As someone with Tripophobia I really, really didn't like the "depth" option, but otherwise like the idea; seems like it could do with showing more of the posters and titles though as at one point about 10 flipped by in a second before I could read more than one or two of the titles and saw nothing but a blur for the posters.
Nothing to watch – Experimental gallery visualizing 50k film posters
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#52I love it. The UX is terrible but the visualization is very "outside the box". Experiments like this are important on the road to finding novel interfaces. Not everything has to look like a v0 shadcn app. Thank you for sharing!
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#53Somehow 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 Avatar and La La Land on it. It’s definitely not elitist! There’s some real gems on lists like this but some of the older stuff would definitely be a slog for most people and would probably need to be put into context to make sense. Recently I’ve engaged in a practice of just hitting play on any old movie on Prime with at least an actor or director or even studio I’ve heard of. Essentially any film from…
> would probably need to be put into context to make sense
You're right. The book ("1001 Movies to See Before You Die") gives that context. I was surprised though that, as I went through them — slogging even, as you say, at times — in time I started to develop perhaps a new way of looking at film. And then slowly I found I was "slogging" a lot less. I began even thinking a bit more fondly back on the films I had seen earlier on that had been more of struggle for me to watch.
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#55Somehow 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…
If you're only interested in great movies, no others allowed, then the top 50,000 is bound to disappoint as there aren't that many great movies yet. Setting it to 10k this is what I got in my first 5 (well spread) clicks: - Ikiru (1952): A fantastic movie, also in the above list - A Clockwork Orange (1971): Alright, nobody is going to believe these are random if I keep pulling these... - Tracks (2013): Haven't seen t…
Yeah, disappointed that, even in your anecdotal list above, three of the five are in the last dozen years.
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#56Somehow 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…
Strange list. Some great films, some absolute shit and glaring omissions [1]. [1] for my personal taste
Love to hear your omissions.
And as for absolute shit? Yeah, there's Andy Warhol on there.
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#57https://opensearch.westloop.io/poster
We created this as a demo for OpenSearch on AWS (we are AWS partners) but I really enjoyed making it and I thought it turned out to be really fun.
Took the same type of dataset at the OP (I think we have 80,000 posters) but we used AWS’ multimodal embedding model to enable semantic search across the posters, as well as the ability to do a similarity search based on the posters.
Eventually we will include AWS’ personalize as part of the service to show off some of the movie recommendation engine features they developed.
Not commercialized there’s definitely some bugs, we built it for fun
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#58Somehow 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…
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#59Somehow 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…
real elitists are up to their eyeballs in criterion collection backlog, or so I like to think.
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#60Whoa, the first film poster it presented to me was for Koyaanisqatsi, a 1982 film I was unfamiliar with until I saw it in a Metafilter post just this morning[1]. Baader-Meinhof in action[2].
[1] https://www.metafilter.com/209750/Godfrey-Reggios-Koyaanisqa...
[2] https://www.damninteresting.com/the-baader-meinhof-phenomeno...