A Close Shave is indeed a great film, and I hope you enjoyed it. My question, if it appears so easy to create such a workflow, why do I feel that popular sites like Letterboxed, or IMDb give such poor selections of film recommendations? They amass so much data, but I can't ever get a reliable recommendation from them.
That is ... an excellent question! It would be a good experiment to do a blind test of recommendation engines, where one watches recommended movies without knowing where the recommendation came from, then rates the movie/quality of the recommendation. At the end we find out how good is IMDb vs letterboxd vs basic technique from this post vs randomly selected movie 🧪
A Close Shave is indeed a great film, and I hope you enjoyed it. My question, if it appears so easy to create such a workflow, why do I feel that popular sites like Letterboxed, or IMDb give such poor selections of film recommendations? They amass so much data, but I can't ever get a reliable recommendation from them.
That is ... an excellent question! It would be a good experiment to do a blind test of recommendation engines, where one watches recommended movies without knowing where the recommendation came from, then rates the movie/quality of the recommendation. At the end we find out how good is IMDb vs letterboxd vs basic technique from this post vs randomly selected movie 🧪