Lovelyville 1991
★★★★½4.5
Twelve kinds of taste
Which one are you?
Rate five things you know, from any shelf. Your archetype shows up in about a minute, and gets sharper with every log.
Rate five things you know, from any shelf. Your archetype shows up in about a minute, and gets sharper with every log.
@theo.thrills · 82 logs · 7 followers · 9 following
Genre Devotee · contemporary · cool · ironic
Demo account. Pace or death. If a film has a chase in it I am already seated.
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.
The charts and numbers behind this are under Taste.
The five this Bud would hand you first.
What the sentences on the overview are made of.
Among 649 curators with a profile.
Solid mark is what they love; hollow is what they avoid. World-building barely moves their ratings.
How far this Bud leans on each of the fourteen dimensions compared with everyone else, strongest first.
This month they were in a generous mood. From 40 logs in the last thirty days.
Year in review:2026
Empty. Add things from their pages.
Profile built from 82 rated titles.
Rating key: ★★★★★ loved, ★★½ mixed.
One of the best things I have watched this year. Genuinely funny, laugh-out-loud more than once. I keep telling people about it.
Everything I hoped Dropout Presents an Improvised Reunion for a Movie that Doesn’t Exist would be, and more. The comedy lands again and again.
I did not expect Noah Britton: The Best Stuff I've Ever Done to hit this hard. Genuinely funny, laugh-out-loud more than once. It is kind to its people, and that kindness is the point.
I did not expect Titanium Court to hit this hard. The comedy lands again and again. The ironic distance is sharp, never smug.
Mostly about the craft.
Everything I hoped Things That Happen would be, and more. The setting stays sketched, so the people stay in focus.
Mostly about the performances, the story.
I liked The Chair Company a lot more than I expected to. It leaves the big questions open, and trusts you with them. No nostalgia crutch; it stands on its own.
Mostly about the story.
I finished Still Life with Woodpecker and just sat there for a while. It leaves the big questions open, and trusts you with them. It earned every star.
Mostly about the story.
Solid, and in places better than solid. It feels completely of this moment. The ending refuses to settle, in the best way.
Mostly about the story.
Action as choreography, and it respects you enough to hold the shot. The pencil line is the mission statement.
Mostly about the craft.
One of the best things I have watched this year. No tricks, just a familiar form done with real care. Scrappy and alive. Believe the hype on this one.
Further out is a stronger lean than other Buds.
Each spoke is one dimension; further out means a stronger lean that way than other Buds. A big shape is a strong, unusual taste; a small one is close to the middle of everyone.
One row a medium, half a star a bar; the dashed line is the mean. Kinder to books than films? It shows here.
One bar per star rating, one row per medium. Where the bars pile up is your habit; the dashed line is your average for that medium.
The two directions taste varies most along. Archetypes cluster; Theo is ringed, and people they follow are outlined.
Every Bud, placed so that people with similar leans sit near each other. The two axes are the directions taste varies most along, found from all profiles. Neighbors are worth a look.
Above the line, kinder than the crowd; below it, harsher.
Each dot is a title: your stars up, the audience's average across. Dots above the line are where you were kinder than the crowd, below it harsher. A wide spread means you do not follow consensus.
Needs ratings across at least two years, with three or more in each.
Year by year, on the four strongest dimensions.
One line per dimension, one point per year: the average character of what you loved that year. A line that climbs means your favorites moved toward that pole.
