*eyes Netflix*

[camwyn]

I... okay, I don't know how you came up with that correlation, but...

Apparently their 'you liked X, therefore based on the responses of other people who liked X, we're gonna guess you'll like Y' algorithm involves a whole lot of people who liked the movie Let The Right One In, who also liked the TV show Generation Kill. Because that's why Netflix thinks I'll like Generation Kill.

For reference, Let The Right One In is a Swedish movie, set in Stockholm, about a twelve year old boy who's got a bullying problem and a bunch of detached adults in his life, and the girl apparently his own age who moves into an apartment next door to his, who happens to be a vampire. Generation Kill, last time I checked, was a TV miniseries based on the book of an embedded reporter's experiences with some seriously kick-ass Marines. I'm not debating that I'm sort of interested, but now I'm wondering how many other people have the same 'bleak Swedish cityscape, young boy coming of age, child vampire!' / 'MARINES INNA DESERT' correlation.

Comments

[agonistes]

My guess: Alexander Skarsgaard.

[camwyn]

Hm. Okay, possibly. Although given that the main characters are both visually twelve and all of the adults are pretty profoundly physically unattractive... well, I dunno, there must be something.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_geekie_/]

I was just coming in to say the same thing. This.

[mephron]

It could be worse. A bit back there was a listing for "My Neighbor Totoro" on Amazon, where the also-liked included "Tokio Private Police", which is basically "Mecha Cops Fucking".

That was kind of a mind fry.

[camwyn]

Meanwhile, they are having a lot of trouble coming up with horror movie recommendations for me. Seriously, on their All Genre Suggestion page, there's one in the Horror slot, and it's Something Wicked This Way Comes. On the other hand, there's a BOATLOAD of movies under 'Foreign' that any American who could sit still long enough to read the subtitles would count as horror: El Orfanato, Delicatessen, Nosferatu, [REC]...

'm guessin' I just don't ping real high on the 'Nature Trail to Hell' scale of movie interests.

[kotorjedi-amaya.livejournal.com]

Foreign horror is generally better anyway, I've found.

Unless you happen to like Sam Raimi-esque movies for the hilarity factor alone...

[agoodshinkickin.livejournal.com]

Generation Kill is really kind of eye opening. Or at least the book was, and seeing as I read that before seeing the mini-series...I think my opinion of the show is pretty well tainted.

But yeah, I'm with Agonistes on this one, it's totally the Swedish Vampire -> Swedish Guy Playing a Swedish Vampire -> Marine connection.

Which...now I'm singing "That's where you'll find us, the Swedish Vamp Connection. The Blood suckers, the marines, and meeeee."

Wow am I ever so glad it's Friday.

[camwyn]

And I can now take it one step further.

"Oh! You liked The Muppet Movie! You're gonna LOVE Eddie Izzard: Definite Article!"

[dormouse-in-tea.livejournal.com]

. . . well, crap.

Now I think I'm gonna be kinda disappointed in Yuletide if it doesn't yield "child!vampire + MARINES INNA DESERT" fic.

I'm not thinking it's gonna.

[hortorum.livejournal.com]

"Brad, that little Hadji dude I can see in my NVG's... -totally- turned into a bat!"

"No more Ripped Fuel for you tonight Ray!"

[dormouse-in-tea.livejournal.com]

*snickering*