True Random Movie

Play movie reel roulette with over 32 thousand titles.

Find movies that you would never watch otherwise.

▶ Launch the web app and 💫 Spin away! ◀

Features

• Data set of over thirty two thousand movie titles
• List wraps seamlessly if you can manage to get to the end of it
• Good spinner physics, where the pegs affect the ticker and the ticker affects the pegs, and the pegs
• Mobile friendly
• Browser history integration - the movie you spin to is included in the URL so you can go back with your browser's back button
• "Watch Online" link to quickly do a web search for a movie (often you can find a site to it for free easily)
• Ctrl+F to filter the films list by title
  • Handles accents (e vs. é) and stylization variations like "2" vs. "two" vs. "II"
• Plinko-like bonus round for picking between movies that have the same name (usually different dates)

Data Sources

Wikipedia

I copied from Wikipedia's alphabetical lists of movies. I made many edits to normalize the data, and then contributed back to wikipedia, for which someone awarded me The Copyeditor's Barnstar 😊

Development Setup

• Clone the repo.
• Open up a command prompt / terminal in the project directory.
• Start a webserver, such as live-server (npx live-server if you have Node.js)

Alternative Names

• Unseen Cinema
• True Random Movie - relaying relative randomness
• Mega Movie Spinner
• The Watch Whatever Wheel
• Cinema Spin'em'up
• Hipster Film Wheel
• FlickPick
• QuickFlickPick
• McQuickFlickPick
• QuickFlickPicky McQuickFlickPickFace
• Cinemascape / Moviescape - it can give you an overview of the landscape of film, but only thru titles and watching them
• Reely Random - relaying relative randomness
• Vast Cast Spinner - doesn't relate to cinema, but that could be a positive if I make it more general, let you paste in custom lists etc.
• Spinema
• Random All Movies
• Randy's Choice Movies or whatever
• Wheel of Film
• Wheel of Film-Turn - awkward punning
• Reel of Fortune
• Reel Wheel
• Randoreel
• FlickSelect
• Reely Random - relaying relative randomness
• Spin the Reel
• CinemaSampler - sounds more fitting for movie collage generator
• The Ultimate Film Picker of Eternity
• CinemaSelect (sounds like a terrible "club" / movie rewards card)
• Capricious Celluloid
• Strange Movie Picker
• Unusual Film Finder
• Box of Chocolates - unclear
• Film Alethiometer - obscure reference
• SpinCine - how to pronounce?
• MovieMovieMovieMovieMovie / FilmFilmFilmFilmFilmFilmFilm
• Movieverywhere / Movieverysingleone
• Bursting at the Scenes wif mooVVVVVV 4 u
• (could maybe do something like "I Don't Want To Think About What To Watch", some sort of sentence or expression of the scenario you'd want to use it)

building blocks:

• Film / Flick / Movie / Reel / Cinema / Watch / Silver Screen
• Random / Generate / Pick / Select / Choose / Any / All / Every / Spinner / Wheel / Dice