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2.5 stars is the worst rating I can give because it means it was completely average and mostly forgettable. Can't give a real 0 so .5 is one of the worst movies I've ever seen but that means I certainly won't forget it. And 5 is a movie I loved watching and will never forget which can range from No Country For Old Men to Cats. I'm not gonna pretend my scale is anything more than on a whim bullshit but I do find myself going back a day or two later to a movie I just rated after seeing and adjusting by +/- .5 as I always over/underrate in the immediate aftermath.
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Spatulater bro! posted:4 stars seems to be where I tend to settle, but I feel I have a very healthy ratings distribution. It makes sense for your average rating to be ~4 stars, assuming you are mostly watching films that interest you and that you expect to enjoy. My graph is similar.
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You gotta recalibrate your scale every so often, so between watching your favorite films of the year it's good to sneak in a Movie 43, or Airplane Mode - the Logan Paul movie.
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That's partly why I watched Verotika the other day
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My secret to rating movies is this: Just vibe it. Vibe it. Does this movie feel like a 3? A 4? Is it a full blown 5? Maybe that extra half star is meaningful. Just roll with it. Vibe. It's all meaningless.
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gey muckle mowser posted:That's partly why I watched Verotika the other day That movie is a 5 though.
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I got in trouble when a friend looked at my letterboxd scores recently. At one point I'd ranked all the Universal horror movies against each other rather than against all other movies, and it meant that many were artificially lower than they should've been. I lost cred, sadly. But immediately made it up by recommending he watch The Visitor.
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TrixRabbi posted:My secret to rating movies is this: Just vibe it. Yeah, I don't even bother trying evaluate the rating in an objective measure. I just put in a rating based on a gut feeling.
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feedmyleg posted:I got in trouble when a friend looked at my letterboxd scores recently. At one point I'd ranked all the Universal horror movies against each other rather than against all other movies, and it meant that many were artificially lower than they should've been. I lost cred, sadly. But immediately made it up by recommending he watch The Visitor. You're doing it correctly. The rating should be relative on a subjective basis reimagined for each film. Movies have too many different goals/experiences to be judged against the entire pool every time.
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This is my curve - I only have about a quarter of the things I have marked as watched rated: I have a general idea of what a 3, 3.5, 4, 4.5, and 5 are and everything below that is basically how far below the bar for a 3 would be. More important for me is the like vs. not liked - I think it's silly to assign a numerical rating to something like The Greasy Strangler, but that's a like in my book.
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Once again reminding myself I'm basic as hell.
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STAC Goat posted:Once again reminding myself I'm basic as hell. beautiful. this is what all ratings strive to be, perfectly distributed.
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STAC Goat posted:Once again reminding myself I'm basic as hell. 
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https://twitter.com/shrecknet/status/1332664476248674305?s=19
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that song were america!
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 Looking at my map, and noticing a distinct lack of African film on it, I think a fun little challenge to do would be to fill out the entire world map here. With at least one movie watched from every country. It also can't be a movie that was simply cofunded by the country it happened to be shot in. For instance, in Morocco I have The Mummy (1999) which feels rather odd to me to count that. I haven't looked in every country yet, so if there's any where I just don't have a choice that will be the exception. Feel free to hit me with recommendations. I'm thinking of touring South America first, and Embrace of the Serpent from Honduras sounds right up my alley.
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Do you count Tunisia because the Tatooine parts of Star Wars was filmed there?
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Roth posted:Feel free to hit me with recommendations. I'm thinking of touring South America first, and Embrace of the Serpent from Honduras sounds right up my alley. If you like ultra low budget action films, Who Killed Captain Alex? and/or Bad Black will fill up your Uganda slot. I've never seen it, but Senegal's Touki Bouki has a good reputation.
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Roth posted:
I remember enjoying Tsotsi in my world cinema course.
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Here's a fun one from the Niger.
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The trouble with filling out the map for a lot of the countries in Africa is that a lot of them don't have well developed film industries. Finding a movie made in South Africa is easy, finding one made in the Western Sahara for example is not so easy. For a few countries I opted for documentary pieces that were shot there and can pretty easily be called, for example, an Ivorian movie. For Ivory Coast I went for Woubi Cheri which is good and should be on Kanopy, for Benin I watched Divine Carcasse -- which sets up this odd genre of movie called "ethnofiction" that I need to check out more. There was this French guy called Jean Rouch who went around making these "ethnofictions", blending documentary and fictional film to explore ethnographic ideas, I believe mostly in Africa. I have a few of his movies in my backlog but haven't seen yet. For Western Sahara I downloaded a documentary about their war, a Brazilian documentary strangely, called A Thread of Hope: Independence or War in Western Sahara. You can find it on youtube for free, and I think it's going to be the easiest way of digesting a decent movie from the Western Sahara (iirc). That brings up a separate issue where the most prominent and easy to find movies for some African countries are also about horrific brutal wars that took place there, and may be hard to sit through back to back. For the Democratic Republic of the Congo I'm planning on watching La Vie est Belle, the other options I saw were again, mainly documentaries on the horrific Congo war(s). Anyway here are also just some other movies I saw that were pretty decent and worth watching: Ghana: https://letterboxd.com/film/keteke/ Chad: https://letterboxd.com/film/our-father/details/ Mauritania: https://letterboxd.com/film/waiting-for-happiness/ And then some I'm excited about seeing: Cameroon: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quartier_Mozart Niger: https://letterboxd.com/film/rain-the-color-of-blue-with-a-little-red-in-it/details/
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Some of Roger Deakins's first work was shooting documentaries in Africa, so there are a few of those you can check out, if documentaries count. Assuming you can find them. I don't know if they're easy to locate.
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A few more recs for Africa Moolaade gets you Burkina Faso, Senegal & Tunisia Rubber for Angola Samsara for Namibia, Kenya, Egypt, & Ethiopia Disney's Chimpanzee for Tanzania The Gods Must Be Crazy for Botswana Battle of Algiers for Algeria
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I posted in here about this before, but I love letterboxd...I just can’t figure how to streamline ratings. I don’t want to review them, I just want a continuous stream of movies to rate. Am I a moron and this is obvious? Why can’t I figure this out if it is
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I replied before but you might not have seen. Essentially, not really sure what you're looking for!EL BROMANCE posted:What do you mean by ‘next movie’? How will it know what you’re watching next?
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You can also use the Browse options on the Films page to bring up big lists of movies, then hover over the movie to do a quick rating. For example, these are the movies that came out in 2020 and these are movies with a lot of activity this week.
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Doesn’t even need to be a proper list, you can just browse by popularly, rating, year, genre, etc and you can scroll through the movies endlessly
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I feel like an idiot thank you
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EL BROMANCE posted:I replied before but you might not have seen. Essentially, not really sure what you're looking for! There was a website a few years ago that did this and gave you recommendations off of it. No idea what it was called. Just movie poster after movie poster and I think you either gave it thumbs up or down - or maybe it was star ratings, tough to say. I'm guessing that's what they're looking for it. e: Thinking about it, I can remember doing this with a specific person so that probably puts it around 2010/11. I don't know how or why anyone would remember this other than I'm almost positive I discovered it here.
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Not Africa, but here's one from Kyrgyzstan: https://letterboxd.com/film/white-mountains/
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I started up my world tour project with The Golden Dream from Guatemala https://letterboxd.com/throwaway_name/list/world-tour/ I think my biggest problem is that the subtitles on prime video would sometimes get out of sync, but it's a good way to spend an hour and forty minutes if you want a heavy movie.
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I've finally updated my complete TSPDT list for 2020 (just in time to have to redo it again in a couple months): “They Shoot Pictures, Don’t They?” – The Complete List (Every Film From Every Edition)
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Spatulater bro! posted:I've finally updated my complete TSPDT list for 2020 (just in time to have to redo it again in a couple months): “They Shoot Pictures, Don’t They?” – The Complete List (Every Film From Every Edition) I just need to see A Man Escaped to finish the top 100. I should try to do that soon.
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Zogo posted:I just need to see A Man Escaped to finish the top 100. I should try to do that soon. It's drat good.
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I noticed a challenge on letterboxed for the Criterion Challenge so I figured I'd attempt it as well https://letterboxd.com/throwaway_name/list/the-criterion-challenge-2021/ Haven't seen any of these but Godzilla vs Hedorah
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Roth posted:I noticed a challenge on letterboxed for the Criterion Challenge so I figured I'd attempt it as well This is pretty cool. I may give it a go. I wonder how well I can overlap it with the They Shoot Pictures list, since that's my main focus.
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Final stats for me in 2020 https://letterboxd.com/throwaway_name/year/2020/
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Roth posted:Final stats for me in 2020 Here's mine https://letterboxd.com/machetez/year/2020/
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hoppin on this choo choo https://letterboxd.com/piratejerk/year/2020/
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piratepilates posted:hoppin on this choo choo Banger of a first movie
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