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I think you've taken your personal preferences and tried to apply them to everyone else.

if you're sleepy you might want to watch an action movie or a comedy

If I'm sleepy, I want to watch a calming movie, or something thoughtful because I'm going to sleep soon. Watching an action movie when I'm sleepy might be good for you, or maybe a long-haul trucker. But not for everyone.

This is where every recommendation engine from Netflix to Facebook to Apple Music falls down. People are messy. And there's too many of them to generalize.

It only fetches great movies with a rating > 6.7 on IMDb

Using online ratings services is a bad idea. They've become polluted. Movies that are enormously important or entertaining or just plain good are losing more and more ratings points because they're being re-rated by non-experts and people who don't understand the context or history. The movies haven't changed. The people rating then have. So what you end up with is the lowest common denominator films getting the highest ratings.



*Using online ratings services is a bad idea.*

While some viewers might change their ratings, I believe the crowd will surface the truth at the end


It hasn't happened yet. And this has been going on for years.

That's why some web sites show separate ratings based on who's rating them. They tally the ratings of professional film critics separately from those of the hoi polloi.




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