movie-tracking 4

It’s been a good movie month for me, and I’ve managed to nudge closer to my target of watching the IMDb Top 250. But one tool I had in the past, that I sorely miss, is twofifty.org. It’s a now-defunct site that kept track of the IMDb Top 250, and let you strike off the movies that you had watched. You could see which movies you hadn’t seen, keep score, and discuss the movies. Since it’s demise, my movie watching slowed down as well. Earlier this month, I set up a similar site at 250.s-anand.net. It has the same basic function. You can log in, strike out movies that you’ve seen, and keep track of what’s left to see. For the more technically minded, the source-code is at two-fifty.googlecode.com. ...

twofifty.org lets you track which movies from the IMDb top 250 you’ve seen. My twofifty.org list has 71/250 crossed off.

You can download an up-to-date copy of the entire Internet Movie database, and use software like MovieDb to view it remotely on your computer. My current project: watch the entire top 250 films. Comments Cell Burner 22 Sep 2008 6:28 am: Suppose I want to download the entire imdb site, will downloading everything from the link you have given also give images of the movies? Because without images, I don’t know what the point is. I came across another method to download imdb, as a TomeRaider (not Tombraider) ebook, and that is only 157 MB, so I am not sure if it contains images as well.

Spielberg’s next movie, A.I., has sparked a weird game. I read the article on it at ZDNet and searched for Jeanine Salla, listed as the movie’s sentient machine therapist, which lead me to her site, (at the so called “Bangalore World University”!!) and from there to others… it really is a wierd game. Those with enthu, do try it and let me know your progress.