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by Stain
Fri Sep 05, 2008 7:01 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: When Criticker guesses wrong
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Re: When Criticker guesses wrong

I have seen a total of four titles because Criticker recommended them to me. Here's three of them:

FLCL: My PSI, 96; My actual rating: 50
Tenacious D -- The Complete Masterworks: My PSI, 90; My actual rating: 0
Eddie Izzard -- Dress to Kill: My PSI, 96; My actual rating: 0

And you guys think 40 is a big gap. :) Some of the other recommendations of films I'd already seen were also pretty off, so I haven't actually followed any recommendation given to me by this site for almost a year.

Why am I still on this site, and why do I still regularly rank films, then? Well, very simple: I've been experimenting with personal opinion predictors on the Internet since practically before there was a web. (Anybody else remember when "The Movie Critic" was something into which you had to telnet? That was way back in 1995.) This and http://www.sourcelight.com are the two such sites I have discovered that IMHO aren't really that good now, but which I think will be good in the future. Insofar as I know, this is the only such site where the users can add films themselves (albeit subject to moderation), and said submissions are not subject to goofy restrictions. (There's one I used to be on that kept raising the limit on the number of votes a given movie had to have in the IMDb to be worth their time to add, and then they stopped adding new releases all together. Those guys can go to hell.) What's more, as this site continues to get favorable press and improve its features, and as the positive word of mouth continues to spread, more and more users will get accounts here, and the collaborative-filtering mechanisms will work better and better.

How do I choose films now? Believe it or not, a lower-tech semi-intuitive method I devised over a decade ago -- following my favorite directors, while using the Internet word of mouth on their works as kind of a counterbalancing reality check -- works a hell of a lot better than any contraption I have discovered.

I just still report my ratings here religiously. Not to mention all the obscure films I add. :)