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[–] 149 points 1 year ago (18 children)

Also it'd automatically add the movie to your radarr instance

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  • [–] 26 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    thanks for introducing me to radarr

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  • [–] 27 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Wait until you find Sonarr and the rest of the *arrs

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    It's been a while since I've sailed the high seas. How difficult is it to get subtitle tracks these days? I've gotten used to having them on everything.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    Most things have it and what doesn't, OpenSubltitles, an open source subtitle resource, does. It's just linked right into my Jellyfin. I haven't had to manually find subtitles in years.....

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  • [–] 134 points 1 year ago (25 children)

    We do that but sit next to each other and you know, talk

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  • [–] 53 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Why talk when you both are already looking at your phones?

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  • I mean, why waste the limited time I have a day with my SO by scrolling together through an endless list of movies and shows. Both of us have the attention span of a beagle, so sporadically swiping through a list during the workday would actually be preferable.

    For me it wouldn't be about avoiding conflict, just a way to remember something that I would otherwise forget as soon as we started looking for something to watch.

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    See, my wife and I will go back and forth, checking various streaming services and vetoing each other's picks for the full duration of movie night.

    Now when she asks what I want to watch, my first reply is always, "Literally anything except the Netflix menu."

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    We discuss the options and often end up talking about something else. So even scrolling through options is nice together time. Unless the actual goal was to see a movie, then that method isn't that great lol

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago* (8 children)

    Also this app literally exists anyway, I'm pretty sure it even existed when this was posted.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Do you know what it's called?

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    There's a few I'm going to go with handshake that someone posted further down the one I remember was called something like movieflix

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    No idea why you'd be downvoted for that but thanks!

    Edit... Either I'm finding the wrong apps or neither of those ones do the thing.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    I think there a talk app you can use to talk with your partner.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago* (5 children)

    Do they have gamified aspects and perhaps a lootbox style system? "You had a 7 day streak in talking to your significant other. Here's two relationship tokens"

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    If you say the right things, you get to loot your partners box.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Doesn't sound very replayable tbh

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  • [–] 41 points 1 year ago (12 children)

    Can it not just be for movies, but for food places as well?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Haha, I had this ideayears ago of a dating app where you rate random stuff (food, furniture, hobbies, personality traits, actors, etc) and get paired up that way. I imagine it being like Okcupid before enshittification where you could make questions otger people answered and stuff.

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  • [–] 31 points 1 year ago (10 children)

    It exists, it's called Handshake

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Not to be confused with the Handshake app for Jobs/Internships

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  • [–] 29 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Then you add it to the pile of movies you don’t have time to watch together

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    One person picks three (movies, restaurants, events, etc.) that they would be happy with.

    The other person selects one out of the three.

    Alternate.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    We do one more layer, so it's called 5-3-1.

    Person A picks five options.

    Person B eliminates two of them.

    Person A selects one of the three remaining.

    We alternate who gets to pick the five.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    The problem is the catalog is functionally infinite. How can you feel like you're making a good decision if you don't exhaust a category?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

    The problem is the catalog is functionally infinite.

    It narrows down significantly by region, for restaurants, and by time frame, for events.

    Movies as a bit trickier, but you can ballpark that by genre and maybe "new releases" / "" / "criterion collection"

    If you've got a big enough pool, you'll get plenty of crossover. "You just matched with a person who wants to go to a Knicks game, watch a horror movie, and dine out at Sopo Korean Eats" is going to get plenty of hits in Manhattan.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (2 children)

    I thought we are just matching with a spouse or sig other on what to watch next?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    Ah, I thought it was a dating thing

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    It probably works either way, but I want the local version.

    My wife and I read like 4 baby name lists out loud in the car for our second kid but had much better luck with an app we found that had like 4k names, each person reads and swipes, and it shows you the ones you agree on.

    Maybe it's a hammer and nail thing but it sounds good to me for choosing the shared "to watch" list.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago

    on letterboxd you can filter a user's watchlist for matches in your own or filter out stuff you've already seen. handy.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I just have a massive list of movies and shows I want to watch, and I run it by my wife. She usually just tells me to pick one. Then the burden is mine again.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Let me introduce you to shuf | head 1. This is literally what picks the next movie for us. If either of us are unhappy, we just remove the movie from the list and try again.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    Given the age of thirst post, I'm pretty sure the app already exists.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Wait... You actually watch the movie? I thought it was just background noise for making out and fucking.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    Yes and a genre filter, please.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    I’ve actually thought of this as a new dating service. Too bad I’m lazy.

    Get after it someone who needs an SO.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    The app "Queue" does this, as well as the other 50 mentioned in this thread

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    We used an app like this to pick a baby name

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago*

    So, basically Mojo Upgrade, but for movies instead of sex?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Somebody somewhere is about to make so much money. Shoulda learned how to program.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Gotta put this into something like Letterboxd.

    Or hell, just tell your spouse to create a watchlist on Letterboxd.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    This would never work. We enjoy a lot of the same stuff, but sometimes we have to justify certain movies to each other. Like "The Cabin in the Woods". She thought it was classic horror and would never swipe right of her own volition. Likewise, you think I woulda swept right on "Twilight"? OF CORSE I WOULD! Swipe right on every movie I see cuz I love her and we watch whatever she wants.

    But this way we never watch my movies

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    Needs a third option then. Swipe right for "would watch", left for "wouldn't watch", but also swipe up for "I strongly endorse and believe you'd enjoy it if you give it a chance".

    Maybe also a fourth. Swipe down for "absolutely not, I know you really love this movie but I just can't watch more Jason Statham."

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    Awesome, more isolation.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    I think it's more complicated than this but that this is an interesting idea

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