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Hey, I used to spend hours researching for a movie to watch, looking at reviews on IDMd, genres, actors, trailers... Ironically, I feel like the abundance of

Hey, I used to spend hours researching for a movie to watch, looking at reviews on IDMd, genres, actors, trailers... Ironically, I feel like the abundance of movies is making it harder to pick one. I've noticed I tend to watch movies based on how feel so I tried to mimic this behavior with Mood2Movie. 1/ It maps your feeling to movie genres you might be interested in. I.e. if you're sleepy you might want to watch an action movie or a comedy 2/ It only fetches great movies with a rating > 6.7 on IMDb If you're also picky about which movie to watch, give Mood2Movie and try, and hopefully, it'll work for you too. Enjoy the show!

besnn00 5y ago
Question: how does the app decide which movie corresponds to a certain mood?
- marclou 5y ago
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reaperducer 5y ago
I think you've taken your personal preferences and tried to apply them to everyone else. if you're sleepy you might want to watch an action movie or a comedy If I'm sleepy, I want to watch a calming movie, or something thoughtful because I'm going to sleep soon. Watching an action movie when I'm sleepy might be good for you, or maybe a long-haul trucker. But not for everyone. This is where every recommendation engine from Netflix to Facebook to Apple Music falls down. People are messy. And there's too many of them to generalize. It only fetches great movies with a rating > 6.7 on IMDb Using online ratings services is a bad idea. They've become polluted. Movies that are enormously important or entertaining or just plain good are losing more and more ratings points because they're being re-rated by non-experts and people who don't understand the context or history. The movies haven't changed. The people rating then have. So what you end up with is the lowest common denominator films getting the highest ratings.
- marclou 5y ago
  *Using online ratings services is a bad idea.* While some viewers might change their ratings, I believe the crowd will surface the truth at the end
  - reaperducer 5y ago
    It hasn't happened yet. And this has been going on for years. That's why some web sites show separate ratings based on who's rating them. They tally the ratings of professional film critics separately from those of the hoi polloi.
lillesvin 5y ago
> It only fetches great movies with a rating > 6.7 on IMDb I personally find that I'm sometimes in the mood for a hilariously shitty B-movie, like The VelociPastor (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1843303/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1843303/) or Cat-Women of the Moon (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045609/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045609/), I feel like they could be included in certain moods, e.g. "weird" or "playful".
martincmartin 5y ago
Ironically, I feel like the abundance of movies is making it harder to pick one. This sounds like the difference between Optimizing and Satisficing personality traits. An optimizer wants to find the best choice. The more choices, the harder that is. The Satisficer just wants to find one that's good enough. Having more choices generally makes that easier, if it comes with a directory or some way to search.
dubcanada 5y ago
I quite like it, I am not sure if I’m the popular opinion but I feel like you should remove the back button/history update for every movie. There is no reason it needs to add a new history entry for every carousel change.
- FalconSensei 5y ago
  I think it would actually be better not to have the carousel at all, but paginated with like, 5-10 per page?
bscphil 5y ago
Couple of thoughts: 1. I'm not really sure what making this so interactive accomplishes. The result seems akin to a listicle: "X Great Movies to Watch When You're Feeling Y", except with a lot more clicks required and, importantly, no curation. I think I would prefer to see a static list of recommendations with a "random" button and a cool blog post linked about how the recommendations were generated. Furthermore, it seems fairly safe to say (?) that the site isn't dynamically generating recommendations because the list exhausts rather quickly, after 10 or so. Just make a list! 2. The lack of curation leads to a lot of strangeness in the recommendations. For example, my first choice was feeling "weird". I got a bunch of blockbuster action films: Justice League, Avengers: Endgame, Thor: Ragnarok, Interstellar, Black Panther, Captain Marvel.
VortexDream 5y ago
I like the idea of the site but it doesn't match what I want when I'm in a particular mood. If I'm sleepy, I'm more likely to want to watch something chill. If I'm sad, I'm more likely to want to watch something sad. But there are also situations where I want the opposite, so it's not like there's a hard rule. I feel like the site would be better asking what mood they want to be in, instead of trying to guess it based on their current mood.
unobatbayar 5y ago
> It only fetches great movies with a rating > 6.7 on IMDb We might end up missing some good movies. Maybe adding a choice would be better?

besnn00 5y ago

Question: how does the app decide which movie corresponds to a certain mood?

marclou 5y ago
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reaperducer 5y ago

I think you've taken your personal preferences and tried to apply them to everyone else. if you're sleepy you might want to watch an action movie or a comedy If I'm sleepy, I want to watch a calming movie, or something thoughtful because I'm going to sleep soon. Watching an action movie when I'm sleepy might be good for you, or maybe a long-haul trucker. But not for everyone. This is where every recommendation engine from Netflix to Facebook to Apple Music falls down. People are messy. And there's too many of them to generalize. It only fetches great movies with a rating > 6.7 on IMDb Using online ratings services is a bad idea. They've become polluted. Movies that are enormously important or entertaining or just plain good are losing more and more ratings points because they're being re-rated by non-experts and people who don't understand the context or history. The movies haven't changed. The people rating then have. So what you end up with is the lowest common denominator films getting the highest ratings.

marclou 5y ago
*Using online ratings services is a bad idea.* While some viewers might change their ratings, I believe the crowd will surface the truth at the end
- reaperducer 5y ago
  It hasn't happened yet. And this has been going on for years. That's why some web sites show separate ratings based on who's rating them. They tally the ratings of professional film critics separately from those of the hoi polloi.

lillesvin 5y ago

> It only fetches great movies with a rating > 6.7 on IMDb I personally find that I'm sometimes in the mood for a hilariously shitty B-movie, like The VelociPastor (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1843303/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1843303/) or Cat-Women of the Moon (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045609/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045609/), I feel like they could be included in certain moods, e.g. "weird" or "playful".

martincmartin 5y ago

Ironically, I feel like the abundance of movies is making it harder to pick one. This sounds like the difference between Optimizing and Satisficing personality traits. An optimizer wants to find the best choice. The more choices, the harder that is. The Satisficer just wants to find one that's good enough. Having more choices generally makes that easier, if it comes with a directory or some way to search.

dubcanada 5y ago

I quite like it, I am not sure if I’m the popular opinion but I feel like you should remove the back button/history update for every movie. There is no reason it needs to add a new history entry for every carousel change.

FalconSensei 5y ago
I think it would actually be better not to have the carousel at all, but paginated with like, 5-10 per page?

bscphil 5y ago

Couple of thoughts: 1. I'm not really sure what making this so interactive accomplishes. The result seems akin to a listicle: "X Great Movies to Watch When You're Feeling Y", except with a lot more clicks required and, importantly, no curation. I think I would prefer to see a static list of recommendations with a "random" button and a cool blog post linked about how the recommendations were generated. Furthermore, it seems fairly safe to say (?) that the site isn't dynamically generating recommendations because the list exhausts rather quickly, after 10 or so. Just make a list! 2. The lack of curation leads to a lot of strangeness in the recommendations. For example, my first choice was feeling "weird". I got a bunch of blockbuster action films: Justice League, Avengers: Endgame, Thor: Ragnarok, Interstellar, Black Panther, Captain Marvel.

VortexDream 5y ago

I like the idea of the site but it doesn't match what I want when I'm in a particular mood. If I'm sleepy, I'm more likely to want to watch something chill. If I'm sad, I'm more likely to want to watch something sad. But there are also situations where I want the opposite, so it's not like there's a hard rule. I feel like the site would be better asking what mood they want to be in, instead of trying to guess it based on their current mood.

unobatbayar 5y ago

> It only fetches great movies with a rating > 6.7 on IMDb We might end up missing some good movies. Maybe adding a choice would be better?