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Re: Show HN: Most mentioned movies on HN

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Post by saraid216 »

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…

> 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 places and so on is interesting to me.

It's certainly not the mindfuck that people keep claiming it is. I'm actually a little bothered by how many people have trouble wrapping their heads around it... almost as much as I'm bothered by how much people prefer the first Matrix to the latter two.

Re: Show HN: Most mentioned movies on HN

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Post by tptacek »

RivieraKid wrote: post #27
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.

What are your favourite movies BTW (regardless whether they are about startups)?

In no particular order: Shawshank, Goodfellas, Raiders, The Professional, Out Of Sight, Raising Arizona, Glengarry Glen Ross, Rushmore. Oh, and, obviously, Ghostbusters.

I wish I could say something like Aguirre, or Tokyo Story, but that's the honest list.

Re: Show HN: Most mentioned movies on HN

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Post by sp332 »

Cushman wrote: post #50
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.

That's actually a good insight! It is like that sometimes, just with worse editing :p Here's an example of some guys hanging out and hacking a fun project over a couple days. The first video is the introduction, then in the second video they head to a club to talk things out (and drink :) and the third video is wrapping up the hacking session and a discussion of why their little project is crap haha. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ccxoig5yAKU&list=SP436FFA... With better editing and soundtrack, a montage of this could be right out of that movie...

Re: Show HN: Most mentioned movies on HN

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Post by rkuykendall-com »

raimonds wrote: post #56
rkuykendall-com wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's funny, because a few weeks ago somebody did the same exact thing but with books and no affiliate links. All the comments were about how he should add affiliate links, and that HN appreciates projects which make money.

I think you mean this discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5485653 . It's about the same project actually. It didn't have affiliated links then. Full disclosure: I'm the author.

That's brilliant. :D Perfect example of HN's contrarian nature. Looks like the commenters will never be happy, so keep the affiliate links and hopefully get a beer out of it at minimum.

Re: Show HN: Most mentioned movies on HN

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Post by themckman »

mindcrime wrote: post #12

No Glengarry Glen Ross ? https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=glengarry

I ended up watching that movie on Netflix after reading some article about the Alec Baldwin speech popped up here on HN. Fantastic movie and fantastic cast. Highly recommended.

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Post by jka »

I've seen it mentioned a few times on HN, and would highly recommend 'Code Rush' which is missing from this list; it's a great documentary which covers Netscape (and more broadly the general bay area culture) around the time that Microsoft came to dominate with Internet Explorer, and Mozilla was being prepared for release as an open source project.

Re: Show HN: Most mentioned movies on HN

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Post by haukur »

dirtyaura wrote: post #70
RivieraKid wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What are your favourite movies BTW (regardless whether they are about startups)?

A few of my personal favorites: Joint Security Area and Old Boy - two movies of totally different style from brilliant Korean director Park Chan-wook A Separation - an excellent Iranian family drama, great actors, a surprising script, my personal favorite from the last few years Reservoir Dogs - and almost all Tarantino movies Gran Torino - Clint's beautiful farewell The Celebration - Dark comedy/drama, the highpoint…

If you liked The Celebration you should check out The Hunt, by the same director.

Re: Show HN: Most mentioned movies on HN

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Post by subsystem »

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…

In regards to Elite Squad, I suggest the complementary (actually the other way around) City of God http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0317248/

Re: Show HN: Most mentioned movies on HN

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Post by JacksonGariety »

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…

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Re: Show HN: Most mentioned movies on HN

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Post by goostavos »

grinich wrote: post #42
DanBC wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

> but I'd be more interested in developing a metric of how much people disagree on a movie

That's actually a really interesting idea. Some of my favorite movies do not have universal appeal, in fact, they fall under that polarising category. An example of this is There Will be Blood. To me, it is quite possibly the most interesting piece of film I've ever seen. But it exists as one of those love or hate movies. Just about everyone I know found the movie insufferable, while I've happily watched it at least 10- 15 times. A way of of sorting that favored love it or hate it movies could probably yield some really interesting results.

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