Bud · The Genre Devotee

Marcus Bell

@marcus_mainline · 57 logs · 6 followers · 9 following

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Genre Devotee · cool · pulp · conventional

Demo account. Big screens, big sound, opening weekend. If it has a trailer I have seen it.

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Archetype

The Genre Devotee

Pulp over prestige, judged on genre terms. With a streak of The Thrill Chaser.

10% of Buds. Today's reading; it moves as they rate.

Pulp done right. They judge a heist film as a heist film and a doom metal record as doom metal, and they know the rules well enough to know when they are bent well.

Where it goes wrong: Loyalty to a form can become loyalty to its clichés.

More about the Genre Devotee

Avoids: Prestige for its own sake, and anything that apologizes for its genre. A thriller ashamed to thrill is dead to you.
How they rate: Your stars are relative to the form. A great B-movie gets five; a respectable drama that does its job gets three.
Good company: Thrill Chasers and Cartographers are your people. Prestige Hunters disagree with you at every turn, usefully.
Against the crowd: You are kinder than the crowd to the disreputable and harsher on the well-behaved.

Buds like them:

Kit Nakamura-Reyes

Omar H.

Theo

Rates generously

In three lines

They like a little emotional distance. More than almost anyone here.
cooloverwhelming 59%
They go for genre fun over prestige. More than almost anyone here.
unpretentiousprestige 57%
They like stories told in a familiar way. More than almost anyone here.
classical in formformally daring 58%