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Re: Show HN: Most mentioned movies on HN

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Post by subsystem »

nemof wrote: post #41
nolok wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Interesting that you seem to associate bad with predictable for movie taste.

Uninteresting or mediocre might be more appropriate. I love finding new media through hearing about other peoples suggestions, hearing the tenth or twentieth recommendation of Pi, Fight Club or Requiem for a Dream is just totally boring and not useful. Is an exercise in un-surprise.

It's of course hard to suggest lesser known movies without knowing what someone likes. For tech movies there's cyberpunk review:

http://www.cyberpunkreview.com/cyberpunk-movies-by-decade/ http://www.cyberpunkreview.com/hacker-movies/ (also in the comments)

Re: Show HN: Most mentioned movies on HN

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Post by notatoad »

how was this list compiled? by scanning for mentions of words like "primer", "surrogate", and "brazil"? or just by looking for links to movie pages on IMDB or amazon? because i imagine the first method would have a lot of false positives.

Re: Show HN: Most mentioned movies on HN

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Post by aw3c2 »

rkuykendall-com wrote: post #74
raimonds wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think you mean this discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5485653 . It's about the same project actually. It didn't have affiliated links then. Full disclosure: I'm the author.

That's brilliant. :D Perfect example of HN's contrarian nature. Looks like the commenters will never be happy, so keep the affiliate links and hopefully get a beer out of it at minimum.

HN is a broad community. If you use some kind of average or "what is the top most voted post" as your "what is HN's verdict" you will get different results every time.

It would be boring and a giant circle-jerk if every member had the same opinion. What would we discuss then?

Re: Show HN: Most mentioned movies on HN

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Post by omegant »

MichaelGG wrote: post #29
RivieraKid wrote: post #23

Opinions on some of the movies from the list I've seen: Idiocracy – Basically an ordinary comedy, with an above average plot, but overall nothing that special or interesting. Overrated. Fight Club – One of my favourite movies, perhaps in my top 10. Really loved it. The Game – Another great movie from David Fincher, I love the mysterious atmosphere of his movies. The Man From Earth. – Huge disappointment, I never unde…

Do you have any comments on Mullholland Drive ? Perhaps I'm showing off my shallowness here, but that movie just seemed to be mostly random scenes, under the guise of being deep.

Completely agree, take a random topic generator for the plot, add some fear to death and other therapy topics, mix it all with some randomly annoying music, edit cutting randmly at the story and you have and instant clasic!!. You will have all those in need of mental Jigsaws chearing you as a gennious. Blogbuster movies are unable to create any mental challenge, so "art" directors just overcompensate for those who need them. For me art cinema ends being as annoying as comercial movies, just at the other end of the spectrum. There are always exceptions at both ends though.

Re: Show HN: Most mentioned movies on HN

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Post by RivieraKid »

saraid216 wrote: post #71
RivieraKid wrote: post #23

Opinions on some of the movies from the list I've seen: Idiocracy – Basically an ordinary comedy, with an above average plot, but overall nothing that special or interesting. Overrated. Fight Club – One of my favourite movies, perhaps in my top 10. Really loved it. The Game – Another great movie from David Fincher, I love the mysterious atmosphere of his movies. The Man From Earth. – Huge disappointment, I never unde…

> Inception – Above average but overrated, logically inconsistent, nothing really special about this movie. What did you find logically inconsistent, out of curiosity? I liked Inception , but it's nowhere near my top 10. It's more interesting to me if you ignore the actual content and look at it purely in terms of story formation: the deliberateness with which Nolan loops well... everything, from themes to sounds to…

For example it doesn't make sense to use spinning top as a dream vs reality test. In my dreams spinning tops fall all the time.

Other plot holes I've recently seen on Quora:

http://www.quora.com/Movies/Which-major-movies-have-the-bigg...

Re: Show HN: Most mentioned movies on HN

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Post by ZeroMinx »

MichaelGG wrote: post #29
RivieraKid wrote: post #23

Opinions on some of the movies from the list I've seen: Idiocracy – Basically an ordinary comedy, with an above average plot, but overall nothing that special or interesting. Overrated. Fight Club – One of my favourite movies, perhaps in my top 10. Really loved it. The Game – Another great movie from David Fincher, I love the mysterious atmosphere of his movies. The Man From Earth. – Huge disappointment, I never unde…

Do you have any comments on Mullholland Drive ? Perhaps I'm showing off my shallowness here, but that movie just seemed to be mostly random scenes, under the guise of being deep.

I think one core problem with Mulholland is that it was supposed to be a tv series. After some time of filming, they realized that wasn't going to happen (not sure why), so they had to wrap it up to make a movie instead. ddg for more details.

Re: Show HN: Most mentioned movies on HN

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Post by raimonds »

notatoad wrote: post #82

how was this list compiled? by scanning for mentions of words like "primer", "surrogate", and "brazil"? or just by looking for links to movie pages on IMDB or amazon? because i imagine the first method would have a lot of false positives.

> the first method would have a lot of false positives

Exactly. So this is just an index of links to movie pages on IMDB.

Re: Show HN: Most mentioned movies on HN

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Post by eli_gottlieb »

grinich wrote: post #42
DanBC wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Top X lists of anything tend to be a bit odd. John Peel used to say that the songs in 51 to 100 were better than the Festive Fifty. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Festive_Fifty ) (I'm a bit surprised by the comments about affiliate links. Affiliate links are much more preferable to me than ad-heavy pages.)

Yeah, "most popular" is usually a really bad metric. Often the top listed are items that nobody dislikes, but also nobody really loves. If you surveyed the most popular food in San Francisco, you would probably just get "salad" instead of hearing about the Jewish-style fried artichoke dish at Locanda on Valencia. It needs a different dataset, but I'd be more interested in developing a metric of how much people disagr…

I'm Jewish, and what's our style for fried artichoke ;-)?
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