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kateee posted...

I did happen to see the letterboxd rating (2.9) before watching. Obviously I don't agree with them half the time but if anything, they tend to be higher than what I end up rating.

so letterboxd ratings and such for me are such a weird thing

I'd say in general, I agree with them on a lot of stuff, specifically, movies that are just under the radar enough to get snubbed over for the Oscars despite having Oscars-worthy performances/etc. It really stands out every awards season, where my favorite films of the year (over the last 3 years, it's been I'm Thinking of Endings Things, The Lighthouse and You Were Never Really Here) tend to be the ones that get love on Letterboxd but don't get the awards they deserve. Same went for Eighth Grade, The Last Black Man in San Francisco, Blindspotting, and it goes on. In any given year, the fan-voted awards on Letterboxd are way more in line with my tastes.

That being said, people on Letterboxd can get... pretentious? Shitty? Like there's a certain point where a good movie with a mixed reception goes from being a fun little gem that the users love, to being too popular, and those same users suddenly hate it for what makes it controversial. And like, you're free to like what you like or not, but I swear every user I see on that site labelled as a "patron" ends up with just the top rated review on every single movie by spewing out bullshit to fit whatever letterboxd's particular crowd will eat up.

It's hard to pinpoint exactly where it goes so wrong and what's so annoying about it, but that's all to say I love letterboxd's end-of-year lists and could care less about their actual ratings