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Log films, television, books, music, and games in one place. Every title is read for its character on fourteen dimensions, and every log teaches the profile what you respond to.

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Rate five things you know. Meet your archetype.

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The Prestige Hunter · 405 rated
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Justin. The ring is the average curator; the further out, the stronger the lean toward the word.
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A taste fingerprint: fourteen dimensions, read against every other Bud. Yours appears after a handful of ratings.

Forrest GumpForrest Gump1994

Epic, effortless, nostalgic and meticulous.

  • intimateepic
  • effortlessdemanding
  • contemporarynostalgic
  • rawmeticulous
  • sparerichly built

Not a genre label: how it moves, how it feels, what it asks of you. Every film, series, book, album and game is read on the same fourteen scales, each in its own terms (a record's tempo and sound, a game's challenge and world), and your profile is matched against them.

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watched · Sep 23
Se7en
Se7en 1995
★★★★½4.5

A procedural that turns into a sermon and somehow gets better for it. That box.

Mostly about the story, comfort.

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