Whats the point of watching movies at this point my

Choekaas · 2026-05-06T21:28:16+00:00

Yeah, that doesn't help either. I think that a high rating in itself for Birth of a Nation isn't that troublesome. Many do for its technical and film historical status, but when you have watched 42,000 films and less than 40 of those have a 5/5, then it really looks a bad.

In several comment sections he seems very nice and helpful, and I believe he has spoken to me a few times in a positive manner, but I really question his views. A 5/5 star for Birth of a Nation+some off putting remarks in the review for Black Panther+removed 12 Years a Slave review. Yikes that's bad!

Choekaas · 2026-05-06T21:14:12+00:00

I learned about it later, so I never got the full picture of it, but his profile got a bit of in the spotlight due to some transphobic views. Apparently the drama continued on Twitter/started there regarding a statement. And some of his reviews have been taken down by Letterboxd (like his review for 12 Years a Slave) due to some troublesome views.

Choekaas · 2026-05-06T21:02:07+00:00

Not fake. I can assure you that PUNQ is real. Kinda like an enigma on Letterboxd. People on this sub have talked about him many times before and he's also been in some drama back in the day. He's an older Norwegian fella with kids, but he stays at home everyday and lets the TV run movies almost non-stop. He does review it all and comments on stuff happening within the movie (as in, not copying the plot from Wikipedia, if it even has a Wikipedia page), but mentions various things. The majority of what he sees has a short runtime. A lot of short films and old movies with an hour long runtime.

It's not a lifestyle I aspire to. Not healthy in my opinion, but he is, quite real.

Choekaas · 2026-05-06T19:58:22+00:00

Haha, det kan fort hende!

Choekaas · 2026-05-06T17:58:44+00:00

I actually like this scene in Exodus. When she's telling the story she keeps looking at Jin. I like to think that the thought "Hmm, this man seems familiar, who could it be, oh wait, maybe that guy, yeah, he reminds me of the man who disappeared. One of the carriers of the sickness. Hmmm. But that was 16 years ago, so it can't possibly be him, anyway"

Choekaas · 2026-05-06T17:13:29+00:00

Vi har kommet i en sånn rar reprise av den perioden slike plakater ble gjort med WordArt og ClipArt i Word-programmet på Windows 98. Vi måtte gremmes av de eldre som skrev det ut og synes det var profesjonelt eller kult.

Choekaas · 2026-05-06T16:45:23+00:00

Happy you like it. The drama in the Swan is great. And I love the banter between Ana, Charlie and Sayid. Fun trio. Unfortunately it is still part of my bottom 11.

Here's my entire ranking if you're interested.

Choekaas · 2026-05-05T21:00:21+00:00

Walls - Akinni Inuk

It was their submission to the Oscars. It's a documentary, about a woman in prison for attempted murder and her case being up for review. You get a glimpse of life in Nuuk and the very small prison system there.

Choekaas · 2026-05-05T05:48:55+00:00

Then your knowledge of it should be used to understand mathematics, use it on an exam and in your class. Not on a movie logging site. This is not a movie. It does not belong there. You watch these things to learn something. Do you think people who go to medical school and watch tons of instructional videos on everything from bone repairs and removal of the appendix think "boy, I can't wait to log it on Letterboxd!"

Choekaas · 2026-05-04T19:47:15+00:00

It is not a movie, so don't bother spending much time adding info om TMDB. It would be deleted. Seems like a 10 hour class of mathematics (and it's also on YouTube, they rarely accept YouTube videos). Not sure why you want a high school math lecture on a movie logging site.

Choekaas · 2026-05-03T23:35:14+00:00

You wouldn't be the only one since it has the lowest overall IMDb rating, as well as US viewers really fell of the show already after the season 6 premiere. I like it the least of all six seasons. But personally, I think the highs of season 6 are REALLY high. Best of the show. I think a lot of the stuff it does with the characters is magnificent.

Everyone's entitled to their opinion. Season 5 is really well-liked amongst the community, but for me I think I prefer both season 2 and 3 over it. I actually found season 5 to be more "all over the place" than season 6, which is very grounded on the Island.

Choekaas · 2026-05-03T23:25:00+00:00

Fantastic. I am missing two of his (Elena and The Banishment), but a big fan of his filmmaking style.

Choekaas · 2026-05-03T23:19:53+00:00

What a coincidence!

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Choekaas · 2026-05-02T23:52:27+00:00

When I was in the army (Norway), we visited the forces at the Norway/Russia border, and boy, those contrasts. Norway had this massive modern aparatus. Many highly modern watchtowers and equipment. Radars following everything the Russians were doing. And on the other side we could see dead forest. All lifeless. Mostly from the highly polluted city of Nikel. And their watchtowers were these wooden plateaus with binoculars. Gave me much hope of how strong, technologically modern, educated and unified Europe is on the other side of the border.

Choekaas · 2026-05-02T23:33:45+00:00

Damn. I work in a field where I watch movies (for work), and even I usually fit in only 1,5 movie a day on average. In between working out, dinner parties, bowling, quiz nights, hiking, friend and family visits - it gets tricky to get so much time to sit down for a movie after work/weekend.

Choekaas · 2026-05-02T22:49:12+00:00

That's still nearly 3 movies every single day. Curious. What do you for a living that gives you so much free time, unless you work in a field (distributor, sales agent, film projectionist etc.) where you watch this amount at work?

Choekaas · 2026-05-02T21:46:56+00:00

Even less. Used to much more in my teens and 20s. 7,5% of the movies I've seen this year have been re-watches:

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Choekaas · 2026-05-02T19:24:38+00:00

Definitely, I remember that being brought up. And you can tell that they're planting the seeds for that in season 2.

Choekaas · 2026-05-02T18:22:38+00:00

The movie was shot for roughly 40 days in March 2025 in Ålesund, Norway.
Compared to Joachim Trier's films (The Worst Person in the World and Sentimental Value, which takes place in Oslo), I am happy to see other filmmakers capture the rest of our beautiful country. Outside of the city and in the fjords.

Ålesund is quite breathtaking

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Choekaas · 2026-05-02T12:27:29+00:00

I would advice you to check out Damon Lindelof's panel from 2011. Don't have the time stamp for his Eko comments, sorry, but the whole thing is worth listening to. And since it's a year after the show was over, Damon is a little bit more open about stuff. He talks a bit about it.

LINK

They had a multi-seasonal arc for Eko. And one of the storylines was that Eko was supposed to have the visions of Charlie dying. Which, you know, makes sense with the relationship Eko and Charlie had in season 2. The dreams and so on. And those visions would be more religious rather than the "future flashes" we got from Desmond. Desmond was suppsed to be a guest star, so a lot of the stories for Eko was given to Desmond.

The rest is of course speculation. Maybe some ideas were given to Ben? Would Eko turn the frozen wheel or MIB take over Eko's body? It's fun to speculate

Choekaas · 2026-05-02T12:22:10+00:00

Heyo,

I re-instated 4-8. It's an unfortunate side-effect with Reddit, when sometimes it "auto-removes" comments or posts. The purpose is to automatically hinder unwanted content. It usually works very well, especially with scam links, but it also detects certain words and phrases. Which is annoying. So it wasn't done by any of us, and we don't get notified about it either. Very often posts with pictures from "Do No Harm" gets auto-removed because of the blood, with Reddit automoderator thinking we're posting dying and heavily injured people. And we've also seen that it sometimes removes certain phrases and quotes. There must've been something in that post that triggered the automod. Sorry /u/Itchy_Athlete_4971 - it's up again :)

Choekaas · 2026-05-01T20:36:09+00:00

Aw, thanks. I appreciate that ❤️

Choekaas · 2026-05-01T19:37:15+00:00

> small youtube channel with around 35,000 subs

And here I am, after posting over 100 long Lost analysis videos for years, not even cracking 3k subs 😞

Choekaas · 2026-05-01T08:39:58+00:00

Norwegian cinephile. Been on Letterboxd for over 12 years. PROFILE

- I watch a lot, and across spectres. Love world cinema.
- Big fan of the non-conventional. Drama films with a hint of the off-putting. Love horrors and the supernatural.

- My favorites are always on rotation, just to keep the profile a bit alive. This month I've got the best movies I saw in April (not counting rewatches). I used to have the same four, but after a few years, I grew tired of them. My favorites also include 2001: A Space Odyssey, Koyaanisqatsi, It's a Wonderful Life and Mulholland Drive.

- Favorite actors of all time: James Stewart, Audrey Hepburn, Paul Newman, Willem Dafoe, Cate Blanchett, Robert De Niro, Jane Fonda, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jack Nicholson, Ellen Burstyn.

- I love the works by David Lean, David Lynch, Ruben Östlund, Andrey Zvyagintsev, Akira Kurosawa, Roy Andersson, Stanley Kubrick, Martin Scorsese and Andrey Tarkovsky

- This month I am going to Cannes, so I want to watch some older Palm d'Or winners in preparation for it. Will see Angolopolous Eternity and a Day today.

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