Zero Suggestions
Steve signed up for Netflix a month or so ago, and we've been getting all manner of strange movies delivered to our doorstep.
He has an... interesting taste in movies, a taste that isn't shared by any other human being known to man. Except maybe JIM.
Since I can only take so much bombarding of movies starring Japanese-drawn tweens and their kitty cats, he set up an account for me and I've been busy rating movies in hopes of periodically getting something I will at least tolerate.
The only problem is that the more movies I rate, the fewer suggestions I get.
Earlier this week I had rated around 250 movies, and had a recommendation list of 25. Today? I have 7 suggestions. From 398 ratings and a queue of 29. Oh wait, I just rated twelve more and my recommendations are down to 5.
Netflix doesn't know what to do with me. With the kind of person who likes Donnie Darko and Serenity and 28 Days Later and Amelie and Casino Royale and Chicken Little and Fight Club.
From ratings like this, Netflix offers me the following:
- The Outsiders, because I liked The Breakfast Club and The Goonies;
- The Sopranos Season 6, because I liked the first five seasons;
- The Kid, because I liked Wallace & Grommit;
- Places in the Heart because I liked The Color Purple and Fried Green Tomatoes; and
- The Man in The Moon because I liked My Girl.
I've come to the conclusion that Netflix doesn't know what to do with me. It has washed its hands, it's done. There's no hope.
2007
4 Love Notes
Wait, Netflix has movies that aren't Japanese? Or animated?
In the interest of self-defense, I should point out that the movies Valette has balked at as being "too out there" are "Garfield" and "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang."
I should know better than to try and inflict culture on someone who moves "Munich" to the top of her Netflix queue.
[Fixed a few typos. --Ed.]
culture is an acquired thing - not like beer...I recently put the kids through an old Don Knotts and Tim Conway movie about boxing. The trauma continues...
Damn you Ed!!!
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