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Re: Ask HN: Inspirational movies

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Post by adamzochowski »

_b8r0 wrote: post #57

Sneakers ( http://www.themovietracker.com/movies/8710 ). The film's aged a little, but it's nice to watch a fairly funny hacking film that doesn't dress up hacking into 3D flying GUIs, Hack the Planet or hacking a TLA with a gun put to your head, while getting head. Brewster's Millions always cheers me up around Christmas, as does Trading Places ( http://www.themovietracker.com/movies/9749 ), both of which are slight…

I think you mistook Sneakers for Swordfish. One is from 1992 and has Robert Redford and Dan Aykroyd.

Re: Ask HN: Inspirational movies

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Post by _b8r0 »

paraschopra wrote: post #99
_b8r0 wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've found that it's generally best to ignore hype for any film. If you go into a reasonably good film with low expectations, you'll like it. Walk into an incredible film with low expectations and you'll love it.

How can you set low expectations once you have read in the reviews that it is indeed good? You can't undo that, can you?

Yes you can. If you see reviews you should take them with a pinch of salt - there's a world of difference between Mark Kermode saying something's good and Nuts Magazine saying something's good.

You can avoid reviews, get a rough idea based on the actors and crew members' other work and a synopsis then decide if it warrants a visit to the cinema. You can go out and read the book the film might be based on.

For example, Black Swan is a film coming out by Darren Aronofsky that's coming out later this year. It stars Natalie Portman as a promising young ballet dancer that's slowly turning into a swan. It's an interesting premise, Aronofsky did Requiem for a Dream, the Fountain and more recently The Wrestler.

As well as Natalie Portman it has Vincent Cassel, both of whom I've loved in films before. This tells me that the film is probably worth seeing at the cinema - it may or may not be good but I can go in regardless of expectations. Unless I hear it's pretty awful then that's what I'm likely to do.

Re: Ask HN: Inspirational movies

#118

Post by drhodes »

adamzochowski wrote: post #114
_b8r0 wrote: post #57

Sneakers ( http://www.themovietracker.com/movies/8710 ). The film's aged a little, but it's nice to watch a fairly funny hacking film that doesn't dress up hacking into 3D flying GUIs, Hack the Planet or hacking a TLA with a gun put to your head, while getting head. Brewster's Millions always cheers me up around Christmas, as does Trading Places ( http://www.themovietracker.com/movies/9749 ), both of which are slight…

I think you mistook Sneakers for Swordfish. One is from 1992 and has Robert Redford and Dan Aykroyd.

I'm pretty sure he meant sneakers.
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