The Movie Genome Project is an organized catalogue of different words people use
to describe films including genres, tastes and styles. The words are gathered from
analyzing over 2 million movie reviews from around the Internet to produce genomes
for over 22 thousand movies in our database.
We use information from the Movie Genome Project to power much of
our movie browsing functionality. We also use the information to
provide quick overviews of what a movie is about on each movie page.
So what's the point of all this? Well, for starters, we think (and
hopefully so do you) that this is just awesome data to have. You can see
at a glance what genres are associated with each movie and how it feels
to watch it! Where the genome really shines, though, is helping everybody
discover the hidden gems you'd never know you'd like if you were going just
by popularity or recent releases. By analyzing the actual substantive
characteristics that belong to your favorite movies, you can find new movies
to watch that will match your tastes! As the Movie Genome Project develops, we
plan to introduce recommendations personalized for each user's specific taste
in movies. We also plan to expand the data in the genome to include additional
information including filming locations, character archetypes and references
to other works.
