Random Movie Picker - Blu-ray Forum

solott55 · 02-11-2010, 05:51 PM

I'm home sick looking at my collection for a movie to watch and nothing is jumping out at me, but I'm very suggestible, so would it be possible (or even worthwhile) for there to be a feature on this website to pick a movie from your collection at random?

Maybe it's just the Nyquil talking but it seems like something I'd use...

sfmarine · 02-11-2010, 05:52 PM

Close your eyes....and pick one.

avncars · 02-11-2010, 05:56 PM

i see you have the international and havent seen it yet. im in the same shoes as you,i have it, and been dying to watch it the past couple days, so watch that one! THERE!!!!!! i randomly picked one, you watch it, and i'll watch it??? we can pretend were sitting together tripping our faces off on the "cough" syrup...

Batman1980 · 02-11-2010, 05:58 PM

Write down 20 movie titles on tiny strips of paper and toss them all into a hat and shake. Then close your eyes and pull out a movie name, there you go.

solott55 · 02-11-2010, 05:59 PM

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Originally Posted by avncars

i see you have the international and havent seen it yet. im in the same shoes as you,i have it, and been dying to watch it the past couple days, so watch that one! THERE!!!!!! i randomly picked one, you watch it, and i'll watch it??? we can pretend were sitting together tripping our faces off on the "cough" syrup...

Heheh...Nyquil's a hell of a drug.

Good enough, that worked, but I can't count on you to randomly pick movies for me every time I'm feeling indecisive can I?

solott55 · 02-11-2010, 06:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Wolverine1980

Write down 20 movie titles on tiny strips of paper and toss them all into a hat and shake. Then close your eyes and pull out a movie name, there you go.

Paper? What's that?

sbaker44 · 02-11-2010, 06:02 PM

I'm a teacher and I have a program that can randomly pick students. I loaded that tool onto my home computer and put in movie titles for the same reason. The only downside is that it only holds like 44 names so I had to make multiple lists. I know this doesn't help you but thought I'd share that I have the same problem picking movies sometimes.

seeweda · 02-11-2010, 06:04 PM

I think this would be a nice feature to the site. They could also use it to recommend purchases as well.

solott55 · 02-11-2010, 06:10 PM

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Originally Posted by seeweda

I think this would be a nice feature to the site. They could also use it to recommend purchases as well.

Yeah, I was kind of thinking about that option too - you could even filter by genre, PQ/AQ, those sorts of things.

solott55 · 02-11-2010, 06:10 PM

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Originally Posted by sbaker44

I'm a teacher and I have a program that can randomly pick students. I loaded that tool onto my home computer and put in movie titles for the same reason. The only downside is that it only holds like 44 names so I had to make multiple lists. I know this doesn't help you but thought I'd share that I have the same problem picking movies sometimes.

Sounds like a good idea, but I'm looking for someone else to do the work for me!

toef · 02-11-2010, 06:38 PM

I question the future of humanity when people need a program to help them make a random decision.

What happened to Eeeny Meeny Miny Moe?

For what it's worth, the "Movie Collector" program by Collectorz will show info for a random movie in your collection every time you launch the program, so that's an option (the program costs money, but there's a trial version).

solott55 · 02-11-2010, 06:45 PM

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Originally Posted by toefer

I question the future of humanity when people need a program to help them make a random decision.

What happened to Eeeny Meeny Miny Moe?

For what it's worth, the "Movie Collector" program by Collectorz will show info for a random movie in your collection every time you launch the program, so that's an option (the program costs money, but there's a trial version).

Bah, randomizing was one of the first thing computers could do - the Snuggy makes me question the future of humanity more than what I've suggested.

Eeeny Meeny Miny Moe just wouldn't get me far enough into my collection to be truly random. I know there's a number of ways I could do this myself, but given that the site is functioning as the database for my movie collection at the moment, I just thought it might be useful if it could perform a few more of the functions that other database systems do.

amarster · 02-11-2010, 07:17 PM

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Originally Posted by sbaker44

I'm a teacher and I have a program that can randomly pick students. I loaded that tool onto my home computer and put in movie titles for the same reason. The only downside is that it only holds like 44 names so I had to make multiple lists. I know this doesn't help you but thought I'd share that I have the same problem picking movies sometimes.

that would work cause you can export a printable version of your movie list from this site and paste it into excel, adjust to columns and there you go, run the macro

MyBoyBlu · 02-11-2010, 07:21 PM

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Originally Posted by toefer

I question the future of humanity when people need a program to help them make a random decision.

What happened to Eeeny Meeny Miny Moe?

TheForce8686 · 02-11-2010, 10:37 PM

My Blu Rays are on 8 shelves so I have a little cup handy with the numbers 1 -8 in it. I shake the cup up and randomly pull out a number. That is my technique. It doesnt specifically pick a movie but at least it narrows me down to a shelf.

metalgeargreed · 02-11-2010, 10:41 PM

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Originally Posted by solott55

Paper? What's that?

Something they speak of on History Websites. A tool used before computers. It was a very, very dark time for humans.

Minimejer05 · 02-11-2010, 11:20 PM

A randomizer would be nice. I like the idea if it does it by PQ and such like someone above mentioned.

Lt. Aldo Raine · 02-12-2010, 12:53 AM

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Originally Posted by TheForce8686

My Blu Rays are on 8 shelves so I have a little cup handy with the numbers 1 -8 in it. I shake the cup up and randomly pull out a number. That is my technique. It doesnt specifically pick a movie but at least it narrows me down to a shelf.

hmm im gona try this, but im gona make a separate cup and put numbers in it for the number of blus on the shelf, so if i pick 3,7 then bingo thats the movie

PGW · 02-12-2010, 02:13 AM

I use a cataloging program on the Mac called DVDpedia. One of the features is... you guessed it, "pick a random movie." :-)

Joe Molotov · 02-12-2010, 04:02 AM

Will it also watch the movie for me too, in case I don't have time to bother with that either?

02-11-2010, 05:51 PM	#1
solott55 Banned Member since:Sep 2009 Blu-ray collection:301	Random Movie Picker I'm home sick looking at my collection for a movie to watch and nothing is jumping out at me, but I'm very suggestible, so would it be possible (or even worthwhile) for there to be a feature on this website to pick a movie from your collection at random? Maybe it's just the Nyquil talking but it seems like something I'd use...

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02-11-2010, 05:52 PM	#2
sfmarine Blu-ray Archduke Top contributor Member since:Apr 2008 Location:The Swan Station aDdIcTeD 2 LOST PSN:U5MC51473 Home Theater Gallery:18 4K collection:930 Blu-ray collection:2311 DVD collection:276 MA collection:461 Digital collection:492 iTunes collection:534 Blu-ray reviews: 7 Trading Score:43	Close your eyes....and pick one.

02-11-2010, 05:56 PM	#3
avncars Member Top ranked HT gallery Member since:Jan 2010 Location:new york Home Theater Gallery:41 Blu-ray collection:588 DVD collection:1 Digital collection:40 Trading Score:1	i see you have the international and havent seen it yet. im in the same shoes as you,i have it, and been dying to watch it the past couple days, so watch that one! THERE!!!!!! i randomly picked one, you watch it, and i'll watch it??? we can pretend were sitting together tripping our faces off on the "cough" syrup...

02-11-2010, 05:58 PM	#4
Batman1980 Blu-ray Jedi Member since:Feb 2009 Location:District 13 Home Theater Gallery:8 4K collection:146 Blu-ray collection:394 DVD collection:57 Blu-ray reviews:22 Trading Score:48	Write down 20 movie titles on tiny strips of paper and toss them all into a hat and shake. Then close your eyes and pull out a movie name, there you go.

02-11-2010, 06:02 PM	#7
sbaker44 Expert Member Member since:Aug 2009 4K collection:37 Blu-ray collection:585 DVD collection:75 Digital collection:1997 Trading Score:318	I'm a teacher and I have a program that can randomly pick students. I loaded that tool onto my home computer and put in movie titles for the same reason. The only downside is that it only holds like 44 names so I had to make multiple lists. I know this doesn't help you but thought I'd share that I have the same problem picking movies sometimes.

02-11-2010, 06:04 PM	#8
seeweda Special Member Member since:Jun 2009 Blu-ray collection:302 Trading Score:6	I think this would be a nice feature to the site. They could also use it to recommend purchases as well.

02-11-2010, 06:38 PM	#11
toef Blu-ray Champion Member since:May 2008 Location:Isla Nublar 4K collection:229 Blu-ray collection:545 Blu-ray reviews:1 Trading Score:4	I question the future of humanity when people need a program to help them make a random decision. What happened to Eeeny Meeny Miny Moe? For what it's worth, the "Movie Collector" program by Collectorz will show info for a random movie in your collection every time you launch the program, so that's an option (the program costs money, but there's a trial version).

02-11-2010, 10:37 PM	#15
TheForce8686 Blu-ray Ninja Member since:Nov 2006 Home Theater Gallery:1 Blu-ray collection:992 Trading Score:79	My Blu Rays are on 8 shelves so I have a little cup handy with the numbers 1 -8 in it. I shake the cup up and randomly pull out a number. That is my technique. It doesnt specifically pick a movie but at least it narrows me down to a shelf.

02-11-2010, 11:20 PM	#17
Minimejer05 Blu-ray Samurai Member since:Dec 2007 Location:Minnesota Home Theater Gallery:14 4K collection:532 Blu-ray collection:1995 Blu-ray reviews:28 Trading Score:6	A randomizer would be nice. I like the idea if it does it by PQ and such like someone above mentioned.

02-12-2010, 02:13 AM	#19
PGW Blu-ray Samurai Member since:Dec 2009 Location:United States Blu-ray reviews:2 Trading Score:4	I use a cataloging program on the Mac called DVDpedia. One of the features is... you guessed it, "pick a random movie." :-)

02-12-2010, 04:02 AM	#20
Joe Molotov Active Member Member since:Feb 2010 Location:Oklahoma 4K collection:97 Blu-ray collection:898	Will it also watch the movie for me too, in case I don't have time to bother with that either?

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