Movies You'll Love doesn't work

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Permalink Reply by JDoors on September 15, 2009 at 11:02am

It SEEMS like 850 ratings would be enough to at least take a wild shot at what you might like ... How long have you waited for them "to fix it?" (Which SEEMS like they know there's a glitch and ARE working on it.)

If it's some arbitraryly high number of movies you have to rate before the feature kicks in, look at those movies you haven't seen and rate all the ones you'd NEVER IN A MILLION YEARS want to see, one star.

BTW, get ready to see "The Water Horse" recommended like, a bajillion times. :\

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Permalink Reply by Ross S. Cann on September 15, 2009 at 12:04pm

It is been a couple of weeks since they said it would be fixed.
When you agree to rate more movies I am shown movies I have never heard of and given the choice "Never Seeen It" I click on that.
Anyway something is broken and I hope someone on the technical staff picks up on this

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Permalink Reply by Knaldskalle on September 24, 2009 at 12:28pm

The best way to find "movies you'll love" is to either click on a new title and down on the left side you will then see other members' lists. Also you can click on any movie and any reviewer's reviews and lists and save those - and many have lots of friends. Click on their friends and their lists. You can add movies right from their lists. Also you can scroll through the Instant Watch selection, just select the genres you like.

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Permalink Reply by Aces on September 15, 2009 at 12:55pm

Have you marked your Taste Preferences? If not do that and you should get some movies based on those on the first page of Browse.

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Permalink Reply by Ross S. Cann on September 15, 2009 at 3:39pm

Yes, I have completed all the Taste Preferences.
The listings I get on Browse are rarely appealing, however.
I would be happy if the algorithm being used would recommend films, shows, etc that I would rate 3 stars. In other words "Movies You'll Like"
Further when I click on the "Rate More Movies" is am shown choices that are mostly ranked 2 stars and although I have never heard of them, I doubt I would rate them 2 stars if I did view them. How would such additional ratings help the algorithm to recommends 3+ star works? As I say, I think it is broken.
To me 1 star is a film I could not get through more the first third.
Two stars I barely did get through. Three stars is OK I like it.
Four stars is very good, and five is excellent.
Do you think NF attaches different meanings to the star levels.
Ross

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Permalink Reply by Spindaddydad on September 15, 2009 at 2:15pm

The "go back and rerate some movies to 4 or 5 stars" is actually a good suggestion as it will open up more choices in a genre you liked. The easiest is to change 3 stars to 4 stars. Consider doing it on the movies that were borderline 3-4.

Sometimes there is a movie I otherwise liked but knocked down to 3 because of one particular directing or writing error, or because of an actor who didn't quite get his/her role. I find that if I go ahead and give it a 4, it opens up more movies that are similar.

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Permalink Reply by Pihk on September 15, 2009 at 3:03pm

The easiest is to change 3 stars to 4 stars. Consider doing it on the movies that were borderline 3-4.

As an aside, I kinda hate this. To me, a 3 star movie is not a C or 60%...It's simply a movie I liked.

So I would love to have more 3 star movie recommended to me. I don't want to watch non stop 5 star movies all the time. It's exhausting.

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Permalink Reply by Spindaddydad on September 15, 2009 at 4:36pm

Yes, I agree. A silly game for sure.

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Permalink Reply by beeswax on September 17, 2009 at 2:20pm

To me, a 3 star movie is not a C or 60%...It's simply a movie I liked.

I agree. If they wanted us to think of 3 stars as "meh" they should have used different wording for the stars.

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Permalink Reply by Leon Storie on December 5, 2009 at 6:49am

The Netflix rating system kinda sucks. No half stars really kinda limits you. There are some movies that I think are good enough for a 3.5 but not good enough for 4, so you are forced to round up or round down. Very annoying. Blockbuster's rating system is much better.

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Permalink Reply by Alan-Not So Nice Not So Helpful on September 15, 2009 at 2:58pm

Here's a cinematic masterpiece that you will most definitely love. Finally available on Instant Watch.

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Permalink Reply by Cheryl on September 17, 2009 at 1:46pm

I've rated thousands of movies but they're still trying to tell me I would love The Waterhorse. I've even rated it as not interested, and yet it always pops up. I've learned to ignore Netflix when it tells me about a movie it thinks I'll love.

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