Comments on: Smart movie recommendation sites

Question: Smart movie recommendation sites

MrBCID — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 22:15:40 -0800

Need help finding a movie recommendation site where the user enters several favorite movie titles, and the site returns results based on other users entering those same movie titles...

I remember a web site a couple of years back that after entering some movie titles, a graphic would come up (can't remember if it was flash based) that would show recommended movie titles based on those entries... the titles would be shown in a spider-web-like format. If that site doesn't exist anymore; are there any sites out there that give recommendations based on other people's interests in the same movies?

By: iamabot

iamabot — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 22:18:23 -0800

Reel

By: dhammond

dhammond — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 22:21:30 -0800

This isn't exactly what you're looking for, but Amazon (and Netflix, though you have to sign up for that) have fairly good recommendation engines.

By: chrisamiller

chrisamiller — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 22:22:47 -0800

Music Map does this for bands, but I've never seen the movie equivalent.

By: weapons-grade pandemonium

weapons-grade pandemonium — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 22:56:17 -0800

Rotten Tomatoes has You Might Also Like on the left sidebar for any given review.

By: Lemurrhea

Lemurrhea — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:01:39 -0800

It's worthwhile to check out Movielens. Not only is it free & without ads, you get the immense thrill of helping out people who research recommendation engines.

(Ok, so maybe immense thrill is an overstatement, but their research has helped me out at work and so I'm a little biased)

By: leibniz

leibniz — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:30:34 -0800

Are you referring to criticker perchance? There was a post about it here one time, but I think it was taken down as self-promotion.

By: estherbester

estherbester — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 00:45:11 -0800

Not sure if this is the same site you're talking about, but there used to be one called moviecritic.com where you rated movies on a scale and it predicted which movies you would like (and how much you would like them) based on others' ratings.

(The actual url doesn't seem to work anymore but here is is on the Wayback Machine around the time I last used it *nostalgia*)

By: manish

manish — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 01:13:13 -0800

Flixster does that for me. Once you have friends and your own ratings inputted, it can give you 50 recommended movies based on the movies you chose (and what other people with the same interests chose), etc.

The recommendation system is a learning system - so you may find many annoying recommendations too. Your mileage may vary.

By: Soup

Soup — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 01:37:56 -0800

Just for fun, there's Google Sets. You put in a few items, it "predicts" the rest.

By: MetaMonkey

MetaMonkey — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 01:39:54 -0800

Music Map does this for bands, but I've never seen the movie equivalent.

Astonishingly, the movie equivalent is movie-map.com!

By: maryrosecook

maryrosecook — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 03:17:35 -0800

I think you are thinking of Gnovies - an offshoot of Music Map (aka Gnoosic).

By: bricoleur

bricoleur — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 05:26:52 -0800

movielens?

By: Koko

Koko — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 07:45:29 -0800

allmovie.com

By: TayBridge

TayBridge — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 01:59:17 -0800

FilmAffinity