Movie Night Picker
Everyone submits two movie picks, then the group taps through an elimination bracket until one title survives. A fair way to land on tonight's movie everyone half-chose. Works offline.
Built by the AbraCalc team
How to play
- Have everyone type in their movie picks, one title per line (duplicate titles are merged automatically).
- Tap Build bracket, optionally with random seeding turned on to keep things fair.
- Tap the winning title in each matchup to advance it to the next round.
- Once the final matchup is decided, the champion movie appears in its own frame — that's tonight's watch.
Movie Night Picker settles the endless scrolling by turning your group's suggestions into a bracket. Have everyone submit a couple of movie picks — duplicates get merged automatically so the same title suggested twice doesn't clog up a slot — then build the bracket with one tap, optionally randomizing the seeding so no one's pick has an unfair advantage. From there the group taps through each matchup together, advancing a winner round by round the same way a tournament bracket works, until a single champion lands in its own poster-style frame. It keeps every voice in the mix without turning movie night into a twenty-minute debate, and because nobody's pick automatically wins, the result really is something everyone half-chose.
Frequently asked questions
- What if we don't have a clean power-of-two number of movies, like 5 or 9?
- The bracket automatically fills in byes so uneven counts still work smoothly — titles with a bye skip straight to round two without needing a real matchup.
- Can we fix a mis-tap without rebuilding the whole bracket?
- Yes. Tap the other title in that matchup to switch the winner; any later rounds that already depended on the old pick are automatically cleared so the bracket stays consistent.
- Does typing the same movie twice mess up the bracket?
- No. Titles are compared case-insensitively before the bracket is built, so "Die Hard" and "die hard" collapse into a single entry instead of taking up two slots.