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Why is this movie a 'recommendation' for tons of movies?

posted 17 years ago by jackofhearts1981
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This movie is marked as a 'recommendation' for all of these movies and many more (or at least was 10 minutes ago):

1900
28 Days Later
28 Weeks Later
Akira
An American Haunting
American Psycho
Bad Lieutenant
The Basketball Diaries
Batoru Rowaiaru II: *beep*
The Black Dahlia
Blade: Trinity
Blue Velvet
Bound
Bram Stoker's Dracula
Bride Of Re-Animator
A Clockwork Orange
Collateral
The Contract
Cross Of Iron
The Crow
Danny The Dog
Dawn Of The Dead
The Departed
The Devil's Advocate
The Devil's Backbone
Diaboliques, Les
Dog Soldiers
Face/Off
La Femme Nikita
Fight Club
Flags of Our Fathers
Freddy vs. Jason
Frenzy
From Dusk Till Dawn
From Hell
Gangs Of New York
Hannibal
Hellboy
Henry: Portrait Of A Serial Killer
The Hills Have Eyes
A History Of Violence
I Spit On Your Grave
Ichi The Killer
The Jackal
Kalifornia
Kill Bill: Vol. 1
The Killer
L.A. Confidential
Land Of The Dead
Léon
Los Sin Nombre
Lucky Number Slevin
Man On Fire
Marathon Man
Mulholland Drive
Mystic River
The Name Of The Rose
Natural Born Killers
Night Of The Living Dead
A Nightmare On Elm Street
The Number 23
The Omen
Once Upon A Time In America
One Hour Photo
The Osterman Weekend
Peeping Tom
Phenomena
Planet Terror
The Proposition
Psycho
Quills
Rear Window
Red Dragon
Repulsion
Reservoir Dogs
Ripley's Game
Saw I-III
The Shining
Silent Hill
Sin City
Snatch.
Species
Strange Days
Straw Dogs
Suspiria
Switchblade Romance
Taxi Driver
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
The Terminator
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
The Thing
Underworld
The Untouchables
V For Vendetta
Wild At Heart
Wolf Creek

Why is that? Is it really a good recommendation for all of these? Or is it because this movie has so many 'plot keywords' and thus it seems to be similar to all of these movies? If so, does it really need all of those keywords (more than 450)?

...just curious...

[–] Alien_Zombie 17 years ago

Yeah. What the hell is this S H I T about?

[–] albertfoster 17 years ago

Do you think it just might have something to do with the fact that this site is sponsored by Amazon.com?
They just might be overstocked with these DVDs.

Advertising pays for the site so please don't complain about it.

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[–] somry 17 years ago

Just stopping by to say that I will never buy or watch Kite because it just irks me seeing it as a recommendation for every single movie on IMDb.

I'm sure no one - least of all the people marketing Kite - cares, but I just had to get that off my chest.

¤ ¤ ¤

[–] TheEnigmaticRonin 17 years ago

hehhee, oki so I'm not the only person to notice this.

" Look, there's two women fuc*ing a polar bear!" - Fear And Loathing in Las Vegas 1998

[–] HalloweenNinja (32) 5 years ago

Ah, this takes me back.

For a while, it did seem like Kite was being recommended a lot. Plot keywords probably had more to do with it than anything else. Those things work on algorithms and given that the "Kite Recommendation" phenomenon on IMDB was at its peak in the mid-2000's, I'd wager that it was a technical issue.

Some of the recommendations make perfect sense such as Akira, Kill Bill, Battle Royale, Ichi the Killer, even Taxi Driver, given the plot and visual style of the movie.

I can even accept it as a recommendation for "extreme" films and cult classics such as Caligula or The Hills Have Eyes since Kite was one of those VHS anime flicks that had a decent following back in the late 90's.