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Letterboxd and Reddit users are having a meltdown over this movie

posted 2 months ago by Okto101423 (284)
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LOL

[–] e3e34ifj (1912) 2 months ago

I mean it'll probably be shit. IMDb seems to attract a right-leaning biased userbase just as Letterboxd attracts a left-leaning biased userbase.

[–] Burk48917 (11356) 2 months ago

🤣 That is laughably untrue. It's just that snowflake liberals think facts that hurt their feelings must be from the right.

[–] Creamofdacrop884 (1692) 2 months ago

I see plenty of liberals on this site

[–] Burk48917 (11356) 2 months ago

He was talking about IMDB, but yes, there are plenty here too.

[–] Satan2016 (25525) 2 months ago

I don't know why he mentioned IMDb, they have no rating or reviews. They don't attract any particular ideology unless the movie does. I'm sure this title gets review bombed by mindless sheep.

[–] e3e34ifj (1912) 2 months ago

They most certainly do have reviews on IMDb, have you never written user review yourself?

[–] JohnnyDoe (1884) 2 months ago

Ratings:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt33034103/ratings/?ref_=tt_ov_rt
User Reviews:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt33034103/reviews/?ref_=tt_ql_op_2

[–] Satan2016 (25525) 2 months ago

Nothing Thursday, I didn't check today.

[–] Creamofdacrop884 (1692) 2 months ago

I consider this an extension of IMDB at this point.

[–] e3e34ifj (1912) 2 months ago

I don't understand what you're trying to say. IMDb is FAR more rightwinged than Letterboxd. Compare the ratings of Reagan on both cites, for example.

[–] Zarkoff (1853) 2 months ago

I don't think a movie that appeals to the right having a middling-positive score in IMDB means it skews to the right politically. It's only got 4k votes, so I'm not sure there's all that much awareness of the movie right now.

[–] sslssg (34211) 2 months ago

I haven't seen it, and I have no interest in it. I had no interest in the Borat movies either. None of these types of mockumentaries show interviews from the usual, everyday type people. So of course it will be hilarious to some, and offensive to others. When you only show the extreme on either side, because they provide the most entertainment value, all you're doing is causing a division that doesn't really need to be there. That goes for both sides.

[–] BeaSouth (3284) 2 months ago

There were many interviews of everyday type of people in this movie, black and white. Those were the most enlightening scenes and provided some very positive impressions of the future of American race relations. It was pretty telling to see many black people and white people expressing the same sentiment on the philosophy of loving your neighbor for example. The movie did not ridicule those ordinary people like we saw in Borat. (And, some of Walsh’s interviewees were very unconventional in appearance).

Where ridicule occurred, it was mostly at the expense of the media and grifters who exploit racial problems to make money off those who are genuinely (but excessively) sensitive to the subject.

[–] BlackMass (988) 2 months ago

Well said. sslssg is sounding off about a film s/he knows nothing of.

[–] BeaSouth (3284) 2 months ago

sslssg and I have recurring debates. She’s pretty liberal (IMHO) and I’m pretty conservative. But I really like her and she tries to find common ground and doesn’t ever resort to insults which i respect.

I genuinely think Walsh recognized there might be the “Borat” type criticism and thus treated the “man on the street” people with a lot of respect, let them speak their piece, and usually made his “character” the butt of the jokes that arose. Some people really tore him up which was funny.