Re: Guess the movie from the picture!
Originally Posted by
paleologos
Ok, guys, please forgive this interjection but I feel I have to disseminate certain thoughts.
The images were clear, they were taken from a Blue Ray quality video and I sharpened them some more before and after I downscaled them.
"Absolutely, I totally agree" was my first, superficial thought on this.
Thinking about it just a bit longer, it seems to me that it isn't so much of a line as a broad swath of a grey area.
But let's suppose that it is a line, for the sake of a working hypothesis.
Where exactly is that line?
And I mean exactly.
Who decides which image is "obtuse" and whether and/or when that was done "intentionally"?
By what criteria?
And let us not forget there are graduations of obtuseness and ambiguity.
When is an image so "obtuse" that it is "obtuse" enough to be disqualified?
Are we to require the presence of a "gamemaster", or that such a person vets the images before they are posted?
With what criteria and how cumbersome would the game become?
Don't think for a moment that I just came up with the questions above, merely to counter your post.
I was thinking about this for some time now.
I proposed all images to have faces because that is a simple and unambiguous criterion.
There is no way to make absolutely crystal-clear criteria here, it is up to the poster's own judgement and this has worked for a long time. The image should be in some way identifiable as coming from a certain film. This doesn't necessarily have to include a clear face, if I were to post a picture of Mount Doom exploding the vast majority of people here will instantly recognise it. Of course it doesn't have to be as obvious as that but it should at least be a clear shot rather than a blurry action frame.