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A Way To Find Movies Worth Watching On Netflix (techcrunch.com)
41 points by peterkchen on July 10, 2014 | hide | past | favorite | 11 comments



Rotten Tomatoes has their own version of this: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/dvd/netflix


Netflix public API shuts down on Nov 14...


I've already seen a few third party API's out and about these past couple of months


Make sure to check out http://instantwatcher.com, you can filter by RT rating, style, year of release, etc.


This site is pretty helpful, I agree.

I'm responding to note my frustration with simple filtering by RT rating...a lot of movies have a high RT rating, but with very low confidence (e.g., 75, because 3 of 4 obscure reviewers liked it). You want want to filter by confidence also, but the interface doesn't allow it. It's frustrating because it's so close to solved; all the hard work of gathering the data is done, but the filtering is slightly too simplistic.


It's too bad the website referenced is totally down, I for one would love to use it :)

http://abetterqueue.com/


http://netflixroulette.net/ is also an alternative for finding a movie to watch, it's just a roulette. The author also made the API for everyone to use since Netflix shut down their.


What I would actually need is a way to choose from the many movies worth watching.... but the hard part is doing so without choosing a movie not worth watching.


Anyone know of a website which offers similar functionality but with an option to choose the region you're in?


Sad it is down. Well done on the 404 page though.


Amazing 503 page

http://imgur.com/y4KtdcC




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