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Netflix' ratings and recommendations are really weird. Now, on Amazon, their recommendations are really cautious. I ordered Red Dwarf, so it recommended another Britcom. I have no idea how Netflix' work! I've rated over 200 films (Netflix is very good this way, simply click on the right number of stars and Javascript [I think] does the rest, no going back and forth. But sometimes, I'll select a movie and it will tell me that it thinks I'll give it, say, 1.7 stars--when it's a film I think I'll really like (and do like in the end). And then it'll give me some totally random movie in my recommendations, or it'll advise me to rent something that's a lot like stuff I hated.

Today it outdid itself. It predicted I would give 4.2 stars to a Bollywood movie. Now, OK, the system couldn't have known I don't like Bollywood (I like some Indian music, but the stuff in Bollywood films is another matter) because I've never rated any. But what in my ratings would make them think I would?! Is it "oh, foreign films, all the same"? I don't think I've even rated anything vaguely Indian-related.

Strange.