I don't know what to make of this list. As mentioned in the title these movies are "mentions", and necessary doesn't mean that they are recommendations. Having said that if the movies aren't recommendation ( like say, what movie an entrepreneur must watch? ), does the mere mention of the movie means either author of comment is influenced by the movie, to use it as a metaphor for something he is saying or trying to say. In effect, Is a movie name being dropped in conversation by a HNer the movie might be more likable by you ?
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#22Hey raimonds, great work. Nice clean use of bootstrap, too.
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#23Opinions on some of the movies from the list I've seen:
Idiocracy – Basically an ordinary comedy, with an above average plot, but overall nothing that special or interesting. Overrated.
Fight Club – One of my favourite movies, perhaps in my top 10. Really loved it.
The Game – Another great movie from David Fincher, I love the mysterious atmosphere of his movies.
The Man From Earth. – Huge disappointment, I never understood why people like this movie. It's basically one guy telling a predictable and boring story. One of the most overrated movies ever. (I mean overrated in subjective sense obviously.)
Traffic – One of the best movies about drugs and organized crime.
Inception – Above average but overrated, logically inconsistent, nothing really special about this movie. The Cell is another movie where people enter someone else's dreams and even though it has only 6.2 on IMDB, I think I enjoyed it more. The depictions of the dreams were definitely more creative and looked more dreamy.
Of the top of my head I would recommend these:
* Something from David Lynch – Lost Highway, Blue Velvet or Mullholland Drive.
* Requiem for Dream
* Evil (2003)
* Sin City
* Crank – not very known, but wow, this is the best action movie ever.
* Elite squad – another great action movie, very realistic, borderline documentary.
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#24Hi everyone, if you like, you can checkout the social graph among the characters of some movies at our page http://moviegalaxies.com . Enjoy :)
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#25Cool idea. I always use HN as a starting point for tech purchase. For example, I'm looking for a NAS and the first thing I'm going to do is search HN to see what other people are using. I would totally use this if you expanded to other areas.
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#26Opinions on some of the movies from the list I've seen: Idiocracy – Basically an ordinary comedy, with an above average plot, but overall nothing that special or interesting. Overrated. Fight Club – One of my favourite movies, perhaps in my top 10. Really loved it. The Game – Another great movie from David Fincher, I love the mysterious atmosphere of his movies. The Man From Earth. – Huge disappointment, I never unde…
Idiocracy – Basically an ordinary comedy, with an above average plot, but
overall nothing special or interesting. Overrated.
Maybe the movie is a joke about itself, but I am afraid that's not the case.
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#27a. We seem to have pretty bad (or at least predictable) taste in movies. b. The list is missing the two most important movies to HN: The Shawshank Redemption, which is about how you're never going to close funding until you give up on ever closing funding, and Ghostbusters, the greatest startup movie of all time.
What are your favourite movies BTW (regardless whether they are about startups)?
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
Agree. This is just an index of links to IMDB from stories and comments. I couldn't come up with anything better/more accurate.
Ah, that explains it. I couldn't believe Star Wars wasn't on the list. But nobody needs to link to Star Wars. It seems this only works for the middle tier of movie mentions. Anything that's really common currency will be missed.
I agree, though I can't think of a good way to fix it due to ambiguity in film names that aren't explicitly marked with "this is a film name".
With relatively unique names like Star Wars you could match the names as text strings. But that would lead to over-counting films like "Brazil" whose names are also names of other things.
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#29Opinions on some of the movies from the list I've seen: Idiocracy – Basically an ordinary comedy, with an above average plot, but overall nothing that special or interesting. Overrated. Fight Club – One of my favourite movies, perhaps in my top 10. Really loved it. The Game – Another great movie from David Fincher, I love the mysterious atmosphere of his movies. The Man From Earth. – Huge disappointment, I never unde…
Do you have any comments on Mullholland Drive? Perhaps I'm showing off my shallowness here, but that movie just seemed to be mostly random scenes, under the guise of being deep.
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
HN is not a movie community so it seems rather pointless anyways (cue "HN is always negative comments"). Seems like a cheap way to grab amazon affiliate money and I find that unethical.
it's unethical that the OP is financially rewarded for building something? Considering the affiliate links offer the exact same user experience as if they didn't use affiliate links, I find you comment perplexing.
To me the dividing line is more a question of motivation. Some things with affiliate links are written because the person genuinely wants to say something about the subject, and then adds in affiliate links to get a little money without (as you note) diminishing the user experience at all. But other things are written solely as scaffolding for the affiliate links, content-farm style. The latter I think generally add noise, while the former are unobjectionable. It's not always clear which is which, though it's clearer at the extremes.