#insufferable letterboxd girl

[therealstarvingsiren]

movies i love that have shaped who i am

(and by that I mean dominate references/silly jokes i make for nobody but myself)

girl interrupted (1999)

i LOVE LOVE LOVE this movie it scratches the itch in my brain. it's strangely comforting to me, it feels like a wintry/christmas movie to me, which is kinda insane due to the heavy subject matter. also so many hot people in this movie, the things i'd let lisa do to me my god. RIP BRITTNEY MURPHEY SHE IS FABULOUS IN THIS MOVIE DAISY IS SO HEARTBREAKING AND SUCH A GOOD CHARACTER AHHH

fight club (1999)

this is my go-to movie, period. i want to watch a movie i like? boom. fight club goes on. i've seen it so many times it's become habitual, engrained in my very core. like dude it's a problem i love this movie so much

daisies/sedmikrásky (1966)

two hot girls fuck around and eat, surreal cinematography. like what more could you want?

requiem for a dream (2000)

this movie literally repulsed me, like i phsyically recoiled from the screen on MULTIPLE occasions, especially the Marion table scene holy shit it's disgusting. but, this movie has, in my opinion, a terrifyingly accurate portrayal of addiction, with the Sara character in particular. i could rant on and on about how good her arc is, but i won't because we'll be here forever and ever.

primal fear (1996)

uhh have you seen how hot edward norton is in this movie how can i not love it. real talk though religious figures using positions of power to abuse people is a hot topic in my mind so this got me yapping to one of my best friends real good.

coraline (2009)

ugh, 7 year old me was obsessed with this movie, i've seen it 20+ times at least. the little hints and easter eggs throughout the movie? the theories? i devoured them all. this may or may not have given me my love of horror movies, cute survival horror protagonist girlies, and body horror.

[salvadorbonaparte]

2024 in Films - Part I

I watched too many films again this year so here's some reviews from the first quarter of 2024

January

Kuch Kuch Hota Hai (1998) - Pretty much the opposite college experience as depicted in 3 Idiots and also there's a scene where a child spontaneously converts to Islam to keep a wedding from happening and that works

Rocky (1976) - I got a little too into that series this year

The Karate Kid (1984) - Turns out the original is actually pretty good and I just watched the bad reboot as a kid! Oops!

Face/Off (1997) - This feels like it should be a fake film within a different film. Why is the face transplant plan A? There are some great scenes though, like the wife not recognising her husband, that made me question if this is actually a really deep exploration of identity. And then it got silly again.

Theater Camp (2023) - Almost makes me wish summer camps were real

Gone are the Days! (1963) - I watched this for Alan Alda's terrible high pitched southern accent but stayed for Ossie Davis infectious energy

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) - Manic Pixie Dream Girl Amnesia. Joke aside, why is it that I can't stand Jim Carrey in comedies but love him in dramas

Moonstruck (1987) - This won an Oscar????

February

That Touch of Mink (1962) - homophobia stops insider trading apparently

Carol (2015) - This probably would have given me a sexuality crisis in 2015

Ay Carmela (1990) - no scene in any film will portray the horror of the civil war and fascism as well as the half eaten dinner table in the abandoned house

Rope (1948) - people only focus on the gay subtext (which is real) but can we pleeaaase talk about the politics of the film

Catch-22 (1970) - did a pretty good job in adapting a book that is really difficult to adapt

Platoon (1986) - This was another entry in my grad school watch list

Pan's Labyrinth (2006) - I wanted to watch this since forever but wanted to wait until I could understand it in Spanish. Well worth the hype.

Rocky II (1979) - a sequel that initially made me go "was this really necessary" but then brought me a lot of joy

Rocky III (1982) - Intricate Rituals

Rocky IV (1985) - A metaphor for the Cold War but also. Bad.

Rocky V (1990) - Bad

Rocky Balboa (2006) - Better but like what the fuck was that editing during the fight

March

Hannah Gadsby: Nanette (2018) - I love when stand up comedy is recommended to me with "this will make you cry and change your life" and then it's true

The Holdovers (2023) - Liked it so much I watched it twice but the guy playing Kountze looked too modern like he definitely knows what an iPhone is

The Zone of Interest (2023) - the banality of evil is kind of a cliché phrase by now but it's real

American Fiction (2023) - clever satire, if I say more it probably turns into an essay

Capote (2005) - Rip Truman Capote you would have loved true crime podcasts. Also this was a continuation of my Philip Seymour Hoffman haunting

An American Werewolf in London (1981) - I love when a werewolf film doubles as survivors guilt

Poor Things (2023) - Horrible

Creed (2015) - Pretty much just Rocky but with a 2015 soundtrack and I'm not mad about it

A Fantastic Woman (2017) - a wrote a long ass review on letterboxd about this film is about loss

Creed II (2018) - As haunted as a sports movie is allowed to get before having to add real ghosts (please tell me there's sports films with ghosts). It's about "like father like son". It's about legacy. It's about being defined by your family names. It's about fatherhood. It's about breaking the cycle.

Creed III (2023) - Finally a film that asks the brave question "what if Rocky V was good?"

Dune (1984) - I liked the worms

The Joel Files (2001) - the story of two families in the third reich and one of them happened to be Billy Joel's

Oppenheimer (2023) - Would have made me insufferable during my teenage physics phase

Shiva Baby (2020) - a film that's also an anxiety attack

Searching for Sugar Man (2012) - insane!!!

Menashe (2017) - first Yiddish film I ever watched

Fruitvale Station (2013) - haunted

I, Tonya (2017) - a film keenly aware of the unreliability and subjectivity of both interviews and biopics, this is a sports biopic but also a moving story about the human need for love and the cycle of abuse and it's also damn funny.

Nosferatu (1922) - both scarier and more boring than the novel and also uniquely blood libel flavoured

Mädchen in Uniform (1931) - people were right this is gay

Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975) - Lovecraftian horror for cottagecore lesbians

I do not care if we go down in history as barbarians (2018) - history repeats itself, first as a tragedy then as a farce

La Haine (1995) - I watched this because of my professor :)

A Most Wanted Man (2014) - Philip Seymour Hoffman Haunting Continuation

Ödipussi (1988) - "Mommy calls me Pussi" is an actual quote

13 Little Donkeys and the Sun Court (1958) - Yeehaw???

[offices-regionalbranch]

Oh my fucking GOD WE GET IT!!! YOU FUCKING WATCHED COME AND SEE!!! WE KNOW!!! YOU WANT ME TO BLOW YOU BIG GUY? YOU WANT ME TO SUCK YOU OFF CAUSE YOU MADE IT THROUGH A DEPRESSING MOVIE ABOUT WAR AND DEATH AND HEARTBREAK WITH AN ERECTION AND A SMILE BECAUSE "oh I can't wait to put my review on letterboxd! All the other film fanatics like myself will know how cool and awesome I am!". IS THAT WHAT YOU FUCKIN WANT. YOU! ARE! FUCKING! INSUFFERABLE! ALL YOU FUCKING DO IS WAIT FOR SOME COKED OUT WHITE GIRL AT A PARTY TO GO "oh my god remember Charlotte's Web‽ That movie was soooooo saddddd!" SO YOU CAN RUIN EVERYONES MOOD BY BEING LIKE "oh well actually I've seen the most fucked up and sad movie ever and it will break you because you're weak and I'm strong and cool"

YOU ARE THE WEAKEST LINK, NONE OF YOUR FRIENDS LIKE YOU, WHEN YOU LEAVE THEY ALL SIGH IN RELIEF AT THE SAME TIME BECAUSE THEY DON'T HAVE TO HEAR YOU TALK ABOUT TARANTINO AND FRENCH NOIR AND SALÓ AND ON AND FUCKING ON AND ALL ABOUT ALL THE THINGS EVERYONE ELSE IS TOO STUPID TO KNOW

I bet you wait eagerly for a massacre to happen. You can be the next arteur! You can use the footage to create a more fucked up movie oh wouldn't it be fucking wonderful!!!

[sleepymarmot]

Stalker (1979) rewatch

Sorry, did not like this one.

Ok what’s up with Tarkovsky filming women convulsing on the floor like that. Is that how Soviet women cried in real life

The dubbing here is even more noticeable than in Solaris. And the voices of the three men are so similar. Whenever the three men are far enough away from the camera that you can't see their mouths move, it's hard to tell which of them is speaking.

Am I supposed to make sense of the place where they're driving in circles for five minutes? Because I certainly can’t.

Man escapes nagging wife and disabled child to spend time alone with nature and other men. Wow so deep.

The scenery is, of course, great. But most of the credit is to nature, the best set designer. These weeds are very atmospheric.

Guy whose wife is losing her mind out of despair: “I’m fine as I am :)”

“If I knew for sure I were a genius, why would I write?” Oh my god, this guy has been getting on my nerves since his very first seconds on screen, he has not uttered a single line worth listening to, but this might be the final drop.

I’m assuming the native English speakers would find it amusing that these guys talk shit to each other while never straying from the formal “you” for most of the film.

Oh, does the Professor want to destroy the room? That would confirm him to be the only sensible person of the three lol

Look at that, the Writer’s starting to talk some sense at the end

Lol he actually said the word юродивый on screen, I feel validated that it’s been bouncing around in my head for half of the film

Okay, the Writer’s reasoning for not going into the room develops the idea from one of his intro monologues, that’s good writing, I admit that

Why did the Professor change his mind 10 minutes after announcing his intention?

Sooo, the color returning in the scenes with Monkey is meant to confirm that the Zone was supernatural and has now extended its reach into the Stalker’s home through her?

Lmao this guy complaining that the artist and the scientists’ “organ of faith has atrophied”... Good riddance I say!

Yeah people are becoming less religious, good for them, die mad about it. Sorry not sorry I can’t summon any compassion for this guy who instead of supporting his family has been self-indulging in bullshit pilgrimages

“If there were no sorrow in our lives, it wouldn’t be better. It would be worse. Because then there'd be no happiness, either. And there'd be no hope.” Ohhh my godddd.

Anyway misogyny strikes again, of course the good wife loyally suppresses everything to support and comfort her husband *eyeroll*

Wait. What the fuck. Why is a child’s voice reading a poem about lust over a shot of a prepubescent girl. What the FUCK. I do not remember this at all from my first viewing (perhaps I was still a child myself and didn't realize what the poem meant). I am feeling very violent right now.

Wikipedia page, a quote from Tarkovsky: “It’s a film about the victory of materialism”. Hell yeah, I am joining the war on materialism on the side of materialism!

From the English Wikipedia page: “Several people involved in the film production, including Tarkovsky, died from causes that some crew members attributed to the film's long shooting schedule in toxic locations”. What the fuck?! This is beyond insane and irresponsible.

Changes from the book I appreciate: - the film sets up the wish-fulfilling place right at the beginning instead of a tonal shift at the end - the Stalker actually loves the Zone

Verdict: Insufferable self-important Orthodox Christian whining that thinks that being solemn is being deep, and that the mere act of talking about morality and the human condition counts as a wise and intellectual exploration of these topics. Great visuals though.

(I want to go voice my low opinion via a Letterboxd rating but can't decide between 6 and 7. I was thinking of 6 but I still feel a bit bad about putting it in the same category as something like Carrie or Prometheus lol. On the other hand, Parasite, which also had beautiful cinematography but infuriating ideology, got a 6 from me, so.)

[marlacrane]

『COURTNEY EATON ❙ CIS FEMALE』 ⟿ looks like MARLA CRANE is here for HER JUNIOR year as a JOURNALISM student. she is 22 years old & known to be inventive, dogged, heedless & blunt. They’re living in GORHAM, so if you’re there, watch out for them. ⬳ mia. 23. pt. she/her.

[without me by eminem plays muffled from the next room as marla wanders thru the door w a mickey of vodka in her left hand and the communist manifesto in her right]

tws for drug use, mental illness

history

she has a happy childhood in a seattle suburb. she’s the youngest of two girls, and even though her mom works all the time, and her dad’s overseas, everything’s fine. until marla gets to second grade, which she hates, gets into a fight with a boy, and nearly bites his finger off. this time she gets off with a warning. then, later that week, said boy and her are working on this paper maché duck together, and the teacher's keeping an eye on them at first but has now dismissed them as totally getting along, and then the teacher glances at them again to find that they have vanished, and so have the art supplies. the two of them are found six hours later hiding in a park. they’ve been hanging out there all day, asking for a quarter from each unsuspecting parent or guardian they’ve seen. they’ve used this to buy as much food from the community centre vending machine as they can carry. their goal: wait until their parents are sleeping, steal the tent from marla’s backyard, and go live in the treehouse in his backyard. upon discovery, they’re both grounded for a month. marla is no longer allowed to read calvin and hobbes  ––  her mom is pretty sure it’s what inspired the escape attempt.

she and this boy, whose name is jasper, regroup once they’ve been ungrounded. jasper and her are both the sort of kids who bite their nails at the sign of a group project. their fight had been over who got to read the classroom’s only calvin and hobbes anthology. their initial truce had been based entirely around a mutual desire for treehouse living. now, they just want insurance. so they agree to partner up, always.

they’re bad influences on each other. apart, they’re both a little feral, sure, but they understand that certain things are not possible, and they avoid danger if they can help it. when they hang out, though, they egg each other on. jasper breaks his arm because marla dares him to climb the school; marla’s suspended after jasper dares her to pull the fire alarm; jasper and marla accidentally burn down a garden shed; jasper and marla scam five people out of their lunch money so they can go see a movie after school. (they pay them back a week later. they’re not total monsters. also, they were getting scared one of the kids was gonna tell on them).

jasper’s parents are moving. jasper’s moving with them, out to the country. marla hates it, but she steels herself. she can be independent. she’s nearly sixteen now, and it’s about time she started. but she’s going to miss him. he tells her that nothing’s going to change, which she tells him is bullshit. he takes this the wrong way, and they stop speaking to each other. this goes on for five months. marla’s lonely at first  ––  she doesn’t know how to talk to people who aren’t him. she starts dating this guy, and that opens things up a little bit. he introduces her to his friends, and suddenly she doesn’t feel as wild. she’s no longer a product of the outskirts.

one night she thinks fuck it, that’s enough silence. she sneaks out at one am, texting jasper to meet her halfway. she borrows her sister’s car. marla figures she practically knows how to drive. she’s done it a few times. and, to her credit, she makes it to where she and jasper are meeting. she also wraps the car around a pole. she emerges relatively unharmed, and she panics. jasper doesn’t show up. he texts to tell her he got caught trying to leave. she calls him an idiot. then she waits there, arms crossed, incapable of doing anything but dreading consequences, until it’s nearly morning. that’s when a cop drives by and the process of being in trouble begins. it’s a clusterfuck. this is when her sister stops speaking to her  ––  marla’s been on thin ice with her for a long time, but now it’s over. it isn’t so much that her sister wants to hold a grudge. it’s just finally too much. and marla gets it. for once, she doesn’t try and change things, or slip out of trouble. that doesn’t mean she doesn’t get into a number of shouting matches with her mom. her phone is taken away, as is all of her money, which goes toward buying her sister a new car. her laptop is sold in the name of the new car too. she can use the family computer if schoolwork absolutely demands internet access.

she hasn’t heard from jasper in a long time. her now ex boyfriend is still sort of a friend, but not the kind she can hang out with. there was one girl she really got along with at their school, but they made out at a party and the next day the girl wouldn’t really look her in the eyes. she turns seventeen, the birthday celebrated more or less alone, and does a little stint in juvie for keying a teacher’s car. she then spends a year at a community college, followed by radcliffe. she picks radcliffe because she’s accepted, and because it’s far from home. being at home fills her with this sick feeling now  ––  something went bad somewhere along the way, and she’s pretty sure it was her that made the wrong turn at the crossroads. not her mom, not jasper, not anyone else that had power over her life. and she won’t reach out to her friend, or to her sister, because that would mean admitting she cares more than they do.

she sort of wishes she could go back to being a careful person. she wants to understand boundaries. she also wants her life to have a purpose, and she likes writing, and she’s always loved nancy drew, but being a detective would’ve meant being a cop and she'd genuinely rather die, so she’s gone for journalism. she’s not loving the university experience, but it’s better than before, and it’s provided a lot of distractions that she’s grateful for.

headcanons / personality :

she can be a little abrasive.

she smokes weed whenever she can afford it, because if she doesn’t she tends toward feeling depressed and highly uninspired. she carries this apathy with her, and then every once in a while she’ll snap, and either get a lot better or a lot worse. klonopin is her best friend now.

she’s 100% a leftist and the way to her heart at this point is through communism memes. she’s slowly but surely making her way through the works of karl marx. she’d probably be done by now, but she keeps reading romance novels instead. (this is also a secret. she reads them on her phone and deletes them the moment she’s done so that nobody can know).

she lives to pirate movies, but claims that the only movie she’s ever seen is showgirls. this is because she dated a film major during her first year of college and found him so insufferable that she’s decided nobody can ever know she watches movies. she gets that he was just a jackass, and she shouldn’t judge anyone by their major, and yet................ that said, she has a secret letterboxd account (when she made it, she found her ex’s account and blocked him, just in case) and on it there’s a list of films in which richard nixon gets punched in the face.

deep down she’s actually very sentimental and sensitive, which is why she worked so hard to Not Be That growing up. she does her very best to never show that side of herself  ––  if someone sees her crying she’s just gotta kill them ! those are the rules. and after a while it got more and more difficult to actually access that side of herself. when she cries, it’s an Event.

she’s always broke. she’s also somehow always capable of scraping together exactly enough money to go out.

she knows that if jasper contacted her now, even after the years of radio silence, she’d do anything for him. they’re still friends, even if that friendship only exists in her memories. she realizes she could text him, but that would violate her strict double texting rules. and she’s afraid to.

she definitely makes bad decisions while drunk. like, all the time. speaking of which, she’s up for anything ! wanna attempt to summon a demon at 3 am? she’s ur girl ! wanna break into someone’s house and move all of the furniture over by about an inch before stealing away into the night? she’s already there !

she’s actually a good listener, which is one of the only positive traits she credits herself with. that, and creativity.

she’s a taurus but like . there is almost definitely some pisces / scorpio / sagittarius on her chart

she can play piano. she’s actually pretty good at it. or she was, back when she had access to pianos.

she really really really really really really wants a dog but there is no way in hell she can afford one

she’s bisexual

wanted connections :

(i mean. i will love anything, but....)

exes  –  whether they dated for a while or just hooked up once or twice tbh

enemies  –  these are easy because marla often does not consider consequences, so she could easily have done smth :/ to ur muse

friends  –  pls ! she needs them

unrequited crush  –  on her part, probably ? maybe they’re friends and she doesn’t wanna fuck that up but she’s starting to care about them in a different way. I Love Repression. what a good trope.

if anyone’s down for spontaneous tattoos............ she loves those (@chase hi, hello, come here)

a good influence would be fantastic

anyone else from seattle / the seattle area who maybe knew her in passing

um i really want this

[bigprettygothgf]

What are morons on letter boxd doing?

there are four distinct flavors of insufferable on letterboxd

1. person that leaves bad ratings and negative reviews on well received indie films; you go to their profile and all their fave films are marvel movies and mediocre adaptions of equally mediocre books

2. person that leaves a long winded negative review on whatever artsy movie that essentially boils down to “i couldn’t relate to it/i didn’t understand it”; you go to their profile and all their fave films are kubricks and hitchcocks 

3. 20something white girls who think movies about the life of teenage cishet white girls is the epitome of feminism 

4. DirkH

[fromjustintokane]

Face/Off (1997) and Elizabethtown (2005)

Zup Kanines! In this episode we chat about two insane films: the action packed John Woo face-swap blowout Face/Off, and the film that inspired the term Manic Pixie Dream Girl, the insufferable Elizabethtown.  

TRAVOLTA. CAGE. DUNST. BLOOM. MIKE. BOB. GET INTO IT KANINES! 

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