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Liking art and entertainment is about taste not popularity. That's why everyone will always find issues with rating systems like IMDb's.
For example i find it reprehensible that...
- The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
- The Dark Knight (2008)
- The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
- Fight Club (1999)
are in the current IMDb Top 10. In my opinion no way are these movies 4 of the 10 best movies ever made. Hence, I really can't use the IMDb rating as a predictor of the types of movies that I will like.
However, Criticker, does an excellent job of predicting the types of films I will like. Because if takes taste and personal preferences into account.
There's something very similar already out there. It's called critcker (http://www.criticker.com/.
You rate films and it matches you to other users who give similar ratings and uses that info to predict the rating you'd give to other films.
It's not quite the same as your idea with professional critics but its pretty close.
The best list I have found that doesn't overrate based on historical significance or on the other hand overrates based on popularity or hype is an unknown one compiled through averaging the rankings of cinephiles: http://www.criticker.com/?fl&view=oth&user=avgcrtckr&filter=p5x4mainstream
The fact that Harakiri isn't even on the Sight & Sound top 250 movies ever invalidates the list for me.
Criticker has a great algorithm it uses to not only recommend movies for you, but also connect you with other users with similar tastes in film. I just started using it recently and it's great, but needs more people using it.
Big fan of Criticker here which by far provides the most accurate recommendations of anything I have tried out so far. If you care about style and not so much about function, then it wont be your site and I'd instead recommend Letterboxd (which is what most here use anyway). Also, if you have them, then you can import your IMDB rankings for free. If you want to try it out and don't have IMDB rankings, then I suggest to start with batch editing here: http://www.criticker.com/?fl&view=all&filter=or . You should get somewhat accurate PSI's (Probable Scores) after ranking 80-100 films.
This is the essential feature if you want people to try it out. I'm always looking for the best site of this sort for books, games, and film, but I mostly only care if it works well when it has a huge, diverse set of ratings in my account. There's no way I'm trying to do that by hand.
That said, if someone makes something that works as good for books as Criticker does for films, I'd switch from Goodreads in a heartbeat if there is an adequate import feature.
(In my dreams, I wish for a site that works as well as Criticker for predicting what I'll think of things but that covers video games, film, TV, and books together. And with a better website design than Criticker.)
I used to have some roommates who were dancers as well. I have to say after watching this film, now I understand their weird behaviour at the time. This film shows these girls craziness remarkably well. On a personal level this came disturbingly close to home. Brought back some memories I was glad I forgot. Scary to watch. Somehow reminded me of The Red Shoes, also a great film.
There's a few that approximate it at some level... off the top of my head, there's Trakt.tv and Sidereel. Criticker is a film site that recently added TV series, but I don't think it has episode-by-episode tracking (yet?). I don't use the other two sites here so I can't speak to them, but looking at them briefly, they may fit your needs. Trakt.tv looks to be a bit closer to MAL in its functionality, I think.
Criticker is by far the best.
I probably use it different than most in that I don't try and come up with some complicated tiered rating system. Rather I assign a score to a movie for each time I've seen it. So if I've seen a movie once I give it a "1", twice a "2", etc. The way their algorithm works it will naturally recommend movies that are in my wheelhouse.
I haven't seen Altered States and only read about My Dinner With Andre, and based on that I can recommend Judgment at Nuremburg (1961), which is a courtroom drama exploring all the sentiments and arguments at the Nuremburg trials with similarly to 12 Angry Men causing you to jump and switch from argument to argument, constantly challenging your beliefs.
In trying to find movies similar to others I recommend http://www.tastekid.com/ and for finding movies in general http://www.criticker.com/.
Hmm, I suppose if I'd known about Criticker first that's probably what I'd have done. I log my stuff on Criticise partly for fun!
Thing is, Criticker has a 0 - 100% ratings system. You can set your own tiers within that, and I have (I link to my list at the bottom of this comment for funsies), but it's a lot more nuanced than Tastekid, but that's not their strongest feature. Decent, but not super awesome. A lot of their random recommendations are a bit odd, owing to their large database which has a lot of world cinema, which I'm not very into haha. Their search feature IS great though.
And they allow you to sort your search results by what they think you'll score it, which is nice and convenient. But if I search for a popular 80s action adventure movie and sort by general user ratings, I know I'll probably like the top results either way! :P
Tl;dr Tastekid's good at spitting out recommendations based on what you've logged, Criticker's good at letting you search for something manually, with lots of filters.
lo ultimo de anime que miré fue Attack on titan, el mayor merito de la serie es su narrativa que engancha, me la habían recomendado y no daba dos mangos.
Lo ultimo de series fue Braking bad, me encantó la cuarta temporada, la quinta digamos... ok...
Después pelis, actualizo cada tanto http://www.criticker.com/resource/19784/ot/rankings.html
pero es más fácil ver poniendo order by ranked date acá http://www.criticker.com/?fl&view=oth&user=c4d0rn4
I need to start keeping snapshot lists like that. My criticker account keeps them all, and the ease of use makes it quick to change rankings, so it's as up to date as possible. I like that you can label and adjust your own tiers.
It's on their blog page.
It's based on the average Tiers. I guess you need this info from Criticker. Don't know if this is available through their API.
http://imdb.com/ has a recommendation engine, but I don't really like that one.
http://www.criticker.com/ recently implemented tv show ratings.
From their site:
> The experience taught us that it's not enough to read reviews and talk with friends -- you get the best recommendations from the people whose tastes best match yours. The idea of Criticker and the TCI (Taste Compatibility Index) was born.
> Criticker aims to match you with the people who share your taste in film most exactly. By using the Taste Compatibility Index (TCI), you can identify with whom you most agree, out of thousands. It's more than just movie recommendations: you're paired with the people whose tastes are most compatible with your own, and thus get the most accurate advice possible.
I use Criticker, is that okay too? I've never heard of trakt.tv, but it looks like a similar approach to last.fm, but with movies (also, they literally call it "scrobbling").
Anyways, here's my Criticker profile
Sign up for Criticker and start rating movies. They have a system that will match you up with other users on the site based on similar tastes and also give you recommendations. You can import your scores over from IMDb or just start off from scratch. It's a pretty good system, not perfect, but a really good way to discover new stuff.
> my netflix and amazon recommendations are shit
Those are poor examples. Netflix, for example, no longer really works on their rating predictions, but instead focuses on how to get you to want the things that are currently available for streaming. You can do much better than those examples just from rating data - go try Criticker and see how good its predictions are once you've made a bunch of ratings. There aren't really many websites with large user bases actively trying to optimize their taste prediction capabilities.
Schools, it's like the left has been completely erased from history -except for the big red bogeymen of course. "Give me the child until he is 7..." and all that
Here are some films about "the death of the Left or the destruction of politics."
I think there's a lot to do with the rise of computers, machine thinking, all that adam curtis stuff
Try Criticker. Rate movies there and it will start predicting which other movies you will like based on those ratings, comparatively to other people who have similar tastes as you. I've rated ~1000 feature films there and now their recommendations are startlingly accurate.
The website Criticker sort of does this with individual users data. If I take my whole list of movies from IMDB and import them they will give them scores in 10 more balanced Tiers. I tend to not watch movies I think will be bad so like the graph posted I have fewer lower rated movies, with Criticker it can show the scores based on the movies I've seen. I thought I remembered them having a list of everyone's ratings as well, but can't seem to find it.
I use criticker. It works better than any other recommendation engine I've found. You have to rate at least a few hundred movies (minimum maybe 300 ish? not sure) before it will work well though, unless you have an IMDB account you can import your ratings from.
Hmm... I'd prefer something more like the movie site criticker.com
Criticker lets you rate movies on a scale of 0 to 100, takes your ratings, compares them to other users and gives you a prediction of how you'd rate movies you haven't seen.
This is done here: http://www.criticker.com/ However, instead of critics it uses regular user votes to build you a network of trust and then automatically rate movies according to it.
In theory it sounds great, in practice, so far it didn't help me at all :(.
There are some movies that everyone loves that I don't. "Inception", "Lion in the winter", "Citizen Kane", "Million Dollar Baby". So far nothing was able to foreseen me disliking them. They are top-rated movies on both IMDB and Rotten Tomatoes but I just dislike them.
On the other hand there are hidden gems like "The Cook the Thief his Wife and Her Lover" or "Thank you for smoking" that I had to try a LOT of movies to find them.
Oh well, at least all these sites helped me to avoid shit like Transformers 2.
P.S If anyone, by some chance feels the same, I'll be happy to see his IMDB vote list or get recommendation some other way. Here is my IMDB list regardless
I find it difficult to find a specific critic with a similar taste in movies to mine, especially when I find a lot of reviews tend to give away a little too much of the plot.
When it comes to non-critic opinions I like to use Criticker.com since it finds people with a similar taste in movies and uses them to give you recommendations/predictions.
As some kind of post-mortem to this thread:
Harvard University's Suggested Film Viewing List (for those who are studying cinema arts, hence some bias!) recommend those from SU and RF:
Alexander Nevsky (1938) + Andrei Rublev (1966) + The Ascent (1977) + Ballad of a Soldier (1959) + Battleship Potemkin (1925) + The Color of Pomegranates (1968) + The Cranes Are Flying (1957) + Earth (1930) + The End of St. Petersburg (1927) + Ivan the Terrible, Part One (1944) + Kinoglaz (1924) + Korol Lir (1971) + Mother (1926) + Nostalghia (1983) + October: Ten Days That Shook the World (1928) + Po zakonu (1926) + Russian Ark (2002) + Shadows of Our Forgotten Ancestors (1964) + Storm Over Asia (1928) + War and Peace (1968) +
The Man With A Movie Camera (1929) + Obyknovennyy fashizm (1965) + Turksib (1929) +
> letterboxd is a better designed site... better functionality
It's cumbersome. All the massive graphics are annoying instead of functional.
This is functional: http://www.criticker.com/?fl&user=avgcrtckr
There are many comments on this thread, and I'm probably too late to the party, but I have to add another one:
Criticker is a great little website that helps you get movie recommendations. It has an amazingly simple mechanic behind it which gets eerily accurate in time. After (very simple) registration process, you have to rate at least 100 movies - the side is connected to imdb and other major movie websites. It creates your own database, and calculates which movies you have rated very poor, and which you have rated very high, creates a unique TCI score which it then compares to other users on the site who have a similar score and then recommends a movie that these people rated highly. The more movies you rate, thus giving it more information, it becomes incredibly precise. For instance, I watched American sniper, and went there to give it a score of 50 (you can rate a movie from 0 to 100), which is in my case a low to medium score. When I entered the name of the movie, Criticker estimated that I would rate the movie at 56. The bastard is starting to know me. I have discovered many amazing movies through this site.
tl;dr A website which uses scripts to find users with similar tastes in movies and compares your movie grades to theirs in order to make a movie recommendation
> Someone should make a website where you can match your tastes with those of millions of other people
There's Criticker.com, I talked about in this thread.
My tastes seem to be pretty different than yours so no idea which show to recommend though, sorry!
Not anime, but there are two films I've seen about the legendary tea master Rikyu, both of them very good in their own ways. Check them out if you're interested. Ask This of Rikyu might be harder to find (I've seen it at a film festival) but Death of a Tea Master is available on YouTube.
Watched the first 45 minutes and it is less Bollywood than what I have seen from Bollywood so far, but it isn't going go get a higher score than a 6.5/10. It will probably end up a 5/10.
http://www.criticker.com/film/Gangs_of_Wasseypur/rating/Stoic
I'm assuming you no longer have any invites available, but if you could provide information on how to get one I'd be very thankful.
I posted about me wanting an invite recently here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Invites/comments/3gp8p7/w_karagarga_invite/ and you can find all the movies I like here: http://www.criticker.com/profile/Stoic/.
Letterboxd is pretty slick but it lacks a good recommendation system. You can skim through user lists for ideas or look through your feed for stuff that interests you but there's nothing specifically tailored to individual taste. One site I use in addition to Letterboxd is Criticker, which allows you to rate films on a scale of 1-100 and then gives recommendations based on your preferences. After a while the system gets pretty good at predicting how you'll rate a movie. You can even import your ratings from IMDb to speed up the process, assuming you use that site to log films. It might not be a perfect resource but it's pretty handy if you are looking for stuff to watch that suits your tastes.
Don't know of any myself but assuming you aren't the full employment cinema peeps you could email or twit them (https://twitter.com/un_cine) or look at this incomplete list of films they've shown. Best of luck
Edit: sorry, didn't realize you needed to sign in to see that list
While I should be studying for my double major I instead have spent 75-85% of my time in bed mostly watching movies, tv and redditing. Extremely apathetic to anything I have a hard time eating enough and I can't even send a simple e-mail to ask for additional (free) funding worth 3000 euros because I need an extra year to finish my bachelors due to me not being able to do anything. Literally have been wanting to send that email for 2 months at least now and I'm pretty sure I've missed some kind of a deadline. fuuuuuuuuck.
tl;dr: ruining my life.
As an alternative to Letterboxd I'd recommend Criticker, its more focused on rating movies, and once you've rated enough, their algorithm for calculating recommendations is shockingly accurate.
I just use this site's database: http://www.criticker.com/?fl
Use the filters to get pre-40's films. Order by number of rankings to highlight the essentials. It shoots out a pretty good list: http://i.imgur.com/OREgEOd.png?1
And make sure you read about each film before/after you watch it. Some can be pretty inaccessible, so it's important to have some context and base knowledge about what you're watching. Or else it becomes difficult. Especially silent films.
>what's the big advantage of it over backloggery, beyond having a unified database?
There's not a big one at the moment. I think they both have pros and cons at the moment, and have used both, and been frustrated by limitations of both. In the long term, I think it will become much better than backloggery because it has more room for growth. Benefits over backloggery include automatic synchronization with Steam libraries, community features (friends, reviews, etc), ability to export your library to CSV, and incredibly basic things like changing your email address.
>My issue with unified databases is they are often out of date when it comes to obscure titles.
This does happen to an extent, although the developer is working on a way for users to expand the database more like Goodreads. At the moment, the initial game entries are drawn through the GiantBomb database API, so in principle, you can add anything that is missing to GiantBomb (which is wiki-style) and it gets automatically added to Grouvee (this is what I do when I run into a missing game). Hopefully it will be more seamless in the future, though.
>You compared it to goodreads - does it recommend games you'd like?
I meant that it had more community features like Goodreads. In terms of recommending things, it can select a random title from any subset of your library (like backloggery or HLTB), but that's about it. I haven't seen any game tracking site that does anything close to vaguely useful recommendations (I'd kill for one as accurate as Criticker is for movies).
Try Criticker. It's a film rating website that guesses how you'd rate films based on how other users have rated films, and you can also look at ratings other users have given films and compare them to your own. If you see a user with ratings similar to yours, you can always follow them to get a good gauge on which films to see.
Have you tried Criticker? Their interface is HORRIBLE, but it's got a really powerful recommendation system, and it even "guesses" scores of movies you haven't seen based on previous ratings. A marriage of Criticker and Letterboxed would be perfect in functionality and design, but I decided for the former because the predictions have been pretty accurate, so the recommendations are quite handy. It also recommends other users with similar tastes.
Eh, I don't really go to specific critics for stuff.
Although I tend to agree with the AVClub and Screenrant on most things.
Try http://www.criticker.com, actually. You can rate movies and eventually it'll become pretty finely tuned to your own specific likes/dislikes.
> There is a limit to how good a rating system can be
And Netflix is nowhere near it, given the existence of Criticker. Seriously, once you rate a bunch of movies, it nails what you'll think pretty perfectly. I have over a thousand movies ranked at both Netflix and Criticker (as well as a couple others, like Filmaster), and Netflix is a joke compared to any of them.
I'm not sure what that means. I do have the strangest boner right now though.
[edit] Added Criticker link.
Yes, it is a great movie. If you like that era, watch der Tunnel as well. Great fun to watch. Is loosely based on a true story where they are digging a tunnel to let people escape from the DDR to the west.
Tell your friend to have a look at this website: criticker. It is a site for his target audience. He can spam his site in his profile page and tell the other users in the forum (general discussion).
Sites like Criticker and Movie Lens don't care if a movie is popular. They just try to recommend what they think you will like. I found nice surprises on both sites.
I really like http://www.criticker.com/
You rate movies on a scale of 1-100 and based on that, the site predicts scores you might give other movies. I've found it to be really accurate and I've found some great movies I wouldn't have discovered otherwise.
Use it for finding movies that you would like based on other movies you've rated. I've rated about 1000 films and I like their algorithm much better than Netflix. Haven't used it in a while, but I assume it's only gotten better.
Have you ever given Criticker a look? If one is willing to go through and rate movies for many hours then it will become indispensable for the cinephile. The predominate use for me is in finding movies I want to watch (though that's closely tied with simply using it to keep an index of what I've seen).. the score prediction system is sort of ingenious and more often than not, accurate. But also there's a lot of knowledgeable people who write mini-reviews (visible on a given movie's page).