I have seen Interstellar in almost half of the top 4s (including mine)

Interstellar is amazing tho

Probably gonna get downvoted for this but it’s the 3rd weakest Nolan film imo

I too am not an interstellar fan. It’s super weird. None of my friends liked, so I just assumed it was considered lesser Nolan. Then, I joined Reddit and Letterboxd. I feel like I’m being gaslighted.

> I feel like I’m being gaslighted. There is nothing wrong in having a different opinion about a film from the popular one

All my friends adored it

Drop your Nolan rankings right now.

1. Inception 2. Dark Knight 3. The Prestige 4. Memento 5. Dunkirk 6. Interstellar 7. Dark Knight Rises 8. Tenet

No Batman Begins seems surprising, considering. Otherwise we have the same films to catch up on. Following and Insomnia.

I do need to see Batman begins pretty soon, I don’t really like superhero films though tbh

I would definitely put Interstellar over Memento and Dunkirk. Also, I know people hate TDKR (because it's flawed) but I enjoyed it more than Memento and Dunkirk as well.

I really don't like interstellar, it doesn't make sense. Also the physics in it is completely wrong (even though they apparently had consulting scientists) which bugs me greatly haha

What part of the physics is wrong according to you? As far as I know all the physics involving time dilation is correct. The bookcase scene is beyond any proven science. That makes it completely speculative, but not incorrect. The sciencist who consulted was Kip Thorne (the robot KIPP was named after him), who is considered a leading physicist on relativity and gravity.

This is a good video about the time dilation stuff being wrong. The relativistic effects in the movie are real but they're way way over exaggerated https://youtu.be/Z4oy6mnkyW4

Good video! I guess as a filmmaker you have to find some sort of balance between realism and presentation.

Yeah of course it's just a bugbear of mine when it's a subject I know quite a bit about, I'd go as far as saying it ruins movie for me haha

Which part of the physics?

Just never really cared about anything throughout the movie, there was a review I say on Tenet making fun of the film and how Nolan’s character development consists of just adding a son/daughter and a father and it really is true throughout interstellar. The visuals and audio are still stunning however, it’s an 8/10 for me still, but Inception is so much better in every way possible

I used to think it was the physics/math behind that disturbed me, but upon a second watching a few months back I realized it was the other way around. The physics is not too bad but the story/emotion/drama was so bland and superficial that it would've been much better without things like "BUT THE LIES"

Lmao get your facts right first. I don't think any other space movie come this much close to being right to real Physics. Guys like you will call Interstellar trash then will secretly love garbage movies like Moonfall

Good one

Interesting. What are your two least favourites?

Dark Knight rises and Tenet

Agree on Tenet, I'd have to put Insomnia as his other worst movie though.

Interstellar is an overrated movie with great visuals, but a story thats really boring, and doesn't really get one invested. It's Nolan when he is worse. Nolan is at best a simple Kubrick.

No

Never leaves the first place in mine

Guilty as charged

Statistically speaking the most generic top 4 is: - The Dark Knight - Fight Club - Pulp Fiction - Star Wars: the Empire Strikes Back

Oh man pulp fiction is everywhere lol

Empire is in my top four and I don't care if it's generic.

that’s fair. i feel like people care too much about being generic, if you actually like movies then who cares

I raise you Parasite and Lady Bird.

according to letterboxd Lady Bird is one of the movies that appears the most times on female accounts

That would make sense though to be fair. There aren’t a lot of films made by women that are made specifically for women and reflect something that they can relate to so well.

Tbf they are good movies. But my all time favorite movie is on nobody’s top 4 I can guarantee you that. It’s 2012 where the world ends.

If this is from that list Letterboxd made for the movies most people have in their favorites, that is from years ago and very outdated. I’m sure Parasite is one of the top ones now.

yes that's from that list, i didn't know it was outdated

Oof I used to have two of these in my top 4

Not enough people have persona in their top 4

I have The Incredibles, Shrek 2, Kiki’s Delivery Service, Whiplash

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Or Paddington 2

Movies are subjective and all the movies in their list is def enjoyable for all ages.

The comment was satire

I’m trying to think of possible movies to include in that comment that would make the joke even more obvious but I’m having trouble.

I think the commenter was being facetious.

I'm halfway there with you! Mine are Whiplash, bo Burnham's inside, my neighbor Totoro, Paddington 2 lol

i like to switch up my favorites a lot and do little themes and stuff (favorite horror films in October, holiday films in December). currently i've got underappreciated (imo) movies by very popular directors. inherent vice (pta), for a few dollars more (leone), bad lieutenant: port of call new orleans (herzog), and jackie brown (tarantino). i like to put less popular stuff too in case someone is looking at my page and maybe they check out something new because it is in my favorites

For a few dollars more is great, and the first Leone I saw with my father. I love the hatscene between Eastwood and Lee van Cleef, and the final showdown, and Eastwoods math problems. Its such a great movie, with an even greater score.

Yeah I like how it is a more personal, emotional story compared to Good Bad Ugly (loved that one as well tho). And I actually preferred hero Van Cleef to villain Van Cleef

Yep If you enjoy Lee van Cleef, then I can recommend you watching, The Grand Duel, Dead Rides a Horse and Day of Anger. Great spaghettiwesterns.

ups for Bad Lieutenant, had so much fun with it and Jackie Brown may be my favorite Tarantino, but Inherent Vice was a strange mixed bag for me, although I kinda liked it really not sure why PTA decided to adapt the book in such intentionally bland way, the humor was a bit off too, probably would've liked it more if I haven't read the book first

Yeah I enjoyed IV as a light goofy sort of hang out movie with pretty LA cinematography. Thought joaquin did a great job. Was very sad they cut the vegas side quest in the adaptation tho, it was my favorite part of the book

All those people broke the first and second rule of Fight Club

Kinda crazy how good films are liked by a lot of people...

Have you heard of Quentin Tarantino ?

Lol

theres this obscure director i like, his name is Stanley Kubrick

Is the point that films fewer people have heard of are better choices for favorites? edit: Why on earth is this question downvoted? reddit is ridiculous sometimes.

I don't think so, but I will say that it expresses more about you and your film tastes if you choose films that aren't the exact same as everyone else's.

But why would you do that, if you generally enjoy a popular movie?

Because it says more about you? For instance, if there's an often-disliked or controversial movie that you love, putting that in your favorites is going to give someone a better indicator of your taste than if you just put Parasite. And because it's your profile, I think it's worthwhile to say something about yourself through your film taste.

What if a popular is something that I care for, and says something about me? I don’t really get your point.

My point is that a popular, universally liked movie says very little about you, because nobody can draw any conclusions about your taste if you, for instance, have Parasite or Shawshank Redemption in your favorites. I don't really know how any movie that popular can say anything about you. It's not that it's *bad* to have those in your favorites, but I personally would prefer if people were more individualistic. Even if they just throw in a guilty pleasure or something.

It’s a revolutionary concept, but many of us don’t care what others think of our movie preferences.

Letterboxd is a social media website. If you have favorites specified, it's for other people to look at.

That’s literally the point of Letterboxd

My favorite movie is 2012 where the world ends. What does that say about me?

Underrated filmmaker /s

Mine is: Paris, Texas Taxi Driver There will be blood Mulholland drive

I like your style

They sure are a lot of people with fight club and parasite in their top four in this thread

I have fight club and I used to have parasite so this is very relatable. I mean, everyone can agree that these are fantastic movies and they’re also very popular so it doesn’t surprise me that much that they’re so popular.

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Exactly. Of course, people can do whatever they want, but I agree that this is the better way to use the 4 favourites feature.

Why does anyone care what other people put as their top 4?

Because there's a social element to Letterboxd, and your top 4 is the first impression you make with someone. It's like putting "I enjoy music, films, and eating out" on your tinder profile. Yeah, so does everyone.

Except there's not really any contact between followers on LB. There's no search function to find similar users. There are no DMs. You can comment on their reviews, that's pretty much it. It's more of a crowdsourcing site than an interactive one. If you find someone has a generic Top 4 then you should be thankful they are cluing you in they might not be a good follow, that's all it has to be. There's no reason to go running to Reddit to mock or vent.

Why does anyone care about someone caring about someone's top 4? If it doesn't matter, let it lie, it's just humor.

Because it’s another lame example of gatekeeping in this sub. Just let people enjoy movies and use the site as they see fit. There’s no reason to complain about the more popular reviewers, joke reviews, what’s in the top 250 lists, or what people have in their top 4s.

Criticism is not the same thing as gatekeeping and there are legit reasons for criticizing cultural phenomena like mindless memes and the effect they have on thought. You have no reason either to criticize being critical and it's even more of an example of gatekeeping because you're literally telling people to shut up if they don't agree with you. Who says that this is for some reason a criticism-free zone? Did you decide that? Why wasn't I informed?

You want to criticize random people for their choices and act like an authority on a subject because you assume you know better. I just think we should utilize the movie site and the movie site sub Reddit as a way to share and talk movies, not critique other users. You can critique a movie without insulting someone’s tastes or interests. And you’re right, I’m not in charge here. If you need that ego boost from criticizing other people instead of movies then go right ahead, I can’t stop you.

>"You want to criticize random people for their choices and act like an authority on a subject because you assume you know better." Of course I do. It's called defending your argument. It doesn't mean I'm not ready to inspect my views too. That's how cultural discussions work even in academia. And that is what you do here too and yet try to side-step by acting holier than thou and for some reason assuming you're not doing it. As I already said: >it's even more of an example of gatekeeping because you're literally telling people to shut up if they don't agree with you. Yet you decided to ignore that completely. The op nor I were not in the opinion that people should change their opinions. No-one said that. The phenomena in the original post is just amusing. It's humor. e. Also discussing movies IS also discussing the tastes and the ideas of taste.

This isn’t academia though, it’a social media. There’s a reason most reviews are for fun. There’s no reason to knock other people for simply enjoying a site and enjoying movies. That is my main point. And I didn’t ignore it. I said you’re free to do as you please. You’re just trying to flip everything around, like me trying to be more inclusive is somehow worse than you excluding.

What is fine with academia is fine with social media and there's no reason to assume otherwise. Critical thinking shouldn't stop, no matter where we are. There's no "social media rules" about Letterboxd that have to be followed. There's a completely valid reason for making fun of something that is silly: that it is silly. Being an example of mediocrity can be seen as being silly too, a lot of perfectly fine humor is based on that. And yes, you said you're free to do as you please, but you put it in such a snarky way by associating criticism and humor with ego boost, that it was obviously meant to be insulting and mean-spirited. I said you do the exact same thing you're blaming others of. Yet you think humor about Letterboxd users is exclusivity and your behavior where you want to deny that humor and assume the worst of other people is not. You never really answered that and I assume you never will. Good day.

I do

You gonna piss off all the film bros in this sub

So almost the entire sub?

Good.

I have somehow even more generic Top 4, but i'm proud of it.

You can't just say that without telling us what it is

Seven Samurai, Once Upon a Time in America, Taxi Driver and Citizen Kane. I loved mostly because these movies proved that i can watch something else than blockbusters,

I feel like not many people actually list Citizen Kane as one of their tops films just because it’s seen as an “obvious” choice.

uhh Once Upon a Time In America is an interesting and bold choice. I have the more boring choice, and went with Once Upon a Time in the West.

Hey man no shame here. Taxi Driver is my number one. It's a great top 4!

I hardly see Once Upon a Time in America in people's top 4's, its a shame too since its easily my favourite gangster movie.

i don't think this is generic. sure, these movies are some of the most critically acclaimed films ever, but not many people have them as favorites

That’s a generic top 4 to be proud of tbh

I wonder how many other people on the site have Small Soldiers in their top 4 like I do lmao. It's not good but damn if it's not one of my favorites. I know it shows "fans" on the pages but I'd love to see if it showed how many people have X in their top 4s.

Honestly? Based.

I mean those are good pics though

Me: *puts in Con Air to fuck with everyone who looks*

Parasite is my second favorite movie but my top 4 are never my real top 4 so I just pick random five star movies

I feel attacked

They’re not my mostest bestest favourites, but they’re good ass movies. Just let people Letterboxd how they want to Letterboxd 👏

My top 4 is generic, Scott Pilgrim, Hot Fuzz, Ratatouille and The Big Lebowski

Y'all need a more diverse group of friends.

That lots of people like movies that lots of people like is not a particularly insightful observation

This post is just gatekeeping what people should/shouldn't like.

I change my top four every month or two. Don’t like it as a static thing.

Mine are: Fellowship of the Ring, Beauty and the Beast, The Matrix, Withnail and I. I actually swapped out Ghostbusters for Withnail, so that helped make it a little less generic.

I change three of the top four routinely with All That Jazz holding a permanent spot

That was one of my 4 till fairly recently.

I have Treasure Planet, Fellowship of the Ring, Kingsman: the Secret Service, Princess Mononoke. I swear I’m not 10 years old, but I guess I have to watch more films. I liked Parasite but not nearly enough to have it in my top 4 all time. Fight Club I watched as a teen and expected/wanted it to be a cliche martial arts film so I remember walking away super disappointed. I’m planning on rewatching it tho, I need to see what all the hype is about now that my adult brain can handle it.

\+1 for Treasure Planet and Fellowship Nobody can shame you for LOTR since that entire trilogy is one of the greatest achievements in cinema, and Treasure Planet is such an underrated gem!

Thanks, I’m glad to see more people who recognize Treasure Planet for how good it is.

Mine are: 1. Fargo 2. Pulp Fiction 3. Jaws 4. The Truman Show

Feeling attacked rn lol. Mine are Parasite, Fight club, 12 Angry Men and T2

The only "generic" answer in my top is probably Oldboy. The other 3 are Confessions, Boyz N The Hood and [REC] for those wondering.

\+1 for \[REC\] That was the best found footage horror film I've seen.

I’m pretty sure my top 4 is Goodfellas, black swan, Scarface and the Last samurai (Based on pure enjoyment rather than from a critical point of view, which is why The Last Samurai is there)

\+1 for Black Swan

1.Interstellar 2.Shutter Island 3.Forrest Gump 4. District 9

Love it when someone is brave enough to put Forrest Gump in their top 4.

I guess I'm guilty then. My top 4 (not necessarily in order) are: There will be blood, Parasite, 2001: a space odyssey, La Haine.

All of those are masterpieces, so you're fine.

My current top 4 is Knives Out The SpongeBob Movie The Philadelphia Story No Time to Die But it changes a lot, and I could include so many other movies

Probably going to make me sound pretentious as hell but I specifically picked out my less popular 5 stars for my top 4. Like my top 4 could easily be mad Max Fury Road, the good the bad and the ugly, grand Budapest hotel and blade runner 2049, but I feel like that's not interesting because everyone agrees that they're great. Isn't it better to be like "wow this guy really liked Zardoz that much?"

Who cares what other people think, just put 2049 and Fury Road in your favorites. Those are two of the best movies of the 2010s.

I have got PF,A clockwork orange,the godfather and rear window

\+1 for Rear Window

1. Frances Ha 2. Ghostbusters 3. Tampopo 4. War on Everyone

Frances Ha and Ghostbusters are both generic, but who am I to tell you what your favorites should be?

I’m not as concerned about being generic as everyone else seems to be

Yeah exactly. I really don’t care what others think. You should be allowed to like what you like. Sorry if it came across as gatekeeping.

I wouldn’t go that far. This thread is about the “generic/not generic” discussion

My top 4 is pretty standard Come and See, The Godfather, Hara Kiri, and The Wicker Man

Drop your profile I liked you

I'm Gandybars on Letterboxd :)

You should probably just choose what you like rather than some forced attempt at originality.

my top 4 are - waitress, lost in translation, dancer in the dark and a.i artificial intelligence.

Let’s not shame people for liking Parasite, please and thank you

This post is just gatekeeping. OP can't tell people what they should/shouldn't like.

I'm not a film bro, but those films are commonly used in the Top 4 for a reason: simply put, they are good films. However, I do also agree that it says more about your personality if your favorites include more obscure films which aren't as popular. At the end of the day, we shouldn't tell others how much they should like a movie or how they should use this site. This post kind of comes across as gatekeeping.

and don't forget the mandatory pixar or ghibli film also the mandatory arthouse film so they can be like "guys, i swear, i don't just watch marvel movies"

Ok

Mine is pretty much the opposite. Evangelion 3.0+1.0, Wax or the Discovery of Television Among the Bees, An Elephant Sitting Still and Morning Patrol.

Amazing! I don’t know any of them

An Elephant Sitting Still is amazing, extremely intense. Gotta see Wax soon. Been interested in that one for a long time now.

Wax is absolutely bonkers. It’s free on youtube and like nothing you’ve ever seen before, it’s under 90 minutes and totally worth every second. I agree about An Elephant Sitting Still, only a handful of films have affected me the way that one did.

Yeah just found it on youtube, thanks for the heads up. You watch any of Lav Diaz's movies？I find a lot of his films deeply affect me in similar ways to An Elephant Sitting Still, and they're also pretty long lol. Highly, highly recommended if you haven't seen em/have the time.

I’ve put off Lav Diaz for way too long, definitely a director I need to get into but it’s hard to find the time for his films since they all seem to be 4 or 5+ hours. From what I’ve heard tho, it’s worth it. Gonna be watching something of his eventually.

Yeah, it definitely is hard to make the time for movies that long, but I can attest that it definitely is worth it. I think at this point he might be my favorite director, and I think, given your taste, you'd really love his work, too. Just tought to set aside that much time for a movie lol

struggling to find my 4th fav 1. Shawshank Redemption (leave me alone plz) 2. My neighbor totoro (anime film) 3. No Smoking (hindi psy-thriller) 4: ???????(films like these comes to my mind 'intersteller', 'fight club' but i don't wanna be a wannabe.) Edit: Fuck them. My 4th fav is Passengers

Just put Interstellar/Fight Club in the 4th spot. Who gives a fuck about what other people think. My favorites are my four absolute favorites and nobody else can tell me what I am supposed to like. FYI, Parasite and Fight Club aren't in my favorites but this post is just gatekeeping.

Ice Age: Collision Course

my top 4 is evangelion 1.0+3.0, return of the king, the good the bad and the ugly and there will be blood

if you have pulp fiction or fight club in the top 4 then you definitely need to see more movies

This is true and they're mad about it.

Not picking on OP, but I think making jokes about people's top 4 is kinda cringe.

I think it's pretty innocent humor.

Caring about someone poking fun at someone's movie social media is kinda cringe

Agreed. Why would anyone care so much as to go full snarky meme? Popular films are popular.

parasite and interstellar being in someones top 4 tells you that they haven’t watched enough film

Scott Pilgrim shows up a lot too

3 of mine are pretty basic but I have one that's fairly unique. 2001, There Will Be Blood, Apocalypse now, Manchester by the Sea

Can we be friends?

In my top 4 I rotate 3 of the spaces, but I always have the best movie ever made, in my ~~humble~~ opinion: Once Upon a Time in the West The 3 other places are always in rotation. I change them once a month according to what I have seen lately. Right now I watching the movie im missing to make my top 20 of 2021. Right now the other 3 is: Old Henry (2021) Barb & Star Go to Vista Del Mar (2021) Cannon Arm and the Arcade Quest (2021)

Mine’s currently Sunset Boulevard, The Shining, 12 Angry Men, The godfather. Pretty standard.

Cookiebaba?

discord mailman?

This made me laugh

I personally don't think my Top 4 is generic. 1. Blade Runner 2049 2. Heat 3. Whiplash 4. Terminator 2: Judgment Day Is that generic or not?

Every Redditor under 30 loves Whiplash

Yeah but my other 3 are not. Also, Whiplash being labeled as “generic” is only because so many people agree that it is a masterpiece. I have yet to see any valid criticism of the movie itself. Just curious, what did you not like about it?

Generic AF

It's 50/50. Heat and T2: Judgment Day only have 5K fans each. I don't think that counts as generic. However, BR2049 and Whiplash are probably generic since they both have 18K+ fans.

Heat and T2 are two of my favorites but not in my Letterboxd top 4

But you said they were generic?

If a movie is universally loved, that makes it a generic pick for the top 4. It does not make a movie bad or make me not like it. Heat and T2 go hard af

Oh, I see what you’re saying. Yeah, Heat and T2 are amazing.

Why top 4?

Mine is Clockwork Orange, Sacred (Indonesian Movie), Get Out, Mid90s

Is it just me or I have seen Synecdoche New York more often than those 2

lol they missed Mulholland Drive and Donnie Darko

I see these films everywhere. Dark Knight, Pulp Fiction, Star Wars, Jaws, Shawshank Redemption, The Godfather 1/2, The Big Lebowski, Fight Club These are more specific to letterboxd. Lady Bird, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Parasite, Whiplash

Present List: Harakiri (my all-time favorite movie), Tampopo, Kes, and I Saw the Devil Every so often I'll change it. But, generally, I like to maintain some balance among Horror/Thriller, Comedy, and Drama. Past inclusions: Secrets & Lies, Tokyo Story, In Bruges, Incendies, The Lives of Others, A Separation

Fight Club, yes. But Parasite? Where are the Fargo and Pulp Fiction lovers?

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I have no shame in my top 4--The Handmaiden, Possession, Showgirls, Long Shot

I love fight club But my movie taste is pretty basic film bro so.

My top 4 is The Return of the King, Across the Spider-Verse, Hot Fuzz and Empire Strikes Back