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Re: Nothing to watch – Experimental gallery visualizing 50k film posters

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Post by JKCalhoun »

jabroni_salad wrote: post #59
JKCalhoun wrote: post #36

Somehow 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.

I thank god for Criterion!

Re: Nothing to watch – Experimental gallery visualizing 50k film posters

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Post by FuriouslyAdrift »

JKCalhoun wrote: post #56
richrichardsson wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Hey now... Flesh for Frankenstein is a fun weird mess, at least.

Re: Nothing to watch – Experimental gallery visualizing 50k film posters

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Post by FuriouslyAdrift »

jabroni_salad wrote: post #59
JKCalhoun wrote: post #36

Somehow 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.

I discovered I love just about every movie Bogart was in through Criterion

Re: Nothing to watch – Experimental gallery visualizing 50k film posters

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Post by whilenot-dev »

padjo wrote: post #44
JKCalhoun wrote: post #36

Somehow 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…

> with at least an actor or director or even studio I’ve heard of

I think that's the gist: anything goes, and maybe start with 3 of anything!

...based on genre (Comedy): Tampopo (1985), Matchstick Men (2003), Force Majeure (2014)

...based on subgenre (Heist): The Killing (1956), Thief (1981), Sexy Beast (2001)

...based on director (Kelly Reichardt): Old Joy (2006), First Cow (2019), Showing Up (2022)

...based on production studio (Studio Ghibli): Only Yesterday (1991), Porco Rosso (1992), The Wind Rises (2013)

...based on location (Vienna, AT): The Third Man (1949), Bad Timing (1980), Before Sunrise (1995)

...based on interest (Desires): Deep End (1970), Exotica (1994), Ghost World (2001)

...based on language (French): L'Année dernière à Marienbad (1961), Un homme qui dort (1974), Portrait de la jeune fille en feu (2019)

...based on movement (Czech New Wave): The Sun in a Net (1963), Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (1970), Morgiana (1972)

etc.

Re: Nothing to watch – Experimental gallery visualizing 50k film posters

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Post by phyzix5761 »

I think shows and movies used to feel more special back when media was harder to access. We had to wait for them to air on TV, and if we missed them, that was it. The scarcity made watching them more exciting and meaningful. Now that everything is instantly available, it all feels cheap and disposable. In my opinion, this is one of the reasons streaming services will eventually fail. If they want to survive, they need to find a way to bring back that sense of anticipation and urgency.

Re: Nothing to watch – Experimental gallery visualizing 50k film posters

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Post by whilenot-dev »

JKCalhoun wrote: post #61
jabroni_salad wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

real elitists are up to their eyeballs in criterion collection backlog, or so I like to think.

I thank god for Criterion!

Criterion is the antidote to YouTube shorts and TikTok

Re: Nothing to watch – Experimental gallery visualizing 50k film posters

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Post by zamadatix »

JKCalhoun wrote: post #55
zamadatix wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Two of the five, with not a single movie from the same decade. Given the production rate of movies has not been constant either, is this really more than the statement "I only want to see old movies"?

Re: Nothing to watch – Experimental gallery visualizing 50k film posters

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Post by zamadatix »

JKCalhoun wrote: post #56
richrichardsson wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Sharing some in my all-time top ratings which are not in the list (would be cool if other folks shared some of theirs as well):

- Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022): Newer than the cutoff date of the list.

- Your Name (2016): I'm not usually a fan of Anime but this newer film hit different.

- Sunshine (2007): This one I know I consider far better than most do, but it's one of my favorite variants on this kind of story for some reason. Also Cillian Murphy is my favorite actor in the modern era.

All 3 of these happen to be from after the original 2003 book from Steven Jay Schneider as well (though they aren't in the newer list either). I find he did a really good job of covering the classics, but I'm sure if I dug through my top 100 I'd hit something older I liked a lot that didn't make the cut. I'm just too lazy to :D

Re: Nothing to watch – Experimental gallery visualizing 50k film posters

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Post by ant6n »

JKCalhoun wrote: post #56
richrichardsson wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

There’s Toy Story 1-4 on there and Star Wars Force awakens, but for popular films it doesn’t have the incredibles, no Star Trek (perhaps include ii), few/no bond films (Casino Royale?), few Miyazakis (Nausicaa, Mononoke), not many Tarantinos (hateful 8), not too many Burtons (Batman 2, Big Fish, Sleepy Hollow). Is there any Indiana Jones? Could include Starship Troopers.

Re: Nothing to watch – Experimental gallery visualizing 50k film posters

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Post by tutuca »

whatsanaccount1 wrote: post #57

https://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. E…

Ohhh this is really cool!

A little bit better way to navigate back and forth on results would be amazing.

But loving it, nice demo.

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