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◀][app]\n\n[![](screenshot.png)][app]\n\n## Features\n\n- Data set of over thirty two thousand movie titles\n- List wraps seamlessly if you can manage to get to the end of it\n- Good spinner physics, where the pegs affect the ticker and the ticker affects the pegs, and the pegs \n- Mobile friendly\n- Browser history integration - the movie you spin to is included in the URL so you can go back with your browser's back button\n- \"Watch Online\" link to quickly do a web search for a movie (often you can find a site to it for free easily)\n- Ctrl+F to filter the films list by title\n\t- Handles accents (e vs. é) and stylization variations like \"2\" vs. \"two\" vs. \"II\"\n- Plinko-like bonus round for picking between movies that have the same name (usually different dates)\n\n## Data Sources\n\n### Wikipedia\nI copied from [Wikipedia's alphabetical lists of movies](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_films#Alphabetical_indices).\nI made many edits to normalize the data, and then contributed back to wikipedia, for which someone awarded me The Copyeditor's Barnstar 😊\n\n![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/Copyeditor_Barnstar_Hires.png/100px-Copyeditor_Barnstar_Hires.png)\n\n## Development Setup\n\n- [Clone the repo.][git clone]\n- Open up a command prompt / terminal in the project directory.\n- Start a webserver, such as [live-server][] (`npx live-server` if you have Node.js)\n\n## Alternative Names\n\n- Unseen Cinema\n- True Random Movie - relaying relative randomness\n- Mega Movie Spinner\n- The Watch Whatever Wheel\n- Cinema Spin'em'up\n- Hipster Film Wheel\n- FlickPick\n- QuickFlickPick\n- McQuickFlickPick\n- QuickFlickPicky McQuickFlickPickFace\n- Cinemascape / Moviescape - it can give you an overview of the landscape of film, but only thru titles and watching them\n- Reely Random - relaying relative randomness\n- 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.\n- Spinema\n- Random All Movies\n- Randy's Choice Movies or whatever\n- Wheel of Film\n- Wheel of Film-Turn - awkward punning\n- Reel of Fortune\n- Reel Wheel\n- Randoreel\n- FlickSelect\n- Reely Random - relaying relative randomness\n- Spin the Reel\n- CinemaSampler - sounds more fitting for movie collage generator\n- The Ultimate Film Picker of Eternity\n- CinemaSelect (sounds like a terrible \"club\" / movie rewards card)\n- Capricious Celluloid\n- Strange Movie Picker\n- Unusual Film Finder\n- Box of Chocolates - unclear\n- Film Alethiometer - obscure reference\n- SpinCine - how to pronounce?\n- MovieMovieMovieMovieMovie / FilmFilmFilmFilmFilmFilmFilm\n- Movieverywhere / Movieverysingleone\n- Bursting at the Scenes wif mooVVVVVV 4 u\n- (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)\n\nbuilding blocks:\n- Film / Flick / Movie / Reel / Cinema / Watch / Silver Screen  \n- Random / Generate / Pick / Select / Choose / Any / All / Every / Spinner / Wheel / Dice\n\n\n[git clone]: https://help.github.com/articles/cloning-a-repository/\n[live-server]: https://www.npmjs.com/package/live-server\n[app]: https://1j01.github.io/true-random-movie/\n","project_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2F1j01%2Ftrue-random-movie","html_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/projects/github.com%2F1j01%2Ftrue-random-movie","lists_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2F1j01%2Ftrue-random-movie/lists"}