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Re: Show HN: Most mentioned movies on HN

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Post by hobbescalvin »

aw3c2 wrote: post #9
tptacek wrote: post #5

a. 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.

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.

I have no problem with him making money for posting something. I wish everyone on here was able to capitalize in some way for their work.

Re: Show HN: Most mentioned movies on HN

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Post by RivieraKid »

MichaelGG wrote: post #29
RivieraKid wrote: post #23

Opinions 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.

http://www.mulholland-drive.net/studies/classical.htm

Basically, the first part of the movie is Betty's dream and the second part is harsh reallity. After watching it, I was as confused as you but still was amazed by the movie. What I like about Lynch's movies is the "trippy" experience.

Re: Show HN: Most mentioned movies on HN

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Post by DanBC »

tptacek wrote: post #5

a. 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.

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.)

Re: Show HN: Most mentioned movies on HN

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Post by doktrin »

raimonds wrote: post #3
astar wrote: post #2

Hmm, this doesn't seem very accurate... Tron has 360 mentions: https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=tron&s... Some of them are split between "Tron" and "Tron: Legacy" so parsing this correctly isn't totally easy. And don't you think "Star Wars" would have been talked about here at least once?

Agree. This is just an index of links to IMDB from stories and comments. I couldn't come up with anything better/more accurate.

That makes sense. I found the page interesting, but noticed that the 'Inception' counts were lower than expected. There was at least one or two entire front page threads dedicated to visualizations detailing the movie's dream levels.

Nice work!

Re: Show HN: Most mentioned movies on HN

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Post by pimeys »

MichaelGG wrote: post #29
RivieraKid wrote: post #23

Opinions 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.

I need to watch Lynch movies a couple of times to understand them. The first round goes with just an excitement about the themes, the atmosphere, the music. On the second round I got more pieces together and the movie finally hits me on the third watch.

Good examples are Mulholland Drive, a movie about dreams and reality. And Lost Highway, a movie about denial and jealousy.

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