Movies and TV

A selected list of movies I recommend.

Sep 24, 2023

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Resources🔗
Movie Rating Rubrik🔗

For better or worse, I watch a lot of TV and movies. According to TMDb, I’ve seen $>1000$ titles as of last writing.

📊 See some pretty plots on this data here.

An unintended consequence of watching too many movies is that I always try to look for the writer’s beneath-the-surface motives far too often. Sometimes it ruins the pleasure of watching a movie, but it is also fun to extract meta-lessons. May be I can distill them some day.

❤️ See my collection on Trakt.tv.

Resources🔗

I migrated away from IMDb to TMDB, a community-driven effort. I like to think of it as the Wikipedia for movies & TV. I occasionally contribute an edit or two.

For a great place to find movies, see agoodmovietowatch.com for human-curated lists.

Movie Rating Rubrik🔗

Rating	Description
< 2	Ridiculous; should not have been made.
2	Below par in more than one of story/acting/dialogues/screenplay.
2.5	Average movie; straighforward plot; nothing exciting.
3	Decent movie;
3.5	Good movie;
4	Very good movie; at least one interesting idea or event.
4.5	Very good movie; evokes conflicting emotions, either via story or screenplay.
5	Excellent movie; oddballs, blows the mind, question existence.