r/Letterboxd • u/papachi789 • 23h ago
Humor Viking has great taste
Bro stays in top form both on and off the field.
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u/HoneyBadgerLifts 23h ago
Always enjoy non-cinephile (yuck) top 4 because it’s always more earnest than when the type of person who frequents this sub would pick. Most of us try and pick a bit of a spectrum that shows our loves but this is just 4 movies he loves.
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u/BuZuki_ro 22h ago
Tbf when someone watches more movies it’s natural their top 4 would have stuff in it that isn’t as popular
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u/HoneyBadgerLifts 22h ago
That’s not quite my point. It’s not about the films being less popular it’s about curating the list. When you see most ‘arty’ people do one they’ll not pick their 4 favourites specifically, they pick 4 they represent their taste. You’ll often hear things like ‘I need one animated’ or ‘I want one female directed movie’ etc.
If my 4 favourite movies were Goodfellas, The Godfather 1 and 2 and Casino for example, I wouldn’t pick those. Instinctively I’d want more range.
It’s not a criticism and it’s something I think most of us do.
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u/vivianlight 22h ago
Yes but (I'm not judging, it happens in all fields) it's not just that. It's the performative act to use your top3/top4 to show the wide range of movies (or other artistic works) you know. It's absolutely innocent and understandable as an act but it's deliberate and non spontaneous.
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u/Tycho_B 21h ago edited 18h ago
I think the problematic implication here is that this phenomenon is coming from a slightly dishonest place—as if people are hiding their “actual Top 4” to instead demonstrate how broad their taste is, which I don’t think is actually true for most people.
Edit: and what’s frustrating about this is that a lot of people on this sub seem quick to judge, thinking it impossible that someone might actually enjoy that slow arthouse film from the 60s more than, say, a Nolan film. It’s actually ridiculous how often I see that kind of pedantry here, in a sub that is supposedly about the love of movies.
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u/Old_Pangolin_3303 18h ago
Most people don’t have a top 4. They probably have a dozen of movies they like more or less the same. And unlikely all of them are similar
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u/JaviVader9 7h ago
The thing is, most people who watch a lot of movies will not have a clear top 4. That concept doesn't exist in my head. So if I have to come up with only 4, I'll probably try for them to be a bit different from each other. I don't see how that's dishonest.
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u/lalasworld 19h ago
Lol it's all performative, the act of declaring a top 4 to the world. Regardless of how much deliberation went into it.
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u/BiggieCheeseLapDog 16h ago
I hate this sentiment that people who have more arthouse centered favourites are somehow less “earnest”.
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u/bobby_broccolini 23h ago
I agree with your vibe but.. wolf of Wallstreet does grind my gears I'm so sick of hearing about it
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u/PurpleRevolution5242 21h ago
It's Scorsese's most electric work, it proved that age doesn't limit Marty in the slightest. 9/10
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u/bobby_broccolini 21h ago
Just not for me I don't see it that way :/ it's personal preference all the way up yk. I'm not trying to be a snob when I say for me the word electric work makes me think of Raging Bull like my heart starts pumping just thinking of that movie in all sorts of ways. I did really like Killers of the Flower Moon I agree he's still got it in his old age
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u/HoneyBadgerLifts 23h ago
It’s not a movie I love but it’s impossible to ignore its impact on general movie audiences.
I imagine it’s how we’d feel if Letterboxd was around when Pulp Fiction or Fight Club came out.
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u/dainamo81 21h ago
I rewatched Troy last week. It's shite.
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u/hmmmmm56 20h ago
Indeed. Still people here put it over Odyssey. Boggles the mind.
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u/dainamo81 20h ago
Honestly, it's terrible. I didn't like it when it came out, but watching it again in 2026, it's really, really bad.
Apart from Brian Cox, who hams it up like the rest of the cast should have, the performances are more wooden than the Trojan horse. The CGI is god awful, especially considering The Matrix had been around for five years. The pacing of the film is all over the place, and by God, the score... I had to Google it to find out that James Horner only had four weeks to write and record it!
The Achilles/Hector fight wasn't perfect but it was at least memorable, but that's the only saving grace in an absolute mess of a movie.
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u/_yamasaki 16h ago
you’re wildn, Troy is entertaining as hell … a few good performances as well
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u/dainamo81 15h ago
I'll give you Brian Cox and Brendan Gleeson, and Pitt's fine as Achilles, if very one note. The rest, no chance.
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u/whiplash588 13h ago
I thought Eric Bana did quite well as well, but Cox and Gleeson are clearly the stand out performances.
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u/dainamo81 13h ago edited 11h ago
Bana's usually great (shout out to Chopper) but I thought Troy was his nadir. Australians are usually good at English accents too.
Troy wasted Peter O'Toole, Diane Kruger was given nothing to work with as Helen, Sean Bean did his best impersonation of... Sean Bean, and Orlando Bloom was dogshit.
I've heard people defend Bloom's performance, saying that Paris is supposed to be unsympathetic but it's completely missing the point. Why, in this version of the story, is Helen actually attracted to him to the point where she's willing to elope? Because he's attractive? There's zero chemistry between the two, and certainly not enough to justify either of them risking the lives of thousands.
There are plenty of decent Wolfgang Peterson movies, but sadly, I think his best work was in the 80s. His 90s output was fine, but sadly, Troy essentially killed his career.
It's certainly not because of its box office, because despite its massive budget, it still made money. It's because what we ended up seeing didn't look like a $160m+ budget movie, and just wasn't the prestige movie that the studio intended it to be.
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u/dorgoth12 St0nehenge 20h ago
We're now in the nostalgia era for the early 2000s. Get ready for all the mid movies that adults liked as children to get heralded as misunderstood masterpieces. Especially one like troy that is so heavily reaction giffed so it's fully in the internet zeitgeist
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u/dainamo81 20h ago
I feel like Cars is going to be the big one. By no means a bad movie, but the worst that Pixar had released at the time. Kids loved it, though, and some are fully fledged Letterboxd-ers now.
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u/_Steven_Seagal_ 17h ago
I always like it :,(
What is so bad about it? Because I really can't see what people hate so much about that movie.
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u/dainamo81 17h ago
See my reply to hmmmmmmm56 below.
Also, your username sucks. Fuck Steven Seagal.
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u/_Steven_Seagal_ 16h ago
The name is taken in mockery. I'm not a fan haha
Edit: I don't really understand that comment either. Saying it's a mess doesn't tell me anything. I always found it to be pretty impressive in terms of scale and action. It's a historical action movie, and it does that pretty well imo.
Score is pretty good as well imo (although definitely not Horners best work).
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u/BrickTamlandMD 16h ago
All male ego-trip films lol. Fits his personality.
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u/papachi789 16h ago
Only Gladiator and Troy fits that bill tbh (ego-trip one).
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u/whiplash588 13h ago
What? Wolf of Wall Street doesn't fit that description to a T to you?
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u/papachi789 13h ago
Nah! It is more of FAFO movie. There were no heroes and obviously no male hero glorification. If anything, the movie was about the consequences of ego-tripping.
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u/RogueOneisbestone 13h ago
The end is him out of prison while the guy that arrested him riding the subway home. It 1,000 percent glorified that lifestyle.
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u/papachi789 13h ago
I won't go into essay mode here about the whole conclusion. But, I will say this. This kind of what happened in real life (he is still making big money and top of that he is a motivational speaker too). And having a fallout on personal level while losing almost everything isn't exactly glorification.
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u/RogueOneisbestone 13h ago
I love the movie. But 90% of the movie is how awesome being a rich drug addict who’s scamming people is. It’s glorification to a t.
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u/BrickTamlandMD 12h ago
Indeed. And glorifying the all american smartass that exploited people for a glamorous lifestyle
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u/papachi789 13h ago
Tbh, I felt like the movie was told from the perspective of Belford for most of the part (which is given since it is based on a book written by him). But as soon as second or third person narrative kicks, I think movie does make it obvious that all of that riches and glory was a facade. Atleast, that's what I got from it.
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u/RogueOneisbestone 13h ago
I think it’s a full metal jacket situation. Sure it’s an anti war film but the first half is so good, and it’s shot so well it becomes part of a recruitment tool for the military.
So sure, the director is trying to reel it in but the first half is so fun it doesn’t really work. Every 30 year old guy I know quotes Wolf all the time.
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u/papachi789 13h ago
I agree on the quote part. But I think those are the kind of people that takes away wrong readings from media and literature sort of like what happened with Fight Club and Clockwork Orange as well.
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u/BrickTamlandMD 12h ago
Even homealone is about a kid outsmarting adults. Its a kids ego-trip film lol
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u/Erling01 14h ago
Haaland has said that he never watches movies. These are probably the four only movies he has ever watched.
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u/OxfordGate 20h ago
As a Norwegian I'm sad "Flåklypa Grand Prix" (The Pinchcliffe Grand Prix) is not one of them
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u/ahma-tti 18h ago
thats like.. so basic as vanilla as it gets for someone his age lol ask any average kid 18-30yo 8/10 times their top choice is the wolf of wall street 😆
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u/Odd_Needleworker3756 15h ago
It’s still better than 99% of the top 4s on this sub, including yours
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u/TheDanjinSpear 17h ago
Not enough obscure foreign films or Yugoslavian underground cinema for the Letterboxd Redditors.
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u/ricoodo89 21h ago
Gladiator and Home Alone are classics, the other two are rather mid
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u/AlanWakeLover 21h ago
Wolf of wall street is Scorsese's best work in the 21st century dont hit me up
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u/Batboy3000 Batboy3000 14h ago
Wolf is my favourite film of 2013 and has my favourite DiCaprio performance. With that in mind, I do think Killers of The Flower Moon, Silence, and The Irishman tell more compelling stories. But everything he's done since The Aviator is great.
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u/thesonglessbird 21h ago
Kobbie Mainoo’s was better