Thursday, May 31, 2007

Movie Recommendations

Movie Lens http://movielens.umn.edu/ is a site where you rate movies you have seen. Then the site generates recommendations for you. It does this by comparing your ratings to those of other people and matches you up with folks of like mind. Then it finds movies they loved that you haven’t seen and lists the ones you should like. You can also use it to keep track of movies you’d like to see or those you have seen.

So the whole idea is that you get movie reviews from real people who have something in common with you (as opposed to critics who don't like what you like). I have to say, now that I've reviewed a lot of films on this site, that it is very accurate about predicting how much I'll like a movie.

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