Love, Cinematical Style?
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Via Cynthia Rockwell comes this idea from Dave Winer: "I wonder if Netflix has ever thought of partnering with Match.com to connect people who like the same kind of movies?"
Cynthia says, "Now that might be an online dating service I would use."
How about you? I mean, let's face it - it's hard enough to find someone to talk about movies with; it's even harder to find someone worth dating. The two, together, in the same person? Forget about it.
So here at Cinematical Headquarters, our busy little brains are spinning. Dave went on in a second post to explain exactly how one could program matching software to obtain Netflix information via XML, but we're sort of cavemen around here and we're not quite ready for that. Still, we thought we might put out an APB for guinea pigs.
What do you think? Would you let Cinematical help you find your true love? Or, at least, someone to go to things like this with? If you're at all interested, tell us in the comments why you'd want to do this, and/or if you have any suggestions as to how you think we should go about making matches. If we get enough interest, we'll pick a Cinematical reader and try to match them up.
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7-12-2005 @ 3:38AM
Josh said...
Sounds like a great idea (and I'm always up for new ridiculous ways to attempt to find love online), but I think someone has beat you to it:
http://www.matchflick.com
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6-16-2005 @ 4:19PM
Jay said...
In theory, sounds great, but I like to surround myself with people who don't have the same tastes that I have -- they usually are self-involved pretentious snobs.
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6-16-2005 @ 4:19PM
clearlynuts said...
It would only be worthwhile if it worked better than the system they use to make movie recommendations.
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6-16-2005 @ 4:19PM
A.J. said...
This was done back in the "early" days, well, late 90's at least. The site was called Moviecritic.com which now appears to point to Macromedia?
Anyways, you had an account, and you went through and rated all the movies you had seen.
Then you could input another username, and it would display movies that neither of you had seen that you would both like based on your ratings. My wife (girlfriend at the time) used this a lot during college, but then it went under at some point. Would be cool to see it resurrected...
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