The advanced filter seems to be too strict on genre. If I filter by [ALL “Comedy” “Horror”] it only picks up a few movies. From what I can tell, if a movie has a third genre, i.e. [Horror, Comedy, Thriller] it’s excluded because it doesn’t fit the “ALL” search criteria. But if I search by ANY, then of course I get a useless mass of results.
The genre filter should search genre tags individually, not cumulatively so it gets [genre 1 + genre 2 + *]
Hmm, it shouldn’t do that. With ALL that is saying the 2 genres must exist for an item, but it can have genres beyond that. Do you have a specific link to share with your advanced filters so I can take a look?
This is a filter for: English, R, Comedy, Horror. This is all that came up.
Bodies, Bodies, Bodies fits that criteria. English, Rated R, Comedy, Horror, so it should show up. But it also has Mystery.
But if I change the filter to only genre, Horror, Comedy, Mystery. Only 1 movie shows up.
I’m not sure what exactly is going on. I tried several combinations of the advanced filter, and none of them could I get Bodies Bodies Bodies to appear in the results.
I don’t see anyone watching this movie, so it’s not going to be included in the trending section at all because of that. If you switched to another more global section such as Popular I’m assuming you’ll get many more results and it will show up with your filters.
Based on your screenshot, you’re using ALL which means only movies with all 3 of those genres will show up, that are also trending and being watched right now.
You should first do an empty search and then set your filters. Then you get the full database.
Switching to Popular pulled up a ton more search results, including Bodies Bodies Bodies.
When I was searching I guess it didn’t register with me that I was searching only the trending movies. Now that I see it, its super obvious, but I guess it wasn’t immediately apparent. Not sure if a UI change or tool tip can make that more obvious.
I’ve always assumed the UI design theory that if 1 person has issued with the UI, then so do a bunch of other people.
Edit: Now that I understand how the advanced filter works, I’m gonna be using it a ton more! Thank you!
I don’t think you get the full database with popular either.
The full database has 32,417 pages of movie content.
(https://trakt.tv/search/movies?page=32417&query)
But there’s no page like that on the popular movies section.
(https://trakt.tv/movies/popular?page=32417)
So if you really wanna get it all, just do an empty/random search first, and then filter what results you want.
