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Your mention of taste is interesting as https://www.criticker.com https://www.criticker.com engine basically recommends movies based on other people who have li

Your mention of taste is interesting as https://www.criticker.com https://www.criticker.com engine basically recommends movies based on other people who have liked and disliked the same movies as you liked other films and it’s really effective!

Fnoord 6y ago
Good way to enhance your bubble. I like to be thought provoked at times.
- kubanczyk 6y ago
  Yes, that's what the site is supposed to do. It is entertainment, not facts, and so I want to be entirely in the bubble of "Hot Fuzz" fans or "Dead Snow" fans and very much without intersection with any superhero stuff.
  - Fnoord 6y ago
    Entertainment and thought provoking are not mutually exclusive.
alexilliamson 6y ago
This is awesome will check out later. Is this site good for smaller/older/more obscure recommendations?
- conception 6y ago
  It seems to be? I get a lot of recommendations I’ve never seen before. I think if you rate a lot of non mainstream stuff it’ll pair you with people who do the same and voila - new non mainstream stuff!
Wowfunhappy 6y ago
I admittedly haven’t tried this one (I guess I will), but this was also the promise of Goodreads, and Netflix since the DVD era, and it just never seems to work for me. I have admittedly discovered a handful of great authors via Goodreads recommendations, but they’re big names I think I would have eventually found anyway (e.g. Brandon Sanderson), and I spent a lot of time adding books I’d read and carefully considering how to rate each one. I’m actually broadly curious why these systems aren’t more effective. It seems like such a perfect system on paper.
- mhb 6y ago
  One reason is that Netflix killed theirs after paying a prize of $1M for a 10% improvement to their already good Cinematch recommender. See: https://www.netflixprize.com/ https://www.netflixprize.com/
gurkendoktor 6y ago
I've just imported 300+ ratings from IMDb into Criticker, and the recommendations it gave me seemed so far off that I didn't even feel like giving any of the movies a chance. Maybe I'm not watching enough classics, but it feels like the site hasn't really gotten to the long tail of movies. In comparison, when I go rate movies on IDMb I'm rarely more than one star away from the average rating, so IMDb serves my needs quite well, anyway.
barbs 6y ago
https://www.last.fm https://www.last.fm has a similar engine for music

Fnoord 6y ago

Good way to enhance your bubble. I like to be thought provoked at times.

kubanczyk 6y ago
Yes, that's what the site is supposed to do. It is entertainment, not facts, and so I want to be entirely in the bubble of "Hot Fuzz" fans or "Dead Snow" fans and very much without intersection with any superhero stuff.
- Fnoord 6y ago
  Entertainment and thought provoking are not mutually exclusive.

alexilliamson 6y ago

This is awesome will check out later. Is this site good for smaller/older/more obscure recommendations?

conception 6y ago
It seems to be? I get a lot of recommendations I’ve never seen before. I think if you rate a lot of non mainstream stuff it’ll pair you with people who do the same and voila - new non mainstream stuff!

Wowfunhappy 6y ago

I admittedly haven’t tried this one (I guess I will), but this was also the promise of Goodreads, and Netflix since the DVD era, and it just never seems to work for me. I have admittedly discovered a handful of great authors via Goodreads recommendations, but they’re big names I think I would have eventually found anyway (e.g. Brandon Sanderson), and I spent a lot of time adding books I’d read and carefully considering how to rate each one. I’m actually broadly curious why these systems aren’t more effective. It seems like such a perfect system on paper.

mhb 6y ago
One reason is that Netflix killed theirs after paying a prize of $1M for a 10% improvement to their already good Cinematch recommender. See: https://www.netflixprize.com/ https://www.netflixprize.com/

gurkendoktor 6y ago

I've just imported 300+ ratings from IMDb into Criticker, and the recommendations it gave me seemed so far off that I didn't even feel like giving any of the movies a chance. Maybe I'm not watching enough classics, but it feels like the site hasn't really gotten to the long tail of movies. In comparison, when I go rate movies on IDMb I'm rarely more than one star away from the average rating, so IMDb serves my needs quite well, anyway.

barbs 6y ago

https://www.last.fm https://www.last.fm has a similar engine for music