Twelve axes, one geometry, zero star averages.
OurMovieNights is built on a deliberately quiet premise: a star rating destroys most of what is interesting about a film. We refuse to do that. Every film is read against twelve independent axes of taste, and you are matched not to the most popular film among people like you — but to the film that actually fits.
Every film is read against twelve axes
Mood (heavy ↔ cosy), pacing (slow ↔ kinetic), weirdness (conventional ↔ surreal), hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, intensity, era, and auteur signature. A human watches and scores. No scraping, no LLM guesses, no averages.
You calibrate against the same axes
You rate a deck of well-known films — loved, liked, meh, hated, not-my-style. From those signals we compute your taste vector: twelve numbers that describe where you sit on each axis. It takes about three minutes.
The match is geometric
We find the closest film in 12-dimensional space to where you are right now — and to where you could stretch. Three zones: comfort (very close to you), adjacent (one step out), expansion (a brave leap). Pick what suits your night.
Two people overlap their DNA
Couple mode is the founding use case. Two people each calibrate independently; the recommendation is the film that sits in the overlap of both DNAs. No averaging, no compromising, no one giving up their honest score.
Hard no-gos are non-negotiable
Tell us what you never want to see — explicit violence, animal cruelty, sexual abuse, body horror, suicide, etc. A film matching any active no-go is removed from your deck and your recommendations, not just down-weighted.
The twelve dimensions of cinematic taste.
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