WatchThis goes social! (and some other cool new features)
Long story short: you can now follow your friends, see what they’re up to on the site and show off your new, revamped profile
Since we officially launched WatchThis almost five months ago, we received a lot of feedback from you. You all love the site’s simplicity. We only offer features you use often, to easily discover good movies, keep track of them and recommend the ones you loved.
However, we felt something big was missing. Until now, WatchThis was a service you would use for yourself only. Now, you will be able to interact with other users. Behold…
That’s right. You can now find and follow your friends on WatchThis, see what movies they’re planning to watch, what movie they just saw or commented on and what comment they found interesting. It’s really easy: just go to their profile and click the “Follow” button (yes, just like on Twitter!)
We’re also happy to introduce another new feature: you can now proudly tell what your favorite movies are: just go to a movie’s page and ★ it, it will appear on your profile.
Some of the most exciting opportunities of the redesign of your profile are new ways to interact with users *outside* of the site. You want to contact another user? Click on the Twitter or Facebook link on their profile and send them a message! Your profile is now much more interesting with your four top-rated comments and a link to read all your interesting comments, below your favorite movies.
Finally, we often found ourselves wanting to watch a movie with someone else but unable to tell what movies we both *need* to watch. There’s now an easy way to know that: just go to a friend’s profile and you’ll see this:
We hope you’re going to enjoy this!
See you on WatchThis.
The Breakfast Club (John Hughes, 1985)
Alex:
One of the best teen movies ever made. You laugh, you cry, you live with the protagonists. Brilliant.
GQ on the making of GoodFellas:
Yes, indeed, The Godfather is masterful. The Sopranos? We never missed an episode. But you want to talk about a movie that leaves a mark? Twenty years after the release of GoodFellas, the good people behind it—Scorsese, Liotta, De Niro!—re-create the making of the truest, bloodiest, greatest gangster film of all time.
(via mrgan)
6 scary and awesome characters played by Steve Buscemi
- Mr. Pink in Reservoir Dogs (Quentin Tarantino, 1992)
- Carl in Fargo (Joel Coen, 1996)
- Garland ‘The Marietta Mangler’ Greene in Con Air (Simon West, 1997)
- Donny in The Big Lebowski (Joel Coen, 1998)
- Seymour in Ghost World (Terry Zwigoff, 2001)
- The tourist in the “Tuileries” segment of Paris, je t’aime (Joel Coen, 2006)
(in addition to his roles as Tony Soprano’s cousin, Boardwalk Empire’s Enoch “Nucky” Thompson, his appearance in the music video of Joe Strummer’s cover of Redemption Song and his contribution to Lou Reed’s album The Raven)
Its tagline (“Fast Cars, Fast Girls, Fast Carrots… Fast Carrots?”), its cult scenes featuring Sean Penn as a stoner make us forget that Fast Times at Ridgemont High is also a very thoughtful coming of age movie, where teenagers have to deal with sexuality, money, independence, abortion, and other issues they’re often not prepared for. It came out in 1982, but it’s still very relevant in 2010.
Add Fast Times at Ridgemont High to your list on WatchThis
If you liked it, you’ll probably also like The Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off and St Elmo’s Fire, a movie about a group of friends just out of college.
