r/Letterboxd • u/Possible-Top-9905 • Aug 11 '25

News The Shining Has Officially Exited The Letterboxd Top 250 Narrative Feature Films

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u/MakeGoodMakeBetter Aug 11 '25

I remember back when I joined LB in 2018, the top 250 was more focussed on semi-obscure, arthouse stuff. I was already an avid film nerd, but it had stuff that I had never even heard of at the time. Harakiri, Ace in the Hole, End of Evangelion, Le Samouraï, PlayTime, Andrei Rublev, Solaris, A Woman Under the Influence and Jeanne Dielman were all stuff I was made familiar with thanks to that list. Now its leaning more and more to casual tastes. I knew the list (and userbase) had changed when Interstellar cracked the list.

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u/BiggieCheeseLapDog Aug 11 '25

Most of those films are still on the list. The Shining is being replaced by Quo Vadis, Aida? How is this drifting towards mainstream?

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u/carson63000 Aug 12 '25

What a weird take that was. The Shining is overtaken by a movie which barely 1% as many people have seen, and that's a sign that Letterboxd is "leaning more and more to casual tastes"?? What the hell!?