I love Netflix, and streaming movies has been a big improvement over the experience of renting DVDs. But I'm disappointed in the recommendation system. For me, a movie is either worth watching or it isn't, so a simple thumbs up/down system would be better. I don't sit down and decide, "Gee, I want to see a mediocre 3-star movie." Even then, I'm not sure I'd be happy with the recommendations. Too often, it seems like movies are being hid from me in favor of the recommendations, so a random button would be nice to hit once in a while. Especially now that my whole family shares one account for streaming and can rate movies, destroying my own preferences.
I agree. In fact, I think the Tivo option of one, two, or three thumbs up or down is perfect as some movies are better than average and some are what I call my top ten. Better than average gets one thumb and top ten gets three. If I can't decided it gets two. :)