Criticker is a movie recommendations engine and community.
The idea is simple: rank a bunch of films on a scale of 0-100, and Criticker will search its database of thousands of users and critics to see who you best match up with. Apparently, I have the almost same taste in film as Michael Phillips of the Chicago Tribune. Criticker refers to the measure of how good we match as the "Taste Compatibility Index". The lower the TCI, the better.
Film recommendations are generated by looking at the movies which my top TCIs have highly ranked. Criticker has thousands of users, and over 15,000 films, so the supply of recommendations is seemingly endless.
The best part is, Criticker doesn’t hide any of its calculations. I can see exactly why a certain film has been recommended to me. Or, the reason Frank Lovece (TV Guide) and I have such a poor TCI (hint: he loved Ice Age). It’s extremely addictive. Add a forum, a blog, and buddy lists, and you have a site which could easily consume hours of idle time. Link
Otherwise your system really lacks nuance when only 100-80% is good.
What a PITA. I agree with Ryan that a better scoring system is needed, particularly since the critics nearly universally use a 5-star scale. Why does the average Joe suddenly need 100 stars?
If I want to spend my time on movie information, I'll stick with the Hollywood Stock Exchange.
http://rockhoppersdailygrind.blogspot.com/2007/07/for-movie-lovers.html
about the site:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MovieLens
its tech is based on a cool website that was around years ago called moviecritic.com, and adobe bought the site and technology used with the site, and closed it down.
Movielens simply works like this...
It takes your ratings patterns and bases its suggestions on the recommendations of other users with similar rating patterns.
Also about it here:
http://geohawk.blogspot.com/2004/03/movielens.html
It doesn't seem to use ANY kind of system that would be any use...