Movies You'll Heart?
Stephen is unhappy about the new heart icon on the Netflix website, calling it "fugly" and "anti-brand."
What do you think of it?
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Hate.
Okay, why?
1) Too cutesy.
2) Which is counter to their brand.
3) By no means do I love all of the recommendations
4) Its not just top recommended movies. Its the whole recommendation engine, so is a bad label.
Posted by: shoobe01 | November 28, 2006 at 05:07 PM
"Fugly" gets my vote.
How do they know I'll "heart" them? Most of their recommendations are silly anyway. Rent 1 ovie for the kids and for weeks, all I get are recommendations for animation, including anime!
Posted by: BoB | November 28, 2006 at 05:14 PM
I don't like it either. They should save this one for February or something.
Posted by: machinegunn | November 28, 2006 at 05:38 PM
YUCK!
Ditto to what shoobe01 said...
Posted by: dave31175 | November 28, 2006 at 05:40 PM
I'm inclined to vote against the new name too--what's wrong with "Recommendations" ? It really doesn't fit with the rest of the site. Save it for Valentine's day.
Posted by: Matt | November 28, 2006 at 07:11 PM
Heart is stupid...
Posted by: rjspring | November 28, 2006 at 07:47 PM
It does seem a bit presumptious.
Posted by: Becky | November 28, 2006 at 09:24 PM
Leave the heart and use pink as the background instead of red. No use just going half way.
Posted by: Edward R Murrow | November 29, 2006 at 12:34 AM
I've never loved any of the things that they recommended. I rarely like "live" music, but they recommend lots of live DVDs. I've heard very little live music that I liked. Leonard Cohen and Nirvana maybe, but most bands suck live. They tell me I'll like things based on the flimsiest of patterns. I'm convinced the people who design their recommendations must be on crack. "Past results are no indication of future performance."
Posted by: type-cast | November 29, 2006 at 05:22 AM
I think the reason they've changed the text was to shorten the tab width, to make some room in case they decide to add some more tabs up top.
Watch that space...
Posted by: Matt Brooks | November 29, 2006 at 10:55 AM
I'm surprised to hear that a lot of people haven't had any luck with Netflix's recommendations. I have really enjoyed many of the movies they have recommended, and most of those are movies I never would have tried (or even heard of) without Netflix. The recommendation section is one of the reasons I stay with Netflix.
But yeah, lose the heart. This isn't 1973.
Posted by: hawk5391 | November 29, 2006 at 12:53 PM
Fugly. Recommendations are usually movies I've already seen. I still want to know how it works, because it doesn't seem very accurate.
Posted by: zenubio | November 29, 2006 at 01:31 PM
I also vote FUGLY. Don't presume to tell me what I will and no one gets hurt, okay?
The word "recommendations" is will do just fine, thank you.
Posted by: trixare4kids | November 29, 2006 at 01:55 PM
Stoopid.
Posted by: Dave Zatz | November 29, 2006 at 03:33 PM