Philip wrote:I discovered something while going through the movies to put them on my remember list. I don't think "Grave of the Fireflies" (http://www.criticker.com/?f=4316) should be in the humor section. "This movie makes me want to kill myself" (80 pts), "One of the most depressing and beautiful movies I've ever seen." (90 pts), "Too sad for words..." (81 pts) ...
I haven't seen the movie, so maybe humor is a sub category, but I don't really think it's a laugh out loud kinda film.
Ok, 2 things... First of all, the labels 'ACTION', 'DRAMA', 'THRILLER', 'HUMOR' and 'ARTHOUSE' should be considered quite broad. The origin of these five labels comes from the fact that my local video store classified its movies in either of these 5 genres and I kind of liked this classification. I think I just like the simplicity of having only 5 genres, as compared to like 23 on IMDB. It makes it easy for people like me who sometimes feel like watching something serious (DRAMA), sometimes something action-packed (ACTION), or something light (HUMOR), etc.
So it has been my goal to classifiy each movie in my database under one of these five labels, where each of the labels corresponds to a set of IMDB genres. For example, as is shown in the .pdf with your recommendations, the ACTION label contains movies with the genres action, adventure, sci-fi and fantasy. So if a movie has only the genre 'adventure', like 10,000 B.C., it also will be categorized as 'ACTION', even though it doesn't have the genre 'action'.
Secondly, I don't do this classification manually (which would take way too much time when you're crossing the 2,500 movies mark). I devised a way to automatically classify a movie under each of the five labels by taking its genres on IMDB into account, as well as its popcorn rating (I consider movies with very low popcorn rating to be 'alternative' movies and thus classify under 'ARTHOUSE'). Of course this automatic classification is not fool proof, and there will always be movies that you'd think should be under a different label. I'll try to find a way to override the automatic classification with manual input to accommodate these errors, so that Grave of the Fireflies can be classified under ARTHOUSE instead of HUMOR.