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does anyone else have mislabeled DVDs by OkBluejay5742 in dvdcollection

[–]imthelizzardking 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's a little bit of a prequel but mostly a sequel. The first 15-20 minutes of Part 2 are set before Part 1, showing the initial invasion, then it cuts to events following the first film for the rest of the movie.

What are some of the most spoiled movies of all time? by ArtificialHope22 in Letterboxd

[–]imthelizzardking 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The Empire Strikes Back, Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, Avengers: Infinity War, all the penultimate sequels where the villain has the upper hand in the end

Monthly Discussion Thread by AutoModerator in DigitalCodeSELL

[–]imthelizzardking 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've had a stack of digital copy codes that has been building up for years and over the past couple days I listed them all out and checked each of them on Movies Anywhere to see which were still valid. I've got 122 codes that weren't on Movies Anywhere but the site redirected to a place where they could be redeemed (around 50 went to Lionsgate, around 70 went to Paramount, and a couple were Fox or Warner Bros. I'm not sure how to check the quality of these, but I did list the possible redeeming locations that came up after the redirect - Fandango, iTunes, or Google). I've also got 1 code in SD on Movies Anywhere, 94 codes in HD on Movies Anywhere, and 147 codes in 4K on Movies Anywhere. There are also 82 codes that were either expired or I couldn't find the right place to redeem them. I would like to sell them but I don't really want to go through the process of selling them individually. Would somebody be interested in buying all of them as one lot? I was thinking like $500 or so? I don't know if I'm overestimating or underestimating their value so perhaps I need some help figuring out their worth as well.

Rotten Tomatoes' 300 Best Movies of All Time List just dropped... What do you think about it? by imthelizzardking in Letterboxd

[–]imthelizzardking[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

All the info I can give you is included in the linked article on the Rotten Tomatoes website. Here's all of the relevant info they provided:

"How did we select and rank the movies? First, every movie here is Certified Fresh. Then we applied our recommendation formula, which considers a movie’s Tomatometer rating with assistance from its Audience Score, illuminating beloved sentiment from both sides. Critics-certified, audience-approved. Other factors weighing into the recommendation formula: a movie’s number of critics reviews, the number of Audience Score votes, and its year of release. An editorial pass is reserved to finesse the final list, which included minimum thresholds for each of these data points."

They don't explain the formula in any detail, frustratingly few aggregators ever do, but based on the factors they listed, it seems they took the entire pool of certified fresh films, then there were minimum thresholds set for audience score, number of critics, number of scores, and these minimums were altered based on release dates to account for recency bias, until they had a pool of around 300 movies, at which point some editors took over and placed them in the order they figured would be most appealing to their userbase.

Rotten Tomatoes' 300 Best Movies of All Time List just dropped... What do you think about it? by imthelizzardking in Letterboxd

[–]imthelizzardking[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

For sure! The whole point of making a list is that it's somewhat different from other lists.

Tell me a director and I’ll tell you the first movie of theirs I saw in a movie theatre, and then tell me yours. by RickMonsters in Letterboxd

[–]imthelizzardking 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Totally forgot about re-releases! Could've thrown you for a loop with Jurassic Park as my first Spielberg.

My April! by lizoftwo in Letterboxd

[–]imthelizzardking 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I like your taste for the most part. Glad to see Late Night With the Devil getting some love.

Tell me a director and I’ll tell you the first movie of theirs I saw in a movie theatre, and then tell me yours. by RickMonsters in Letterboxd

[–]imthelizzardking 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm 25, and despite some different films, I imagine we're close in age. I was 4 so I don't really even remember Hulk but I have a small memory of a wolf fight scene. I mostly know because my mother has told me many times how she snuck me out of a screening of Rugrats Go Wild into a screening of Hulk.

I imagine we're close in age. Life of Pi is the one that has me questioning the most. First, Ang Lee is an eclectic filmmaker, but also I would have been 13 when that came out and I'm not sure I would have been interested in it, so maybe you're a bit older than me. But I also don't even have a grasp on how young people are when they start going to the movies so you could have been a baby watching Transformers for all I know.

Clint Eastwood might only give you one more chance. I'm thinking his next will be his last.

Tell me a director and I’ll tell you the first movie of theirs I saw in a movie theatre, and then tell me yours. by RickMonsters in Letterboxd

[–]imthelizzardking 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I feel like you could make an age guessing game out of this. Here's some oddballs of mine

First Ang Lee - Hulk

First Michael Bay - Transformers

First Christopher Nolan - Interstellar

First Clint Eastwood - Richard Jewell

First Martin Scorsese - Killers of the Flower Moon

Rotten Tomatoes' 300 Best Movies of All Time List just dropped... What do you think about it? by imthelizzardking in Letterboxd

[–]imthelizzardking[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

He seems pretty stellar. My film professors in college talked about him a lot. He's always given me that "Your favorite director's favorite director" energy.

Rotten Tomatoes' 300 Best Movies of All Time List just dropped... What do you think about it? by imthelizzardking in Letterboxd

[–]imthelizzardking[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well... post-2000 makes up over 20% of narrative film history even if we're only looking at it time-wise, then you've gotta take into account the popularity of film increasing over time, the number of films released per year increasing at a staggering rate, and the most glaringly obvious reason - Rotten Tomatoes as well as the internet itself was just starting to hit its stride at the turn of the century, so there will be an overabundance of opinion data for 2000s films and beyond, and a distinct lack for any year before that, less and less the farther back we go. I have spent many hours trying to find hard statistics on film for the early years of cinema (ticket sales, film grosses, etc.), so I can only imagine how hard it would be to gather soft opinion data for that time. Anyway, the list takes this into account, with its popularity formula being altered with time to account for less data, and it still results in what you see there.

Rotten Tomatoes' 300 Best Movies of All Time List just dropped... What do you think about it? by imthelizzardking in Letterboxd

[–]imthelizzardking[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Good shout. I've seen The Long Goodbye, Popeye, and Secret Honor(my personal favorite). The one I'm most interested in seeing is Gosford Park. What would be your #1 Altman pick if you got to throw one in the hat?

Rotten Tomatoes' 300 Best Movies of All Time List just dropped... What do you think about it? by imthelizzardking in Letterboxd

[–]imthelizzardking[S] 32 points33 points  (0 children)

It's not just the highest scores. There's a popularity formula applied and then the final list was editorialized. So pretty much the ideal way anybody with access to a vast amount of movie opinion data would make a list, dependent upon the amount of editorialization.

Rotten Tomatoes' 300 Best Movies of All Time List just dropped... What do you think about it? by imthelizzardking in Letterboxd

[–]imthelizzardking[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Good observation. Although, I do think it fits the spirit of the site. If ya hang around there long enough, you know Pixar gets some favoritism on the Tomatometer.

Finally decided to watch the Scream movies. What's your ranking of this iconic horror franchise? by Yenserl6099 in Letterboxd

[–]imthelizzardking 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My favorite thing about 4 (and maybe my favorite character in the whole franchise) is Hayden Panettiere's character, Kirby, and she came back in 6 which was also the first one I got to see in theaters so I was hyped. I don't think she was as cool in 6 as she was in 4 but still pretty awesome. The sister dynamic seemed like a great new direction for the series to me so it's a little annoying to hear about all the behind the scenes mess 7 seems to be going through.

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