The example you give is like shopping for a TV at Best Buy. On the day you intend to you buy it. There's really better ways to do your research.
Of course the medium of selling/shipping is going to try to steer people in a certain direction. This isn't diabolical, it's capitalistic. These are human rights violations, they're movies. People went to see Speed Racer, so it's not like we have an aesthetic superiority to appeal to either.
There are better places to do research. IMDB. Metacritic. Yahoo movies. Google, even. These provide some great insight into niche films as well as the blockbusters.
Now obviously if Netflix wants to set itself apart from other mail-ordering movie sites, they need to continue to implement better recommendations, reinstitute better multiple queues, and obviously add excellent advanced search. But, when it comes down to what they're built to do, which is ship movies, they do it. Do they have the best interface possible? No. Does it get us our movies? Yes. They just need to be better at helping us find the movies we want to get.
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The example you give is like shopping for a TV at Best Buy. On the day you intend to you buy it. There's really better ways to do your research.
Of course the medium of selling/shipping is going to try to steer people in a certain direction. This isn't diabolical, it's capitalistic. These are human rights violations, they're movies. People went to see Speed Racer, so it's not like we have an aesthetic superiority to appeal to either.
There are better places to do research. IMDB. Metacritic. Yahoo movies. Google, even. These provide some great insight into niche films as well as the blockbusters.
Now obviously if Netflix wants to set itself apart from other mail-ordering movie sites, they need to continue to implement better recommendations, reinstitute better multiple queues, and obviously add excellent advanced search. But, when it comes down to what they're built to do, which is ship movies, they do it. Do they have the best interface possible? No. Does it get us our movies? Yes. They just need to be better at helping us find the movies we want to get.