And an API with an excellent free tier

Fuck dyslexia...

Enshigi reality is a thing now too, I'm afraid.

I'd suggest NeoDB too. It is great for keeping track of not just movies but also books, video games, music and books. https://eggplant.place/ is one of the main instances.

For getting recommendations and looking at ratings I do also like Movielens.

no boomers allowed

It’s also terrifically unhinged

@TheImpressiveX Letterboxd is first and foremost a review site, imo. There are some editorial articles on it, and there are user-curated lists, but it does not have a lot of "social media" features

I use it and I’ve exported my IMDb reviews to it, but it still lacks the trivia and other cool stuff. I use both, to be clear.

My only issue with letterboxd is they pull from TheMovieDB for metadata/director verification and TMDB has some exclusionary/gatekeeping policy where they don't consider films released primarily on Youtube eligible. This has fucked over indie directors like Joel Haver. I think his fans have manually intervened but no policy has changed that I know of.

https://letterboxd.com/director/joel-haver/

Thanks will give it a try.

My son is a big cinephile, and Letterboxd is his go-to. He doesn't even want hear about IMDB.

I tried in many regions and countries and all of them required login to see reviews. I use a browser that keeps no cookies and deletes all browsing data on exit.

Yep, just tried it again for that movie and I had no problem. I will say this is in the IOS app and in the past when I updated the app it tried to get me to login but it’s always had a skip link.

Yeah I’m sure it’s prob location or some other demo they are picking up to enforce that shit.

Yes and no. IMDb is ten billion percent better in Safari if you have a competent content blocker. On the Android side, I wouldn't make the shortcut, because I assume it would go through Chrome. I'd just use Firefox and uBlock Origin. But yes, IMDb without the app is better. However, it doesn't save searches (which also might be a plus, but if I keep coming back to what I'm watching, having the history does save time).

If a site is perfectly servicable without an app, I'd recommend people just do that all day long. Apps are not the best thing, but they're convenient to a point. I think people should be aware of what apps can do without their permission vs web content. This varies between iOS and Android too, so you gotta know what you're running and what it can do/what can be done to it by others.

Or elimination. Never forget what they took from us, the comments/forum section. IIRC they did it because of creepy people posting "age of majority" countdowns and other creepy content on starlets, and they wanted more Hollywood people interacting with the site (IMDb Pro subs). So they removed the noise. The problem is, there are a lot of inaccuracies and duplications in the trivia and related sections. I would peg that for removal instead.