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Nothing to watch – Experimental gallery visualizing 50k film posters
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Re: Nothing to watch – Experimental gallery visualizing 50k film posters
#32This is fricking awesome. It's the coolest thing I've seen on HN for a while. Love it! N.B. I visit HN multiple times per day. I've been a member of HN since 2010. My last comment was made in 2018. I logged in for the first time in years just to make this comment :-)
It really feels like something out of "Web 4.0", like some random next-generation UX pattern (for better or for worse)
I agree, but then I spend a lot of time talking about and developing software for Apple Vision Pro so perhaps I see this in a different light to most. Feels like a great interface for random discovery and/or semi-random discovery within more tightly connected bubbles of taxonomy.
Re: Nothing to watch – Experimental gallery visualizing 50k film posters
#33Anyone else remember Microsoft Silverlight? When it came out, they had a C# & Silverlight published demo that was a movie library viewer similar to this -- not as nice, but good for its time (circa 2007).
Re: Nothing to watch – Experimental gallery visualizing 50k film posters
#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
No, I'm on macOS — Sonoma though. Interestingly, MDN lists no support for any version: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Reference/... — apparently the table is outdated.
Interesting, I'm on Sequoia with Safari version 18.5 (20621.2.5.11.8).
Yep, MacOS (Sequoia) and it works for me as well.
Re: Nothing to watch – Experimental gallery visualizing 50k film posters
#35This is fricking awesome. It's the coolest thing I've seen on HN for a while. Love it! N.B. I visit HN multiple times per day. I've been a member of HN since 2010. My last comment was made in 2018. I logged in for the first time in years just to make this comment :-)
I don't get it. Good visualization takes complexity and brings clarity and focus to it. There's seemingly nothing connecting where things are placed or how moving in any direction will lead you somewhere that develops understanding of what's going on. It's just a massive grid with magnification and a pseudo voronoi effect.
Re: Nothing to watch – Experimental gallery visualizing 50k film posters
#36Somehow I swirled around for a minute or so and didn't see anything I would want to watch.
"This gallery features a collection of the 50,000 most popular* movies according to TMDB"
Yeah, there's the problem. I went to the TMDB site and tried sorting by popularity, rating … all I got was a whole bunch of recent films that look like all the reasons the film industry is crashing (you know, the kind of stuff you would see in a Red Box when they were still a thing).
If you really don't know what to watch you could do a lot worse than checking off films on this list (the 1001 Movies to See Before You Die):
https://1001films.fandom.com/wiki/The_List
(And you have already seen a number of them I expect.)
Elitist? Maybe. But if you can actually get through the list (I've been at it, casually, for several years now) you'll feel like you have acquired a film school degree.
I think it's fine to watch "8 ½" and hate it — at least you'll know that you hate it now. But it would be sad if you never saw "La Strada" because you thought all of Fellini's films were impenetrable.
"Marty", "Stella Dallas", "The Hustler" — just a few great American films that came to mind that I would have otherwise missed…
But if the latest Guardian of the Pirate's of the Marvel Universe movie are your cup of tea you probably have no problem finding something to watch anyway and can pass on "The List".
Re: Nothing to watch – Experimental gallery visualizing 50k film posters
#37Somehow I swirled around for a minute or so and didn't see anything I would want to watch. "This gallery features a collection of the 50,000 most popular* movies according to TMDB" Yeah, there's the problem. I went to the TMDB site and tried sorting by popularity, rating … all I got was a whole bunch of recent films that look like all the reasons the film industry is crashing (you know, the kind of stuff you would se…
The worst thing, or irony, or something, IMHO, about Marvel isn't even how bad or good any of them are in isolation. It's that they are so similar so close in (release) time to each other.
I'm sure one could make a "top 5 Marvel of the 783 released so far" movies and these 5 are actually pretty darn good.
The joke is though that the list of "top 5" could probably be picked from a pool of 15 good ones and it wouldn't matter. The 15 are all pretty good.
But if you watched all 15 good ones you'd be bored out of your mind because it's the same formula.
And if you watched all the ones which are merely "ok" it's like watching the more boring variants of anime where very little happens over very many hours.
(Specific numbers just made up for the argument.)
Re: Nothing to watch – Experimental gallery visualizing 50k film posters
#38Somehow I swirled around for a minute or so and didn't see anything I would want to watch. "This gallery features a collection of the 50,000 most popular* movies according to TMDB" Yeah, there's the problem. I went to the TMDB site and tried sorting by popularity, rating … all I got was a whole bunch of recent films that look like all the reasons the film industry is crashing (you know, the kind of stuff you would se…
That list has Avengers Infinity War and Endgame on it by the way.
Re: Nothing to watch – Experimental gallery visualizing 50k film posters
#39Somehow I swirled around for a minute or so and didn't see anything I would want to watch. "This gallery features a collection of the 50,000 most popular* movies according to TMDB" Yeah, there's the problem. I went to the TMDB site and tried sorting by popularity, rating … all I got was a whole bunch of recent films that look like all the reasons the film industry is crashing (you know, the kind of stuff you would se…
The list has 'Watership Down' that I found very quickly and liked
Re: Nothing to watch – Experimental gallery visualizing 50k film posters
#40I have no idea what is going on or what is supposed to be going on. I opened up the console to see error messages, but there were none. But I'm pretty sure it's not rendering the way it's supposed to.
It's right there in the title: there's nothing to watch.
(Not working on Firefox mobile, but my guess is hugged to death)