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What makes the rankings better than you get from Netflix? I'm impressed that it managed to suggest Clue to me, but I haven't seen the rest, so can't really say if I would like them. (More, if it just suggests movies I've already seen and liked... hard to say it did a good job, or that I'm just predictable in cliques of movies. :) )

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The point of this site is to give you recommendations you haven't seen. I hate it when all the recommended movies on Netflix are all movies I've seen and can't get rid off...

Agreed. I just don't know how I could "rate" that the site is recommending good movies until I have watched them.

That is, I'm curious how so many folks are claiming it is doing a great job.

They all look interesting. Many years ago, netflix did the same. It recommended me a bunch of movies that seemed really interesting and I liked a ton of them, but these days netflix is a low bar. I'd bet they could do a great job, but have a more limited movie selection. Either that or the algo has actually declined.

Are you just on streaming? I've noted that the recommendations for streaming are fairly restrictive since they only have around 6000 movies available at a time.

With DVDs, the greater selection means better recommendations.

    > they only have around 6000 movies available at a time

That many? Always feels more like 10.

Or payolla. Never assume a bad algorithm when a good algorithm makes less money.

These recommendations are pretty crazy (in a good way). All my favorite sci-fi, comedies and thrillers in one list. Impressed. Going to check all the ones I haven't seen

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