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Re:20th Century Fox Uses ML to Predict a Movie Audience by JetSpiegel on Saturday February 23, 2019 @06:48AM (#19232865)
Me too, but that's not the point. We are not watching a random sample of old films, we only watch the old hits.

We are watching a random sample of present films.

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Re:20th Century Fox Uses ML to Predict a Movie Audience by scottlocklin on Monday February 25, 2019 @09:34PM (#19251530)
I don't think I am watching the old hits! I watch a lot of forgotten trash, and I like that stuff too. It's still way better than capeshit or whatever it being hawked these days. Video nasties by Hammer, weird pirate movies written by Peter Benchley, Charlie Bronson movies, Oliver Reed movies, Doug McClure movies...

A lot of the older film noir stuff I watch is definitely filtered by time: but you can pick any random garbage from between 65 and 75 and it's likely to be decent.

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