And a bit of a follow up question because I want to complain a bit, why does it feel like most movie recommendation websites suck?

  • Elise@beehaw.org
    8·
    1 year ago

    Hey, what kind of movies do you like? Who worked on those movies and what other stuff did they make?

    Also it helps to find a critic you like. For example I liked Roger Ebert and when he recommended something I knew would most likely enjoy it.

    It also helps a lot to simply talk to people about movies. There might already be someone in your life who has a similar taste!

  • Rikj000@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    81·
    1 year ago

    Still up for better alternatives.
    But for now I’ve been using TheMovieDb.

    https://themoviedb.org/movie

    Then use the Filters section:

    • Select Genres you want to watch
    • Set User Score between 7 - 10
    • Set Minimum User Votes to 50
    • Alter the Filters more if you desire
    • Click Search

    For power users, I recommend to use a plugin like NoScript though, to block Google/CookieLaw’s hidden JS spyware on the site (they’re on 2/3th of the web tho).

    https://noscript.net

    Beware, NoScript will break some sites,
    and will require you to manually enable/whitelist JS (JavaScript) sources for sites + CDNs to fix this again.

    • anothermember@beehaw.org
      1·
      1 year ago

      For power users, I recommend to use a plugin like NoScript though, to block Google/CookieLaw’s hidden JS spyware on the site (they’re on 2/3th of the web tho).

      https://noscript.net

      Beware, NoScript will break some sites, and will require you to manually enable/whitelist JS (JavaScript) sources for sites + CDNs to fix this again.

      Can you not use uBlock Origin to block 3rd party scripts? Enable advanced mode and add * * 3p-script block to My Rules.

      I ask because I want to keep the number of extensions to a minimum.

      • Rikj000@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        I’d recommend to use both.

        uBlock does a nice job of blocking well known advertisements.

        However NoScript, is more secure because it disables all JS by default.
        While offering you an easy UI to (temporarily/permanently) whitelist individual components.

        Keep in mind, this will cause rather heavy site breakage in the first few weeks of using it.
        However that will get better once you whitelisted the bare essentials for the sites you regularly visit.

        Most sites use 0 to 3 JS sources enabled in NoScript to read/work correctly.
        While spy-ware/telemetry infested sites will ship with up to 15 or so JS sources.

  • Mothra@mander.xyz
    6·
    1 year ago

    I second the opinion on finding a critic or reviewer you agree with. I follow a few on YouTube. Search for reviews on stuff you’ve seen, both for good and bad shows, so that you get an idea of how they think and what they value

  • IninewCrowEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    Every movie recommendation website sucks in their own way … which is why one way of dealing with it is to average them all out.

    When my wife and I do a search we’ll first find a film that was recommended by a friend, site, forum, wherever … then do a quick search in rotten tomatoes, IMDb, Google and Letterboxd … we do a quick round up of all the sites reviews based on how many reviews and by who (audience and critics) … then we do some quick mental math and come up with an average rating ourselves. It works most of the time but at a better rate than anyone one recommendation site.

    Then if we get frustrated, we watch a classic old film. If you rewatch an old film from 30 years ago, it’s like watching it again for the first time. Well not exactly but do you remember all the details of a movie you watched 20, or 30 years ago.

  • neidu@feddit.nl
    4·
    1 year ago

    I just grab whatever gets a scene release on my preferred piracy site, provided that it does not involve superheroes or something else that has saturated screens for the past 15 years. And when I find myself on an airplane I look through what I have on my portable USB drive and pick something, mostly at random, because I like knowing as little as possible about a movie before watching it, to the point where I consider trailers to be spoilers.

      • protist@mander.xyzEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        It just needs an email address, and it needs to remember who you are, otherwise how could you use it? In movielens you thumb movies up and down and over time it predicts movies it thinks you’ll like. It’s run by the University of Minnesota

  • AlexWIWA@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    YouTube is where I get my movie recommendations. I follow a lot of film channels

  • Pratai
    2·
    1 year ago

    Watching trailers and seeing if the film might appeal to me.

  • counselwolf@lemmy.world
    1·
    1 year ago

    there’s no lemmy alternative yet but /r/movie suggestions had been real great for me so far. I’ve watched so many good films that I wouldn’t had if I didn’t saw it there.

    Particularly Coherence, The Man from Earth, Brick, etc.

    • Rikj000@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      31·
      1 year ago

      I can see a lot of spyware on that site through NoScript.

      If you use this site without blocking JS components then following parties will be spying on what you click, to sell it to the best bidder:

      • Twitter
      • Facebook
      • Google
      • TikTok
      • SnapChat