>>212295721I know how frustrating it can be. I've managed to track down pretty much everything I remember from my childhood except two things. AI has been a great help for a lot of them, but has most trouble with TV movies and obscure shit for obvious reasons.
My Boomer Dad asks me about old movies all the time and I just copy/paste his badly typed half-remembered descriptions and it's shocking how accurate ChatGPT is in digging shit up.
eg. The latest one he said he saw an old movie where a ship is has to sneak past the enemy on a river at night. Nailed it right away:
ChatGPT said:
You're probably thinking of Yangtse Incident: The Story of HMS Amethyst (1957) โ a British war film, and yes, itโs exactly about a real Royal Navy ship trapped on the Yangtze River during the Chinese Civil War in 1949.
Plot highlights:
HMS Amethyst is fired upon by Communist Chinese forces while sailing to Nanking.
It becomes stranded upriver, with the crew under siege.
The British Navy has limited power to intervene, so the ship must escape under cover of night, navigating dangerous, enemy-controlled waters.
The climax involves a stealthy nighttime escapeโtense and realistic, based on the actual escape of the Amethyst.
Itโs not flashy, but it's a well-regarded and faithful account, with stiff-upper-lip acting and plenty of late-era British Empire melancholy.
>so don't give up on AI too easily, and it gets better all the time
