I lamented to my girlfriend today of the absence of a website designed to provide movie recommendations in a manner akin to Last FM's 'Similar Artists' and 'Recommendations' features. How incredibly convenient I postulated that such a service would be! Well I did some searching, hopeful that as the the internet has spawned just about everything one could care to imagine, that my fancy might not be so far off reality. Turns out, Jinni.com exists (albeit in its beta stages) to meet my needs, and has been billed as the 'Last FM for movies'. The verdict? Well the jury's still out, but at first glance I am impressed with both the system's intuitiveness and its impressive suite of options. I can draw strong comparisons to the Music Genome Project's Pandora.com. Thankfully, the breakdown of how the movies are categorized and sorted in relation to others (the films' 'genetic relatives' if you will) appears to be quite robust. It shows a lot of promise, that is providing that its database is large enough and its algorithms sufficently sophisiticated as to be able to accuarately cater to the tastes of this hardened film buff (with an added penchant toward the obscure).
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