Letterboxd
Veronique wrote about her new-found love for Letterboxd yesterday and I thought I'd chime in. I've been a member for a while - you can view my profile here. I don't have a lot of connections because I don't use it too often, but happy to welcome some new friends! I like reading reviews, even if it's just stars without a write-up1.
In vero's post, she mentioned she's still working out a rating system and has this so far:
1/2 Failure, offensive, toxic
1 Failure, gouge my eyes out, hate it
1 1/2 Bad, cheese, regrettable, waste of time
2 Disappointing, mediocre, uninteresting, something to put on for background noise?
2 1/2 Mediocre, run-of-the-mill, mixed feelings, flawed but worthy
3 Good, Above average, interesting concept or execution, eye-opening
3 1/2 Very good, interesting concept and execution, evoking
4 Great, exciting, memorable achievement, enlightening
4 1/2 Enriching and transformative, work of art, exceptional, almost perfect
5 Flawless, masterpiece, favorite, divine encounter
Personally I subscribe to the Goodreads scale:
1 star="did not like it" 2 star="it was ok" 3 star="liked it" 4 star="really liked it" 5 star="it was amazing"
Basically how I treat this in terms of film is if it's a 5, I'd re-watch it (with books it means I'd re-read it). Vero proceeded to ask about half stars, to which I didn't have an answer right away. But eventually I came up with a methodology:
Bordering on the next level but something holds it back. Sort of like - sometimes I want to award 4 stars, but something holds it back an entire star (the third act of Ghostbusters Afterlife, for example).
I had to come up with something, because I realized I used half stars in a few reviews. Whoops!
Anyway I intend on being more dutiful in logging my movies. I love the concept of Letterboxd and to my knowledge it's not a problematic website (yet).
As a side note, I keep meaning to put together a blogroll page, because I follow a ton of people here (and from other places) and don't raise anybody up very often unless I happen to mention it in a post (like this one). So, that's something I'd like to put together by the end of March along with a few other goals. I'll draw attention to it when I get around to it.
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I'm guilty of this often, both on Storygraph and Letterboxd.↩