A tribute to movies with inaccurate binocular shots.
Moonrise Kingdom (2012)
Le Silence de le Mer (1949)
Cloak and Dagger (1946)
Wallace and Gromit Vengeance Most Fowl (2024)
Murder by Contract (1958)
Two-Minute Warning (1976)
The African Queen (1951)
Experiment in Terror (1962)
Breakdown (1997)
Ronin (1998)
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By smusamashah 2025-03-0921:193 reply There was another website which let you find movie quotes. You search for quote and it brought up small clip where characters are saying that thing you searched for. Had very similar UI, can't find it. Edit: probably https://clip.cafe/ there are few others too
There is another one which is like a Netflix of subplots extracted from movies. I remember it had lots from Rick and Morty. Because Rick and morty keeps bringing up random subplots never to discuss ever again.
There is another website which is a gif database of awesome shots from movies etc. It's like a reference database of camera work.
Will list when I find these urls.
Is it https://eyecannndy.com/ ? Or a different one ?another website which is a gif database of awesome shots from movies etc. It's like a reference database of camera work.By smusamashah 2025-03-109:27 Yes, exactly this one. Thanks.
getyarn.io is the clip site I've seen. https://nestflix.fun/ is for movies within movies, not sure if that's what you're referring to by subplots thought.
By smusamashah 2025-03-109:28 This https://nestflix.fun/ was the one I was thinking of in terms of subplots. Thanks.
EDIT: its on github, you can contribute more plots raising new issues here https://github.com/lynnandtonic/nestflix.fun
By achille 2025-03-0921:26 you might be thinking of seinquotes -> click the image to get a video gif of the quote https://seinquotes.com/?search=hold+the+reservation
At a press conference after the success of initial Star Wars movie someone told George Lucas: "But spacecraft don't make that whizzzzhh noise as they fly in space!", and Lucas replied: "I know".
The truth in art is not the same as the truth in a physical experiment.
By takinola 2025-03-104:22 At this point putting realistic sounds in movies would confuse the audience and take them out of the movie. Bald eagles don't sound like most of us think they do and swords don't make that sound when you wave them around or sheath them.
By IshKebab 2025-03-0922:50 I definitely agree, but on the other hand I think it is cool when they try and do things realistically, e.g. in The Expanse. I don't think it lost anything for not having whooshy spaceship sounds. IIRC Battlestar Gallactica also didn't have sound in space? Been a while though I might have forgotten that.
Still, a camera isn't supposed to show you exactly what eyes would see. I think it's fine in this case.
By weard_beard 2025-03-0919:531 reply Hypothesis formation is art. Without it there would be no physical experiments. Every scientist is an artist at heart.
I think the point is that what looks good in art (even in "realistic" art) is not necessarily what is "more like the real thing". The Simpsons made a joke about this ("cows don't look like cows on screen, that's why we use horses") but it's true.
More importantly, what the author intends to convey sometimes requires emphasis that isn't present in real life.
There was an extremely cool blog post about photography on HN a year or so ago, where the point was made that there are no "real" photos (in the sense of "accurately representing reality"), there's always a choice by the photographer (colors, framing, distance to subject, distortion, etc).
Very true. And not just the photography, all of the people who produce the tools. Like even film chemistry: https://www.vox.com/2015/9/18/9348821/photography-race-bias
Everything we interact with is the product of generations of people, shaped by artistic choice, and filtered by distribution and our own perception and cognitive biases.
Which sounds like I’m complaining but really I’m not… I think it’s inspiring and empowering to see the whole stack, imperfect as it is.
So yeah, conversations about computational photography that veer into “but it it doesn’t capture reality” betray an oversimplified view of how all this works.
The next logical step is to notice that the eye also processes the optical signal heavily, and the visual cortex,... etc. Any kind of perception, of making sense is a transformation.
To perceive something "truthfully" is just to be aware of the kind of processing involved, and the kind of information altered or lost in the process.
By weard_beard 2025-03-214:00 Keep going.
https://tpp2014.com/catherine-malabou-concept-plasticity/
https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262720212/the-embodied-mind/
The camera is our nervous system and chemical transports.
Whenever a friend tells me about the latest AI experiment resulting in AGI my stock response is, "Have they put it in a rat suit yet?"
By brookst 2025-03-114:02 Exactly. Most of what we perceive is fabricated in our heads anyway. Brains are amazing and positively not designed for 100% pure reality perception.
By ianburrell 2025-03-0922:05 Movies have score of noises that aren’t real. Most action scenes are filled with them. If considered part of the score, then fake starship noises are fine. They are signaling that ship is going somewhere, not would the camera would hear.
By ChrisMarshallNY 2025-03-0919:083 reply That's a lot of effort for something that's really just a matter of style. The Internet would be full, if we went after every stylistic trick that videographers use, to signal various tropes (like the "dizzy spell," or the "moving car").
Props for featuring Top Secret as the headliner, though...
From "Top Secret": https://imgur.com/a/h3wR9Y2
By brookst 2025-03-0920:14 Surely you meant: https://imgur.com/a/yEz4dSc
By dzuc 2025-03-0920:24 See https://tvtropes.org for a whole lot of them.
By serviceberry 2025-03-0921:101 reply The author isn't posting angry rants about it. I think one can look at it as just a quirky collection. No different from cataloging the movies that feature the Wilhelm scream, and how many articles have been written about that?
By ChrisMarshallNY 2025-03-0922:41 Agreed. That makes sense.
