What do you use for movie recommendations?

Paragone , 6 months ago

I have a very special 6-sided die that I roll, to tell me if I’d enjoy it …

… it says “No” on all 6 sides.

: P

I’m an old autistic.

Having someone else’s pre-digested meaning forcing itself into me is … emotionally-violent abuse.

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PS: if you want to REALLY UNDERSTAND Story, WAAAY more awesomely than the shit-quality “education” we all had, pushed…

Please, Please, PLEASE invest in John Truby’s “Anatomy of Genres” & “Anatomy of Story” books.

Nothing else in all the writing literature comes even close to the psychology & writing-competence he offers in those 2 books.

I’ve some minor disagreements with him ( his concept of “village” is a Wild West village, mine is a Tribal Village of the 0.5-2 millions of years before our recent agriculture invention ), but there is simply sooo much wealth of understanding in his books, you can’t imagine…

Not only that, but your understanding of how movies work skyrockets, having read 'em, too!

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Just as, in movies, there was Before Star Wars, and After Star Wars,

and in gaming, there was Before Alyx, and After Alyx,

in Story, there is Before Truby’s Books, and After Truby’s Books.

( for presentations, hit Weissman’s “Presenting to Win”,

for editing, Coyne’s “The Story Grid”,

for building muscle in writing, Josip Novakovich has books of exercises to do… )

Beauty, eh?

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Mr_Blott , 6 months ago

That was about as useful as tits on a fish

ininewcrow , 6 months ago

Every movie recommendation website sucks in their own way … which is why one way of dealing with it is to average them all out.

When my wife and I do a search we’ll first find a film that was recommended by a friend, site, forum, wherever … then do a quick search in rotten tomatoes, IMDb, Google and Letterboxd … we do a quick round up of all the sites reviews based on how many reviews and by who (audience and critics) … then we do some quick mental math and come up with an average rating ourselves. It works most of the time but at a better rate than anyone one recommendation site.

Then if we get frustrated, we watch a classic old film. If you rewatch an old film from 30 years ago, it’s like watching it again for the first time. Well not exactly but do you remember all the details of a movie you watched 20, or 30 years ago.

Mothra , 6 months ago

I second the opinion on finding a critic or reviewer you agree with. I follow a few on YouTube. Search for reviews on stuff you’ve seen, both for good and bad shows, so that you get an idea of how they think and what they value

protist , 6 months ago

Have you tried movielens.org? I’ve found some great recommendations there

Rikj000 , 6 months ago

It appears to require an account though?
Which I call a downside for privacy concious users.

protist , 6 months ago

It just needs an email address, and it needs to remember who you are, otherwise how could you use it? In movielens you thumb movies up and down and over time it predicts movies it thinks you’ll like. It’s run by the University of Minnesota

xilliah , 6 months ago

Hey, what kind of movies do you like? Who worked on those movies and what other stuff did they make?

Also it helps to find a critic you like. For example I liked Roger Ebert and when he recommended something I knew would most likely enjoy it.

It also helps a lot to simply talk to people about movies. There might already be someone in your life who has a similar taste!