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Play movie reel roulette with over 32 thousand titles.

Find movies that you would never watch otherwise.

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

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