Why Netflix often drives me nuts

A short time ago, Netflix ran a contest to find the best algorithm to help customers with movie recommendations. The American Statistical Association (ASA) recently declared that one of its team of statisticians came up with the winning formula. Great for them. Unfortunately, Netflix still sucks when it comes to predicting the movies I might like.

The reason? Well, one movie is not like every other movie that does the same sort of gimmick. One of the constant suggestions is crap that wants to be the movie Clerks. Okay, Clerks was great. Every wannabe Clerks movie is not. Stop recommending that trash to me.

Little Miss Sunshine was a cute movie. I liked it. That does NOT mean that ever avant garde movie that has appeared after that movie is one I'm going to like. Just because it was fielded at the Sundance Film Festival doesn't mean I'm going to like it. Stop recommending this trash to me, Netflix. Just because some movie actress decided to make a $15,000 movie doesn't mean I'm going to like it. Nor does it mean it's JUST LIKE movies I might have liked in the past.

So far, Netflix is broken when it comes to suggestions. I don't even use their suggestions anymore. I look for movies I want to watch based on my own desires. I wish it wasn't that way because I love Netflix, just not their suggestions.

Stumble It!