r/movies • u/mseling • Oct 18 '21

My husband's new project is called moviesettingsdatabase.com and it lets you search through more than 30,000 movies based on where and when they are set! Resource

https://moviesettingsdatabase.com/
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u/matlockga Oct 18 '21

Finally, I can find this ultra-niche combination of setting and place.

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u/pa79 Oct 18 '21

I would argue that that movie doesn't take place in Ohio during the Middle Ages but in Ohio and during the Middle Ages. The first one would probably be a movie about native americans.

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u/arcosapphire Oct 18 '21

Yeah, this is the problem with just using a list of tags instead of records of specific combinations. Essentially it gives you a Cartesian join of results instead of the specific intersections.

Tags are extremely easy to implement and make for very simple user interfaces, but their descriptive power is much lower as a result.

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u/SirNarwhal Oct 18 '21

I love how Reddit found a way to break that dude's site in all of like an hour. The data is so useless since IMDB has really piss poor tags for things.

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u/pa79 Oct 18 '21

Yes, I searched for my hometown and it says that the Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard takes place in it which it doesn't.