Hacker News with Generative AI: Movies

Sneakers (1992) – 4K makeover sourced from the original camera negative (blu-ray.com)
Phil Alden Robinson's "Sneakers" (1992) arrives on 4K Blu-ray courtesy of Kino Lorber.

Movies, Blu-ray, 4K, Film Restoration

406 points by bredren 3 days ago | 298 comments

Is Amazon Censoring 2010's Robin Hood in the United States? (edrants.com)
An eagle-eyed TikTok user noticed that the prologue text from Ridley Scott’s Robin Hood had been removed from the Amazon streaming version. I have confirmed that this is strictly an American Amazon issue and that the text is visible on other steaming platforms.

Amazon, Streaming Services, Censorship, Robin Hood, Movies

9 points by imperialdrive 4 days ago | 3 comments

How 'Sinners' and Other Movies Multiply One Actor (nytimes.com)
This year at the movies, you’d be forgiven for thinking you are seeing double — because you are. Since March there have been three films featuring stars acting opposite themselves.

Movies, Actors, Film Industry

4 points by gmays 5 days ago | 1 comments

Groundhog Day made me quit my job, move house and leave my girlfriend (theguardian.com)
When I saw Bill Murray’s classic comedy I realised that I was trapped in my own unfulfilling time loop

Life Choices, Movies, Personal Experiences, Relationships, Work

9 points by n1b0m 6 days ago | 1 comments

The Secret Services' involvement in the making of The Line of Fire (1993) [pdf] (governmentattic.org)

Government, History, Movies, Politics, Conspiracy

26 points by sans_souse 8 days ago | 9 comments

Monty Python and the Holy Grail turns 50 (arstechnica.com)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail is widely considered to be among the best comedy films of all time, and it's certainly one of the most quotable. This absurdist masterpiece sending up Arthurian legend turns 50 (!) this year.

Movies, Comedy, Anniversaries

10 points by chha 9 days ago | 0 comments

Why 'Margin Call' remains Wall Street's favorite movie (semafor.com)
JC Chandor likes to joke that you could trade off the viewership data of Margin Call, the 2011 film that tells the story of an unnamed bank’s catastrophic 24 hours during the 2008 financial crisis.

Finance, Movies, Wall Street

44 points by jmsflknr 9 days ago | 28 comments

What happens at the end of 'Trading Places'? (2013) (npr.org)
It's been 30 years since Trading Places came out. And, to be honest, I never really understood what happened at the end of that movie. Sure, Louis Winthorpe (Dan Aykroyd) and Billy Ray Valentine (Eddie Murphy) get rich, and the Duke brothers lose all their money. But what actually happens? How does it work?

Movies, Analysis, Comedy

70 points by austinallegro 15 days ago | 26 comments

The movie mistake mystery from "Revenge of the Sith" (blogspot.com)
The internet, ever vigilant, began to take notice of this curious artifact around 2015 – a blink-and-you’ll-miss- it moment of a ghostly-robed figure with dark hair that appears behind Anakin Skywalker for only a frame or two just as he leaps from the panning droid to meet Obi-Wan on the lava skiff.

Movies, Star Wars, Internet Culture

456 points by CharlesW 19 days ago | 172 comments

Moon Bugs (2018) (michalfarkas.net)

Science, Movies, Film

16 points by susam 21 days ago | 5 comments

The thing about the Kobayashi Maru (medium.com)
“The thing about the Kobayashi Maru is,” says Jim, “you have to remember it’s a simulation.”

Star Trek, Science Fiction, Simulation, Movies

9 points by fanf2 25 days ago | 0 comments

45-year mystery behind eerie photo from The Shining is believed to be solved (cbc.ca)
It's a moment etched in horror movie history. In Stanley Kubrick's 1980 horror classic The Shining, the camera zooms in toward a black-and-white photograph hanging in the hallway of the Overlook Hotel. It's dated July 4, 1921. Dead centre stands Jack Torrance — played by Jack Nicholson — smiling in a crowd of partygoers. But the photo wasn't taken on set with extras. It was a real photo from the 1920s, and Nicholson's face had been superimposed over someone.

Movies, The Shining, Mysteries, Photography

125 points by colinprince 27 days ago | 53 comments

The movie that's different every time you watch it (movieweb.com)

Movies, Interactive Media, Entertainment

45 points by mmoustafa 32 days ago | 25 comments

Minecraft Movie: Why People Are Clapping So Much in the Theater (thedirect.com)
Now that A Minecraft Movie has made its way to theaters, audiences are heading in their droves to see Steve's live-action debut. But as they do that, some moviegoers have been surprised by the loud applause and cheers in moments that seemingly wouldn't warrant such a roaring reaction.

Movies, Video Games, Culture, Social Media

4 points by walterbell 33 days ago | 1 comments

'Minecraft Movie' Leaks Online: Full Unfinished Version Shared (variety.com)
An unfinished version of “A Minecraft Movie” leaked online in advance of the video game adaptation’s big-screen debut.

Movies, Leaks, Gaming, Video Games

74 points by austinallegro 33 days ago | 45 comments

Go back to the Grid in TRON: Ares trailer (arstechnica.com)
Let there be light cycles.

Movies, Science Fiction, Trailers

16 points by amichail 34 days ago | 2 comments

Bill Murray Says He's Not the Man He Used to Be (nytimes.com)
In Bill Murray’s new movie, “The Friend,” currently in theaters and based on the beautifully bittersweet novel by Sigrid Nunez, he plays Walter, a writer and professor who is best friends with Iris, played by Naomi Watts.

Movies, Celebrities, Books

11 points by thm 34 days ago | 3 comments

True Romance (1993) – A 30th Anniversary Retrospective (cinemascholars.com)
In the Summer of 1993, most of the cinema-viewing world was fixated on dinosaurs, of the Jurassic kind. However, just a year earlier, another powerful force began to exert its dominance in the film industry.

Movies, Film, Retrospectives, Anniversaries

33 points by walterbell 34 days ago | 8 comments

RIP Val Kilmer: Celebrating cult classic Real Genius is now a moral imperative (arstechnica.com)
Back to the Future justly dominated the summer box office in 1985, but it's too bad its massive success overshadowed another nerd-friendly gem, Real Genius, which debuted one month later, on August 9.

Movies, Nostalgia, 1980s, Pop Culture, Film

7 points by LinuxBender 37 days ago | 6 comments

Netflix CEO Says Movie Theaters Are Dead (semafor.com)
Sorry, cinephiles: The post-Covid rebound of live events is all the more evidence that movie theaters are never coming back, Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos told me in an interview at the Paley Center for Media Friday.

Movies, Streaming, Business

24 points by m463 38 days ago | 44 comments

Ketchup Entertainment Acquires 'Coyote vs. Acme' from Warner Bros (rollingstone.com)
Wile E. Coyote’s legal battle with the Acme Corporation, accused of sabotaging his skirmishes with the Road Runner by way of faulty products, is heading to court as Coyote vs. Acme finally heads to movie theaters.

Entertainment, Movies, Acquisitions, Warner Bros

7 points by dannyphantom 39 days ago | 1 comments

Warner Bros Completes Worldwide Sale of 'Coyote vs Acme' (deadline.com)
Warner Bros has completed the sale we told you about a couple weeks ago for their previously shelved Coyote Vs Acme movie.

Movies, Entertainment, Warner Bros, Business

87 points by ChrisArchitect 39 days ago | 24 comments

AMC Theatres will screen a Swedish movie 'visually dubbed' with the help of AI (engadget.com)
On May 9, AMC Theatres will start showing a sci-fi movie that was shot in Swedish but will look like it was made in English instead.

Artificial Intelligence, Movies, Technology, Entertainment

85 points by bookofjoe 47 days ago | 101 comments

IMDb Shuts Down 'Snow White' User Rating After 2.3/10 Score (worldofreel.com)
People are acting totally normal in reaction to Disney’s live-action “Snow White.” To all the review aggregate sites, I wish you good luck this coming weekend.

Movies, Reviews, Disney, Social Media

15 points by xnhbx 48 days ago | 1 comments

Pets Can't Stop Watching 'Flow,' the Oscar-Winning Cat Movie (nytimes.com)
“Flow,” a dialogue-free animated Latvian film made with open-source software, is keeping our domesticated friends riveted.

Animals, Movies, Animation, Latvia

81 points by ChrisArchitect 59 days ago | 12 comments

Is a bone a viable weapon when combating a Rancor? (jgeekstudies.org)
In the first act of ‘Star Wars: Return of the Jedi’ (ROTJ), the protagonist, Luke Skywalker, infiltrates the palace of the notorious crime lord, Jabba the Hutt, while seeking to free his allies from captivity.

Star Wars, Science Fiction, Weapons, Movies

4 points by sohkamyung 60 days ago | 1 comments

Binocular Shot (binocularshot.com)
A tribute to movies with inaccurate binocular shots

Movies, Filmmaking, Humor, Criticism

58 points by bookofjoe 61 days ago | 32 comments

A brief meditation on formal systems and lying goblins (ghost.io)
The other day I came across some people on The Internet talking about a certain scene from Labyrinth, which is a movie from the 80s (if you haven't seen it you should - lavish musical numbers, very unsettling Jim Henson puppetry, David Bowie doing contact juggling in spandex, it's really got it all!)

Movies, Philosophy, Humor

64 points by mprast 64 days ago | 29 comments

Binocular Shot: A tribute to movies with inaccurate binocular shots (binocularshot.com)
A tribute to movies with inaccurate binocular shots

Movies, Filmmaking, Visual Effects, Humor

5 points by gaws 76 days ago | 2 comments

Could Amadeus be the most misunderstood Oscar winner? (bbc.com)
Released 40 years ago this month, Miloš Forman's best picture-winning Amadeus is often accused of historical inaccuracies – but the film's critics could be missing the point.

Movies, History, Criticism, Awards

4 points by Tomte 87 days ago | 2 comments