Say what you like about lastfm (and with their last redesign a lot of people did), it does a pretty competent job of pulling together your itunes, spotify and other digital playcounts into one library. I’ve been searching for some time for a site to do the same library job for films. Clearly not via scrobbles, but somewhere you could remind yourself of what you had and wanted to see. Now there’s letterboxd.com which I’ve been playing about with for a week. Dead easy to create lists, enter films, sort via release date, watch date etc. But – big but perhaps – it doesn’t do TV shows. So in terms of trying to build up that watched list – chiefly for myself but possibly public – is the answer? It looks nice and as far as I can see is not owned by Amazon.
So why not IMDB? – because its lists looks awfully like an Amazon wish list, and doesn’t have any of the graphical chops letterboxd has. Though it has TV. Anyone list on IMDB and would like to argue for it before I commit my silver screen data entry time to letterboxd?
Or is there another site entirely I should be looking at?
Film Logging Sites
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I’ve just joined up to letterboxd to have a look (and followed you, which isn’t stalkery if I’ve told you about it, right?). I’ve never thought of logging my film watching before, and it might be interesting to look back over what I’ve watched. Plus, I now have a place to tag a film I read or hear good things about so I can remember what it’s called when it’s released on DVD/demand months and months later!
Well now you are on @drakeygirl I’ll go all in! I like the look of letterboxd, like the lists and if I ever get Netflix there is a pro version which will alert you to when a film comes onto it from your watchlist. Can live then without TV. I agree on of the most useful things is the watchlist to put new releases onto
Could this help, claims to “Track every TV show and movie you watch, automatically from your media center. We call this scrobbling. To get started, install the plugin for your favorite media center, sit back and enjoy.”
https://trakt.tv/
Looks good @popwilleatitself do you use it? Does do tv and film which is a plus but not as graphically elegant as letterboxd