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Guardians of the Galaxy 2014
★★★★★5.0
Bud · The Genre Devotee
Marcus Bell
@marcus_mainline · 57 logs · 6 followers · 9 following
Genre Devotee · cool · pulp · conventional
Demo account. Big screens, big sound, opening weekend. If it has a trailer I have seen it.
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.
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%
The charts and numbers behind this are under Taste.
Favorites
The five this Bud would hand you first, in no particular order.
Films
Heat
Die Hard
The Dark Knight
The Matrix
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Television
Ted Lasso
Bluey
BEEF
Severance
Fleabag
Books
Dune
Albums
Make a playlist- Blue
- In Rainbows
- good kid, m.A.A.d city
Games
Elden Ring
The Last of Us
Hades
Portal 2
Baldur's Gate III
The numbers
What the sentences on the overview are made of.
Archetype, with the runners-up
- The Genre Devotee91%
In the community
- Kinder than 86% of Buds
- Has rated more than 49% of Buds
- More cool than 98% of Buds
- 10% of curators are Genre Devotees
Among 645 curators with a profile.
Cares most about
- cooloverwhelming
- unpretentiousprestige
- classical in formformally daring
Solid mark is what they love; hollow is what they avoid. Sincerity vs. irony barely moves their ratings.
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 57 rated titles.
This month they were chasing intensity and revisiting favorites. From 23 logs in the last thirty days.
Year in review:2026
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