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It is all about context.
As I am ranking throug by decade and genre I can't help thinking that my rankings are going to get thrown out of whack if I make my choices within the context of a genre. For example American Psycho gets listed as a comedy and it is one of my favorite all time films but I would not say it is one of my favorite comedies. I think the movie is hilarious but that says more about how twisted I am vs the comedic value of the film. Is there anyway to rank within genre pulling titles from my all time list but not have the rankings under a genre affect my all time rankings?
Also when I am ranking by decade I have to stop to think if I am picking just based on what came out in that decade or do I pick the movie that best represents pop culture at the time of its release?
I realize I am nitpicking but thought I would take a shot.
Also when I am ranking by decade I have to stop to think if I am picking just based on what came out in that decade or do I pick the movie that best represents pop culture at the time of its release?
I realize I am nitpicking but thought I would take a shot.
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Inappropriate?Well, here's the thing. On your main list, you have movies that are better than one another. On your Comedy list, you have those SAME movies that are better than one another. So if you like one Comedy better than another Comedy, you're still liking one movie over the other, so it's still valid on your main list. Make sense?
All of these decisions are ultimately the same - which movie is better TO YOU - you're just refining the way the question is asked of you. You still have to give the same answer. You can choose however you like :)
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Inappropriate?Actually, this is a subtle but very good point, and it gets into the finer aspects of movie categorization along the lines of the music genome (although not that complex).
Most movies belong to several genres, with the first one or two being primary. The ones after that, if they're not subgenres or relatives of those first couple (like horror and thriller), probably won't accurately characterize the movie.
Take Clue. To look at an independent source, IMDB lists it as Comedy-Crime-Mystery-Thriller. All elements, to be sure. But let's look at thriller - what movies do we really think of for that genre?
Some of the top ones are: The Godfather, Se7en, Rear Window, Alien, The Silence of the Lambs, North by Northwest, Memento, and so on. Not too many comedies in there. I might think Clue is a really endearing movie that's top 20 for me, but when I'm in the mood for thrillers, I'm not reaching for Clue.
The genre - your context - does a lot to set the tone and the expectation.
This also has importance for recommendations, because Clue might be highly rated overall, but we give you the wrong result if we follow the logic:
- You love thrillers (the top of your list is full of them)
- Clue is a thriller
- Clue is really highly rated
- You haven't seen Clue
- You'll love Clue
Therefore, it would be sensible to either do as you say and allow ranking within genres to not impact the general rankings; or (and this is the option I prefer, to get the best of both worlds) allow a "strength of association" for movie tags as we implement them, based on the community. In other words, each tag would have a weight relative to a movie: Clue would be strongly bound with Comedy, but weakly with Thriller.
That way we can go either way with it later: make the genre filters strict or loose, or allow the user some measure of control over it (if they want to discover more movies in a particular genre, even if they're not as hardcore set in that genre).
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