Do you remember our move recommendation site Criticker? It’s still booming and getting more and more popular. And we are adding more features and fixing up the site every single day. We just added stats to the movie information pages and displaying couple of stats you might find interesting. Now you can see what country liked a movie most and also split by age and gender. What you don’t have a Criticker account yet? You better sign up for one … NOW! !!!

Link: Criticker

- DVDs For 1 Dollar

Wondering that that Star Wars fan is listening to. PINK CD, WTF? Must be awesome!

This is the CD player and AM/FM radio in the shape of Darth Vader’s helmet, adding a certain Imperial gravitas to even the lightest of tunes. The Sith Lord’s mask pivots upward, allowing CDs to be placed inside. The player’s integral speakers render clear sound without the slightest tremor in The Force, while convenient buttons and digital readout make it easier to operate than a TIE fighter. A telescopic antenna is located in the rear base, ideal for improving reception without marring the sinister aesthetic, and a program feature allows listeners to select the order of the songs on a CD. Includes a headphone jack and a line-in for amplifying audio from an external source, such as an MP3 player.

More info: The Darth Vader CD Player

- CDs for only 1 DOLLAR

Of course with 2D glasses. Saves friendships!

The De-3D glasses eliminate the 3D effect from 3D movies, allowing you to watch in the comfort of 2D. How do they work you say? In a traditional 3D movie, two images are displayed overlapped on the movie screen. Standard 3D glasses filter these images allowing one to be seen by the right eye and the other to be seen by the left eye. The difference between the two images creates the 3D effect and also the annoying eyestrain and headaches you may have experienced. The De-3D glasses are specially designed to eliminate the left eye image and show only the right eye image to both eyes. In double-blind scientific tests it was determined that when watching 3-D movies the right-eye image was consistently more action packed and and humorous than the left-eye image. Amazing but true.

So next time when your friends want to go see a 3D movie bring your  De-3D glasses and you’ll have the confidence to tag along knowing that you’ll be able to experience the best of the cinema with none of the motion sickness, headaches or nausea. Your friends will thank you too… for not puking on their shoes.

More info: 2D Glasses

- Here walks the Bear

We left the US 9 years ago – started our movie recommendation site Criticker shortly after but never got the chance to try Netflix – Now we are living for our travel blog in Savannah and we finally got to play with Netflix. We were shocked to find out how bad their recommendations are. Did you notice that basically every film has 3 stars? And their questionnaire (You’ll Heart These Films) It’s em .. well it leaves me speechless. Especially when you think about that they spent a million bucks on improving their recommendation engine.

For obvious reasons we use Criticker to decide what we rent next – it’s easy, fast, free and it’s targeted to your taste and is almost never wrong.

First start ranking films over here: http://criticker.com

Rank at least 10 films – after that Criticker will be able to generate your TCI (matching you with other users with similar taste in movies – more info) Then, sign up for a free account (so you don’t loose your ranked films) and then rank some more films if you wish here. The more films you rank the better we can predict movies for you. A lot of people are put off by the up to 100 ranking scale but our movie recommendation engine can handle 1 – 10, jumps by ten or any other system you would like to apply (think about it first how you want to rank the films).

This is how you can get your recommendations ….

Either by going on the main page when you are logged in – one of the first field you will see is the recommendation box:

Don’t like it – hit Show Another!

Do you want to be more specific? Check out the Criticker Film Database – So let’s say you are feeling like watching a popular comedy from the years 1980-1990  sorted by your PSI (probably score index – the score we thing you would give) – just apply these filters there and hit GO. Voilà – then we will list all the films according of your filters and your taste. Copy and past the title to Flixster and add it to your queue.

You will find tons of interesting movies you would not consider in the first place – but after watching you will be so happy you gave Criticker a shot.

Link: Criticker – Move Recommendation

Also – Criticker of course also works with Amazon DVDs and Movies on Demand and Blockbuster!

- Movie Blog / Movie Forum

Well, we run Criticker:

We’ve always been a two-man team, without any funding or venture capital money, and completely unaffiliated with any other site. And couple of our users suggested to take part in the Netflix Prize. We looked into it and read their T&C and decided to sooo not take part. Since everything you submit to Netflix Prize goes over in their possession.

So 1 Millions sounds good but at the end Netflix paid $1 an hour in development and probably gained resources not related to make their recommendations better.

The New York Times has an interesting article – stating that a almost Netflix Prize winner has regrets.

We are very happy that we stood away from it and that we got to keep our simple but very effective movie recommendation algorithm.

Give us a try: Criticker