News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on 20th Century Fox Uses ML to Predict a Movie Audience. Parent comment

Re:20th Century Fox Uses ML to Predict a Movie Audience by msla on Wednesday February 20, 2019 @11:12AM (#19209026)
Baby Boomers! The film Forrest Gump was basically Baby Boomers: The Movie.

It was a Greatest Hits album of everything the stereotypical Boomer would consider great and memorable about their childhood and young adulthood.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:20th Century Fox Uses ML to Predict a Movie Audience by js2 on Wednesday February 20, 2019 @11:24AM (#19209127)
My wife and I are 47 and love it. Our teenage kids enjoyed it when we watched it with them recently. My dad, a boomer, actually doesn’t care all that much for it. It happens to be a good story irrespective of when you were a child or young adult. Shrug.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:20th Century Fox Uses ML to Predict a Movie Audience by mrguyorama on Wednesday February 20, 2019 @12:16PM (#19209649)
Certainly doesn't hurt that Tom Hanks attracts all kinds
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:20th Century Fox Uses ML to Predict a Movie Audience by izacus on Wednesday February 20, 2019 @06:03PM (#19213001)
I'm not sure what you're trying to say here - there's nothing wrong with enjoying it, there's nothing wierd about younger people enjoying it and that still doesn't really change the fact that movie targets nostalgia of a certain demografic. Considering it's success, it does that very well.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:20th Century Fox Uses ML to Predict a Movie Audience by wolco on Wednesday February 20, 2019 @12:36PM (#19209872)
I saw it in my teens and loved it. It was a film that could appeal to all.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:20th Century Fox Uses ML to Predict a Movie Audience by cabaalis on Wednesday February 20, 2019 @12:48PM (#19210015)
Disturbing modern idea that everything has to appease only a certain group of people, others need not apply.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:20th Century Fox Uses ML to Predict a Movie Audience by msla on Thursday February 21, 2019 @11:44AM (#19218101)
What in the world are you talking about?
[ Parent | on HN ]