beatsbyleoThe Formalist
listened · Jul 26
Lemonade 2016
★★★★4.0
A concept album that actually delivers a concept. Freedom is a hymn. Sandcastles is the one that gets me.
Mostly about the story.
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A profile of your taste, built from what you actually loved.
Log films, series, books, albums, and games in one place. Every title is read for its character on fourteen dimensions, and every log teaches the profile what you respond to.
Justin
The Prestige Hunter · 72 rated
- Harsher than 62% of curators
- Has rated more than 57% of curators
Fourteen dimensions, read against every other curator. Yours appears after a handful of ratings.
Forrest Gump1994Epic, earnest, effortless and meticulous.
Not a genre label: a reading of how it moves, how it feels, and what it asks of you. Your profile is matched against this, so the page can say how likely you are to rate it four stars or more.
Every film, series, book, album, and game gets the same reading.
How it works
- 01Log
Type a title, paste a paragraph, or photograph a stub. Sources like Letterboxd and Netflix can do it for you; nothing is logged without a yes from you.
- 02Read
We read each title's character and each of your reviews. Your profile is the pattern in what you rated up and down.
- 03Predict
Before you start something, the page says how likely you are to rate it four stars or more, and why.
- 04Argue
Find your taste twin, your interesting opposite, and the three questions people fight about on every title.
Twelve archetypes
Names for the patterns in how people rate. You get one after a handful of ratings; it can change.
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Circe 2018
★★★★4.0
A Greek myth told by the one character everyone forgot to ask. Warm, angry, and paced like a thriller in the last third.
Mostly about the craft, the story.
beatsbyleoThe Formalist
played · 3d
Hades 2020
★★★★½4.5
Best soundtrack in games since Nier. The game is also good.
Mostly about the craft.
watched · 2d
The Thing 1982
★★★★½4.5
Paranoia as a physical substance. Nobody trusts anybody and the film agrees with them. The blood test scene is a perfect short film.
Mostly about the story.
The Secret History 1992
★★★★½4.5
Tartt tells you who died on page one and you spend five hundred pages hoping you are wrong about why. Overlong in the middle and I did not care.
Mostly about the story, the pace.
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Se7en 1995
★★½2.5
Extremely well made and I never want to see it again. That is the whole review.
Mostly about the craft.
watched · Sep 11
Interstellar 2014
★★2.0
Love is the fifth dimension, says the scientist, unironically, to an audience of adults. The wormhole is nice.
Competent, loud, and forgettable within the hour. It is a product demo for a business model. That it works as one is not a point in its favour.
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