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Show HN: Most mentioned movies on HN
- astar 13y agoHmm, this doesn't seem very accurate... Tron has 360 mentions: https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=tron&start=0 https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=tron&s... Some of them are split between "Tron" and "Tron: Legacy" so parsing this correctly isn't totally easy. And don't you think "Star Wars" would have been talked about here at least once?
- raimonds 13y agoAgree. This is just an index of links to IMDB from stories and comments. I couldn't come up with anything better/more accurate.
- rquantz 13y agoAh, that explains it. I couldn't believe Star Wars wasn't on the list. But nobody needs to link to Star Wars. It seems this only works for the middle tier of movie mentions. Anything that's really common currency will be missed.
- raimonds 13y agoSpot on. I was scratching my head on this.
- Samuel_Michon 13y agoBut will it really be missed? Who needs a list of the most common movies, we already know of them. I also know most of the movies on this middle tier list, but there are still a couple that I hadn’t heard of (and am looking into now). For HN users, I think the chosen method is a lot more useful.
- _delirium 13y agoI agree, though I can't think of a good way to fix it due to ambiguity in film names that aren't explicitly marked with "this is a film name". With relatively unique names like Star Wars you could match the names as text strings. But that would lead to over-counting films like "Brazil" whose names are also names of other things.
- new299 13y agoI think that actually makes for a better list in this case, filters out all the things everyone has seen and leaves the ones that people might have missed (I'm certainly going to be trying to hunt a few of these down, thanks!)
- raimonds 13y agoGlad you liked it!
- doktrin 13y agoThat makes sense. I found the page interesting, but noticed that the 'Inception' counts were lower than expected. There was at least one or two entire front page threads dedicated to visualizations detailing the movie's dream levels. Nice work!
- tptacek 13y agoa. We seem to have pretty bad (or at least predictable) taste in movies. b. The list is missing the two most important movies to HN: The Shawshank Redemption, which is about how you're never going to close funding until you give up on ever closing funding, and Ghostbusters, the greatest startup movie of all time.
- aw3c2 13y agoHN is not a movie community so it seems rather pointless anyways (cue "HN is always negative comments"). Seems like a cheap way to grab amazon affiliate money and I find that unethical.
- raimonds 13y agoSorry if it feels like that. Main link goes straight to IMDB, it's non-affiliated. I show general opt-out link in the sidebar. Other pages have both affiliated and non-affiliated links in the lists of items.
- rkuykendall-com 13y agoThat's funny, because a few weeks ago somebody did the same exact thing but with books and no affiliate links. All the comments were about how he should add affiliate links, and that HN appreciates projects which make money.
- raimonds 13y agoI think you mean this discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5485653 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.
- rkuykendall-com 13y agoThat'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.
- mindcrime 13y agoNo Glengarry Glen Ross? https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=glengarry https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=glengarry
- oacgnol 13y agoI'm somewhat bemused that The Social Network isn't on there somehow, despite the movie's misgivings.
- olegp 13y agoIt was funny to see the movie "Riot On!" on the list about the first start up I worked for. Here's the trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQwoLYcbVmg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQwoLYcbVmg
- Aaronneyer 13y agoI'm disappointed that Hackers isn't on there.
- marquis 13y agohttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088258 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088258 needs another mention..
- __Joker 13y agoI don't know what to make of this list. As mentioned in the title these movies are "mentions", and necessary doesn't mean that they are recommendations. Having said that if the movies aren't recommendation ( like say, what movie an entrepreneur must watch? ), does the mere mention of the movie means either author of comment is influenced by the movie, to use it as a metaphor for something he is saying or trying to say. In effect, Is a movie name being dropped in conversation by a HNer the movie might be more likable by you ?
- raimonds 13y agoOP here. Good points! The idea is that if something comes up in discussions often then it's part of our collective memory. Studying and drawing inspiration from it seems valuable and interesting.
- cmstoken 13y agoHey raimonds, great work. Nice clean use of bootstrap, too.
- raimonds 13y agoMany thanks for your kind words! I'm afraid it's too clean as it's almost vanilla Bootstrap. :)
- RivieraKid 13y agoOpinions 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 understood why people like this movie. It's basically one guy telling a predictable and boring story. One of the most overrated movies ever. (I mean overrated in subjective sense obviously.) Traffic – One of the best movies about drugs and organized crime. Inception – Above average but overrated, logically inconsistent, nothing really special about this movie. The Cell is another movie where people enter someone else's dreams and even though it has only 6.2 on IMDB, I think I enjoyed it more. The depictions of the dreams were definitely more creative and looked more dreamy. Of the top of my head I would recommend these: * Something from David Lynch – Lost Highway, Blue Velvet or Mullholland Drive. * Requiem for Dream * Evil (2003) * Sin City * Crank – not very known, but wow, this is the best action movie ever. * Elite squad – another great action movie, very realistic, borderline documentary.
- kh_hk 13y agoIdiocracy – Basically an ordinary comedy, with an above average plot, but overall nothing special or interesting. Overrated. Agreed. I found it surprising when some relatives started overusing the jokes contained on the movie, as if they were part of the idiotic society portrayed on it. Maybe the movie is a joke about itself, but I am afraid that's not the case.
- MichaelGG 13y agoDo 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.
- RivieraKid 13y agohttp://www.mulholland-drive.net/studies/classical.htm http://www.mulholland-drive.net/studies/classical.htm Basically, the first part of the movie is Betty's dream and the second part is harsh reallity. After watching it, I was as confused as you but still was amazed by the movie. What I like about Lynch's movies is the "trippy" experience.
- jermaink 13y agoHi everyone, if you like, you can checkout the social graph among the characters of some movies at our page http://moviegalaxies.com http://moviegalaxies.com . Enjoy :)
- raimonds 13y agoCool project! Love it!
- nabilt 13y agoCool idea. I always use HN as a starting point for tech purchase. For example, I'm looking for a NAS and the first thing I'm going to do is search HN to see what other people are using. I would totally use this if you expanded to other areas.
- raimonds 13y agoThanks for your feedback and kind words! There's Stuff [1] page there for all the different things HNers link to. But as I'm only indexing links there's not that much data to draw reliable conclusions from. :( [1] http://www.hnstore.co/stuff.html http://www.hnstore.co/stuff.html
- lucb1e 13y ago> The Game I just lost it :(
- jacquesm 13y agoIt expected Primer to be in there, but it wasn't. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primer_%28film%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primer_%28film%29
- lccarrasco 13y agoIsn't it the eleventh?
- jacquesm 13y agoHah! Indeed it is, I mis-spelled it while searching. Thank you.
- thinker 13y agoHey OP: I'd like to know if these are also streaming on Netflix :)
- raimonds 13y agoWow, thanks for the idea! Didn't think of it as Netflix is not available in my country.
- hexonexxon 13y agoNo hackers the movie? No zerocool? No emmanuel goldstein on his rollerblades in that terribad NYC nightclub (which sort of actually did exist).
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- Cushman 13y agoIt gets made fun of a lot, but personally I believe Hackers had the most realistic depiction of what hacking is like to hackers of any movie. Definitely one of my favorites.
- hexonexxon 13y agoI was around and active at that time, reading T-Filez, phrack and using those giant phreaker and hacker chatrooms. I did go to a club in NYC that was very similar to the one in the movie which were freq by Patrick K Kroupa and Corrupt, plus other hackers before they threw me out for being underage. I seem to remember in the film the two guys Razor and Blade who had that pirate broadcast 'Hack the planet' actually existed as well.
- hexonexxon 13y agoIt was definitely lol'd at but was the only film I can remember that showed how overzealous and paranoid the feds were cracking down on kids just looking for information. A friend of mine was arrested then for owning the cellular hackers bible which was considered forbidden knowledge. Crazy how far we've come now, you now longer have to go through an elaborate scam to social engineer a telecom employee just to get some basic information on how a POTS works.
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- huhtenberg 13y agoNo Sneakers? Hm.
- bmmayer1 13y agoTrue story: One of the entrepreneurs from Startup.com was my summer camp counselor.
- huhtenberg 13y agoI hope it wasn't the CTO guy.
- jjsz 13y agoYou should add open source software tools, os's, or like someone said hardware (NAS, routers, servers, chips, etc.) that are mentioned too. On top of all these movies that are mentioned here. Great work.
- raimonds 13y agoVery good idea! I like it!
- gcv 13y agoDoes the HN community not talk about Pulp Fiction? This app must be buggy.
- raimonds 13y agoSorry about that. This is just an index of links to IMDB pages. Link to Pulp Fiction page was mentioned 2 times but both times more than 1 year ago. I do not show such entries to make TOP items a little bit more varied and current.
- jka 13y agoI've seen it mentioned a few times on HN, and would highly recommend 'Code Rush' which is missing from this list; it's a great documentary which covers Netscape (and more broadly the general bay area culture) around the time that Microsoft came to dominate with Internet Explorer, and Mozilla was being prepared for release as an open source project.
- notatoad 13y agohow 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.
- raimonds 13y ago> the first method would have a lot of false positives Exactly. So this is just an index of links to movie pages on IMDB.
- lmm 13y agoI'd be interested to see an anime category (it's pretty much all I watch nowadays :/)