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Rewatchability and quality? Are you kidding me?

How do I glean from this wither of not I will like the movie?

A High quality movie can be terrible and a low quality movie can be great. What does quality mean? Does that mean they had good special effects and angles? Does that mean the color is true and the acting was great? How does this equate to me liking the movie?

Rewatchability? Many of my favorite movies I would not watch again (Lord of the rings) because they were so long. There are also so many movies that I want to see in the future that I will choose to watch one of them instead of re-watching one that I have already watched. Re-watching is something that people do less and less as they get older (kids and teenagers maybe do it) but adults (your target audience) not so much.

Also those scatter charts mean the same to my brain as the histograms that you are blasting so I would stick with what people are already used to (the histograms). You are not doing anyone any favors by changing the presentation of the same data. People are not stupid. They will see both equally in most cases but they will prefer the familiarity of the histograms.

Trying to be different is not always the best thing to do. As many have already mentioned. Use machine learning to augment ratings (like Netflix).

Good luck



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