I saw this retweet from Adrian and had to give it a try.
A website developed by a Finnish technology team claims to be the world’s “first ever descriptive movie search engine”, and promises to solve that problem we all face when we can’t remember the name of a film.
To be fair so far its not been great with the searches I have done. Yes its early days and yes they have a mechanism to improve it.
But for example looking for Kil Bill – Lots of blood shed involving swords
Inception works with Dream within a dream and dreams collapase but if you type dream you get inception. Addiction works actually gets Requiem for a Dream but film about addiction in all its forms fails to list it at all. Looking for Citizen four with Edward Snowdon with the search Edward Snowdon, fails to include Citizen four. Dark City search with dark film starts with scene in the bath tub doesn’t include dark city at all. Last search I did was for The Beach, with sandy beach.
Nice idea, I’ll check it out again once things get better.