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Post by [deleted] » Sun, Apr 28, 2013, 2:12 PM UTC

grinich wrote: post #42

DanBC wrote: post #33

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Top X lists of anything tend to be a bit odd. John Peel used to say that the songs in 51 to 100 were better than the Festive Fifty. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Festive_Fifty ) (I'm a bit surprised by the comments about affiliate links. Affiliate links are much more preferable to me than ad-heavy pages.)

Yeah, "most popular" is usually a really bad metric. Often the top listed are items that nobody dislikes, but also nobody really loves. If you surveyed the most popular food in San Francisco, you would probably just get "salad" instead of hearing about the Jewish-style fried artichoke dish at Locanda on Valencia. It needs a different dataset, but I'd be more interested in developing a metric of how much people disagr…

Post by saraid216 » Sun, Apr 28, 2013, 7:17 PM UTC

RivieraKid wrote: post #87

saraid216 wrote: post #71

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> Inception – Above average but overrated, logically inconsistent, nothing really special about this movie. What did you find logically inconsistent, out of curiosity? I liked Inception , but it's nowhere near my top 10. It's more interesting to me if you ignore the actual content and look at it purely in terms of story formation: the deliberateness with which Nolan loops well... everything, from themes to sounds to…

For example it doesn't make sense to use spinning top as a dream vs reality test. In my dreams spinning tops fall all the time. Other plot holes I've recently seen on Quora: http://www.quora.com/Movies/Which-major-movies-have-the-bigg...