Launching today
Long Take
One pick for tonight, not the crowd
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One pick for tonight, not the crowd
7 followers
Long Take ends the endless scroll. Instead of a wall of tiles, it picks ONE film for your night — matched to your taste, with a Predicted Score on your scale, not the crowd's average. Rate a few films, get a nightly pick. Movies & TV, no ads.
Finally a movie picker that does not shove a wall of posters at me. Rated a few flicks and it pulled an old noir I had been meaning to rewatch, nailed the rating too.
@barwcts That's exactly the point — no wall to scroll, just tonight's pick. The old-noir pull is the engine doing its job: it weighs pacing, director and the critics whose taste actually tracks yours, not what's trending. And "nailed the rating" is the part I care about most — the Predicted Score is on your scale, so it should tell you before you press play. Curious what it hands you tomorrow.
Rated about ten films and it threw "In the Mood for Love" at me with a predicted 9.1, which is honestly the move. Love that it just commits to one pick instead of drowning me in choices.
@hmeyracountceo A predicted 9.1 on In the Mood for Love means the engine already reads your taste for mood over plot — if you lean Wong Kar-wai, expect it to pull that whole lane (Kar-wai, slow-burn romance, gorgeous cinematography) as you rate more. And yes, committing to one pick is deliberate, not a limitation: choosing for you is the whole idea. Rate a few more and watch the Predicted Score sharpen.
The "one film for your night" idea is genuinely refreshing, and the Predicted Score matched my taste pretty well after rating just a handful of movies. Wish I'd had this on nights when I spent an hour scrolling and still picked nothing.
@salihbayrastx2 "An hour scrolling and still picked nothing" is the exact evening Long Take was built to kill — genuinely, that sentence could be our tagline. The Predicted Score gets sharper the more you rate (it shrinks toward the safe guess while it's still learning you, then commits once it's confident). Glad it landed close already. Keep rating and it'll stop being "pretty well" and start being scary.
the predicted score on my own scale instead of some generic average is a really smart touch. rated a handful of movies and it actually felt like it got me.
@buyuksank72065 That's the entire thesis in one sentence — your scale, not the crowd's average. A film can be 8.2 for everyone and a 4 for you, and we'd rather tell you that up front than sell you the average. "It actually felt like it got me" is the best thing we could possibly hear on launch day. Thank you — go break it and tell me where it's wrong.
the "predicted score on your scale" idea is genuinely smart, basically flips the usual crowd rating thing into something that actually feels personal
@mitmarazrqe "Flips the crowd rating into something personal" — that's the cleanest one-line description of Long Take I've seen, and it's yours, not ours. The crowd average answers "is this good?" — we only care about "is this good for you?", and those are genuinely different numbers. Rate a few more and watch the gap show up on films you'd never have guessed. Thanks Ümit.