It’s hard not to give my vote to South Korea.

Personally, it’s Sentimental Value. I still think it is a GREAT film, with remarkable performances, cinematography and direction. But still, l felt that it had a sense of self-importance that really bugged me, kinda passing a vibe that’s like “look at how deep l am”, and it’s a standard family drama… a damn good one at it, don’t get me wrong, but it felt like White People Problems: The Movie. And also, from halfway until Agnes and Nora’s heart-to-heart, l feel the film deliberately meanders with little focus, and that make me a bit less engaged on it. That’s just my opinion, and l’m really happy if you love the film!

Anyone, what’s your choice?

EDIT: and regarding its Foreign Film win at the Oscars, l’m not a huge fan as well; both The Secret Agent and It Was just an Accident would’ve been better choice, personally speaking.

I grew up in South India watching Spiderman in my own language. I knew what pancakes were years before I ate one. I knew what a steak was, what Americans pour in their cereal bowls, what their slang meant, why you wear a tie to a formal dinner. I moved to the United States at 23 for my Masters, I'm 25 now, I work in high finance, and almost nothing here surprised me, because I'd been studying this country my whole life without anyone asking me to. I know everything about you. Very few of you know anything about me.

Then the new Ramayana trailer dropped today, and I went through the comments of IG, YT and this sub. A lot of it was the same stuff I've read under Baahubali and RRR for years. Cheesy. Cringe. Bad CGI. AI. “Is this an advertisement for their street food, I can smell them”. Why is everyone dancing. Some of it wasn't even dressed up as criticism. It was just contempt, pointed at brown people for building something big.

I'll be honest, it hurt. This sub/letterboxd is supposed to be where people who love movies go to take them seriously. If the verdict depends on whose face and whose passport is attached to a fantasy epic or a blockbuster, that isn't taste, it's a reflex.

Now look at what gets a free pass. A Marvel movie isn't a story someone spent ten years aching to tell. It's a calendar date. The release slot is announced years in advance, and the story is built to fit it. I work in finance, so I know margin optimization when I see it. Which demographic, which rating, how many screens in which country, which languages to dub into so a few million more people buy tickets. That's how I got Spiderman in my native language. It wasn't a gift, it was a line item.

Then they rerelease an old film to advertise the new one, and you're expected to have watched like 70 fuckin movies and 20+ shows before you're allowed to follow it. That is homework, and somehow it counts as serious cinema.

Meanwhile, a purple alien collecting glowing rocks to wipe out half the universe is science fiction, and a brown man climbing a waterfall in Bahubali is unrealistic. A song and dance number is silly, but we're supposed to nod along to a talking tree. Everyone on earth wants to entertain their OWN PEOPLE. Most of them are doing it with a fraction of the tools. 8 fuckin billion people and only 300 million from American get to voice their culture, their opinions, their lives, their political views and rest of the 7.7 billion people should stfu and not take risks??

Consider the numbers. Hollywood has a hundred year head start, the IMAX cameras, the VFX pipelines, the sound stages, the mixing suites, all concentrated in a few cities and built for people who already have access. Both Baahubali films together cost around 430 crore, roughly 65 million dollars. RRR cost about 550 crore. Gemini Man alone cost 138 million, spent another 100 million on marketing, and lost Paramount an estimated 111 million.

Nobody sneered at an entire culture, race and country over it.
And this is where the colonial part comes in. I can write this post in English because English was pressed into my country for generations, and Hollywood now sells to that same audience, dubbed into Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and whatever else the spreadsheet says will move tickets. The same history that built their budgets drained ours. Indian carved temples we still can't fully explain and wove saris that take months of handwork. We never lacked art. We lacked the money and the megaphone.

I'm not asking anyone to love Ramayana, RRR, Baahubali, Varanasi, or any film that doesn't have a Hollywood studio's money and approval attached to it. I'm asking you to watch before you judge, and to judge what's on screen. But when you catch yourself laughing at a shot, ask whether you'd laugh if the same shot had a different face in it.
I don't expect this to move a single rating. I just needed to say it out loud once.

I feel obligated to give it half a star due to the ai

Bad/terrible movies inspired by great novels, comics, video games, folklore, movies or plays that fail to capture the quality of the source material and end up huge pieces of wasted potential

there are certainly a lot more of these so im curious for more suggestions to the list

I watched Susperia years ago and found it incredibly boring and incoherent.
Recently I watched Tenebre (twice) and was very impressed. It’s fast paced, good kills and incredible electronic score. Then I watched Deep Red, realized later it was the directors cut. Would’ve liked the cut down version more. Opera was pretty good. Demons is on my list to watch next. Anything else?

The movies I haven’t seen yet are:
You Can See Everything
Whalefall
Street Fighter
Verity
Other Mommy
The Social Reckoning

I’m definitely going to see You Can See Everything. Anything else in the list worth checking out?

Official Second Trailer for Namit Malhotra's Ramayana: The Rise of a Legend (2026) offers a stunning look at international film craft in motion. Powered by a landmark Hans Zimmer and A.R. Rahman score, the footage balances heavy physical action by Guy Norris (Mad Max: Fury Road) and creature design by Terry Notary (The Square) with immersive world-building from production designers Ravi Bansal and Ramsey Avery.

Oscar winning visual effects titan DNEG drives the visual scale under VFX supervisor Dan Glass.

Mark this cinematic event on your watchlists before it opens

exclusively in theatres on November 5!

Let’s drag this felonious asshat through the mud!

I've heard both fans and detractors of the movie suggest that the movie is essentially criticizing and/or mocking the audience members watching the play and, in turn, us viewers watching the movie. The idea is that the play "Fossil Fools" is essentially just a means of distracting the residents of this dystopian world from the bleak reality they live in, and is aimed at diverting the anger they should have towards the ruler of this world towards long-dead figures who they can't do anything about. It's like people cheering an SNL parody of Trump instead of actually doing something substantive to protest Trump.

But I don't see it that way at all, and I suspect it has something to do with my own values regarding art and civic responsibility. In my view, the production of Fossil Fools is a legitimate piece of art serving a valuable purpose. Entertainment and escapism are important to retaining our sanity, and giving us levity and enjoyment in trying times. I don't criticize the people clapping at the end of the play, I don't hold them responsible for changing the world they live in, and most importantly, I don't think that enjoying Fossil Fuels and working towards positive change are mutually-exclusive. I know I'm in the minority here, but I read Jesse Plemons' speech as a sincere, hopeful and inspiring testament to the power of art.

Did anyone else read it this way, or is it just me?

I was wondering which movies people would add. I think when I’m talking about Oscar years and where Best Picture nominees stack up against each other, certain movies that I would not have guessed still have aggressive defenders. For instance A Beautiful Mind in my opinion is the weakest of its years Picture lineup. Jojo Rabbit and Hacksaw Ridge are also movies that I think were less deserving of directing and editing nominations than other films (a screenplay win in Jojo’s case). Despite these being fairly standard takes, I notice they receive significant amounts of engagement and outrage compared to similar ones for equally notable movies.

My reasoning for each pick:

•Birth of A Nation - Unfortunately this was a very influential film. Not just on the art form of cinema but also in the real world. It contributed to the revival of The Klan and is an example of a movie that genuinely has a body count.

•Metropolis - The godfather of Sci-Fi.

•Mr. Smith Goes To Washington - Wizard of Oz may have seemed the obvious choice because of its standing in pop culture but I think more directors have tried, often successfully, to imitate Mr. Smith more than they did Oz.

•Citizen Kane - You may have heard of this film.

•Seven Samurai - A big influence of the spaghetti western genre which would come later and one of the great works by the master Kurosawa.

•Easy Rider - The box office hit that helped usher in the New Hollywood era.

•Star Wars: A New Hope - You may have also heard of this film.

•Blade Runner - I almost chose Ghostbusters because when people think of the 80’s, they think of fun high budget/high concept movies like that, Back To the Future, Robocop, etc. But Blade Runner has probably had a more longstanding impact on people who went on to be directors themselves.

•Pulp Fiction - Every crime movie that came out for the next decade wanted to be Pulp Fiction and its nonlinear storytelling would be adopted by many other writers and directors.

Hey r/Letterboxd!

I’ve been messing around with Letterboxd .csv exports for a while (shared some ideas here a while back).

I wanted my desktop to automatically cycle through 4K backdrops of films I’ve actually logged instead of searching Google—so I built Letterboxd Wallpaper Downloader to automate it.

How it works:

1. Export your .csv from Letterboxd (Settings ➔ Import & Export).
2. Feed it to the app with a free TMDb API key (takes 1 min to generate).
3. It downloads the highest-resolution official wallpapers available for every film on your list.

Highlights:

• 🎬 Works with any list: watched.csv, ratings.csv, or custom list CSVs.
• ⚙️ Plug & Play: Standalone executables for Windows and Linux (no Python required).

👉GitHub Repository

(Tip: Point your OS slideshow settings to the download folder to have a auto-rotating cinema wallpaper gallery)

Hope you guys find it useful! Let me know if you have any feedback or feature ideas.

When I first saw the trailer - and poster - for DIGGER, I was appalled. It looked horrendous. Bad acting. Bad humor. Washed out colors. Nothing interesting. . . . . What I saw in the cinema was something altogether different. Yes, I know there is a "reveal" but what's the point of a "reveal" if the theater is empty? This was a massive miss in marketing. I think if DIGGER were sold as an ensemble piece, NOT playing it as a Cruise vehicle, NOT leaning into the humor and actually featuring some of the tremendous visuals in the film, it could have been more successful.

Possible Spoiler Alert:

Maybe a tagline like: "A Dying President . . . A Deluded Millionaire . . . A Suffering Scientist . . . A Mystery Man . . . A Troupe of Actors . . . . They Face the End of the World - And They Feel Fine!"

What went wrong - beyond the budget - and how could it have been salvaged?

These are my personal top 4 from both. I’d give the edge to Lumet, very close imo.

I mean I'm still gonna give it a watch cuz I have no better things to do this weekend. But sad it just seems like another mediocre video game adaptation

EDIT: I can't change my title but I want to try rewording this a little - I'm looking for films that are primarily about/feature sexuality, but are not really "dark" in any way. It's fine if they're not strictly romantic, and it's fine if they have some sort of conflict in them, honestly it's even fine if they have BDSM if it's presented in a safe/sane/consensual manner. I was just noticing that the majority of movies that are labeled as "erotic" tend to be particularly "dark", as in, dealing just as much with sex as with violence/abuse/assault/rape/etc. or just otherwise clearly trying to make viewers feel quite uncomfortable in some way (ex. The Piano Teacher, Nymphomaniac, The Handmaiden, Eyes Wide Shut, etc.). I think these movies can be great! But it was interesting to notice that they seem like the predominant way that sexuality gets expressed in film.

I'm also not looking for more generalized romance films that probably have like one sex scene in them but they're not particularly themed around sexuality. I'm also not really looking for movies that are about sexuality but not exactly in an earnest/erotic manner (The Invite, for example).

The only mainstream movie I can think of right now that I think fits what I'm asking for is Challengers, which is pretty engaged with sexuality in an earnest/erotic way, but it's also not "dark" or upsetting in any way.

Original post:

This seems like a bit of a weird question but I feel like a lot of movies that deal heavily with sexuality as a theme are also kind of "fucked up" - for example, Secretary, The Piano Teacher, Nymphomaniac, etc. I absolutely adore these movies, but I recently watched Kama Sutra and although of course there is conflict in the movie, there is a lot of emphasis on deep emotional romantic connection via sex, and I found myself thinking that I actually feel like I rarely see this? I don't know if I seem crazy because romance as a genre does exist but a lot of romantic movies I feel aren't really strongly about sexuality per se, whereas movies that center it tend to just be darker in nature - as another example of what I'm NOT looking for, the entire erotic thriller genre combines sexuality + crime/violence/murder etc. Some other examples that I think might possibly fit the bill of what I'm looking for are Challengers (yes there's conflict but it's not "dark" at all) and Shortbus.

Just curious if anyone has any other ideas for stuff that might fit this question.

i wanna watch a movie like zoolander can you guys recommend a movie like this

Thought The end of oak streets gotta be the worst movie this year, but then i watched digger, what the fuck.

The amount of bots promoting this movie saying how good it is is also insane