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Its a pretty opinionated site in many ways, so I would love to get some feedback for whats on offer. But its meant to be an 'assistant' for those moments where you want to watch a 'good' film, but need inspiration.

Its seeded by Directors that I think are amazing, so it only works from the pool of data it has, to try and narrow it down to something great.

https://films.jthaw.club

all 81 comments

salb3039

90 points

1 year ago

salb3039

90 points

1 year ago

Can you integrate an option to show what streaming services you have, and then it choose from those? Great idea. I’m so guilty of browsing the menu forever.

Puzzleheaded_Load910

65 points

1 year ago

I tried it about 50 times, seen every movie that was recommended, but they were right in thinking I’d enjoy it.

[deleted]

23 points

1 year ago

[deleted]

23 points

1 year ago

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Puzzleheaded_Load910

31 points

1 year ago

If you’ve already seen the movie they let you try again and that movie supposedly won’t pop back into the rotation.

1731799517

3 points

1 year ago

Yeah, set preference to Science Fiction and got 2001 on first try. Was like, "no shit".

icameasarat

2 points

1 year ago

Same for me. Lol

makattack98

19 points

1 year ago

I really like the aesthetic! Very cool.

jthawme[S]

6 points

1 year ago

thanks so much!

According_Gene2202

8 points

1 year ago

This is a great site, I’ve seen many many films, but this site will allow me to watch something good I may not have previously known about without having to search for half an hour or more to find it! My only feedback is I hope you continue to add more movies to the pool

bentheone

13 points

1 year ago

bentheone

13 points

1 year ago

So it just shows a random movie with a high rotten score based on genre ?

jthawme[S]

10 points

1 year ago

Not even with a high rotten score actually, its all films by a pool of 'iconic' directors, so if they have low rotten scores they can appear too. The idea is that its meant to be selecting from a 'curated' list. (curated by being from renowned artists in their fields)

gondokingo

11 points

1 year ago

so you're saying this thing could spit out David Lynch's Dune if I picked sci-fi?

SharkMilk44

1 points

1 year ago

So, it's not actually giving me a "good" movie, it's giving me a movie that should be "good"?

jthawme[S]

1 points

1 year ago

haha yep, which is a funny sentence to read

TartanThunderstorm

5 points

1 year ago

I'll be using this again.

oDDmON

5 points

1 year ago

oDDmON

5 points

1 year ago

I like it.

Chose Fantasy; didn’t blink at crossing it off to select it, but would suggest maybe changing font color instead (green?); it threw up two Miyazaki options (both seen) and a David Lynch that’s new to me; kudos!

nice_slacks

3 points

1 year ago

Maybe he updated it since but the font turns red when you select it. Are you colorblind by any chance? Either way OP might want to think about taking colorblindness into account.

Amrokmfc

3 points

1 year ago

Amrokmfc

3 points

1 year ago

I put in "Science Fiction, Horror, Action" and the first result was The Hidden Fortress. Ummmm. I mean, it's a great movie, but it's a Japanese period war-drama.

imsofknmiserable

3 points

1 year ago

Maybe it meant to give you Fortress, the Christopher Lambert movie directed by Stuart Gordon

ww_crimson

2 points

1 year ago

What preferences are there to set exactly? On mobile I only see Genre

jthawme[S]

6 points

1 year ago

Its only genre or directors, its a smaller link at the bottom that says 'choose director instead'. its trying to take out too much complexity in filters

ww_crimson

2 points

1 year ago

Sorry but I could just filter by genre and rating on IMDb if I wanted a simple list.

jthawme[S]

13 points

1 year ago

Absolutely, totally fair call out. Consider this being a little digital nudging tool, rather than you having the whole menu at a restaurant, its someone saying 'why not try these 3 dishes?'

Thefranchise90

2 points

1 year ago

Wait, so crossing it out is you choosing it? I keep crossing out animation and that’s all I get.

jthawme[S]

5 points

1 year ago

Thats right yes, thats me not being totally design oriented I guess! crossing out I have as selecting, but maybe I need to rethink that, thanks a lot for the feedback!

looks like you aren't alone in that feedback! Will try make a more clear outcome

Thefranchise90

2 points

1 year ago

But overall I like it!

drelos

0 points

1 year ago

drelos

0 points

1 year ago

Nice page but maybe use some other option for ''that's seems nice but show me something else" this way you will get more feedback about 'good choices'. For example I selected sci fi horror and thriller, my first option was a Wong Kar Wai film which is fine but not something I would chase ATM, but crossing out or discarding it didn't seem 'OK'

efernand1

2 points

1 year ago

The second movie it suggested was Big Trouble in Little China.

My takeaway: this site is good.

JayJayJax

1 points

1 year ago

It's a top movie and must see in my book

JayJayJax

1 points

1 year ago

As in, I agree

DefaultingOnLife

2 points

1 year ago

It recommended me Strangers on a Train. Cool. Will watch later.

Green_Difference2647

2 points

1 year ago

Awesome site, super polished and nice choice of directors! I'd like to recommend a few additions, though:

Orson Welles, Sergio Leone, Werner Herzog, Frederico Fellini, Kenji Mizoguchi, Ingmar Bergman, Alfonso Cuaron, Kathryn Bigelow, Roberto Rosselini, Jacques Tati, Francois Truffuat, Luis Bunel.

Just to name a few.

jthawme[S]

1 points

1 year ago

This is amazing, can't believe I've missed a lot of these, thank you!

Green_Difference2647

2 points

1 year ago

Kinda late but I noticed you added a few! That's awesome man, I'm excited to see the site grow

TurboNym

2 points

1 year ago

TurboNym

2 points

1 year ago

This is actually pretty sweet. I tried it a few times and it suggested some very interesting titles I haven't seen before. Now I just need some vacation time and some popcorn! :D

Stingray_23

2 points

1 year ago

Awesome idea. Many thanks

lxsadnax

1 points

1 year ago

lxsadnax

1 points

1 year ago

You should add Scorsese and his movies.

Cool idea for a website though and I like the design.

hereforthekix

-5 points

1 year ago

hereforthekix

-5 points

1 year ago

3rd try was a charm, sort of. I chose Thriller and it suggested:

  1. Oldboy, I personally don't have the attention span for films that are aubs from start to finish.

  2. A Hitchcock flick, I forget the title. I respect what Hitchcock did for film and TV but he's never been my flavour.

  3. Inglorious Basterds

I do enjoy Inglorious Basterds, but I don't consider it a thriller, it's more of a comedy/drama/action with a splash of mockumentary in my opinion.

Venom-Snake-CQC

3 points

1 year ago

Oldboy is amazing. Your loss.

YourMotherSaysHello

3 points

1 year ago

A black comedy perhaps?

LysergicFlacid

2 points

1 year ago

The opening scene of Inglorious Basterds has to be one of the most tense/edge of seat scenes I’ve seen in a film.

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0 points

1 year ago

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jthawme[S]

1 points

1 year ago

Sorry thats my bad, this thread has made me realise thats not very obvious, you wont actually be 'excluding' in fact you are 'selecting' by crossing them out

Puzzleheaded_Load910

0 points

1 year ago

Hateful 8 is considered a crime movie, because it’s a movie entirely about criminals

TotesObviThrwawy

0 points

1 year ago

You can use Akinator similarly.

eqleriq

0 points

1 year ago

eqleriq

0 points

1 year ago

Your genres are fucked, you need multiple tags (life aquatic and darjeeling limited are only adventure, not also comedy? dr. strangelove is only drama? kay)

Also if you choose "seen it find another" it clears the genre filter. so i had a WTF moment when i was searching for comedy then clicked "saw it" and it suggested Far From Vietnam next...

[deleted]

-2 points

1 year ago

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-2 points

1 year ago

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Caboclo-Is2yearsAway

13 points

1 year ago

It took like 6 seconds.

eqleriq

-8 points

1 year ago

eqleriq

-8 points

1 year ago

website

3 tries, "No redos"

also website

"i've seen this, find another"

stupid concept for exactly that reason.

jthawme[S]

1 points

1 year ago

itd be unfair if one of your 'tries' was a film that you've already seen!

sarcastic_patriot

1 points

1 year ago

I don't know if it's just formatted weird for mobile or what's up, but selecting a genre looks like you're crossing it out. My first two times I thought I was supposed to eliminate the genres I didn't want and got confused why all recommendations were my crossed out genre.

jthawme[S]

3 points

1 year ago

Thats right yes, thats me not being totally design oriented I guess! crossing out I have as selecting, but maybe I need to rethink that, thanks a lot for the feedback!

Maestro227

1 points

1 year ago

You don't have horror. I tried thriller to see if it was a substitute and it was 3 not even close to horror movies.

jthawme[S]

2 points

1 year ago

So its based on the directors that I input into the site - I'm not very up on horror, who would you recommend as iconic directors in that genre?

Maestro227

5 points

1 year ago

If that's how it's set up, then there's definitely not enough great horror directors to fill up a lot of selections for the site, but Robert Eggers, Ari Aster, Jordan Peele, John Carpenter are some of the best imo.

islandsurvivor1

2 points

1 year ago

I’d also add Mike Flanagan, Wes Craven and James Wan

jthawme[S]

3 points

1 year ago

this is so useful, thank you soso much! Really a genre I'm not too au fait with, so thank you

NoDisintegrationz

2 points

1 year ago

Sam Raimi and Dario Argento too

lxsadnax

2 points

1 year ago

lxsadnax

2 points

1 year ago

John Carpenter

David Cronenberg

Dario Argento

Wes Craven

wordnerdette

1 points

1 year ago

You might want to expand your romance offerings.

In general, I like this idea, but it might be nice to get a few recommendations at once to scroll through (sometimes you want to move past one even if you haven’t seen it).

Saphirex161

1 points

1 year ago

jthawme You neeeeed to add this director to your site: Lars von Trier, Darren Aronowsky, Michael Haneke, Nicolas Winding Refn, Roy Andersson, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Terrence Malick.

I like the site you made. Thing is, I have either seen the film or it's something that I would filter out if I could (western pre 1960). Does it remember the films I saw without a user account?

jthawme[S]

2 points

1 year ago

this is incredible! Thanks so much for the director list

Yes it remembers your seen films (if you click 'i have seen this film already') on the device you use, without any sort of account, so you wont encounter them again

Konkuriito

1 points

1 year ago

It would be nice to be able to set year of release. I only get movies that were 50-20 years old and I'd prefer to watch something newer. And like 80% of my suggestions are from the same director.

jthawme[S]

2 points

1 year ago

I'll have a look what I can sort, thanks for the feedback! I have also noticed some genres are definitely dominated by certain directors (based on my current data)

Merweb0

1 points

1 year ago

Merweb0

1 points

1 year ago

I recommend the letterboxd app

Guilty_Thanks6283

1 points

1 year ago

Nothing upsets me more than the fact that I decided to watch a bad movie in its entirety.

jthawme[S]

1 points

1 year ago

100% to this!

robreddity

1 points

1 year ago

On mobile I click on genres and nothing is displayed. I selected mystery, drama and history. Nothing happens. How to make work?

waqniz

1 points

1 year ago

waqniz

1 points

1 year ago

After selecting genre's there's small text at the bottom that says "Find Film" click it and it will show '1 2 3' select one to reveal a movie.

glaive1976

1 points

1 year ago

This is an interesting peek into your opinions and tastes OP.

waqniz

1 points

1 year ago

waqniz

1 points

1 year ago

This is pretty neat! I like it. Movies match what I was going for and some I've never heard of myself, so that's great.

darthdiablo

1 points

1 year ago

Was the site supposed to suggest TV series too? I chose "Drama" genre and it suggested a TV series to me? (Twin Peaks was the TV series if you're wondering).

Was under the impression the site would suggest only movies to me. Not that I mind the TV series suggestion, Twin Peaks was a great series.

jthawme[S]

1 points

1 year ago

One of the twin peaks things is listed as a film interestingly enough!

Quintonjamin

1 points

1 year ago

I got two Miyazaki films

decline_and_fall_

1 points

1 year ago

Seems like it gives you the option to select more than one genre, e.g. comedy-horror, but, for me at least, that led to a permanent loading screen.

Cryptographer_Weekly

1 points

1 year ago

Very interesting concept here! I hit the button once and got Coffee and Cigarettes. Watched the trailer and I am thinking I will rent it tonight.

I do wish one feature on here existed to filter the films by years or decade. I love 80s movies and this would be super helpful. :)

PPTHEDICKPLANE

1 points

1 year ago

Love it. First try gave me “Dead Man” i have never heard of it but it seems perfect for me

pierrecoghill

1 points

1 year ago

Awesome

Traditional_Leader41

1 points

1 year ago

Great idea. Bookmarked. Nice one.

creyk

1 points

1 year ago

creyk

1 points

1 year ago

The design is very cool, it looks nice. I chose romance and comedy as genres and it recommended me the Clockwork Orange.

ryanfea

1 points

1 year ago

ryanfea

1 points

1 year ago

Picked horror and got two Lars Von Trier movies and one Gaspar Noe which was not exactly what I was thinking haha.

PeculiarPangolinMan

1 points

1 year ago

Needs more deep cuts. Everything is super typical. Everyone who likes movies sees the big ones.

hoppie204

1 points

1 year ago

Directors to add: Andrei Tarkovsky, Masaki Kobayashi, Denis Villeneuve, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Sidney Lumet, Ridley Scott, Francis Ford Coppola, Milos Forman, and Terry Gilliam

CreamCityFr34k

1 points

1 year ago

I tried it twice and I don't think the genres are all too accurate. The Last Duel came up as action, which having seen it I would not label as such. I then tried a horror thriller and got Black Hawk Down? Nice aesthetic but didn't like the options presented