Appreciate your ability to so strongly dislike a movie yet appreciate the greater value of it being so universally acclaimed. I don't think I'm as incisive or insightful as you when it comes to analyzing movies, which maybe explains how I generally enjoyed EEAAO.
Anyways, another beautifully written piece (this is just a foregone conclusion now). One quick question - is there a reason you prefer to use (and reference) Letterboxd over IMDb to track movies?
P.S.: I suddenly remembered ISDb... Do you remember that from our Gurukul days?
Thanks man! ISDb was the music one right? I remember one time we were manually adding Linkin Park songs to the website, good times lol. As for Letterboxd, I don't know, I just vibe with that website more: the UI, quality of reviews, lists are all better. It truly feels made for the film community in a way other sites like RT/IMDb don't. That being said I don't take the movie ratings on it too seriously.
The world would be better of trying to focus on award shows in other countries as well. That would truly put twitter merchants and hollywood cult to silence because no way only they got the best films.
Every country has their award shows, we just focus on the American one because in terms of cultural impact Hollywood is biggest entertainment industry there's ever been.
This was a great read, thank you! (Sorry I don't have anything scintillating or thought-provoking to add - just wanted you to know I really liked reading this post!)
Appreciate your ability to so strongly dislike a movie yet appreciate the greater value of it being so universally acclaimed. I don't think I'm as incisive or insightful as you when it comes to analyzing movies, which maybe explains how I generally enjoyed EEAAO.
Anyways, another beautifully written piece (this is just a foregone conclusion now). One quick question - is there a reason you prefer to use (and reference) Letterboxd over IMDb to track movies?
P.S.: I suddenly remembered ISDb... Do you remember that from our Gurukul days?
Thanks man! ISDb was the music one right? I remember one time we were manually adding Linkin Park songs to the website, good times lol. As for Letterboxd, I don't know, I just vibe with that website more: the UI, quality of reviews, lists are all better. It truly feels made for the film community in a way other sites like RT/IMDb don't. That being said I don't take the movie ratings on it too seriously.
The world would be better of trying to focus on award shows in other countries as well. That would truly put twitter merchants and hollywood cult to silence because no way only they got the best films.
Every country has their award shows, we just focus on the American one because in terms of cultural impact Hollywood is biggest entertainment industry there's ever been.
This was a great read, thank you! (Sorry I don't have anything scintillating or thought-provoking to add - just wanted you to know I really liked reading this post!)
Thanks Neil!