Fight Club 1999
★★★½3.5
Archetype
The Thrill Chaser
Pacing and spectacle first. With a streak of The Genre Devotee.
11% of curators. Today's reading; it moves as they rate.
Momentum. Set pieces, stakes, a story that grabs they by the collar and does not let go until the credits.
Where it goes wrong: Speed can hide emptiness. Some of your five stars are adrenaline, not admiration.
More about the Thrill Chaser
- Avoids
- Drift. Contemplation without event feels like a waiting room, whatever the critics say.
- How they rate
- Your stars follow your pulse. Pacing and spectacle earn them; interiority has to bring an engine.
- Good company
- Genre Devotees and Cartographers ride along. Formalists find you impatient; you find them slow.
- Against the crowd
- You are close to the crowd on blockbusters and much harsher than it on the acclaimed and unhurried.
Curators like them:
Toby
In three lines
- More relentless than almost every curator. pacingcontemplativerelentless 69%
- More event-driven than almost every curator. character vs. plotcharacter-ledplot-driven 64%
- More pulp than almost every curator. prestige vs. pulpunpretentiousprestige 63%
The charts and numbers behind this are under Taste.
Badges
All 25- On a streak · Silver40 of 100
- Shelved · Silver16 of 25
- Omnivore · Silver4 of 5
- Opinionated · Silver50 of 200
- First entry · BronzeMaxed
- Time traveler · Bronze6 of 7
- Cinephile30 of 50
- Serialist3 of 10
Favorites
The five this curator would hand you first, in no particular order.
Films
Inception
John Wick
Deadpool
The Avengers
Guardians of the Galaxy
Seriess
Bluey
Succession
Chernobyl
Albums
Make a playlist- In Rainbows
- Rumours
- Kid A
Games
Baldur's Gate III
Elden Ring
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
Celeste
Portal 2
Fingerprint
Fourteen dimensions, against everyone
Further out is a stronger lean than other curators.
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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 Dev rates each kind of thing
One row a medium; the dashed line is the mean. Kinder to books than films? It shows here.
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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; Dev is ringed, and people they follow are outlined.
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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 Dev parts ways with the audience
Above the line, kinder than the crowd; below it, harsher.
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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 Dev 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 Thrill Chaser97%
In the community
- Kinder than 61% of curators
- Has rated more than 41% of curators
- More relentless than 99% of curators
- 11% of curators are Thrill Chasers
Among 634 curators with a profile.
Cares most about
- contemplativerelentless
- character-ledplot-driven
- unpretentiousprestige
Solid mark is what they love; hollow is what they avoid. Tonal darkness barely moves their ratings.
Genres
- Action4.4★ · 18
- Science Fiction4.3★ · 10
- Open world4.2★ · 3
- Adventure4.1★ · 21
- Romance2.7★ · 3
- Puzzle3.3★ · 3
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 47 rated titles.
This month they were chasing intensity. From 16 logs in the last thirty days.
Year in review:2026
Logs
In Rainbows 2007
★★★★4.0
Inception 2010
★★★★★5.0
Succession 2018
★★★½3.5
Back to the Future 1985
★★★★½4.5
Spirited Away 2001
★★★★4.0
Deadpool 2016
★★★★★5.0
WALL·E 2008
★★½2.5
Celeste 2018
★★★★4.0
John Wick 2014
★★★★★5.0
A movie that understands the assignment. Every fight is legible, every death has weight, and the dog thing is the best inciting incident since a kid got left home alone. Rewatched it three times this year.
Mostly about the craft, comfort.
Pulp Fiction 1994
★★★★4.0
Interstellar 2014
★★★★4.0
Star Wars 1977
★★★★4.0
Bluey 2018
★★★★4.0
Mad Max: Fury Road 2015
★★★★4.0
Two hours of a chase and I would watch two more. Practical stunts, real cars, a story you could tell on a napkin. This is what the money is for.
Mostly about the craft.
The Godfather 1972
★★2.0
Chernobyl 2019
★★★½3.5
Outer Wilds 2019
★★★½3.5
Rumours 1977
★★★★4.0
Kid A 2000
★★★3.0
Dark Souls 2011
★★★★4.0
The Truman Show 1998
★★★★4.0
The Last of Us 2013
★★★★4.0
Stardew Valley 2016
★★★½3.5
Paddington 2 2017
★★★★½4.5
Portal 2 2011
★★★★4.0
The Avengers 2012
★★★★★5.0
The hallway shot where the camera goes around the whole team still gives me chills. People who call this a product demo are the same people who think fun is a character flaw.
Mostly about the craft, how it felt.
Elden Ring 2022
★★★★½4.5
Got destroyed by the Tree Sentinel for an hour and then the game opened up and I forgot to eat. The world is the star. The bosses are the tax you pay to see more of it.
Mostly about the craft.
Guardians of the Galaxy 2014
★★★★★5.0
Baldur's Gate III 2023
★★★★½4.5
Forrest Gump 1994
★★★★4.0
Parasite 2019
★★★½3.5
Rating key: ★★★★★ loved, ★★½ mixed.
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