General
Hi MovieLens users! We recently launched our first major revision to MovieLens since 2003! Please help us grow in the right direction by giving us thoughtful feedback on the design and functioning of the new user experience.
Ideas, questions, and bug reports are all welcome here.
89 results found
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Similar Movies, more search tools
When viewing similar movies provide more search tools, as seen elsewhere on the site. Specifically, the tool I would use the most is an option to show only unrated movies.
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Make movies sortable by length
Pretty self-explanatory. It would be nice to have movie length as an option under filters as well.
1 voteInteresting idea. I think that should be pretty do-able.
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new way to sort films
honestly i dont know how thats not a feature yet - to have the ability to sort movies we havent watched yet by the rating the site predicts because the wizard prediction system is pretty good
1 vote(see comment for response / request for clarification)
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Credit Writers
You guys need to credit writers for films. Writing is the most important component of a good film. The site should include writer credits and writers should be a search field. Tis is an ergregious oversight by your organization.
1 voteI'll see if we 1) have this information available to us from our sources of data and 2) have it currently stored for enough of the movies. I do agree it would be a nice improvement if the data is there and trustworthy.
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Filter by Length / Duration
Add a Length / Duration filter. Sometimes you have just a short amount of time and want to see something that fits that window. Other times, you are in the mood to see a 3 hour behemoth . Since the informations is already there, it shouldn't be diffcult to implement.
62 votesThanks for the idea – yes, we do have the information to add that filter, good to know that there’s a use case!
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Link to films available on Netflix
It would be useful to be able to filter films by only those available on Netflix
Right now have to do a search for any film that has a high rating from movielens
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Why this project doesn't have a Github?
It would be great if exists any open repository with commiters and contributors and people could implement more interesting features together?
14 votesIt’s a cool idea, and worth further consideration. However, it is currently unlikely to happen given MovieLens’s utility as a research platform for our graduate students.
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Stop recommending very old movies when I clearly do not watch/rate them.
Every time I try to come back and use the site I'm always driven away by the need to hide pages and pages of old movie recommendations.
13 votesThanks for the feedback. We’re working on this.
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Would be MUCH BETTER If i could rate "actors"
Wish i could rate actors.. There're some movies I'll never watch if there's some actor I dislike in it. I hate poor acting =\
8 votesThanks for the feedback!
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Separate playlists?
I have different expectations for an action movie than I do for a drama. Sometimes I am in the mood for something different than I am normally looking for.
Is it possible to create separate playlists? I want at least three playlists, one for movies that will make me think, one for movies that will make me feel, and one for mindless fun.
I think that Pandora handles this well. I generally like singer/songwriter mellow stuff (Sarah McLachlan, Dar Williams, The Hush Sound, Leonard Cohen), but I also like a little bit of metal (Sabaton, Nightwish). Putting them on a…
12 votesGreat idea. We’ve been pondering “mood-based recommendations” for a while.
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refine search with boolean filters
Could you add a feature to refine search with operators ?
I mean, it is actually possible to search by multiple tags, for example :"eighties, superheroes, drama"
it would be awesome to be able to be more accurate with boolean operations, eg.
"eighties +horror +teen"
"superheroes +vilains -batman"
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Cannot find the RSS feature from the old version (to see which were the last 20 movies I rated)
I really liked the RSS feat feature of the old version. It often helped me remember the name of the movie I wanted to recommend to a friend. I also found it interesting to see which were the last 20 movies or so I had watched and entered on the side...
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Easier way to compare and re-rate rated films
I'd really like a sort of "drag and drop" method of re-shuffling and reorganizing my various film ratings.
It would be really helpful if one could clearly contrast and compare, for instance, their 5-star films vs. their 4-star films vs. their 4.5-star films. Maybe there could be panels side by side which you could scroll through (a 5 star panel, 4.5 star panel, 4 star panel, etc.) where you could drag a film from one to another to change its rating.
The more films I rate, the more my rating-criteria change. For instance, a film I gave 5 stars a…
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Dark theme
I tried to use Firefox's dark color switcher, but it overlays over the stars (so I can't se recommendations). Since your focus is movies, a dark theme seems logical. Many of your users browse this site with an HTPC. Many HTPCs (like mine) use dark themes,,, specifically because it's more amenable to night viewing. Please give us a dark theme option.
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Add the ability to sort "My Ratings" alphabetically.
I'm surprised this isn't in your list of sorting options for My Ratings already.
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Occasionally "force" me to rate movies I've already rated.
I end up rating movies that I've recently seen much higher than similarly good movies from years ago. Giving me (users) an occasional movie to rate that I've already rated without my showing my previous rating might keep algorithms freshly accurate, or at least would provide additional data points. Complex? Yes, but perhaps quite valuable.
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Discussion Forum
Will there be a forum for discussion? Preferably not the same format as the movielens q&a, maybe just a comments section at the bottom of each movie.
13 votesNothing planned yet, but we are certainly open to this idea!
For context, we had a discussion forum in the mid-2000s that was pretty successful. We see the shift to the Q&A interface (maybe 2009?) as a failure, since that really dropped discussion activity.
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Filter by outside ratings
Everytime I see a recommendation of a movie I don't know, I check rotten tomstoes for its rating and, most of the time, I only watch it if it has a high enough rating. So, I would love to see some kind of filter that allowed me to filter my recommendations by movies with a rotten tomatoes or imdb rating above a certain threshold.
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Titles according to user language (localization)
IMDB shows the title of a film in my language (as guessed from my browser settings, I guess). Even if you keep the user interface in English, you should offer (at least in searches) my interface language (with fallbacks for same-language different-country titles), English and the original film language.
90 votesThanks for the feedback! We do have a very international user base, so this makes sense.
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Plot summary
I would like to have a plot summary when the cursor is hovering over a title.
5 votes
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