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To those criticizing the UI: agreed. To those criticizing the movies: also agreed :D
As some commenters have already pointed out, it’s more of a tech demo than anything.
This 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 :-)
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…
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…
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…
Snatch (2000) isn't on it? Blasphemous.
Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels is on it, which arguably is a better film.
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…
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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 prod…
If you have not seen the OG "Topkapi (1964)" you missed a real gem.
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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"?
But at the same time, Hollywood does seem to have fallen into the trap of mediocrity for some time now — probably since the 1980's to be honest (having only gotten worse over the ensuing decades). "La La Land" was popular in large part because it was something of a throwback to 1930's Hollywood. Tarantino's success seems to stem from his mining of gritty 1970's Hollywood.
So why not go back and watch "Gold Diggers of 1937" for the "La La Land" stuff, or "Straw Dogs" (1971) to see what Tarantino is making homage to.