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Re: Show HN: Most mentioned movies on HN

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Post by nemof »

nolok wrote: post #10
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.

Interesting that you seem to associate bad with predictable for movie taste.

Uninteresting or mediocre might be more appropriate. I love finding new media through hearing about other peoples suggestions, hearing the tenth or twentieth recommendation of Pi, Fight Club or Requiem for a Dream is just totally boring and not useful. Is an exercise in un-surprise.

Re: Show HN: Most mentioned movies on HN

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Post by grinich »

DanBC wrote: post #33
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.)

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 disagree on a movie (or any non-average). With the same food metaphor-- the flavor of a dish is not always supposed to be sugary pleasant, but it's supposed to make you feel something and surprise your palette. I actually think this method of evaluation is what sets apart the great critics of any art. They focus on experience rather than simple emotion.

Re: Show HN: Most mentioned movies on HN

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Post by nolok »

nemof wrote: post #41
nolok wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Interesting that you seem to associate bad with predictable for movie taste.

Uninteresting or mediocre might be more appropriate. I love finding new media through hearing about other peoples suggestions, hearing the tenth or twentieth recommendation of Pi, Fight Club or Requiem for a Dream is just totally boring and not useful. Is an exercise in un-surprise.

Parent is not talking about the quality of the recommendations, but the taste of the people who like those movies.

If I recommend you Fight Club, the recommendation would be of poor quality because everybody has seen/likes this particular movie already, but does that have to mean the movie itself is bad too, just because it is "common" ?

Re: Show HN: Most mentioned movies on HN

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Post by Cushman »

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…

> * Crank – not very known, but wow, this is the best action movie ever.

Just seconding this, in case it is not known. As action, Crank is perfect in every way. It's a shame Crank 2 went off the rails the way it did...

Re: Show HN: Most mentioned movies on HN

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Post by Cushman »

hexonexxon wrote: post #39

No hackers the movie? No zerocool? No emmanuel goldstein on his rollerblades in that terribad NYC nightclub (which sort of actually did exist).

It gets made fun of a lot, but personally I believe Hackers had the most realistic depiction of what hacking is like to hackers of any movie. Definitely one of my favorites.
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