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Bull Shannon said:
This truly looks like a masterpiece or an overindulgent misstep, nothing in between. Color me intrigued.
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So far Ari has managed to be indulgent while churning out masterpieces so....

But I'm that dude who walked out of Babylon with a hard (and not because of Robbie's outfits) so...
 
gaporter said:
How in the hell is this the top review for The Terminator on Letterboxd? Do the people on this app even like movies?
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In general I find top Letterboxd reviews to be pretty solid, but there also seems to be a shitposting contingent which throws a lot of confusion into the mix. When I logged Blade Runner last week I saw one of the top reviews as a two-star essay saying the movie was boring and Deckard was a nothing sandwich of a character; only after drilling into the review permalink and reading some comments and finally the date of the review did I realize it was an April fools' joke from 2015 which got upvoted for being an obvious joke within the reviewer's circle but gained a second life as those unfamiliar glommed on in anger.

It's tough in a post-ironic time such as this, where not only do people communicate in a deeply ironic manner (online, where irony is stripped away with context), but people actually hold the ironic viewpoint sincerely (there was a recent viral tweet from someone watching Blade Runner for the first time, saying "wait this guy is brutally murdering these robots who just want to live??" and rather than seeing that as the point of the movie, they seemed to think they'd morally outmatched it). I saw a Fabelmans review recently where the rating was low because (light mid-film spoiler) Sammy "redeemed his bully", and my thought was "yes, exactly. That's supposed to be troubling!"

Anyway, Terminator isn't boring. kársten is.
 
Bull Shannon said:
In general I find top Letterboxd reviews to be pretty solid, but there also seems to be a shitposting contingent which throws a lot of confusion into the mix. When I logged Blade Runner last week I saw one of the top reviews as a two-star essay saying the movie was boring and Deckard was a nothing sandwich of a character; only after drilling into the review permalink and reading some comments and finally the date of the review did I realize it was an April fools' joke from 2015 which got upvoted for being an obvious joke within the reviewer's circle but gained a second life as those unfamiliar glommed on in anger.

It's tough in a post-ironic time such as this, where not only do people communicate in a deeply ironic manner (online, where irony is stripped away with context), but people actually hold the ironic viewpoint sincerely (there was a recent viral tweet from someone watching Blade Runner for the first time, saying "wait this guy is brutally murdering these robots who just want to live??" and rather than seeing that as the point of the movie, they seemed to think they'd morally outmatched it). I saw a Fabelmans review recently where the rating was low because (light mid-film spoiler) Sammy "redeemed his bully", and my thought was "yes, exactly. That's supposed to be troubling!"

Anyway, Terminator isn't boring. kársten is.
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I agree with a lot of this and I think it's why I'm content with only interacting with the people that I follow and that follow me on Letterboxd. I enjoy the app a lot but like with any social media, it's definitely got a specific group of posters that act as opinion leaders of sorts and consistently get numerous likes and comments no matter what they post. I don't really have issues with that specifically (just how the internet is), but it is annoying when the top reviews are clearly based more on who's posting them than their actual content.
 
gaporter said:
I agree with a lot of this and I think it's why I'm content with only interacting with the people that I follow and that follow me on Letterboxd. I enjoy the app a lot but like with any social media, it's definitely got a specific group of posters that act as opinion leaders of sorts and consistently get numerous likes and comments no matter what they post. I don't really have issues with that specifically (just how the internet is), but it is annoying when the top reviews are clearly based more on who's posting them than their actual content.
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I agree with you but do generally like that guy's YouTube videos.
 
MattS said:
There’s someone on letter box who does four line poems as reviews that are pretty great
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One of the free news and entertainment weeklies in Alberta(I forget if it was the Calgary or Edmonton one) used to have a half dozen or so haiku album reviews each week. I always dug that
 
watched Gremlins 2 tonight for the first time in I don’t know how long. Like as a kid when I first watched Gremlins I was obsessed with it. I still love it. But I remember being confused by Gremlins 2. Watching it now, I think it’s slightly better than I remember but also has some terrible moments. I mean that Key and Peele sketch about it is right on. But I wasn’t super bothered by many of the dumb Gremlin versions. It was still fun and chaotic. That said, not a super good movie to me in general. And I’m pretty bummed looking at the few images out there of the upcoming animated prequel. I say just leave it.
 
Bennnnn said:
watched Gremlins 2 tonight for the first time in I don’t know how long. Like as a kid when I first watched Gremlins I was obsessed with it. I still love it. But I remember being confused by Gremlins 2. Watching it now, I think it’s slightly better than I remember but also has some terrible moments. I mean that Key and Peele sketch about it is right on. But I wasn’t super bothered by many of the dumb Gremlin versions. It was still fun and chaotic. That said, not a super good movie to me in general. And I’m pretty bummed looking at the few images out there of the upcoming animated prequel. I say just leave it.
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“The gremlins” were excellent from a special effects standpoint those puppets were done so well as much as I appreciate CGI I wish they would use more real world effects for creatures in movies. The live Action Ninja Turtles and Gremlins 2 have to be the height of these type of effects before Jurassic Park and Pixar came on the scene and changed everything.

I feel like Jurassic Park was the perfect balance between like action animatronics and CGI graphics. Even the best CGI usually falls short when asked to do too much.
 
TenderLovingKiller® said:
“The gremlins” were excellent from a special effects standpoint those puppets were done so well as much as I appreciate CGI I wish they would use more real world effects for creatures in movies. The live Action Ninja Turtles and Gremlins 2 have to be the height of these type of effects before Jurassic Park and Pixar came on the scene and changed everything.

I feel like Jurassic Park was the perfect balance between like action animatronics and CGI graphics. Even the best CGI usually falls short when asked to do too much.
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Yes I love how they made these creatures. Similarly for the Ninja Turtles movie which was like a combination suit and puppetry (sort of). I hadn’t thought about Jurassic Park being in the same camp for some reason, but yeah that’s like the peak. I think I gotta re watch that one now. And Ninja Turtles. Both huge movies for me growing up.
 
Bennnnn said:
Yes I love how they made these creatures. Similarly for the Ninja Turtles movie which was like a combination suit and puppetry (sort of). I hadn’t thought about Jurassic Park being in the same camp for some reason, but yeah that’s like the peak. I think I gotta re watch that one now. And Ninja Turtles. Both huge movies for me growing up.
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Yeah, that sounds like a good way to spend a Saturday Night!
 
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