watched · 1d
Heat 1986
★★★½3.5
Bud · The Genre Devotee
Kit Nakamura-Reyes
@kit.everything · 40 logs · 9 followers · 8 following
Genre Devotee · pulp · warm · event-driven
Demo account. No genre, no medium, no plan. Logs a Marvel film and a Booker winner in the same afternoon and means both ratings.
Archetype
The Genre Devotee
Pulp over prestige, judged on genre terms. With a streak of The Comfort Seeker.
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.
Rates generously
In three lines
- They go for genre fun over prestige. More so than most people here.unpretentiousprestige 51%
- They like stories that feel warm and hopeful. More so than most people here.warmbleak 54%
- They care more about what happens than about what characters feel. More so than most people here.character-ledplot-driven 52%
The charts and numbers behind this are under Taste.
Badges
All 25- Omnivore · GoldMaxed
- Shelved · GoldMaxed
- Time traveler · Silver10 of 12
- First entry · BronzeMaxed
- On a streak · Bronze54 of 60
- Opinionated · Bronze55 of 100
- Worth following9 of 10
- In good company8 of 10
Favorites
The five this Bud would hand you first, in no particular order.
Films
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Star Wars
Heat
Die Hard
Interstellar
Television
Severance
Fleabag
BEEF
Bluey
Succession
Books
Piranesi
Dune
Circe
Normal People
Blood Meridian
Albums
Make a playlist- Blonde
- In Rainbows
- Rumours
- Hounds of Love
- Kid A
Games
Dark Souls
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
Celeste
Baldur's Gate III
Return of the Obra Dinn
The numbers
What the sentences on the overview are made of.
Archetype, with the runners-up
- The Genre Devotee76%
- The Comfort Seeker18%
In the community
- Kinder than 59% of Buds
- Has rated more than 58% of Buds
- More pulp than 87% of Buds
- 10% of curators are Genre Devotees
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 71 rated titles.
This month they were settling in for long things and revisiting favorites. From 23 logs in the last thirty days.
Year in review:2026
Logs
watched · 5d
Back to the Future 1985
★★★★4.0
watched · 5d
Forrest Gump 1994
★★★★4.0
watched · 6d
Before Sunrise 1995
★★★★4.0
watched · Sep 16
Shutter Island 2010
★★★★4.0
watched · Sep 14
Spirited Away 2001
★★★★½4.5
played · Sep 14
Return of the Obra Dinn 2018
★★★★4.0
played · Sep 13
Disco Elysium 2019
★★★★4.0
played · Sep 10
Dark Souls 2011
★★★★½4.5
watched · Sep 10
2001: A Space Odyssey 1968
★★★½3.5
finished · Sep 9
Blood Meridian 1985
★★★★4.0
played · Sep 8
Hades 2020
★★★½3.5
listened · Sep 6
Rumours 1977
★★★★4.0
finished · Sep 6
Never Let Me Go 2005
★★★½3.5
finished · Sep 6
Piranesi 2020
★★★★4.0
watched · Sep 2
Guardians of the Galaxy 2014
★★★½3.5
A mixtape with a plot attached. I know that is the point. It works.
listened · Sep 1
Hounds of Love 1985
★★★★4.0
finished · Aug 31
The Secret History 1992
★★★½3.5
watched · Aug 30
Bluey 2018
★★★★4.0
Seven minutes at a time, the best-written family on television. The 'Sleepytime' episode made me call my mother.
Mostly about the performances, the craft, the story.
played · Aug 26
Slay the Spire 2019
★★★½3.5
watched · Aug 26
Hereditary 2018
★★★½3.5
watched · Aug 24
The Avengers 2012
★★★★4.0
watched · Aug 23
The Thing 1982
★★★★4.0
watched · Aug 22
Twin Peaks 1990
★★★½3.5
watched · Aug 18
Mad Men 2007
★★★½3.5
played · Aug 17
Celeste 2018
★★★★4.0
watched · Aug 9
Mad Max: Fury Road 2015
★★★★4.0
watched · Aug 7
Fleabag 2016
★★★★4.0
finished · Aug 2
Normal People 2018
★★★★4.0
finished · Jul 30
Klara and the Sun 2019
★★★★4.0
Ishiguro's gentlest book and maybe his saddest, told by someone who does not know what she is losing.
Mostly about the performances, the story.
watched · Jul 30
Breaking Bad 2008
★★★½3.5
finished · Jul 28
Pachinko 2017
★★★½3.5
listened · Jul 27
good kid, m.A.A.d city 2012
★★★½3.5
watched · Jul 25
Severance 2022
★★★★½4.5
watched · Jul 23
Paddington 2 2017
★★★★4.0
listened · Jul 21
Kid A 2000
★★★½3.5
Rating key: ★★★★★ loved, ★★½ mixed.
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