The Conversation (1974) • Hacker News Board

Re: The Conversation (1974)

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Post by icebraining » Sat, Sep 14, 2013, 7:36 AM UTC

beloch wrote: post #5

Obviously, this is being posted because of the NSA and FBI scandals even though it was, originally, more of a response to the Watergate scandal. Even if you're sick of hearing about all of those this is still a fantastic film and well worth watching. Gene Hackman plays a private consultant who specializes in the surveillance of difficult targets, such as people talking as they walk through a crowd. Technology is hand…

A fantastic film, and with a great soundtrack to boot! I've listened to it far too many times after watching the film.

Re: The Conversation (1974)

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Post by fiatpandas » Sat, Sep 14, 2013, 8:14 AM UTC

The Conversation is just perfect. It's worth a watch for sure. While we're thinking about surveillance themed films, The Lives of Others comes to mind as a strong recommendation:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0405094/

Re: The Conversation (1974)

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Post by zokier » Sat, Sep 14, 2013, 3:19 PM UTC

For anyone wanting to watch this tonight, I can hint that attempting to encode 1080p movie at 1824 kbps results pretty horrid image quality.

Re: The Conversation (1974)

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Post by primigenus » Sat, Sep 14, 2013, 3:47 PM UTC

olympus wrote: post #20

cleverjake wrote: post #2

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6348750

This was on the front page less than a week ago. It's technically not a repost, but it feels the same. While I am more tolerant of reposts of things that never made it to the front page, stuff like this makes me feel bad for HN as it indicates the arrival of one or more phenomena: 1. A reddit-like circle jerk where the same stuff gets posted and the same conversations are had multiple times. 2. A reddit-like continge…

I had no idea this had been posted already. I happened to watch it last night, and wasn't recommended it by anyone in the tech community - it had been on my watchlist for a while because I like Gene Hackman.

Sorry about the double post, but try to remember not everyone is glued to the HN front page or only doing things on recommendation from others :)

The best solution to prevent this from happening may be Stack Overflow style: suggest to the OP while posting the link that it has already been posted fairly recently and perhaps their comments would be better off in that thread.