watched · 9h
Heat 1986
★★½2.5
Bud · The Provocateur
Gaz
@gaz_horror · 40 logs · 6 followers · 6 following
Provocateur · bleak · demanding · open
Demo account. Horror first, horror last. Will defend The Thing to the death, which is the point.
Archetype
The Provocateur
Suspicious of comfort. With a streak of The Genre Devotee.
12% of Buds. Today's reading; it moves as they rate.
Work that unsettles: bleak, open, demanding. They trust discomfort more than reassurance and rate the thing that made they argue.
Where it goes wrong: Difficulty is not depth. Sometimes the cold thing is just cold, and you rated it up for the chill.
More about the Provocateur
- Avoids
- Comfort, closure, and being told how to feel. Warmth on its own reads as a sales pitch.
- How they rate
- Your five stars go to the difficult. Your one star goes to the smooth. The middle is where you are bored.
- Good company
- The Formalist respects you, the Ironist enjoys you, and the Comfort Seeker is your most productive opposite.
- Against the crowd
- You are the reliable spicy take: harsher than the crowd on beloved warmth, kinder to the punishing and the strange.
Open to the unusual
In three lines
- They are drawn to dark, heavy stories. More than almost anyone here.warmbleak 67%
- They like work that takes some effort. More than almost anyone here.effortlessdemanding 66%
- They like endings left open to interpretation. More than almost anyone here.resolvedopen-ended 65%
The charts and numbers behind this are under Taste.
Badges
All 25- Omnivore · GoldMaxed
- Shelved · Silver22 of 25
- First entry · BronzeMaxed
- On a streak · Bronze50 of 60
- Time traveler · Bronze7 of 8
- Opinionated · Bronze46 of 100
- Again7 of 10
- In good company6 of 10
Favorites
The five this Bud would hand you first, in no particular order.
Films
The Thing
Hereditary
The Dark Knight
Se7en
Shutter Island
Television
BEEF
Succession
Twin Peaks
Severance
The Wire
Books
Blood Meridian
Piranesi
Never Let Me Go
Albums
Make a playlist- Blonde
- To Pimp a Butterfly
- In Rainbows
- Rumours
Games
Elden Ring
Hollow Knight
Dark Souls
The Last of Us
Hades
The numbers
What the sentences on the overview are made of.
Archetype, with the runners-up
- The Provocateur100%
In the community
- Harsher than 86% of Buds
- Has rated more than 52% of Buds
- More bleak than 99% of Buds
- 12% of curators are Provocateurs
Among 645 curators with a profile.
Taste profile
How far this Bud leans on each dimension compared with everyone else. Strongest eight; the rest below.
All fourteen dimensions
Ratings
Profile built from 62 rated titles.
This month they were harder to please than usual. From 24 logs in the last thirty days.
Year in review:2026
Logs
played · 9h
Baldur's Gate III 2023
★★★3.0
watched · 9h
Se7en 1995
★★★★½4.5
A procedural that turns into a sermon and somehow gets better for it. That box.
Mostly about the story, comfort.
watched · 1d
Succession 2018
★★★★4.0
watched · 2d
Ted Lasso 2020
★½1.5
watched · 2d
Fleabag 2016
★★★3.0
listened · 3d
In Rainbows 2007
★★★3.0
listened · 5d
Rumours 1977
★★½2.5
watched · Sep 16
Shutter Island 2010
★★★★½4.5
listened · Sep 14
good kid, m.A.A.d city 2012
★★★½3.5
played · Sep 13
Hollow Knight 2017
★★★★4.0
watched · Sep 13
The Wolf of Wall Street 2013
★★★½3.5
watched · Sep 11
The Truman Show 1998
★★★3.0
watched · Sep 8
Star Wars 1977
★★★3.0
watched · Sep 5
WALL·E 2008
★★½2.5
watched · Aug 31
2001: A Space Odyssey 1968
★★★½3.5
watched · Aug 29
The Matrix 1999
★★★½3.5
watched · Aug 26
John Wick 2014
★★★★4.0
finished · Aug 24
Never Let Me Go 2005
★★★½3.5
watched · Aug 20
The Dark Knight 2008
★★★★½4.5
watched · Aug 5
Pulp Fiction 1994
★★½2.5
watched · Aug 4
The Bear 2022
★★½2.5
watched · Aug 4
The Martian 2015
★★★3.0
watched · Aug 1
Aftersun 2022
★★★½3.5
finished · Jul 23
Blood Meridian 1985
★★★★4.0
watched · Jul 22
Mad Men 2007
★★★3.0
played · Jul 20
Disco Elysium 2019
★★★3.0
watched · Jul 12
The Avengers 2012
★★★3.0
played · Jul 10
Elden Ring 2022
★★★★½4.5
watched · Jul 8
Mad Max: Fury Road 2015
★★★3.0
Rating key: ★★★★★ loved, ★★½ mixed.
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