About
Who I am
I'm Danil Kutny: an entrepreneur, a web developer and an independent AI researcher. But I also love watching good films, series, anime and all kinds of content. I keep this list for myself. Everything I've watched gets a score and, when I have something to say, a comment. It's years of work on my watching life. The scores are mine alone: honest, sometimes unfair, and they move.
The scale
The best thing ever made. A work of genius, the greatest creation in the history of human civilization. Nothing has earned this yet and probably nothing ever will; it may not even be possible. A few things get very close, 9.8 and above. That is a true masterpiece.
The best films there are. I care a lot when something gets this far: it's an absolutely amazing thing to watch. But there are grades within 9. At 9.8 and above it's a work of genius, the best of its kind. At 9.0 it's an amazingly good film, absolutely worth watching. All of them are great; they are still not the same.
Very good. Near 9 it's exceptionally good. Near 8.0 it's simply great and absolutely worth watching: you'll get a lot of pleasure out of it.
Solid. Near 7.9: very enjoyable, great to watch, worth your time most of the time. Around 7.5: solid, modern fun, good in general, with a few flaws. At 7.0: good overall but with more flaws, far from a masterpiece, still something you might enjoy spending an evening on, at least most of it.
Where it starts to slip. A 6.9 is still mostly enjoyable, nearly a 7. Closer to 6.5 and down to 6.0 it becomes niche: most people won't like it and it gets close to boring, but if it's your genre or you love the specific idea, you can still enjoy it.
The line between good and bad. This is where bad films start. Not worth watching at all, unless you're a huge fan or you absolutely love the idea; then, in rare cases, you might still come away satisfied.
Bad films, and it only goes down from here. I don't care to tell shades of shit apart, so I rarely say much about this category. Analytically there are differences: bad, very bad, complete shit, and so on, so it's intellectually right to score them. I'm just not interested. I usually stop watching early and never get this far. This part is a cesspool. It exists, I won't pretend it doesn't, but you'd better not come close.
Scores have decimals because a 9.3 and a 9.5 are not the same film to me. Everything from 9 up is a diamond: an icy white tile with a ring of light around it, purer and brighter toward 10. Below that the colour tells the tier: violet around 8.9, hot pink at 8, bright orange around 7.5, muddy orange at 7, brown through the 6s and 5s, black below 5. You can read the list without reading the numbers.
First impression
Why two scores? How can one person give a film two different numbers? Because I believe people are irrational, and why a film works can never be fully explained. Rating one with a single number is very hard. Here is what usually happens. I watch a film, find it amazing, absolutely love it, and score it high on emotion. Then I look at where it landed in the list and start analysing: what is it doing there, isn't it too high or too low next to its neighbours? And I want to change the score, just because it doesn't fit compared to the other films. Or time passes, the list grows, and I see that as I remember it the film wasn't that good, or that bad, and I change it.
So I decided not to choose. There are two scores. Objective is the analytical one, the film compared to everything else. It can change over time. First impression is how I felt right after watching, or in the middle of it, before over-analysing its place in the list.
The list shows the objective score by default, but the switch above the list flips it to first impressions. I'm not sure which one is better.
Statuses
Watching now — the score may still move. Want to watch — no score yet. Seen long ago — no score: I don't trust my memory enough to rate it.
Tonight
The card above the list picks one of my 9+ titles for the day. The dice rerolls among everything rated 8 and above, within the type you have selected.
Languages
Titles and notes are in Russian for now; English translations are coming. The interface is in both.
Disagree with a score? Tell me: kutnyy.com