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Palm Springs
2020 · Film · 90 min
Directed by Max Barbakow
When carefree Nyles and reluctant maid of honor Sarah have a chance encounter at a Palm Springs wedding, things get complicated when they find themselves unable to escape the venue, themselves, or each other.
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I tried some prompts and it kinda works OK, here are the prompts I tried: 1. A man is stuck in time loop and reliving the same day over and over, and there's a pool, and some goat (Palm Springs) - it showed up as 2nd option 2. a movie where they talk about the mission to the moon and they are working on the live streaming the landing, starring Scarlett Johansson (Fly me to the moon) - didn't find it at all 3. a movie about black slave becoming a free man and a bounty hunter (Django Unchained) - got it
I have some questions: 1. What data are you using and where are you getting them from? 2. What's the advantage to this compared to just using some chatbot? I tried gemini 2.5 pro with the same prompts as above and it got all of them the first try, so theoretically better than yours.
One thing you could add to the UI to improve it would be a link to imdb page for each movie in the results. Also, maybe you could make the example in the hero section functional - it was the first thing I looked at and tried typing my prompt in there, only to realize that's just for the looks. Hopefully this feedback helps you make it better.
Perhaps you can share some examples of the films you are referring as "mindless banter in between sex and explosions". I'm not sure that description really fits most of the films coming out recently. If you said, "Dumb comic book films", I would maybe agree with you, but there isn't typically any sex in those so I assume you are not referring to them.
Covid halted the production of a lot of movies, and changed how others were made. It also shut down theaters. So, "since covid", is really talking about before and after an era. Kind of like saying, "since 9/11", in terms of the impact on culture. A lot of creativity has moved from the movie theaters to streaming services and from films to more episodic content.
However, here is a short list of films worth seeing (imo) since covid (2019).
Zone of Interest (2023) The Holdovers (2023) Parasite (2019) Dune (2021) Dune Part Two (2024) Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022) 1917 (2019) The Banshees of Inisherin (2022) The Substance (2024) Palm Springs (2020) Oppenheimer (2023) The Lighthouse (2019) Hundreds of Beavers (2022) Barbarian (2022) Flow (2024)
I fed the list to GPT and asked which ones the OP liked:
- *Urusei Yatsura 2: Beautiful Dreamer (1984)* - Highly recommended, really trippy.
- *Groundhog Day (1993)* - The classic, loved it.
- *Run Lola Run (1998)* - Fun with lots of details on rewatches.
- *The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (2006)* - Highly acclaimed anime adaptation.
- *Timecrimes (2007)* - Classic, intense, and worth watching.
- *Triangle (2009)* - Really good with unexpected twists.
- *Coherence (2013)* - A standout, very good.
- *The Incident (2014)* - One of his absolute favorites.
- *Edge of Tomorrow (2014)* - Pretty great.
- *Blood Punch (2014)* - Pretty good with unique mechanics.
- *Happy Death Day (2017)* - Very good.
- *The Endless (2017)* - The best of the best, though micro-budget.
- *Palm Springs (2020)* - Highly recommended.
- *Boss Level (2020)* - Action-driven, but worth checking out.
- *Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes (2020)* - Very good.
- *Maanaadu (2021)* - An excellent Bollywood time loop movie.
This is, bluntly, rubbish. The big sea-change is that mid-budget movies just aren’t made for cinemas anymore. They belong to streaming services and TV series now. Dating Amber, Do Revenge, Murder Mystery, Palm Springs, The Map of Tiny Perfect Things, The Half of It, Always Be My Maybe, Tall Girl (1), Don’t Look Up, Isn’t It Romantic, Only Murders In The Building, Love Life… the list goes on and on.
If you’re not enjoying these, the problem isn’t that they don’t make great comedy or romance anymore, it’s that you got old.
Palm Springs tackles this subject matter as well, but as a comedy:
https://imdb.com/title/tt9484998/
And of course, Groundhog Day:
https://imdb.com/title/tt0107048/