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I like the idea. I find it incredibly tedious to lookup IMDB ratings while surfing Netflix since that's almost all I care about when I'm indecisive ("Just give

I like the idea. I find it incredibly tedious to lookup IMDB ratings while surfing Netflix since that's almost all I care about when I'm indecisive ("Just give me a movie roughly in this genre that's roughly decent"). The catalog seems very limited though. I couldn't find the few Netflix shows I searched for from my Netflix homepage: "el internado", "gran hotel", "el barco", "3%". Feedback: Would be much nicer with permalinks and the history push API so that back/forward worked. For example, clicking around the movies a bit and then pressing the back button took me back to HN. And would be nice to link someone to "/shows/123", one of the key advantages of websites over apps.

pmoriarty 8y ago
I don't care about ratings -- IMDB, Rotten Tomatoes, or random film critic -- it doesn't matter. They're all useless to me (often worse than useless, as so many people have such different tastes from me). The only people who's opinions I care about are friends and family who I know well and who's tastes I share, or who at least know my tastes and can recommend to me something they think I might like. Apart from that, what I do to find more films to watch is try to see what other films directors and writers I like have made, or do web searches for combinations of films that I like to see what similar films turn up or to occasionally find people with similar tastes to my own and then pick through their favorite movie lists.
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- pkulak 8y ago
  You need to find a reviewer you trust and pay attention to them only. I find RT works great if you understand that professional reviewers rate movies in the context of their genre. So, a Hollywood action flick may be 80%, but if you don't like that genre, you're still not gonna like it.
- wild_preference 8y ago
  Sure, but this was not a response to my post.

pmoriarty 8y ago

I don't care about ratings -- IMDB, Rotten Tomatoes, or random film critic -- it doesn't matter. They're all useless to me (often worse than useless, as so many people have such different tastes from me). The only people who's opinions I care about are friends and family who I know well and who's tastes I share, or who at least know my tastes and can recommend to me something they think I might like. Apart from that, what I do to find more films to watch is try to see what other films directors and writers I like have made, or do web searches for combinations of films that I like to see what similar films turn up or to occasionally find people with similar tastes to my own and then pick through their favorite movie lists.

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pkulak 8y ago
You need to find a reviewer you trust and pay attention to them only. I find RT works great if you understand that professional reviewers rate movies in the context of their genre. So, a Hollywood action flick may be 80%, but if you don't like that genre, you're still not gonna like it.
wild_preference 8y ago
Sure, but this was not a response to my post.