text: I mostly use Letterboxd as a way to keep track of my progress in watching the 1,001 Movies to Watch Before You Die and Ebert's Great Films and as a more convenient interface for JustWatch. I'm not personally very good at writing reviews and frankly most of the reviewing there is a little too fanish for my taste.
  Wow, I don't think Letterboxd has been on my radar at all, and I just clicked through to the 2020 Year in Review, and it's really really great. The pull quotes from the reviews showcase some excellent writing ("On one hand, it’s pretty shocking to see that such a confidently presented and steady film is actually the feature debut for director Darius Marder. On the other hand, it’s almost expected that this could be the case when a film feels so unique and fresh." "Sayna is like King Midas but instead of gold everything she touches turns to art.")
  I watch a movie or two a week and I kind of try to keep up with what new movies I might like to see, but I had never heard of any of these top movies of 2020 except for "Soul." (I'm a little surprised I'd never heard of "Minari.")
  I started using Letterboxd as a way to track my own movie-watching, but lately I've found it to be a fantastic resource for discovering interesting movies. If I enjoy something, I'll look for other highly-rated movies by the same director, or similar movies recommended in reviews; Letterboxd has a much "cleaner" and easier-to-navigate database than, say, Google or IMDB.
  A couple of years ago I stumped up for Pro membership which removes ads and adds some neat features. I would like Letterboxd to keep existing and not get swallowed up by Google or Amazon, and $19/year feels like a fair price to chip in!
  I also follow Mefi-fave Demi Adejuyigbe there, who frequently writes insightful and hilarious reviews, including this piece of perfection on One Night in Miami....
  I pay the $20 a year for the Pro account to get rid of ads. It's a pretty trivial amount of money for how much I use the site and I like to encourage that revenue model.
  I love Letterboxd. I use the JustWatch integration very often--like, to filter by year, genre, etc. and then see what's available on the services I have access to. I think it's a 'pro' feature unless you were grandfathered into it or something, but it was especially helpful for watching a bunch of SF/F films by decade--I eventually listed my favorites on Letterboxd as well: SF/F & Horror Favorites, 1970-1979 and SF/F & Horror Favorites, 1920-1929. Incidentally, Metafilter's social explorer lists a few dozen other Mefites who are there.
  As with Goodreads for tracking the books I read, I just use Letterboxd to record everything I watch. I pay no attention to the 'social' aspects at all. Neither interface is ideal, and one of these days I should just export and make my own spreadsheet so I'm not subject to ads or someone else's "business model." But in the meantime, it's nice to use both apps especially for searching and auto-filling key fields.
  Yes. Letterboxd is really nice as a film diary service. I like seeing what other folks have been watching, but I particularly like that their activity is presented in a fairly unobtrusive manner - the home screen emphasizes the gestalt of your community and your friends, not a torrent of activity. You can get to your friend-specific feed, but it’s a little buried, and B that’s good.
  That said, while I really like using Letterboxd, it seems janky as all get out. It’s been a minute since I switched from Anrroid to iPhone, but there were no ads in the Android app. None. And I still remember how at some point they had to update the green plus button at the bottom to suggest adding the current film whose page you’re on because dopes like me kept searching for a movie and then clicking the plus button instead of the tiny three dots in the corner.
  ... and having finally read that Times article, that jankiness makes sense! I hope those nice dudes have good plans for when bad people start showing up, and I hope they add TV show support.
  Also, JustWatch -without Letterboxd- is incredibly potent. If you only care about knowing what movies you can see on the services that you’re paying for, it’s really aces.
  While I don’t tend to check the lists much, I do like this concept list by Dave Wiegel that has a movie explicitly set in every year between 2008 and 2058.
  Just the other day I was wishing for this type of service to keep track of the movies we watch in the hurdy gurdy household. I had no idea about Letterboxd! Thanks for posting.
  I've only been using it a few years and largely use it as an aide-mémoire for what I've watched (especially as I've gotten older). My favourite features are the import and export functions as I tend to keep track of my viewing with a spreadsheet first then I upload that. That process is surprisingly painless (or minimally painless in anycase). Though looking through my viewing it now seems woefully incomplete for the years before 2019 - though I pick at it every so often. I prefer to use IMdb for my watchlist (the information there is better organised then on letterboxd). While I enjoy the lists people create I tend to not use it for any social media activities or reviews (the reading or the writing of them). But yeah useful service and hope it doesn't get absorbed by someone larger...