IDK how to explain this properly but I feel like there's a subset of Letterboxd user who like...revel in having contrarian takes. They'll give 5 stars to like Barbie movies to show how Cool and Not Pretentious they are and then turn around and aggressively make fun of Tarantino fans for thinking they are smart or being film bros or whatever. And be like weirdly proud of themselves for giving two star ratings to critically acclaimed movies.

IDK I just feel like 'film bro' is such an overused term that its become completely meaningless. I feel like its just become cool to be ironic and detached and anti-intellectual or whatever. Teenagers who are super into Kubrick or Tarantino or whatever aren't hurting anyone and while sometimes they might be a bit cringey, is that a crime? Like people will make fun of someone for writing proper, long reviews over short joke reviews, but IDK, I appreciate the sincerity and passion.

Does this make any sense? At all?

disclaimer, no hate to barbie movies or the people who enjoy them, its just an example 👀 i like plenty of objectively crappy movies, like what you like, just don't be a dick about it

disclaimer again, I love short joke reviews too and find them funny, this isn't meant to hate on anyone who writes them

EDIT: I didnt explain my point well at all, and sorry yall for inadvertently contributing to a culture of negativity. Leaving this up because theres some interesting discussion in the comments.

This comment by EdwardSandwhichHands explains my point much better than I did:

‘’Yeah I agree, and i think it’s really bad that non english movies are conflated with film bro pretentiousness. or the same for old movies.

Sure some people are a bit full of themselves, but i feel like the Cool Online Take of anti pretension has skewed way too far into the irony poisoned pessimistic view, and I think it severely limits the kinds of art people are willing to take a chance on at the risk of seemed “pretentious”

At the end of the day everyone should like what they like, if they don’t wanna venture into foreign or experimental stuff that’s totally fine, and if that’s all they wanna watch that’s also fine! So much easier not to be a dick over people having different tastes’’