watched · 1d
Before Sunrise 1995
★★★★4.0
Archetype
The Formalist
Rates on craft and structure. With a streak of The Sincere.
4% of curators. Today's reading; it moves as they rate.
They fall for how a thing is made. A cut, a sentence, a mix, a level layout: when the execution is exact they will follow it anywhere, plot or no plot.
Where it goes wrong: You can mistake polish for meaning, and miss the rough thing that is actually alive.
More about the Formalist
- Avoids
- Sloppiness, even in service of a big heart. A moving story told without care leaves you cold, and you feel slightly guilty about that.
- How they rate
- Your stars track craft more than feeling. You are one of the few who will give five to something you did not enjoy.
- Good company
- You get on with Prestige Hunters and Archivists, who share your respect for the made thing, and you argue happily with Empaths.
- Against the crowd
- You part ways with the crowd on crowd-pleasers that are built carelessly, and you rescue chilly, precise work the audience found cold.
Open to the unusual
In three lines
- More experimental than almost every curator. formal experimentationclassical in formformally daring 62%
- More thin setting than most curators. world-buildingsparerichly built 55%
- More intimate than most curators. scaleintimateepic 59%
The charts and numbers behind this are under Taste.
Badges
All 25- Omnivore · GoldMaxed
- Shelved · Silver23 of 25
- Time traveler · Silver8 of 10
- On a streak · Silver35 of 100
- First entry · BronzeMaxed
- Opinionated · Bronze45 of 50
- Conversationalist8 of 10
- Serialist6 of 10
Favorites
The five this curator would hand you first, in no particular order.
Films
Deadpool
Before Sunrise
Casablanca
The Thing
Interstellar
Seriess
BEEF
Succession
Severance
Twin Peaks
Breaking Bad
Books
Pachinko
Never Let Me Go
Project Hail Mary
Albums
Make a playlist- Blonde
- good kid, m.A.A.d city
- Kid A
- Illmatic
- To Pimp a Butterfly
Games
Hades
Return of the Obra Dinn
Hollow Knight
Disco Elysium
Dark Souls
Fingerprint
Fourteen dimensions, against everyone
Further out is a stronger lean than other curators.
Read this chart
Each spoke is one dimension; further out means a stronger lean that way than other curators. A big shape is a strong, unusual taste; a small one is close to the middle of everyone.
By medium
How beatsbyleo rates each kind of thing
One row a medium; the dashed line is the mean. Kinder to books than films? It shows here.
Read this chart
One bar per star rating, one row per medium. Where the bars pile up is your habit; the dashed line is your average for that medium.
The map
Every curator, placed by taste
The two directions taste varies most along. Archetypes cluster; beatsbyleo is ringed, and people they follow are outlined.
Read this chart
Every curator, placed so that people with similar leans sit near each other. The two axes are the directions taste varies most along, found from all profiles. Neighbors are worth a look.
Against the crowd
Where beatsbyleo parts ways with the audience
Above the line, kinder than the crowd; below it, harsher.
Read this chart
Each dot is a title: your stars up, the audience's average across. Dots above the line are where you were kinder than the crowd, below it harsher. A wide spread means you do not follow consensus.
Drift
How what beatsbyleo loved has moved
Needs ratings across at least two years, with three or more in each.
Year by year, on the four strongest dimensions.
Read this chart
One line per dimension, one point per year: the average character of what you loved that year. A line that climbs means your favorites moved toward that pole.
The numbers
What the sentences on the overview are made of.
Archetype, with the runners-up
- The Formalist91%
In the community
- Kinder than 57% of curators
- Has rated more than 36% of curators
- More experimental than 95% of curators
- 4% of curators are Formalists
Among 634 curators with a profile.
Cares most about
- classical in formformally daring
- sparerichly built
- intimateepic
Solid mark is what they love; hollow is what they avoid. Emotional intensity barely moves their ratings.
Genres
- hip hop4.5★ · 3
- conscious hip hop4.5★ · 3
- art rock4.2★ · 3
- Indie4.1★ · 5
- Family3.3★ · 3
- Science Fiction3.6★ · 6
Taste profile
How far this curator leans on each dimension compared with everyone else. Strongest eight; the rest below.
All fourteen dimensions
Ratings
Profile built from 41 rated titles.
This month they were revisiting favorites. From 15 logs in the last thirty days.
Year in review:2026
Logs
listened · 2d
Hounds of Love 1985
★★★★4.0
Side one is hits, side two is a drowning woman's dream suite, and somehow it is one album. Nobody else has made this record.
Mostly about the story.
played · 3d
Hades 2020
★★★★½4.5
Best soundtrack in games since Nier. The game is also good.
Mostly about the craft.
listened · 3d
In Rainbows 2007
★★★★4.0
watched · 3d
Mad Men 2007
★★★½3.5
played · 4d
Dark Souls 2011
★★★½3.5
listened · 4d
Kid A 2000
★★★★½4.5
It sounds like the year 2000 was afraid of itself. Everything in Its Right Place is the best opener of the decade and the album never spends the goodwill cheaply.
Mostly about the craft.
finished · Sep 14
Project Hail Mary 2021
★★★3.0
listened · Sep 12
Punisher 2020
★★★★4.0
watched · Sep 12
Paddington 2 2017
★★★½3.5
played · Sep 11
Disco Elysium 2019
★★★★4.0
listened · Sep 5
good kid, m.A.A.d city 2012
★★★★★5.0
A short film you can rap along to. The sequencing is the story; skip nothing.
Mostly about the craft, the story, comfort.
listened · Sep 4
Rumours 1977
★★★3.0
played · Aug 29
Return of the Obra Dinn 2018
★★★★½4.5
finished · Aug 26
Never Let Me Go 2005
★★★½3.5
watched · Aug 21
Breaking Bad 2008
★★★½3.5
watched · Aug 18
Casablanca 1943
★★★★4.0
listened · Aug 12
To Pimp a Butterfly 2015
★★★★4.0
A jazz record, a funk record, a poem read at a funeral and a party. Nothing since has been this ambitious and landed. Alright is the anthem; u is the reason it needs one.
Mostly about the craft.
watched · Aug 11
The Godfather 1972
★★★½3.5
watched · Aug 9
Twin Peaks 1990
★★★½3.5
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.
watched · Jul 26
The Avengers 2012
★★★½3.5
watched · Jul 23
Star Wars 1977
★★★½3.5
finished · Jul 19
Pachinko 2017
★★★★4.0
watched · Jul 16
The Martian 2015
★★★½3.5
watched · Jun 30
Deadpool 2016
★★★★4.0
listened · Jun 27
Blonde 2016
★★★★★5.0
An album that sounds like a bedroom at 3am. Half the songs do not have drums and you do not notice. Nights is two songs and both are better than most albums.
Mostly about the craft, comfort.
played · Jun 21
Slay the Spire 2019
★★★½3.5
listened · Jun 20
Illmatic 1994
★★★★½4.5
watched · Jun 19
Guardians of the Galaxy 2014
★★★½3.5
watched · Jun 18
Severance 2022
★★★½3.5
watched · Jun 12
Spirited Away 2001
★★★3.0
watched · Jun 9
Interstellar 2014
★★★½3.5
played · Jun 6
Hollow Knight 2017
★★★★4.0
listened · Jun 6
Abbey Road 1969
★★★★4.0
watched · Jun 4
The Thing 1982
★★★★4.0
watched · Jun 2
Titanic 1997
★★★½3.5
Rating key: ★★★★★ loved, ★★½ mixed.
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