231]

Well sometimes you do find something clever to say and dont want to write a whole paragraph about a movie, and of course in all of these situations these people just posted their review and it just so managed to get picked up and liked enough to be at the top, i will sometimes also write silly single sentence reviews when i just dont have a whole paragraph to waste, its not a serious app at all, its really great for documenting your own library and thoughts and stuff about a movie, the interface is just really neat for me.

[@prezoh]

can he not be rude to chib.

[@Ohneisan]

Thats oomf

[@user__1312]

that's gore of my comfort character

[@moresnqp]

im sorry but why are you here have you always been here you are a spectre of the internet and you show up in places unbeknownst to even the most perspective mortals

[@IgneousGorilla]

Hes a certified chib hater since the incident...

[@mythstcg]

i initially felt guilty about having written these kinds of shitty one-liner reviews before but then i felt better after remembering i primarily do try to write things of substance

[@tactu666]

i prefer these shitposty reviews than the pointless nerdy essays that every critic-wannabe leaves on sites like rateyourmusic for example

[@RetroCandyArt]

just yesterday i was thinking it had been a long time since i saw the slackers outro, thank you librarian my patron saint

[@cod4148]

im reading the essay reviews but only the half star /5 ones :)

[@enzolabre6295]

Just adding here that a Letterboxd court would be so good once in a while. The takes from either side would be so beautiful to watch

[@barcodebear]

It's too early in the morning for me to say anything creative in the comments

[@princessgarfi3ld]

hush bubba, go back to sleep x

[@barcodebear]

@@princessgarfi3ld LMFAO ok habibi ttyl x

[@spyczech]

this coffee needs to hit in

[@griffinarnold1993]

Not me after logging 362 movies this year…

[@DuressPls]

hooooly howd no one say anything about the ice on that wrist?????

[@SeedRamples]

Chat is out of sync. We get +2s before NL makes the joke lol

[@IgneousGorilla]

Chat's ass got pavlov'd

[@JaJ___JaJ__]

Letterboxd becomes 100x better once you start blocking the annoying reviewers (looking at you, Lucy and MiaVicino)

[@CountOfMonteCristo_]

Thank you! Some of these reviews are so desperate to be funny they just turn out pathetic and un-informative

[@NathanielLawrence413]

Normies getting the MAL experience.

[@Wolfboy607]

the "reviews" looks like reddit comments. lol

[@isaac__]

Someone once said the 4 and 2 star reviews are the truth and not just bandwagoning

[@d0onut]

I can't believe NL remembers the walking on sunshine duster lady

[@not_cicero]

Same shit with Goodreads reviews. The public reviews are basically a pissing contest of who can come off as the most witty or hateful of a book, and any actual reviewing is a distant second. One of the top reviews for Stephen King's Misery on there is, "Man sure likes his words." Like ???? You sure don't lady, Jesus. Writing two sentences would have been too much for you, huh?

[@StephenIC]

3 stars is too high for uncut gems

[@themonsterman3327]

say what u want about chib's letterboxd account, still no less worse than uwe boll's letterboxd where he says other movies are shit and shills his own movies the most lol

[@notrab13]

I think it says a lot about a person when they choose to interact with earnest art in a glib, ironic way. Gives Doug Walker “parodying” The Wall vibes.

[@evanwalker3513]

Three and a half stars to WAITRESS and two and a half to COLOR OF MONEY??

[@sniceverything4944]

Letterboxd React Court would go CRAAZZZZYY

[@interrupted_reverie]

I dont know bro , i like letterbxx and love how everyone gets to express their opinion. Sayinf who are you to someone writing down their opinion is so cringe lol

[@Anon-cp6bm]

It’s so over for Chiblee. I don’t understand how anyone can just intend to watch a movie but just decide to put it on the second monitor while they distract themselves with something else.

[@Astradyne]

Well chib does play RuneScape.

[@blaize122]

Not me losing my mind that neither NL or chat mention American Psycho for Walking on Sunshine…

[@Koehfurn]

Can someone explain the andrew dice clay thing?

[@RobotnikPlngas]

We are librarians, Of course we stay pegged once a day!

[@Naahhh34]

IMDB made everybody a critic. Letterboxd made everybody a youtube critic

[@schmintendont]

Librarian we know you have an extensive MAL, you didn't need to tell us

[@demujo]

i am upset about color of money 2.5 stars also still mad about banshees

[@JC21]

Of the non-serious top reviews, like 95% of them is always the user thirsting over one of the characters in the movie.

[@athenaadams8341]

LIbrarian couldn't find the piss graph :(

[@dudeonthasopha]

Love the idea of starting a message to your wife with Hello, 💀

[@revelaitons3959]

I see NL talking about Letterboxd, I click instantly

[@nerveh4wk]

I think there’s a really high % of girls on Letterboxd

[@matthewhunter1193]

Triggered bro?!

[@nerveh4wk]

@@matthewhunter1193 yup for sure mathewcunter1193

[@GiveMeTheRice]

holy shit i just watched high fidelity this past weekend. the review hating on the main character but enjoying the movie is an entirely fair take

I can't fully blame those people, because Letterboxd doesn't let you private your own reviews. Sometimes I just want to write a silly thing about the movie, but the only way is to write a review and I can't even "hide review" or "visible to friends only". EVERYONE in the website needs to see your "review", even if it's just a dumb joke.

[@exoqqen]

hi chat what kind of hummus do u prefer

[@yassminab809]

most of the top reviewers are so insufferable oh my

[@paso6234]

when you take shit way too seriously:

[@mr.dirtydan3338]

To you maybe. You can't expect everyone to follow your lackidasical view on art.

[@peppercorn1553]

Letterboxd just highlights how everyone on the Internet wants to be a comedian first and a person second.

[@user-uq4gr5nl5o]

It's so annoying. You can smell how attention-starved they are

[@unforseen9911]

@@JesusHammer no one is saying we are better than you, we just don’t want to see shitty fucking jokes anyone can come up with and aren’t funny, at that point you’re just saying shit for the sake of it, we want actual thoughts/review or a good fucking laugh for once

[@chic0nic0]

How the hell do you tell I'm Walking on Sunshine apart from Ballroom Blitz, they have the same damn drumline

[@damplamp]

NL has defended uncut gems like 20 times on stream by now

[@Angel_Flash]

this is gonna be a weird comment but i remember looking at the top review for elden ring on backloggd (letterboxd for games) and it was some schizo talking about how the game has themes of r*pe all over the story

[@doctorpepper3519]

Joel

[@logancota4325]

I hate the reviews on Letterboxd so much, they’re all trying so hard to be funny or quirky

[@Terminator-mj5sb]

New outro song just dropped boys

[@johngrizis]

Even though some people on IMDB are really annoying and thoughtless with their reviews, letterboxd wins the stupid award by far when it comes to film reviews. It's like walking into an instagram comment section where people are trying to find the dumbest joke to make to get likes.

[@illistas]

This but for music reviews on AOTY.

[@robert-zr1kx]

whats wrong with giving baby driver a 4

[@SeedsTV300]

glorp

[@The56567878]

Imdb supremacy

[@owenicewater9704]

idk I think they’re pretty funny

[@williamshaughnessy1740]

2.5 stars on the color of money 👎

[@faker1144]

I sometimes like joke reviews and sometimes I cant stand them, I'm kind of a hypocrite. Like when I love a movie and everyone else also loves it I don't really care as much to see people regurgitate a bunch of points about why the movie I also liked is good and I like seeing peoples dumb jokes after the movie. There never top tier comedy but they might get a nose exhale laugh out of me. But when I like a movie and letterboxd doesn't or when I dislike a movie and they like it and all the top reviews are just those lame nose exhale worthy jokes I don't like that because I want to see peoples deeper thoughts and see why most people disagreed with me. I don't really care that much tho. This whole video kind of bothers me because it feels like an old man yelling at a bunch of teenagers because they don't engage with movies the way he wants them too. I assume your other content is better the way this comments section is sucking you off but this video was kind of bad.