Why You Should Use Letterboxd.com To Track Your Movies

in Movies & TV Shows2 years ago
Authored by @namiks

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Hello everyone! As part of my little series of sporadic tips and features for posting here in the Movies & TV Shows Community here on Hive, I've been wanting to find ways in which this community can not just improve the types of posts we all share in the community, but seek ways in which we can expand and market such posts to a broader audience, even if that means sharing such posts across social media websites. As of late, we've been quite active on the Twitter side of things -- follow us here -- but there's still so much more we all could do.

In this post, I want to introduce you all to an incredibly useful platform: Letterboxd. I feel for many of you, this service is precisely what you'd all love to use, and it serves a lot of potential in how you may market your reviews here in the community to an outside audience; leading to not just more exposure to the community and Hive, but to additional eyes on the posts you all put so much effort into crafting.

What is Letterboxd?

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To put it briefly: Letterboxd is a movie database that allows you to create lists for movies you'd like to see and archive movies you have seen. Users can post reviews of the movies they're logging on their profiles that others can see. People can follow you, like your reviews, and see your own personal lists that you've created.

When you create an account and begin logging movies, you can see which movies you've seen throughout the past year, as well as in total. Each logged movie can be rated under a star scoring system and displays the exact date it was either added or watched. This means you and all others on the site can see when you watched a movie, what you rated it, and what your thoughts are in a review.

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The platform uses a database of movies that extends far beyond just western movies released in Hollywood, so there's a vast amount of support for any languages; meaning even if you wish to log movies from your own countries and comment in your own native language, you can!

The platform is entirely free, so there's no restrictions to how you interact with people or the platform itself. The Pro version is simply if you wish to support the platform financially and receive a few profile customisation features.

Letterboxd even has a mobile application which is really simple to use, and again: totally free!

How does this benefit us?

Well, as mentioned above: this community of movie fanatics can interact with each other, see what others from the community are watching, would like to watch, and even see links to their reviews here in the community when they're published.

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As you can see above, I've added a link to my review on Hive to the log of the movie 'Brother', of which I did see a while ago, but only just reviewed the other day. Now imagine if we all did this! Not only would this community see an increased number of eyes appearing in it, but we'd be seeking new ways of engagement with each other both in and outside of Hive -- connecting more and establishing new friendships based on the ways we watch and review/log movies.

We could create lists of movies we've reviewed here on Hive each with links to our posts; lists of movies we wish to review, and more. All in addition to seeing constant feeds from our fellow community members, allowing us to discover new films to both watch and write about here on Hive.

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Engagement

Engagement means everything to any community. The ways in which we interact with each other is what allows a community to both grow and remain. I believe Letterboxd could play a very important role in how Hive, and our community, establishes itself to a broader audience in ways that benefit each and ever single person that contributes to it.

I highly recommend each of you create an account and check out Letterboxd. Either it's something you need and will love; didn't know you needed but love, or don't need at all. It's worth checking out and seeing if there's a chance at integrating it into your Hive growth and flow.

If you create an account, feel free to follow me on there, and I look forward to interacting with you all!

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I loved the idea!!! besides the fact that it allows me to give visibility to my content, attract people to hive, interact with others and see what others are seeing, it allows me to organize my own content and know which reviews I have done, what a wonderful idea! Thank you very much @moviesonhive

 2 years ago  

Exactly. It is important to give visibility to our content to people who are not on the platform.

I really didn't know about this platform, I will take the time to take a look at it and actively participate by sharing the reviews I have done here on Hive. It seems to me a good opportunity to make our platform known.

 2 years ago  

Yes, that's the idea, to make Hive known through this platform. Maybe some cinephile who posts there will be interested in knowing about Hive.

I been keeping track of the films I watched since a couple of years, maybe this is a good opportunity to translate everything to letterbox and taken advantage of his social features 🤔

 2 years ago  

Give it a try, make a mini review, Twitter style and leave a link to your Hive blog.

hello friend, this page is great, it would be a great way to get more views in our reviews, also if those people are encouraged they could be part of hive too, thanks for sharing that information, greetings

 2 years ago  

You would get more visits and we could attract moviegoers who then want to join Hive.

I created my account a few days ago but hadn't started to rate anything yet. This post served me as a reminder so I just started to mention some films I've been watching. The next time I write about a film I just watched, I'll put it into Letterboxd.

Thanks for the post, I'm now following you!

I love this website. I think my wife will love this website too. Thank you for sharing. Greetings from the Philippines!

I needed this. Will check it out.

 2 years ago  

We are glad you found it useful.

This is awesome! Now I just wish all of the streaming apps and movie theaters would somehow find a way to connect to an application like this and automate it. It’s a chore to remember to add all of the movies I watched. I try to write reviews for the good ones, but I don’t waste my time on bad one usually. I just think it would be cool to have a digital list of every single movie I’ve ever watched, without actually having to create that list myself.

 2 years ago  

Yes, you can give it several uses, and it is important to spread our Hive publications on other platforms, we can attract audiences from there.

Yay! I love it. I didn't even know something like this exist. Thanks for sharing.


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Thanks for suggesting letterboxd. I also created a record. I started following you. namiks. my name is commenter. I like this app because I am a movie lover.

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For SURE, a great platform. Big fan.

Here's my profile if you want to follow: www.letterboxd.com/dr_lebowski

@moviesonhive i just gave it a try and i have come to conclude that, "you're a genius" what an excellent idea i bless you for this great work❤️

I really love this idea!

Amazing. I just stumbled on your post and though I had to write one movie review. Gotta check letterboxd too- I think it looks like a great idea. Thank you @moviesonhive

I just find this post and believe that every platform that aloud to expand hive potential it's a valuable asset. And a great way to engage more with the community. I check it out.

The concept of letterboxd is a huge addition to how we can stay connected with the movie community. Since I am a huge lover of movies, I am going to create an account ASAP and expect followership from me @namiks

I'm trying to get back in the content creation side of Hive after a "brief" hiatus and I always loved movies and TV shows.
I'll check Letterboxd out. See you there and here on Hive.

Grazie per questo super super consiglio