JimBell:
It is too bad that this potentially awesome web group did not take off. IN a general sense ( I'm an outsider), the initial idea was superb--get "mavens" to recommend movies, as opposed to generic ratins. However, this innovative concep5t seems to have disintegrated. Although I do not know exactly why, it has someting to do with Bureaucracy and how the idea was pitched ot Bureaucarcy. Oh, well.
Well I think people who are looking for recommendations need to post first of all so "mavens" can help them out.
Or really, I'm not exactly sure how the "mavens" are supposed to proceed. I guess we could always wade through a person's highly rated movies list and give recommendations about that. Me personally, the best way I can recommend movie is by getting to know someone through many conversations about movies. So I think people just need to start posting more about different movies they like and are interested in.... I dunno.
YUP. this list or group seems about dead. It would have been an awesome experiment if it had been set up as "ask a maven" where, as Ris says, the viewer or requester had to tell something of themselves. Brainstorm: Your favorite genre . . . The best movie you've seen this year and why . . . Your fav movie(s) of all times . . . Your specific requirements (e.g., date movie, etc.) . . .
AND the mavens would have had to say something of themselves e.g., a standard page of fav movies, recent favs, fav directors and screenwriters, reviewing philosophy, etc. Requesters could have posted to all mavens or to one maven in particular.
Although this would have been an incredible, virtual-reality-breaking experiment, I think the main benefit would have been to mavens--it would have forced them to re-examine their critical perspectives, to re-evaluate how they rated movies. What a payoff!!
As Bob Dylan sang,
. . . fare thee well . . .
JIMBELL