we should pool up and buy it ourselves

Anyone but Paramount is pretty much my motto going forward as it pertains to sales in and around the film industry

I feel like selling to Netflix or Paramount goes against everything Letterbox is supposed to stand for

It’d be like criterion selling to Disney

Letterboxd never stood for anything

Tbh makes no difference to me
What are they gonna do make you pay to rate movies

Yeah. Maybe. Lol.

Especially now that they doin that VOD stuff

True but it’s what it’s supposed to stand for

All these companies want to do is find out more ways to advertise s*** to us.

Janus and Criterion will 100% both be sold to either Netflix, Paramount, or private equity when Steven Rales passes away so enjoy them while they last

I mean id hope by now most people who actually like or love things would not be paying for Netflix

Well yeah.

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Sure, possibly, among other things such as

Using the website to promote their catalogue of slop
Using the website to control discourse around their films and discourage legitimate criticism while promoting users who favorably review their content
Minimize or even completely erase bad press surrounding their films

Regardless of how you feel about Letterboxd or any of the potential buyers, surely you should recognize the massive conflict of interest that is inherent to a movie studio owning the dominant movie review platform

Funny enough Universal and WB own Rotten Tomatoes

Yeah and it's a giant pile of garbage

No doubt Letterboxd will be heading down that same path

I only use the site to rate the movies I watch so none of this makes a difference to me but I see what you’re saying

Hating Letterboxd from the beginning seeing it fall

wicked timeline

but yea letterboxd been censoring criticism n weighing down ratings of international film for some time now

this is just the next step in monetizing that direction

..and they still aint add shows smh

Why the hate brother HaroldsChicken, I know you'd go tf in on there writing essays

I know the popular reviews are memes from girl/gay Twitter, by and large, but you can ignore that

yeah we hate people getting into movies and journalists getting great paydays

I enjoy discussion more than long form reviews personally. The gimmicky viral did you log this movie. instantly logging while still in the theater is odd to me. It isnt truly the water cooler discussion of the past or forums. Something entirely in between

I don’t think this would change anything