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I generally don't like social media, but Letterboxd is an excellent alternative to review aggregators, as you can find individuals with similar tastes to yourse
by squidsoup 3y ago
I generally don't like social media, but Letterboxd is an excellent alternative to review aggregators, as you can find individuals with similar tastes to yourself. I've found many films I've greatly enjoyed via my Letterboxd network that I would not have otherwise.
- gochi 3y agoFor now. The same thing that happened to GoodReads will also happen to Letterboxd. Nobody wants to pay for a service like that to stay true to form in the long term.
- squidsoup 3y agoInteresting, I haven't used GoodReads for years. Has it become compromised in some way by the Amazon acquisition?
- spoiler 3y agoI'd like to know this too! I only casually use it to find books I might like. So far I've not noticed anything changed since Amazon acquired it (didn't even realise they did, in fact)
- jamespullar 3y agoThere's already plenty of group think with certain films. More and more very recently released, popular films are shooting up to the highest rated within a few days. Letterboxd should probably account for the recency bias a bit better.
- squidsoup 3y agoRight, which is why I think there's more value in finding a couple of individuals whose tastes resonate with your own, and watch their favourite things, rather than pay attention to aggregated scores.
- pallas_athena 3y agoA lot of movies rated 0.5 or 5 just to scale the top 250. It recently happened with Across the Spider-verse.
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