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Is there a way to exclude superhero movies?
posted by monkeydodevSTAFFMOD on August 22, 2024 at 2:53 AM
I'm getting some feedback from my users that they are being presented too many marvel/dc films. I totally understand the superhero fatigue. I was tired of these films about 8 years ago.
Is there a way to exclude superhero movies from the results of the 'discover' end-point so a user interested in hard sci-fi isn't overwhelmed with a bunch of Marvel stuff?
I noted superhero films very commonly belong 'action, adventure and science fiction' genres so I tried creating a query with the following arguments...
with_genres: '878'
without_genres:'12,28,878'
So.. 'give me some science fiction films, but don't include results that are 'action, adventure AND science fiction' films... I was hoping this would still give me results like Alien and Event Horizon.
Unfortunately this sort of query structure gives you no results. It seems the comma separator in 'without_genres' is behaving as an 'OR' rather than an 'AND' in this use-case.
Does anyone have any suggestions?
Kind regards Alex
Reply by Jim Stark
on August 22, 2024 at 4:40 AM
I guess you can try without_companies and exclude everything Marvel- and DC-related. From the top of my head, https://www.themoviedb.org/company/420-marvel-studios, https://www.themoviedb.org/company/7505-marvel-entertainment, https://www.themoviedb.org/company/176762 for Marvel and https://www.themoviedb.org/company/128064-dc-films for DC. Might be more.
Also without_keywords with https://www.themoviedb.org/keyword/180547-marvel-cinematic-universe-mcu and https://www.themoviedb.org/keyword/9715-superhero. The latter, however, is much more vague.
Reply by monkeydodev
on August 23, 2024 at 5:15 AM
Thanks for the suggestion. Yes simply adding the following is enough to cut out most of the superhero stuff to stop it being so overwhelming. Marvel Studios is the main culprit. Thanks for the assist
without_companies:420