Q: Is there some website, say, where I can rate 5 or 10 movies then click a button and it tells me which movie reviewer I am most compatible with?
This is very selfish of me, I know, but when movie reviewer Roger Ebert got sick last year I was really worried that he may have been forced to give up writing reviews and I would miss out. Over the last half-dozen years or so, I've become very reliant on Mr Ebert's reviews. I read them to decide whether I'll go to a movie or not and I read them after I've been to help me understand the movie. If he says a movie is a 4 out of 4 then I know I'll enjoy it, even if other reviewers only give it a 2 out of 4. I've only been lead astray by Mr Ebert once that I can recall - some stupid movie with Jennifer Lopez, I think - and when I reread the review I realized that if I'd read the review properly then I wouldn't have gone to the movie.
You'd think that all reviewers would give similar ratings but they don't. Take a look at the reviews that Google has collected for the movie Rendition and you'll see that the average rating is currently 3.1 out of 5, based on 12 reviews, with most of the scores being a 2 or a 3. But Ebert gave the movie a 5 - and I loved that movie!
Average rating
3.1 / 5
Based on 12 review
So ... Ebert gave me an idea.
I'm guessing that not everyone likes Eberts reviews but I do.
Is it possible that everyone has a "most compatible reviewer" and mine just happens to be Ebert?
If Ebert got run over by a bus ... how would I got about finding his replacement.
Is there some website, say, where I can rate 5 or 10 movies then click a button and it tells me which movie reviewer I am most compatible with? If not, how hard would it be to build a website like that? I know that most of the necessary raw data is available via Google movie searches.
