eight1echo Posted May 19, 2014 Share Posted May 19, 2014 Netflix recommendations are fucking garbage. Included in my "Top Picks for" is The Starving Games parody of the Hunger Games. First of all, I would never watch this trash, second it guesses that I would rate it 2/5 stars. Why the fuck is a movie I would rate two stars in my top picks!? Get it together netflix AlexH. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bladew1ll1s1sdead Posted May 19, 2014 Share Posted May 19, 2014 Mine suggests terrible shows. I don't want to watch fucking Firefly because I watched Doctor Who. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
papermonsters Posted May 19, 2014 Share Posted May 19, 2014 Yeah, that movie is in basically every category of recommendations for me as well. Then, you watch one Rocky movie and suddenly they think you want to watch every 80's dad movie. (Which, in all honestly was pretty spot on.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
castaway Posted May 19, 2014 Share Posted May 19, 2014 Netflix in general just has a terrible selection. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted May 19, 2014 Share Posted May 19, 2014 Mine suggests terrible shows. I don't want to watch fucking Firefly because I watched Doctor Who. Except Firefly is a good show worth watching that is in a similar genre as Doctor Who. croft and anthemforadoomed 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thebiglebowski Posted May 19, 2014 Share Posted May 19, 2014 Mine suggests terrible shows. I don't want to watch fucking Firefly because I watched Doctor Who. You should anthemforadoomed 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Family Friendly Rap God Posted May 19, 2014 Share Posted May 19, 2014 Except Firefly is a good show worth watching that is in a similar genre as Doctor Who. croft and lonesomexloveus 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tarzioo_ Posted May 19, 2014 Share Posted May 19, 2014 Mine suggests terrible shows. I don't want to watch fucking Firefly because I watched Doctor Who. I'm with everyone else, watch it! And then after, watch the the movie which concludes it. And then report back. It could be done in a day. It was short lived . Not many episodes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hipsterasfolk Posted May 19, 2014 Share Posted May 19, 2014 Netflix always recommended great movies....then again I only used it for Troma films Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thebiglebowski Posted May 19, 2014 Share Posted May 19, 2014 I'm not saying it's perfect, but the algorithms these kinda things are based on need a lot info from all over the search space. They aren't always recommending movies they think you will love. They are trying to get new information out of you to improve the overall predictive power of the system. Some of it really is (figurative) rocket science. Netflix used to give away a million dollar prize to anyone who could improve on their system. A lot of universities and labs would go after it. stuffsux00 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bladewillisisdead Posted May 19, 2014 Share Posted May 19, 2014 Netflix recommendations are fucking garbage. Included in my "Top Picks for" is The Starving Games parody of the Hunger Games. First of all, I would never watch this trash, second it guesses that I would rate it 2/5 stars. Why the fuck is a movie I would rate two stars in my top picks!? Get it together netflix When Netflix suggests stuff like that I just assume it's set to recommend it to everyone in a desperate "We paid money for this, please someone watch it so we don't feel like even bigger idiots than we already do." There was a big article a few months back about the how netflix categories and suggestions work. There are an absurd number of classifications they use and so a lot of great movies can result in recommendations for garbage. Sometimes Netflix recommends me cool stuff, other times it doesn't. I'm pretty whatever about it. http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/01/how-netflix-reverse-engineered-hollywood/282679/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thebiglebowski Posted May 19, 2014 Share Posted May 19, 2014 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netflix_prize Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deafening Posted May 19, 2014 Share Posted May 19, 2014 I could watch one episode of Show #1 and the an entire series of Show #2 and Netflix will, without a doubt, always recommend movies and shows based off of Show #1. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Satan Posted May 19, 2014 Share Posted May 19, 2014 to hell with recommendations, just watch LOST over, and over, and over, and over.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steventangent Posted May 19, 2014 Share Posted May 19, 2014 Sometimes it's been spot on for me. But I rate just about everything I watch. It gets confused lately because my wife watches dumb shows sometimes. Or at least, things I consider dumb. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dantheriver Posted May 19, 2014 Share Posted May 19, 2014 I wish I had time to even consider watching something that Netflix recommended. I can barely keep up with the shit I want to watch as is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bladew1ll1s1sdead Posted May 19, 2014 Share Posted May 19, 2014 Guys, I tried like a year ago when I was stoned and fell asleep. I'll try again based on the suggesting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bladewillisisdead Posted May 19, 2014 Share Posted May 19, 2014 Guys, I tried like a year ago when I was stoned and fell asleep. I'll try again based on the suggesting. Firefly was dope, but it's one of the most overrated things. It would have been awesome if it got more than one season, but it didn't and I've moved on. The movie was only ok. Definitely check it out though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caninesapien Posted May 19, 2014 Share Posted May 19, 2014 Just... scroll/click past the recommendations? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Posted May 19, 2014 Share Posted May 19, 2014 im not against it, my wife watched some shit lifetime show which led us to the recommendation to Gossip Girl which fucking ruled. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Posted May 19, 2014 Share Posted May 19, 2014 and by my wife, I mean me, too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhoCares? Posted May 19, 2014 Share Posted May 19, 2014 WHO CARES? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lonesomexloveus Posted May 19, 2014 Share Posted May 19, 2014 WHO CARES? WHERE WERE YOU LAST WEEK WHEN WE REALLY NEEDED YOU?! AlexH. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
horrorbusiness138 Posted May 19, 2014 Share Posted May 19, 2014 to hell with recommendations, just watch LOST over, and over, and over, and over.... That's what my girlfriend keeps telling me...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
futures Posted May 19, 2014 Share Posted May 19, 2014 to hell with recommendations, just watch LOST over, and over, and over, and over.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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